Although plenty others will take the plaudits, Henderson derserves massive praise for me. I kept thinking whenever we don't play well, Rodgers talks about the tenacity in our play, and he was the epitomy of tenacity in my book. Fought to get every ball back, the first to break the lines and close down and a desire to move the ball on as quickly and accurately as possible to Suarez, Sturridge etc.
At the same time, there is only one man of the match for me. Has to be the skipper. How many things can the commentator on lfctv come up with to describe him. The amount of times you hear "its simply brilliant, its simply stevie g". Or "captain fantastic". He gets my motm.
Now because my stream on
www.fredslink.com (which has never failed me by the way) was 50 seconds behind the lfctv commentary, I couldn't help but put it on aswell as the stream. I never ever thought I was superstitious before I thought to myself, hang on this is the same setup as the Everton and Arsenal games. Now although I am not naive enough to think this would change the game in any way. I couldn't bring myself to change it.
So, it gets to 2-2 and closing in on the last few moments and John Bradley is slowly building up momentum and I literally don't move for 30 minutes in the second half.
Pen! At this point and as far as I'm aware this has never happened to me before, but my heart felt like it was outside my chest, I was actually worried about it. It was absolutely pounding. Stevie slammed in the pen and I went absolutely apeshit. On a scale of if I was in public somebody would have reported me by now.
This game of ours the way we are playing it and the excitement it brings is what football is all about. All emotions rolled into one 90 minute game. Unbelievable. I can't disagree with Neil Atkinson from The Anfield Wrap. This league is absolutely crazy this year, and we are without doubt the craziest team in it so that's the reason we should win it.
Anyway I don't know why I told you all that, but I thought I had to share the experience. Still on cloud nine. I love this game.
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