We are all critics and as someone writing on a place of public access I am no better than any other writer or critic. Add to that the fact that I am neither English or a football fan beyond passing interest, and you would be forgiven for dismissing my two penny’s worth out of hand.

It seems to me though that there is one faction with more influence over English football at both a domestic and international level that goes unnoticed in it’s uncandidness: The English Media.

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Man Utd 2 v Liverpool 0

1) The first thing you can say about Liverpool, and in a way defends their poor start to the season, is that they’ve gotten their hardest 4 away fixtures out of the way before the end of October. If they could have written down the four toughest away matches of the season before the fixture lists were released, the names Manchester United, Chelsea, Everton and Bolton would unquestionably have been the ones on the list. By bad luck or interference of those fixture lists (who knows who compiles them or how random they really are?) the quirk is that they have got them all out of the way not even a quarter into the Premiership season. This, if you are being ultra positive, can enable Liverpool to go on long winning runs of form here on in…. Read the rest of this entry »