I watched Moneyball.

Here is an interesting article, written mid 2011, on Soccernomics & Moneyball:

The Scouser Report: Soccernomics, Moneyball and Liverpool’s Transfer Policy
http://worldfootballcolumns.com/2011/07/15...ransfer-policy/

Interesting comments at the end of the article...

So now people are calling Moyes the moneyball manager and conveniently forget our very own Rafa Benitez. People have such selected and short memories. Sometimes, i feel we deserve everything that has and is coming our way.

Maxi is the beast.

Too bad he's leaving. It's not too late to coax him to stay and admit your mistakes, KK.

I can see Liverpool bottling it now.

Jone = Hero to Zero. Why the fark he cant catch a simple ball like that?

Whole team is low on confidence now. Mediocre players breed mediocre results.

I think Dalglish settled for a draw. Rightfully so, with 10 man and Blackburn on top.

carroll is needed when defending set pieces

and this is why carroll should not be subbed off     

a very meaningful win for me.  No Kuyt, No Gerrard, No Carragher, No Suarez.  we see Coates, Flanagan, Spearing, Shelvey, Henderson and Carroll.  What made it more meaningful is the missing regular and the boys fight till the end to win.

Looks like the boys show the senior how it is done.  Drama all over the game but we fight to win, which is good.  keep this up for the rest of the season please.  we have our pride shattered through out the season, EPL dun mean much now but please keep fighting and make me eat my words.  I want to be proven wrong.

Look, this whole "I want our manager out" talk is by far the most undeservingly highlighted stuff of the season.

And when somebody tells us that we're hypocrotical to back KD, but not Roy Hodson, then I ask you this;

Did in any way Roy Hoidson stood for the club, or its supporters?
As far as I can recall, he had only placed himself before the club, before the supporters, before the players.

Look at the comments he did on Torres.
Look at the 'agreements' he kow-towed to Alex Ferguson
Look at the way he responded on his press conferences
Look at the vision he placed on the club.

Compare all that to KD.

He backed our players, right or wrong.
He doesn't kow tow, admittably he should have sniped back at them, at their own expenses, which sometimes he did, sometimes he just focuses it on our own team.
He puts the press conferences on where we could / should have been, and he's man enough to point out a lot, any other managers would have whined 'conspiracy'.
And despite our supporter's row, he has never, and never lashed at us the way Hodson did.

An if you're blind enough to see all that, then I'll say you best be on your way supporting a team that changes managers, or a currently dominating club. Hell, since you're at it, why not support the currently best, Barca F.C?

I guess there are those who have too high of an expectation from Kenny that recent Liverpool league form has been consider as huge failure. Often we've forgotten that this is only his first full season as a Liverpool manager after 20years. All of the players he bought have less time than Lucas to come good and gel into the team yet.

Under Kenny, we've played much exciting football than the times of Roy Hogson and even Rafa Benitez (he was criticized for being too defensive minded). We probably could be called the most unlucky team in the league in the premier league for hitting the goal frame the most times (Suarez holds the record as the player with the most goal frame hit). However, apart from the few poor performance, I like the brand of football brought in by Kenny. It always pains me when we see us drop points even though we could have crushed the opponents (how the eff did we loose to Arsenal at Anfield?)

For me personally, I would like to have Kenny for another season. With Lucas coming back and the prospect of us getting a (value-for-money) goal poacher next season; I hope to give Kenny another season to try and win us the champions league spot.

I hope we can win the FA cup to ease our premier league pain and unite the players and the fans.

Remember, we were 0-3 down at Istanbul...