Tiki-Taka Lollapalooza

With the appointment of Mr.Rodgers as the new Liverpool manager, articles and blogs have mushroomed all over the net telling us the kind of tactics Mr.Rodgers might deploy at Anfield. It looks quite easy really. Is it really?

He divides the field into 8 separate zones and player assigned to play on a particular zone has a certain role and has to have a specific set of footballing skills, unlike "total football" where the skills possessed by each player is adaptive to the role they need to play on the pitch. When they lose the ball, they have to work their socks off to win it back as quickly as possible and when the ball is won, pass it around to create chances. By moving the ball around, the players have time to settle down and take a breather.

That is called tiki-taka football.

The tiki-taka shenanigan has taken the football world by storm. Similar to news of boa constrictors swallowing kids, tiki-taka is suddenly everywhere like wildfire.

Due to this tiki-taka outbreak, some fans are worried that everyone now knows what the hell tiki-taka is all about and Liverpool's tiki-taka tactic will turn into bubbles, blown away into oblivion by gust as mild as Chelsea. Before you know it, there's a handbook called "How To Terminate Tiki-Taka For Dummies" being sold on book stands all over the world.

Folks, it took Brendan Rodgers almost 20 years to make it good, putting ideas to paper and kept load piles of files on the subject matter and we worry over a two page worth of tiki-taka info being shared. Let Mr.Rodgers worry about that and we ourselves worry about settling our own bills, okay?

For all we know, if Sir purple nose were to implement similar tactics it may turn into ziggy zaggy with Gigsy as the clown, rudeboy as the court jester and Nani as, errr ... Nani? When that happens, we shall all sip coffee and call it the "chewing gum-chewing gim" football.

A Liverbird Upon My Chest

"Here is a story about a football team,
the greatest team you have ever seen,
a team that play total football,
and won the league europe and all.

A liverbird upon my chest,
we are the men of Shankly's best,
a team that plays the Liverpool way,
and wins the championship in May.

With Kenny Dalglish on the ball,
he was the greatest of them all,
and Ian Rush four goals or two,
left Evertonians feeling blue.

A liverbird upon my chest,
we are the men of Shankly's best,
a team that plays the Liverpool way,
and wins the championship in May.

Now if you go down Goodison way,
hardluck stories you here each day,
there is not a trophy to be seen,
cause Liverpool has swept them clean.

A liverbird upon my chest,
we are the men of Shankly's best,
a team that plays the Liverpool way,
and wins the championship in May.

On the glorious 10th of May,
there is laughing reds on Wembley way,
we are full of smiles and joy and glee,
its Everton 1 and Liverpool 3.

A liverbird upon my chest,
we are the men of Shankly's best,
a team that plays the Liverpool way,
and wins the championship in may."

Warrior dan Liverpool 2012/2013.

Kalau ada yang masih ingat ketika 26 Januari 2012, Abang Bellars telah menunjukkan satu persembahan mantap meyakinkan dan paling penting, golnya telah membawa Liverpool mara ke perlawanan akhir Piala Carling.

Secara tidak langsung, Wembley pasti dilanda aura Anfield yang datang dari Merseyside.

Aku terus berniat tegar, akan mencacahkan 'Bellamy' di belakang jersi baru Liverpool untuk musim 2012/2013.

Setelah meredah badai ribut di atas langit, merentas samudera terbentang luas, melepasi pemeriksaan kastam, akhirnya yang ditunggu-tunggu berada di rangkulan.

Ianya jersi Liverpool dengan jenama Warrior, penaja baru yang menggantikan Adidas.

39, Bellamy, tepat sekali. Bagus betul pekerja Liverpool Online Store, tiada kesalahan langsung, semuanya dalam kondisi baik-baik sahaja.

Setelah dicuba pakai, ternyata memuaskan. Material (84% polyster, 16% recycled S.Cafe polyester) sangat selesa disarungkan dan dibawa ke mana-mana jua hatta majlis pernikahan ketua kampung anda sekalipun.

Cuaca yang panas? Jangan risau, sarungkan jersi Warrior dan peluh anda pasti tersejat pantas. Badan pula terasa dingin senantiasa.

Bagi aku, zaman kegemilangan yang mahu dikembalikan pada jersi Liverpool menjadi. JFT96 di belakang tengkuk dan logo Liverbird di dada kiri, ternyata corak ringkas ini berjaya menambat hati.

Buktinya, rekod baru untuk penjualan secara 'pre-order'. Nama yang paling banyak ditempah oleh warga Kops pula ialah Gerrard, disusuli Suarez dan Lucas.

Pendek kata, seluruh manusia harus berbangga dengan wujudnya jersi Liverpool buatan Warrior ini. Kepada mereka yang merasa rendah diri dan tidak berkeyakinan untuk mengorat pakwe/makwe, bolehlah menyarungkan jersi ini pada badan anda. Pasti keyakinan tinggi datang mencurah tiba.

 

YNWA.

Bila Kita Mahu Start Shopping Players?

Umum sudah jelas akan pengurus baru Liverpool, Encik Brendan Rodgers. Dan tak kurang juga kutu-kutu berahak yang buat lame joke Kenny Rogers, c'mon. Too stupid yet too retards. Cuba nak jadi cool huh? Well, you just did. Cool bloody arseholes with half brain. What a creatures.

Ok sekarang bila kita akan shopping pemain-pemain hebat yang duk ada dalam market? Kata nak rebuild the team, manager dah ada. Supposedly today (UK time) dorang nak reveal Encik Brendan Gan. Maksud saya Brendan Rodgers. Saya taknak jadi skeptikal akan perlantikkan pengurus baru Liverpool ini. Biarlah waktu yang menentukannya. The greatest win is patience kata orang bijak pandai. Bagi orang yang kurang pandai macam saya, bersabar tu takde masalah. Cuma sampai bila?

Ok bagi mereka yang memang tak pandai langsung, macam saya cakap diperenggan awal tadilah. Lawak Kenny Rogers, lawak this is our season, lawak we will bounce back. Itu yang tak pandai langsung. Tapi berlagak "Mr. I Know Everything". Like I care?

So dalam konteks pembelian pemain untuk Liverpool menghadapi musim baru nanti apakah yang bermain difikiran dan apakah harapan (Mohon jangan berhenti berharap) Rakan Kop sekalian alam? Apakah masih mahu duduk depan TV sambil hampir sakit jantung tengok Liverpool main atau redha apa sahaja terjadi lepas ini? Harapan mesti ada bukan?

Bila saya baca pemain-pemain seperti Eden Hazard, Hulk yang menyatakan mereka akan ke Chelsea yakni kelab untuk mereka-mereka dari golongan sumbang mahram, pencurang, perverts serta kelab ini juga memang terkenal untuk golongan mereka-mereka yang sinonim dengan gelaran Pengkhianat. Kenapa saya namakan begitu? Nanti saya kupas. Maksud saya dilain entri, bukan untuk entri ini. Apakah kita rasa bila nama-nama seperti Hazard (dari zaman Benitez lagi scout duk usha-usha) atau Hulk memilih untuk pergi kelab sebegitu rather than Liverpool? Dengki tak? Dengki tak? Sikit pon mesti ada kan?

Ahh sialan, nak taip panjang-panjang bos plak panggil. Nanti bersambung dilain entri.........

Five or Six?

It has been confirmed that Frank Lampard a.k.a "Super Frank" to Chelsea fans (sounds like a stick of gigantic hotdog to me) has been ruled out of England's Euro2012 campaign due to a thigh injury yesterday.

Replacing Lampard is a kid that has never failed to entertain us. Its non other than our own, Jordan Henderson a.k.a "Hendo" to #rakankop twitter committee members.

Will Hendo feature regularly in the three lions line-up? Come on, let's be realistic here. Honestly, he is just there to get a feel of things. Everyone in England expects Hendo to be the person that replaces Gerrard at club and international level (no disrespect to Hendo, but some might beg to differ on this), so what better way than to start making him get the feel immediately.

With the inclusion of Hendo, Liverpool FC has five players in the England squad and this is terribly exciting. Others might argue that England is going to fail miserably this time around (for bloating the team up with kops) but my gut feeling tells me otherwise.

I am sure that the five will do fine and make all of us proud. Some might forget that Roy Hodgson was once a Liverpool chap, so make that six.