24 Years In the Making

Liverpool are on the verge of being crowned Champions of England  for the first time since you know when. The question is though, can they do it?!

For most fans it’s a simple answer, ‘yes, we can!’, since the 3-2 win against City others are having serious doubts. A win is a win no matter how they come but Liverpool showed the signs of a nervous teenager learning how to drive. Stop, start, go, don’t go and second guessing themselves in the second half. They were not as destructive as they were in that first half running into good areas and with Suarez dropping deep to leave Sterling with acres of space and the youngster showed some coolness under the pressure of scoring against Hart and the distinguished defence of Kompany and company.

The nerves of the fans were even more evident. The stadium went quiet long before that first City  goal was scored and the fans couldn’t really lift the mood as they themselves have been waiting 24 years for this. A day at Anfield with the biggest prize at stake so late in the season. This is new territory for most Liverpool Fans under the age of 35-40.

With that in mind, can the Anfield faithful will their team over the finish line? Many, many neutrals certainly hope so and with so much talk of Steven Gerrard deserving a Premier League medal, there is talk of a certain someone else deserving it even more so than Captain Fantastic himself. That certain someone is, of course … EveryLiverpool fan himself!

For so many years Liverpool have enjoyed a support so blinded that they support their side no matter what! The love for Liverpool is superseded by only the kind of love for that of seeing your first born escaping his mothers womb. It is indeed a family, a global family with one goal in mind and that is success. And the 24 years without success and without a real title challenge has been tough. But the faithful fans have stuck by their team, through sickness and in health, in rich vein of form or Poor.

If Liverpool are to get over the line, it’s that very same nervous tension that the players will have to overcome when playing smaller teams. Like Norwich this weekend. They may not have the title credentials Liverpool have, but they have a battle of their own and will have to fight as hard as Liverpool for the 3 points. The Liverpool fans will have to find the heart to shout louder, chant louder, sing with belief the great Liverpool anthems!

Liverpool needs you now more than ever to lift the players to achieve greater heights in these so-called ‘smaller games’. Liverpool has always had belief, this time they have belief with 4 games to go, and can they do it?