Liverpool Won’t Be Mid Champions, Blame The Bad Challengers – Carragher

Liverpool legend, Jamie Carragher has come out to say that the club will not be bad champions when they win the EPL this season. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, he’d only agree that there have been bad challengers this season because in terms of points totals and games lost, Liverpool are doing what champions of the league normally do.

Carragher added that the Reds have only lost one away game all season, and they have played very well against the big teams.

His words, “You could say the challengers are bad. I think that’s a different way of looking at it. In terms of points totals and games lost, they are doing what champions do. They could win the league with five or six games to go, which is pretty remarkable. And that speaks more about the others, really, than Liverpool. That’s more on I think Arsenal and Manchester City. Liverpool have got six points against City, they’ve drawn away at Arsenal, and still have to play them at home. I mean, they’ve only lost one away game all season. The points tally they’re going to get is going to be pretty high. So, yeah, they’ve just done their job.

But what we’ve had in the last sort of four or five years, I think we’ve probably been spoiled a little bit in the Premier League with Arsenal the last couple of years, with City and Liverpool three or four years before that, them and City going at it head to head – and the titles going down to the wire. Whereas you look back in Premier League history, a lot of titles, certainly where Manchester United were dominating, they’d won the league with sort of three or four games to go. So I think we’re probably just forgetting that did used to happen.

I think that doesn’t apply to Liverpool this season. And the reason I would say that is because Liverpool are going to win their first title in five years, which is not too shabby when you think of the competition. But it’s Liverpool’s second in 34, 35 years. So winning the league title is not the norm for Liverpool. So Liverpool fans are absolutely ecstatic to win the league title. But if we were talking about Man City being in this position right now, or maybe Manchester United of the past under Alex Ferguson, it maybe would feel a little bit flat at this stage of the season.

They were used to winning the league. You know, the league doesn’t feel that special to them, because they do it most seasons, whereas Liverpool don’t. Now, I want this to become in the future, if you say to me, in two or three years time, “Does this season feel a little bit flat?” or “Is a little bit underwhelming, you’re just gonna win the Premier League?” I hope I’m saying yes to that, because that will mean that Liverpool have won, maybe another two or three league titles. We all take things for granted, don’t we, you know, once you get used to something. But Liverpool supporters don’t take the Premier League title for granted. I mean, we’ve been there on the last day, on the last few years, and lost it two or three times. That’s social media rhetoric, isn’t it? But from a Liverpool point of view, no, that doesn’t feel like that at all. But hopefully it does in the future.”

WOW.

Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Founded in 1892, the club joined the Football League the following year and has played its home games at Anfield since its formation.

Domestically, the club has won 19 league titles, eight FA Cups, a record nine League Cups and 16 FA Community Shields. In international competitions, the club has won six European Cups, three UEFA Cups, four UEFA Super Cups—all English records—and one FIFA Club World Cup.

The club established itself as a major force in domestic and European football in the 1970s and 1980s, when Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan and Kenny Dalglish, led the club to a combined 11 League titles and four European Cups. Liverpool won two further European Cups in 2005 and 2019 under the management of Rafael Benítez and Jürgen Klopp, respectively; the latter led Liverpool to a 19th league title in 2020, the club’s first during the Premier League era.

Anfield was built in 1884 on land adjacent to Stanley Park. Situated 2 miles (3 km) from Liverpool city centre, it was originally used by Everton before the club moved to Goodison Park after a dispute over rent with Anfield owner John Houlding. Left with an empty ground, Houlding founded Liverpool in 1892 and the club has played at Anfield ever since. The capacity of the stadium at the time was 20,000, although only 100 spectators attended Liverpool’s first match at Anfield.