Here’s the Ryan Babel match report from today’s Liverpool-Atlético game (superfast and not analytical): Maxi Rodríguez scored a “cracking” (—B. Glendenning) goal 37 minutes in. Atlético then turned into a bathtub drain-plug and Liverpool, running hot, overflowed to no effect. Fernando Torres sat wrapped in feminine shadows and a pullover in the stands, looking limpid (according to the real definition of the word), clapping limpidly (according to the way the word “feels”). He’s a good boy, and full of respect.
Then, in the fourth minute of stoppage time, Steven Gerrard won a weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak penalty decision and tied the game from the spot. So it goes. Liverpool had a severely good claim on a handball penalty denied in the first half, so by various subjunctive-mode-mauling “right result” metrics, things probably worked out fine.
Jamie Carragher almost scored from about 35 yards at one point. That was unusual.
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by Brian Phillips · November 4, 2008
You’re about five “weak”s short there, Brian. If anyone has any doubt, Éamon Dunphy thinks it was a penalty.
I’ve always felt that the definition of ‘limpid’ was somehow wrong. Nice to see that thought in some place outside my own mind.
It’s the same for me with “nonplussed”. It ought to mean “vaguely turned off”, not “really confused”. I feel very strongly about this.
The penalty incident was a perfect metaphor for what it must be like to face Gerrard (as well as a literal representation, of course): you’re just going about your business in the normal fashion, Gerrard barrels into your unsuspecting self and you get punished for it.
Dunphy thinks it was a penalty?
Is he back on the junk?
He’s never been off the junk. Always talking rubbish.
That is what you mean by “junk”, isn’t it?
Bot. Scraped that one for sure. I don’t feel so bad when I look at Chelsea’s result though.
Sure, it was a dubious penalty the claim (to say the least), but to be fair LFC were robbed of a perfectly legitimate penalty claim earlier on when Atletico clearly handled the ball…
And in fairness to Liverpool, they were the better team during long stretches of the match and didn’t exactly deserve to lose. Though if I were a fan I’d be worried about their recent habit of playing brilliantly without winning…
I heard AM were similarly ‘robbed’ of a penalty claim when Carragher handled the ball.