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ok; i figure: everton are twats, and we're playing at home. no problem. we will certainly win. then i notice the charts; in fact, everton is ranked fourth. liverpool is sixth.
still...
everything goes really well. i feel the optimism, despite the fact the liverpool is not a team that inspires this. see previous entries. (helen: i don't think i've ever seen liverpool win.) it seems that we're getting fouled quite a bit, but we're up 2 - 0 before i've had my fourth irish coffee. then suddenly the injuries are coming like we're storming normandy beach. liverpool's dropping like flies! we hit half time with ZERO substitutions left. (commentator: oddly, going into half-time, both teams seem to be showing desperation...) one more man goes down, and we're playing with ten. one more, nine. you get the picture. a quick calculation of mine has us with only dudek on the pitch by 70 minutes.
(duuuuu-DEK! duuu-DEK!)
random quote from the commentators about one of them: he doesn't seem to try to cause injuries, but he seems quite comfortable with the injuries he causes...
and sure enough, everton scores.
it looks bad. really bad. sick-to-the-stomach never-again i've-been-here-before kind of bad...
the bar breaks out into you'll never walk alone...
yes. lovely swan song. then we get a red card. baros! no! ten players. nooooo! i know how this is going to go: another petty, bitchy armchair striker's report on a blog in the middle of nowhere.
there is nothing new under the sun.
but, somewhere after an eternity of screaming at the flat screen, fueled only by whiskey, rage and disappointment...
WE WON!
everything was pretty hazy by the end, but i've just verified it. WE WON! if you care, bbc has the details. WE WON! YES!
for the interested: http://lfcny.org/tvschedule.html