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@sambrazy @LFCMacca10 Apply your own logic and it doesn’t mean LW is his preferred position either.

[DaveOCKOP @DaveOCKOP]

Arne Slot: "We have conceded far too many goals, but we didn't score enough goals. But two away at Villa Park is not bad." (Sky)

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@JamesPearceLFC Same shit, different day.

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@Burns05 @l4pablo Fair enough, we’ve just got different perspectives. The new signings haven’t been too bad. Wirtz & Ekitike have carried us in moments but only moments. I’d argue City have still played well in several games. I can’t think of many games we’ve played well. Sunderland away perhaps.

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@Burns05 @l4pablo I think you’re being kind. He’s had the majority of his ‘best XI’ available each week with the odd omission, mostly RB. We’ve lost 4-1 at home to PSV. 3-0 at home to Forest. Lost twice to Galatasaray. You don’t need your best team to beat these. We’ve been embarrassed by them.

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@Burns05 @l4pablo Slot has had all season to find a tune with this squad and nothing has happened. Gaps all over the pitch. Lethargic. Every week is the same. A fresh approach needed. What have you seen that warrants keeping him?

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@Burns05 @l4pablo Reinstall grit, intensity, belief.

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@LiverpoolXtraa The manager had them all available for a lot longer than the minutes played together suggest.

[Premier League Panel @PremLeaguePanel]

Most Liverpool matches are characterised by poor team defensive shape and individual attacking brilliance. This points to a major coaching issue.

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@DominicKing_DM @adihrvatt @PartedBeard Totally appreciate the pressure they must feel, and I don’t envy them. That said, I cannot help but think his comments on europa league elimination was pre-meditated, and it is making his task; getting fans back on side, more difficult. Thanks for your perspective though 👍

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@DominicKing_DM @adihrvatt @PartedBeard Fans got a lift from the result, but why didn’t Arne?

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@AnfieldSector We won 4 out of 7 games that followed the defeat to PSG though

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Paint watches this Liverpool team dry

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Every young man’s dream #MNF

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

There's a point in every scandal when the curtain drops and you see the thing as it really is. We've reached that moment. Until now, Labour's defence was that Rachel Reeves went rogue – that she spun up a phantom black hole, misled the public, and panicked the markets all on her own. That alibi has just died. Downing Street has now admitted the truth: Keir Starmer knew there was no black hole. He saw the OBR's positive forecasts. He read the speech. And he signed off the lie.

This is no longer a story about one dishonest Chancellor. It is a story about a dishonest government. Reeves lied on 4 November because Starmer approved the script. She warned of a fiscal cliff that didn't exist because Number 10 told her it would fly. She talked Britain into fear so she could raise taxes not out of necessity, but out of political convenience – and she did it with the Prime Minister standing at her shoulder. The black hole wasn't an error, or a misunderstanding, or an early draft of the figures. It was a joint operation.

You can now see how the machinery worked. Treasury insiders whispered horror stories about £20–30 billion gaps. Reeves hinted at income-tax hikes she knew were unnecessary. The media was steered towards panic. The public was softened up. All the while, the real figures – £4.2 billion of headroom – sat on Starmer's desk in black and white. It is the clearest case of manufactured crisis we've seen in years: engineer fear, justify a raid, blame old villains, and hope no one ever sees the timestamps. The Treasury didn't attack the OBR for "breaching private space." They attacked it for telling the truth.

This matters because the lie didn't land in a vacuum. It moved markets. It spooked pension funds. It influenced interest-rate expectations. It shaped decisions made by families, businesses, and investors. It was market-sensitive falsehood presented as fact. Reeves now faces allegations of market abuse – and if she is responsible, then Starmer is responsible twice over. The First Lord of the Treasury is either complicit or asleep. If he knew, he must go with her. If he didn't, he has no business governing.

What we are seeing here is the end of the pretence that Labour is a sober, technocratic outfit of grown-ups. The mask has slipped. Beneath it sits a government that lies first and explains later; a government that treats the truth as something to be shaped for effect; a government that thinks voters exist to be managed, not informed. This is the same crew that slashed winter fuel payments, raided farmers, hammered private pensions, and slapped "punishment taxes" on groups it dislikes – all under the banner of a mythical £22 billion deficit they now cannot explain.

When Number 10's response to being caught is to insist that Reeves's claims were "entirely accurate," even with the OBR's timestamps staring them in the face, it tells you something deeper has broken. Honesty is no longer expected. Accountability is no longer offered. The belief seems to be that power justifies the lie – that the ends excuse the means. That is the mindset of a government in decay.

And now their MPs know it. You can hear the panic in the briefings. "This looks pretty bad." "Hard to see how they come back." "Rachel is tied to Keir." They understand the stakes: if Reeves falls, she drags Starmer with her. If Starmer survives, he survives as a man who nodded through a deceit aimed squarely at the wallets of the very people who put him in office.

Britain cannot be governed on this basis. A Prime Minister who signs off a fiscal fiction, then calls it "entirely accurate," has no claim to moral authority. A Chancellor who uses invented numbers to justify the largest tax raid in years has no claim to office. And a government that treats the public as marks in a political con has no claim to trust.

"The First Lord of the Treasury is either complicit or asleep. If he knew, he must go with her. If he didn't, he has no business governing."

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@decembervista

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The game is gone

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@decembervista

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@decembervista

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@decembervista Ask me again Saturday night 🤣