England - I Miss You

I'm missing England so much. Sometimes it feels like I'm going to start crying because my abstinence gets that big. I have only been to England once, but I really felt like home. I love almost everything about that beautiful country. I love the people, the football, the nature, the buildings, the music and so on. I don't even have a problem with the weather (that might be because I live in Sweden, so I'm not spoiled with good weather).

I'm going to go to England in May to see the Liverpool-Chelsea game. I don't know when, it depends on if one of the teams go to the FA-Cup final, but it's not that far away even if that happens. I can't wait. Almost anything can remind me of England and when that happens I feel like I want to get out of my skin and just explode of excitement.

I have taken the pictures.

The FA-Cup

I want us to have it! It's nice to be in the semifinals. I hope we get Everton and then Chelsea in the final. That would be awesome. PS. I really hope that Muamba will be okey, praying for him.

Liverpool 1-2 Arsenal

Disappointment – A feeling I’m quite used to I must say. That’s how I feel at the moment and I definitely have the right to feel that way. Two chances was all Arsenal and van Persie needed to win this game. Liverpool played well for 98 minutes (8 minutes of stoppage time) but as usual we couldn’t get the ball in the net.

In the first half we started well with a high tempo and a lot of pressure on the Arsenal players. We didn’t let them pass the ball around like they wanted and because of that Arsenal didn’t get a lot of chances. Liverpool on the other hand had chances all the time because of all the good crosses, good runs and the quality passing.

After around twenty minutes Liverpool got a penalty because of a tackle on Suarez by Szczesny. Kuyt was the man who stepped up to take the penalty. He shot the ball and Szczesny made a good save. The ball went back to Kuyt but he didn’t get a good hit and Szczesny saved again.

In the 23rd minute Henderson made a good cross into the penalty area. Not only Liverpool players were there but also Koscielny, and he was the one who put the ball in the net. Liverpool was in the lead and deserved to be so.

The whole team kept playing well. All of them were good in the defensive and because of the pressure they put on the Arsenal players we always got the ball back quickly. Spearing played really well and controlled the midfield area so that Arsenal couldn’t get their passing to work.

After a counterattack the 31st minute Arsenal equalized. Sagna made a good cross into the penalty area and there was Mr van Persie to put the ball in the net. It was one of very few chances Arsenal had in the game, but it was all the brilliant Dutch striker needed.

The rest of the first half was all about Liverpool. We had chance after chance but we couldn’t score. The last thing that happened before the halftime whistle was that either Kuyt or Suarez hit the post. I’m starting to get a little tired of that now…

In the beginning of the second half Arteta had to be carried of the pitch on a stretcher and he was replaced by Diaby. Arsenal started to have a bit more possession and they were allowed to pass the ball around a bit more than in the first half. Nothing very interesting happened for a while, Liverpool had the best chances but nothing really serious. Arsenal made some changes with Gervinho and Oxlade-Chamberlain coming on for Benayoun and Diaby.

Liverpool was the better team during the second half too and they had some good chances in the end of the game but didn’t get the ball in. Bellamy and Carroll came on for Downing and Spearing as a last attempt to win the game.

We didn’t win the game, instead it was Arsenal who ended up as the winning team. It all came to its end in the 93rd minute when van Persie scored his second goal of the day. It felt like shit. After having played as well as we did, we really deserved to win. But that’s football, nothing is fair. I’m starting to learn that now.

R U Mine?

I  just love this new Arctic Monkeys song. Can't get enough of them. And yes, I'm yours.

Liverpool - Carling Cup Winners

Wow, what a game that was. It was horrible most of the time, one of those games when you just want to turn the TV off and forget about football. But I didn’t turn the TV off and now we are Carling Cup winners. I know I would have regretted it a lot if I hadn’t seen the game so I’m lucky I did.

I saw the game at O’Learys together with a lot of other Liverpool fans. I didn’t know anyone and I still don’t because I didn’t talk much. I was so focused on the game and my mood went up and down like I don’t know what and most of the time it felt bad because we didn’t play good. We never reached our highest level or anywhere near that and Cardiff played really well.

In the beginning of the game we had a few chances but we didn’t get the ball in. Instead it was Cardiff who got the first goal and that was after 19 minutes or something like that. Liverpool equalized in the 60th minute after a goal by Skrtel (he just gets better and better) and for a little while it felt a bit better.

None of the teams managed to score another goal so the game went to extra time. The first one to score there was Dirk Kuyt, our Flying Dutchman. With just a few minutes left Cardiff scored and when they did it felt like we weren’t meant to win this cup. I almost felt depressed and I really didn’t think that we would win.

The game went to penalties and the first one to try his luck was Stevie Gerrard. He missed his penalty and my mood dropped even more. I didn’t watch the penalties because it was too exciting and scary, but I heard. When Cardiff missed their penalty too the atmosphere in the room went up a bit, but then Charlie Adam shot his penalty miles above the goal the mood went down again. Cardiff scored their second goal and they were in the lead. Then it was Kuyt’s turn to shoot and he scored so when Cardiff missed their third penalty we were back on track again. Stewart Downing scored his penalty and Cardiff equalized. Then it was time for Glen Johnson to take Liverpool’s last penalty and that really didn’t feel good. But he scored and it was a great penalty. The last one to shoot was Anthony Gerrard for Cardiff and he missed. Poor man.

When Anthony missed the penalty all the people in the room started to celebrate and it all got very loudly. It felt SO good and we really needed this victory. I don’t think we deserved to win because we didn’t play very good and Cardiff did, but I’m so happy we won. It will stay on my mind for some time now and hopefully help me through all the school work and things I have to do for the weeks to come. And it really was time for Liverpool to put something new to the trophy collection.

Come On the Reds

I'm so ready for the final! I'm going to see the game on a pub together with some other fans so I'm going to have a really good time (well, not if we don't win, but we will). It will be a tough game but if we can find our highest level there won't be any problems to beat Cardiff and take that trophy we want so badly. Come on the Reds!!

Cornerstone

Thought I saw you in the battleship 

but it was only a look alike 

She was nothing but a vision trick 

Under the warning light 

She was close, close enough to be your ghost 

But my chances turned to toast 

When I asked her if I could call her your name I thought 

I saw you in the rusty hook 

Huddled up in wicker chair 

I wandered over for a closer look 

And kissed whoever was sitting there 

She was close, and she held me very tightly 

Till I asked awfully politely, please 

Can I call you her name 

And I elongated my lift home, 

Yeah I let him go the long way round 

I smelt your scent on the seatbelt 

And kept my shortcuts to myself 

I thought I saw you in the parrots beak 

Messing with the smoke alarm 

It was too loud for me to hear her speak 

And she had a broken arm 

It was close, so close that the walls were wet 

And she wrote it out in letraset 

No you can't call me her name 

Tell me where's your hiding place 

I'm worried I'll forget your face 

And I've asked everyone 

And I'm beginning to think I imagined you all along 

I elongated my lift home 

Yeah I let him go the long way round 

I smelt your scent on the seatbelt 

And kept my shortcuts to myself 

I saw your sister in the cornerstone 

On the phone to the middle man 

When I saw that she was on her own 

I thought she might understand 

She was close, well you couldn't get much closer 

She said I'm really not supposed to but yes, 

You can call me anything you want

The Way Back

Earlier today I was at a lecture and the lecturer was Joakim Öwre, a man who became paralyzed after a snowboard accident in 2001. Since then he has worked really hard to get back and now he can walk without any help and he has also been snowboarding short distances on his own.

After the accident he lay in a coma for four months before he woke up, and when he did he couldn’t move because his body didn’t listen to him. It has been a long way back but he hasn’t given up because he is a really strong and determined man. If I had just a tenth of his strength and determination I would get very far.

He is a true source of inspiration and when I heard him talk about his story I felt that I want to be better than I am, I want to see things in a more positive way and live in the present. I don’t only want it, I need it to enjoy the life, and that is another thing I have thought about after the lecture, that the life is very precious and wonderful.

If you want to know more about him and read about his amazing story you can go to his website http://backflip.se/svenska/Start.html.

Come On the Reds!

We have a really important game this evening against Spurs, we have to win to have any chance of reaching the fourth place in the league. Both teams will give everything and it will be a tough game. I hope that Kelly can take care of Bale, because I think he is the biggest threat to us, with his incredible pace.

I like that Kenny has picked Bellamy for the starting eleven, but I hope that Suarez will come on before the 75th minute or something like that, so he has time enough to do something. That is the only thing about Kenny as coach that worries me a bit, that it takes such a long time before he makes a change, especially if there is an obvious problem on the pitch that even I can see. But... in Kenny we trust.

I hope that it will be a good game with many chances and many goals, and of course that Liverpool wins. Come on the Reds!!

Anfield this evening!

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

I think I have found just the right music style for me. Usually I just like one or a few songs by an artist and for that reason I have never really been a fan of a band or an artist, but now I have found a band that I can listen to hour after hour and there isn't a single song I don't like. Of course I have favourite songs, but I think all of their songs are good ones and that hasn't happened to me before. Anyway the band is Arctic Monkeys, and I fuckin' love them. My favourite songs are: Fluorescent Adolescent, Suck It And See, Black Treacle and Perhaps Vampires Is A Bit Strong But...

 I love their texts, but I can't understand how they do it, there are so many weird lines that a normal person would never ever think of, and that is what makes the songs so brilliant. I love the way they use the instruments too and there are big differences between all the songs, but still a red line through them all.