Jurgen the drama queen

Apparently the FA have given the Premier League teams a winter break then cruelly sneaked in replays to the schedule. 

Presumably that's because if they put them anywhere else - like a week with a Champions League Game, then Jurgen would be saying thinks like... 

"No guys, but seriously, I am asking, it's like what I'm saying about football, so when you having pints, some is good but too many and everyone is like boom, that's too much and you are you know regretful. Am I right?" 

...with his perfect teeth and weird hair and irritatingly disarming charm. The professionally likable twat. 

"So, I was like, 'you expect us to play again?', and they were like, 'you have a half billion pound turnover' and I was like 'yeah, we didn't make that playing Shrewsbury' and then everyone laughed"

Anyways, according to Jurgen and the people's most real, genuine, sentimental down to earth, history and tradition filled club, the FA Cup replay is a BIG SURPRISE. 

Having an empty week of Premier League fixtures is within the gift of the FA to ensure happens. Ferry across the Mersey FC's job was to beat Shrewsbury to ensure they didn't need a replay that would take place in that week. 

I don't know when the first ever FA Cup replay was but I do know that the final of 1875 went to a second match so Tarby and Cilla FC have only had 139 years to grasp the concept of not winning meaning playing again. 

Royal Engineers 1875. They had to play a replay AND be in the Army. They managed.

Here's a whole load of things Klopp could have done, instead of having a big strop and choosing to show what he thinks of English lower league opposition: 

1 - Picked a team good enough to beat Shrewsbury. He didn't, so deal with it, without whining. 

2 - Used some of the insane money that Liverpool raise in revenue to sign some players to cover the game. I believe these signings are called 'loans' or 'signings' and teams do them to ensure they have enough 'players' to play 'matches' or 'fixtures' 

3 - Given Liverpool are about 20 points ahead in the league, used his (huge) squad carefully and given the players he used the next game off. I find it hard to believe that Origi, Shaqiri, Lallana, Lovren, that Japanese lad, the dead good kid who scored against Everton, probably some others who play sometimes and Adrian are suffering burn out from playing the odd game here and there.

'Shattered - played 10 minutes last week, exhausting'

 4.  It has to be noted that Liverpool have TEN players out on loan. Am I missing something here? 

Q: A manager can't find enough players to play the games.
Does he...
A: Send some of the players he has to play for other teams
B: Use them to play the games? 

Is Klopp likely to boycott a meaningless champions league game? If Liverpool win their first 4 games in the group, will he send the kids and have a night watching Eurotrash and chuckling to himself in the bath about how the woman who sang 99 red balloons is German and how to work that into his next quirky press conference. You see, because he is German and Liverpool are red and 99 somethings. It'll have to wait...

Is he fuck going to do that. Because that would be 'disrespectful to the competition' and would endanger Liverpool's precious brand exposure. Literally millions of dyed in the wool Scousers from Korea to Kidderminster would feel cheated out of their money having literally walked all the way to the front room and spent an entire 5 minutes setting up Now TV. Some of them might even have done the washing up quickly to get it out the way. 

But fuck the cup, fuck Shrewsbury, fuck anything that doesn't keep the balance sheet ticking over and the brand growing. 

A place they haven't heard of Shrewsbury

Liverpool: the team that couldn't face playing Shrewsbury for fear they'd lose a game sometime. Like the kid who wants the game to stop as soon as he's not winning.