Benitez bombed last summer by signing Robbie Keane for £20 million, which made him have to start Keane to the detrement of the team. You also had no natural wingers and were very fortunate to get as many points as you did at the start of the season where you weren’t good. However once you sold Reira and went back to your established system you were very good, and much much closer to Man United and Chelsea. Your now in a position where if Benitiez has a good summer and signs Tevez you’ll have a first 11 almost as good as Man uniteds and Chelsea’s so could have an even better go of challenging.

Yes indeed! And it works every time!

As for rose tinted galsses. I keep trying to buy a pair of those but constantly find that they have been bought out by Liverpool fans! (20 years of trying!)

Here’s to next season. I’m confident!

First off Liverpool didn’t out-punch themselves at the start of the season, they just never gave up in games and had a slice of fortune, something that Man U certainly have had as well this season. A good example being the away game at Stoke where Ronaldo was lucky to stay on the pitch before you scrapped a 1 nil win.

As for Chelsea and Arsenal being more potent forces next season, well that works both ways as Man U certainly didn’t drop as many points as the could have against them. As for capitulating against Chelsea in the CL, maybe you might look at this with a ‘different view’ and say Chelsea played better, or caught Liverpool at the right and we had to coin a phrase used after a certain 4 – 1 loss by a certain team ‘a bad day at the office’.

As for fortunate goals whilst playing Man U and Chelsea, I don’t think you’ll find many neutrals who would argue that Liverpool weren’t the better team in the games they played.

About the only thing i can agree on is that Man U have played more games, but as everyone keeps harping on about Man U have this large squad of world class players leaving Mr Ferguson with more options, no one critises him for the amount of rotation he has done because he’s got the better squad. This just comes down to money which Man U have more of and unfortunately is now a deciding factor in the game.

Please next time spare us your ‘other view’ rubbish, you could for a change say well done Liverpool you’ve improved we’ll see what you can do next season, but unfortunately you’re stuck trying to get a rise out of Liverpool fans as usual.

Btw good article, i’m please with the progress Liverpool have made this season and hope with a few good transfer buys we’ll be challenging next season.

Liverpool out-punched their weight in the first 13 games ‘getting-away’ with points against Wigan, Boro and City in particular.

In their next 14 games they had a record of W5, D8, L1, which is mid-table form.

A purple patch in March/April saved their season but they capitualted to Chelsea in the CL, again showing that they can’t compete all the way in 2 competitions.

With the easiest run-in and no other pressure on, they finished the season well.

Agreed that they did well against the Top 4 but they got Utd and Chelsea at the right times and also had a couple of very fortunate goals against them. Put it this way, if Liverpool are depending on doing the double over Utd and Chelsea again to stay on the pace I wouldn’t be too optimistic.

Circumstances helped Liverpool greatly this season. Chelsea and Arsenal will both be more potent forces next season.

As for Utd? Well by the time the season ends they will have played 66 games as against Liverpool’s 55. That 20% more games or the equivalent of 2 games a week over 5 weeks! A huge difference in terms of pressure, with the fatigue, injuries and suspensions that goes with that. I havn’t seen this mentioned by many but, make no mistake, it is a big big factor!

But even with that handicap Utd have beaten Liverpool to the title.

Liverpool HAVE improved this season but the extent of that improvement is exaggerated by other factors and they have a lot to do if they want to win the title next season.

As for Benitez, he’s firmly set himself up for next season. Either he delivers or he’ll be gone….and it’s the fans who’ll make that call.