After last season, I was really hoping that we would find another run of form. Lord knows we need a distraction from the rest of the crap going on. Where did it all go wrong..? After much thought, I say, the signing of Sander Berge. We paid a huge sum and bust the wage structure for a very talented player, but it burst the bubble for us in midfield, playing him week in week out when he was a long way off the pace for (they say...) £40k a week, while Johnny Lundsram is on (they say...) £7k. No wonder he wanted a better contract. You can see favourites being picked week after week despite performances elsewhere in the pitch. Shankley said the challenge in management is keeping the 11 players happy who aren't getting a game. It doesn't take much for the dressing room mentality to change, and this is where I think it did for us.
Go on, tell me I'm wrong...