I now accept that Liverpool have no chance

The second week of the BPL is over and some things have become obvious to me. Firstly I need to accept that my team Liverpool have no chance to challenge for the title, and perhaps even for the top 4. This realization is only made worse by the fact that Carlos told me so.

The rebuilding of Liverpool will be much like the building of Rome it won’t happen in a day. The title may be a two horse race between the blue of London and the blue of Manchester. Yes we know that the Red Devils will be there because they just never give in, but with Manchester City I witnessed a team against Liverpool that certainly has the cattle to win, but do they have a manager that can manage the egos and a team of players determined and calm enough to win games at Blackpool in the middle of winter, and take the pressure at the end pressure matches and at the end of the season? Only time will tell.

The major thing I learnt from Round 2 of the BPL is the fact that we now have a 3 tier competition.

The number of teams that simply are not good enough is increasing every year, and this year could indeed be as many as 8, forget the 3 that will get relegated. We have about the same number of teams that won’t get relegated but will never be able to challenge for the title, and of course we have a small number of teams that can win the whole thing, and that is not 5 or 6 it could be as small as 2 or 3.

So what do we do about this?

I understand that we all love the romance of promotion and relegation but perhaps the numbers of the teams in the BPL is just too many. Too many poor teams and too many poor players, if the competition was 12 to 15 teams imagine the quality of the teams and the players. The only problem with this concept is that in a 12 team competition Liverpool over the next few years may well be playing to avoid relegation.

Warren Diego