Are the games really rigged in football or are the refs paid under the table always?

Bayern Munich's streak will finally come to an end. It's pretty safe to say now that they've lost against Dortmund and trail Leverkusen in the table by 13 points with only seven games left to play.

The stunning thing is that Bayern's 11-year-streak of championships ends with a season where it isn't even close. For years I've said that any challenger must earn at least 80 points (out of a possible 102) to be in contention, but Leverkusen is on pace for an unbelievable 92 points. I would have never picked Leverkusen as the team to dethrone Bayern, because their streaks of good play have always been shortlived during the past two decades or so, and that's on the rare occasions where they had such streaks to begin with. Dortmund and Leipzig were the two most obvious picks to end Bayern's reign, but both of them were usually too inconsistent to pull it off. Dortmund came very close last year and were in the driver's seat on the final matchday, but completely botched it while Bayern were their usual lucky self with a late game-winning goal.

Also good news this week: Xabi Alonso will remain Leverkusen't coach for a while longer, so Bayern failed to lure him. Yeah, Bayern's long-running Bundesliga strategy was and is to take key players and coaches away from any looming competition.

I swear they must have American football goals at Liverpool's training ground.

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As a Saints fan, you can join us in our standard spiel every time we go out from a cup. "We were concentrating on the league anyway."

... which we also don't win.... maybe don't do that.

I want Liverpool to sign a manager who will give these players a slap to the face.

Who do you want? With Kloop's success it's going to be hard to follow, could be in for a Man U years for a while. :P

I just hope they pull things back after last weekend to stop Man City, anyone but city winning the league again.

And odd to think that the only England team left in Europe is now Villa in the conference.

Anyone here disagree with me that Manchester United is the greatest football team of all time!!!!!

Who I want is Xabi Alonso, but since that's not happening, honestly I have no idea. Just like I said, someone who will give these players a slap, because I feel like the way this Liverpool team have been playing only happens because Klopp will keep patting players' backs. I'm so tired of seeing this team play the same tired, repetitive, soulless game. Back pass, sideways pass, Van Dijk to Konate, Konate to Gomez, Gomez to Alisson, Alisson to Macca, Macca to Robertson, Robertson to Van Dijk, rinse and repeat. You'd swear based on today's game, Liverpool had the lead and were managing the game. Which technically I suppose they had, if you don't include the aggregate score.

We haven't scored a non-penalty goal in over 300 minutes of football.

It's one thing to play like this once or twice but when Liverpool get in this mood they just keep doing it over and over. We've had two seasons (20/21 and 22/23) where it went on for the whole year. But I didn't expect it to randomly start happening again at the very end of what was a potential quadruple season just a few weeks ago. Klopp is great at building a team and creating a positive atmosphere within the club but any other great manager stops this kind of thing before it becomes a real problem.

I think you're better off hoping Arsenal wins the league.

Anyone but Man City.

But after the FA Cup news, not too fond of any of them either.