We will win. I also expect Sunderland to pull off a result later in the day too.
This!
Although, I'll admit that this has me more worried than anything - for once the Daily Mail wrote something worth reading:
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If Fernando Torres is to stay at Liverpool Kop must be united for Chelsea clash
By Des Kelly
Last updated at 12:38 AM on 1st May 2010
Imagine Fernando Torres looking on in bewilderment as his own supporters celebrate defeat. Imagine the Spaniard standing by as the fans wallow in failure because it denies their rivals a moment of success.
Those misplaced loyalties could make a proud competitor like Torres think about his career. The realisation that the business of winning trophies was to be had elsewhere might even make him quit. But you don't have to imagine it.
This is not fiction, or some speculative fantasy of how things might play out on Sunday if Liverpool surrender against Chelsea.
It's actually one of the main reasons Torres is to be found at Anfield now. When the Spanish striker was playing for Atletico Madrid, he was appalled when fans of the club he joined at 11 and captained at the age of 19 delighted in a 0-6 hammering by Barcelona.
Their masochistic glee was inspired by the consequences of their team's feeble submission. It ensured that their city rivals Real Madrid would not win La Liga.
But Torres admits that dishonourable episode propelled him towards the exit. 'Yes, that was a key day, maybe the day that I was finally convinced to leave,' he admitted in a thoughtful interview.
'After losing 6-0 and seeing the way it happened, after seeing all the fans, who had always been right behind their team but now weren't, I was really hurt. A team that's used to winning just doesn't go through an experience like that.
'At all clubs, the fans really hate their rivals and keep an eye on their results. But one of the problems we always had at Atletico was that the fans were too focused on Real Madrid; that was symbolic of our bad times.
'When you're not achieving anything, you focus on your rivals and hope they lose. But you reach the point where you think it's time we looked at our results and left Real Madrid alone.
'If your fans want you to lose, it's a sign that your team has nothing to play for. And when that dawns on you, it hurts.'
Those words will have a renewed significance tomorrow when Chelsea step out at Anfield in their potentially decisive title clash.
In every pub and in every car making the journey to the game, the debate among Liverpool fans will be the same: to go against the natural instincts of a fan and pray the side loses, denying Manchester United their 19th title?
Or to urge the team on in the faint hope of finishing fourth and salvaging something from the wreckage of a season?
All week, Liverpool message boards and internet forums have been buzzing with conflicting pleas to fold or fight on. But with Rafa Benitez's 'guarantee' to finish fourth looking more and more like a note to Father Christmas, many supporters admit they would readily accept defeat if it prevented Mr. Ferguson from completing his plan to 'knock Liverpool off their ****ing perch' as he famously promised on his arrival at Old Trafford in 1986.
I accept that internet forums are not always the home of rational debate, but there are certainly enough Liverpool voices out there willing to offer their support to Chelsea for one day and the reaction in the stands will be just as fascinating as the response of the players on the pitch.
One website post urges: Show your support for Chelsea 'Pool fans: Wear Blue to the match!' It's not likely to catch on.
Others simply hope for a Chelsea beating, to guarantee that goal difference doesn't become a factor in the final reckoning. Other, more sensible heads, respond by accusing these renegades of being traitors to the cause.
There is no doubt that happiness can be found in the misfortune of your enemies. There's nothing noble about the feeling, in fact it represents the worst of human nature, yet it would be hypocrisy to pretend it doesn't exist.
The sight of the traffic warden handing you a parking ticket and then tripping over a kerb can warm the insides like a deliciously evil hot toddy. But the sentiment of fans is one thing, the attitude of professional players is another entirely. They have their own points to prove.
The fact that Benitez is making loud noises about fixture congestion suggests he might be laying the ground to pick a changed side. Add that he has a chance to escape to Juventus in the summer and a conspiracy theory suggesting his parting gift could be an act of sabotage on Ferguson begins to look alluring.
However, football is not that accommodating when it comes to predictions, particularly in this topsy-turvy season.
If Chelsea win, it will be because they are the better team. If United fail, it will be because they lost at home to Carlo Ancelotti's men when it mattered four weeks ago and have not been able to recover lost ground.
Should Torres decide to seek a new home after the World Cup because he cannot stomach playing for another club that watches enviously from the sidelines when honours are handed out, Anfield will only have itself to blame. That is why real Liverpool fans will not want their side to lose.
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