It seem's like only yesterday we were all making plans for the Millenium and getting ready for all our electrical appliances to spontaneoulsy combust and/or meltdown. Alas, thankfully we all survived the Millenium bug and no microwave ovens imploded let alone planes dropping out of the sky on the stroke on midnight!
It's hard to believe that all that was 10 years ago now and as a Football Club it has been a very good 10 years, despite what some people may think!
The past decade has seen us in 3 major European Finals winning two of them, winning The FA Cup twice, The League Cup twice, The Community Sheild twice and The European Super Cup twice aswell as finishing 2nd in the Premier League, you guessed it, twice.
But our last ten years goes much deeper then these successes alone, we have been lucky to be involed in some of the greatest games in living memory let alone of the past decade, Dortmund, Istanbul, Cardiff all falling in this time frame.
We have seen players come and go, some not technically gifted enough to make it in red, others who would grace any pitch on the Planet. We saw teenagers come in, we saw a grown balding man of 34 arrive and turn back the clock.
We have seen a local lad grow from a skinny, awkward yet talented player to become the best attacking midfielder of a generation, anywhere in the World. Hamstrings permitting we get to see the best out and out striker playing the game today week in, week out, bouncing as we go.
In these times of ulta-modern Football, we have seen the pride and heartbeat of British football move from a locally owned Football Club into the hands of overseas management and become a Football Business nay franchise, many may say a fragile business, many more may say a fragile business in the wrong hands.
History has not always been kind to us but the last 10 years have brought us joy and improvement, much success on the park and with a little more recent luck it could have been even more. When you look back and reflect on this year, try not to be too clouded by current form, as we will get through this storm. The one thing that always remains constant within Liverpool Football Club are it's fans, look back with pride, remember the past, remember the 96, take a deep breath and get set for the next decade because histroy will be kind to us. Walk on.
