11 Lessons learnt by Liverpool this season

A fallen giant?

With Hodgson’s spell at the club coinciding with the lowest ebb in the club’s recent history, there were very real concerns that the club could ‘do a Leeds’ and even go as far as to plummet out of the top flight. Game’s that used to be bankable on paper began to look extremely dangerous. This season the club were beaten by the likes of Blackpool, Newcastle, Wolves, Blackburn and Northampton Town – all games that you’d expect a club the size of Liverpool to at least get something from. By the turn of the year, all signs were pointing to an unexpected and yet at the same time heartbreaking relegation dogfight. While the playing staff was uneven, there was still enough quality around the dressing room to have put up more of a challenge in the first half of the campaign. The football was absolutely abject. The results were even worse. The club went into the season expecting inconsistency and their fair share of poor performances, but in the first half of the season, Liverpool were god awful and even mid-table obscurity seemed like a comforting thought.

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