Everything’s The Best: The Return

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Liverpool Football Club are once more playing matches that count. It is finally here. The new season of Liverpool Football Club and an official end to matches that don’t count. Sunday’s Community Shield marked the end of Liverpool’s pre-season mark. And given the way the Reds scrapped it out with Manchester City, it’s clear the lads from Merseyside believed it was a real match with real implications.
So, then, the summer that loomed so large in my brain has mostly breezed on by. I thought I’d be mining the weekends away lost in the interminable torpor brought on by weekends without Liverpool football to guide me. No nagging talking points. No moments of The Admiral’s brilliance to obsess over. It should have been a long and, in some ways...