Because I support Liverpool yet live in the south of the country
, my friends are always giving me loads of stick for being a glory-hunter. But the reason that I support Liverpool yet have never lived in the city is because my father was a Merseysider and when I was growing up, I really didnt have any say in the matter regarding which football team I was going to support it was Liverpool or no one. So despite the fact that I have lived in Brighton all of my life, I still frequently make the journey all the way north to Anfield to watch Kenny Dalglishs squad battle it out against Premiership opposition.
For this reason I am frequently on the hunt for Liverpool city centre hotels and would suggest that if you are attempting to find comfortable yet affordable accommodation in the city, check out the prices on rooms in the hotels that are situated in the area surrounding the stadium as lots of these establishments offer reductions on the price of rooms if you purchase them at the same time as you buy your tickets to a match.
I traveled up to Liverpool the Saturday before last to watch our game against Arsenal, which we knew before hand would be crucial in deciding who finished in fourth spot at the end of the campaign and so qualified for next seasons Champions League. My brother and I only got tickets at the last minute however, and so found that all of the cheap accommodation in Liverpool was already completely booked up. We consequently had to look a bit further afield and eventually found ourselves a shared room in one of the cheap hotels in Derby that was near the train station.
The match itself was also hugely disappointing due to the fact that Arsenal snatched the points in injury time thanks to Van Persies sumptuous volleyed finish with just seconds remaining on the clock. That result was followed by our defeat away to martin ONeills Sunderland last Saturday, meaning we are now ten points away from fourth spot and are in more danger of being caught by Sunderland and West Bromwich Albion than we are likely to catch up with Arsenal in the league. Champions League football next season consequently looks like a fading dream and Kenny Dalglish will need to do some careful analysis of his tactics that are being questioned more and more by the Liverpool faithful due to our managers seeming unwillingness to play Stewart Downing and Andy Carroll in the same team or to drop the out of form Charlie Adam.