A present Manchester Metropolis participant has recounted how a complete defeat to Liverpool triggered a sequence of occasions which left him and several other teammates in tears.
Kyle Walker was within the Tottenham facet which have been thrashed 5-0 by the Reds in December 2013, a end result which led to the dismissal of Andre Villas-Boas as supervisor a day later.
The 34-year-old mirrored on that sobering end result for his staff on his BBC podcast, ‘You’ll By no means Beat Kyle Walker’, recalling the devastation of the Portuguese native and most of the Spurs gamers to the information that he’d been sacked.
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Walker mentioned of his former boss: “He was simply so, so good. He was so good and generally I feel that in all probability killed him. He was too good. I can bear in mind when he left, and I’ll always remember it. I swear to you, I’ll by no means, ever overlook it. We have been sat within the auditorium and we bought wind that he was going.
“(Daniel) Levy sacked him however he was nonetheless within the constructing and we have been nonetheless prepared to coach. He got here downstairs and began crying in entrance of us. He began crying in entrance of us, and I bear in mind his assistant was telling him to tug it collectively. He began crying; I’ve bought tears working down my eyes. A whole lot of the lads had tears.
“Michael Dawson is welling, he can’t cease crying. He’s emotionally crying, as a result of that’s how a lot he meant to the lads. We in all probability didn’t do him justice on the pitch as a result of that’s why he bought the sack, however for 10-12 males to be crying as a result of the supervisor has gone, he has accomplished one thing effectively within the dressing room.”
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That 5-0 mauling at White Hart Lane was certainly one of Liverpool’s standout performances within the unlikely Premier League title cost of 2013/14, proper alongside the 5-1 drubbing of Arsenal and 3-0 win at Previous Trafford.
As we all know, Brendan Rodgers’ Reds fell agonisingly in need of ending first that yr, however the trouncing of Spurs in north London – a fixture that we’d misplaced for 5 seasons in a row previous to that day – laid down a marker that Luis Suarez, Phillipe Coutinho, Daniel Sturridge and co can be within the race for the lengthy haul.
Villas-Boas (who was simply 36 on the time) by no means managed in England once more, with subsequent posts at Zenit St Petersburg, Shanghai SIPG and Marseille earlier than shifting away from the dugout and into the boardroom. Now 46, he was voted in as FC Porto’s president earlier this yr.
Though Walker’s recollections of that lopsided match at Tottenham’s former stadium are heartbreaking for him, it was a day which summed up the joy that Liverpool followers felt within the 2013/14 season and was lengthy overdue for us after so many lean years beforehand.
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