Weekend 18/04 & 19/04/15

Saturday 18/04/15

Spent morning lazing about and then over to the Isaac for beer & F1. Got there at around 1pm, despite telling Lou that quali wasn't until 16.00. Three times.

Got Dick to put FP3 on though. Poor JB - crap car with comedy engine from Honda broke yet again so he couldn't even set a time so was plumb last on the grid.

Sunday 19/04/15

Went into town to 3 shop to see what they could do for us. The answer was effectively nothing as prices were exactly the same as if just walked in off the street for the 1st time. Think we'll be going elsewhere...

After trip to see if cheese in Lou's fridge was OK (it wasn't) we went to Sainsbury's. Dropped shopping home & met Lou & Heather in the Isaac.

Had to move as Dick had worked it that F1 was on top screen and Semi-final on bottom one. For a change I had a vege fajita which was scrummy - will deffo have that again.

Poor old JB - his crap Honda joke engine meant he couldn't even start the race. All in all a weekend to forget for him and deeply embarrassing for the team as some of their sponsors were there. Hamilton cruised to victory but there was good racing all the way down the field. The Renault engine is also a joke with Ricciardo trundling to a standstill after yet another power unit went up in smoke.

While all this was going on we were watching an insipid Liverpool blunder about aimlessly against Villa. Gerrard looked like he was picked for sentimental reasons and played like it. Sterling was completely anonymous & certainly not playing like someone deserving of a pay rise of £65k and definitely not like someone deserving of a pay rise of £150k.

We should have been playing with energy, hunger & belief. Instead it was Villa who displayed these qualities. Liverpool were listless and devoid of any of the standards their reputations deserved, not helped by Roger's tactical tinkering.

It says something when Balotelli was the best player after Coutinho (and he had a legitimate goal dubiously ruled offside)!

As you can imagine Jamie, Will et al were ecstatic with our defeat.

Fair play to Villa though: they were as good as we were poor and fully deserved their place in the final.

Rogers has now become the first Liverpool manager since the 1950s to not have won a trophy in his first 3 seasons in charge.

That, combined with poor recruitment and a disastrous campaign might make for an unhappy review of the season for Rogers as I doubt the owners will be very impressed at going backwards.