There\u2019s quite an odd fascination with which teams will give Liverpool a guard of honour and whether it will happen\u2026<\/p>\n
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Scouse maths<\/strong> How did they \u2018work out\u2019 such complex calculations? Was it by, and this is just a guess, looking at the fixture list?<\/p>\n And all Liverpool fans should be ecstatic because of course \u2018Steven Gerrard humiliation in line to be avenged a decade on\u2019. Thank f*** all that \u2018slip\u2019 talk can finally be forgotten because a set of entirely different footballers will have to clap some other entirely different footballers onto a pitch.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Changing of the guard Thankfully Mikel Arteta and his players will be prepared for such a humiliation because\u2026<\/p>\n \u2018Sir Alex Ferguson\u2019s advice for Arsenal and Mikel Arteta ahead of Liverpool guard of honour\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n At this juncture, you absolutely know that Sir Alex Ferguson has not given any \u2018advice\u2019 ahead of this entirely innocuous event. That would be really f***ing weird.<\/p>\n But presumably he has previously spoken about giving a guard of honour as runners-up and that can be finagled by an intrepid young Sports Brand Writer into \u2018advice\u2019?<\/p>\n Also no.<\/p>\n What the Mirror<\/strong>\u00a0do have are quotes from Brendan Rodgers from 2021 about the time \u2013 in 2005! \u2013 when United gave Chelsea a guard of honour.<\/p>\n Rodgers said: \u201cI can never forget when I was at Chelsea as a young coach and, in that first season that Jose was in, they won the title. I remember going to Old Trafford to watch the game that evening and I\u2019m sure the Man United players didn\u2019t want to do it but I\u2019m sure Fergie insisted they did it.<\/p>\n \u201cThat must have been really, really difficult but it showed you the class of Sir Alex and it showed you the humility of him that another competitor came in and took the title, but it was also sporting that they did that, but also can provide you with great motivation going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n We can probably guess that Sir Alex Ferguson would advise that Arsenal give a guard of honour. As would every single other person in football. And also the world.<\/p>\n But what we don\u2019t have is any semblance of \u2018advice\u2019. To Mikel Arteta or indeed anybody else.<\/p>\n
\u2018LIVERPOOL fans have worked out that Chelsea will likely give them a guard of honour, should their side clinch the title this Sunday,\u2019 write The Sun<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>After Chelsea, Liverpool will next face Arsenal, and we will be forced to read interminable nonsense about whether the Gunners will do the thing that they will absolutely definitely do.<\/p>\n\n