The FA Cup Preview: Liverpool v Norwich
?Liverpool will play ? the winner of Bristol Rovers and Norwich City?.
Eugh!
Cue the Canary Nation?s biggest collective groan since Wes Burns scored to make it 2-2 at Portman Road on December 16.
Because, of course, we know what tends to happen when we go to Anfield, even when we have what we consider to be a good team. So to go there with a team that?s far removed from our finest was enough to make the sphincter flap like a corner flag in Storm Jocelyn.
To be fair, the mood has shifted a little since the draw was made ? three-game unbeaten runs tend to have a positive impact on the feelgood/feelbad meter ? and I was reminded of the financial benefit of playing a live TV game in front of a full house at Anfield, so the 3-1 win over Rovers in the replay was not met with quite the same resignation as the initial draw.
A narrow defeat in the epicentre of Yorkshire wasn?t the ideal prep for a trip to the heart of Merseyside but neither was it the morale-sapping humping that some of us had feared. And so we head north-west with trepidation, obviously, but also with a ?nothing to lose? attitude that a few weeks ago would have felt reckless.
What we desperately don?t need to happen though is to go to Anfield and end up on the receiving end of one of those disasters that are the very reason why we so despise the place.
The confidence in this group is notoriously fragile and so for it to suffer a significant blow on Sunday would be far from ideal. To depart Mers...
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