Liverpool sweep Tottenham aside to book Carabao Cup final with Newcastle

Ange Postecoglou mused recently about hope and the inherent futility of it in terms of the way things have gone for Tottenham this season. Every time the manager had seen “light at the end of the tunnel,” he said, it had “usually been an oncoming train”.He was talking about the club’s injury situation, the crisis that never seemingly ends and yet the line about the train was an appropriate way to describe Liverpool, who did not so much as roll into the Carabao Cup final, their first such showpiece under Arne Slot, as steam their way there. They refused to countenance any other outcome. They utterly flattened Spurs. Continue reading...

Feb 7, 2025 - 00:50
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Liverpool sweep Tottenham aside to book Carabao Cup final with Newcastle

Ange Postecoglou mused recently about hope and the inherent futility of it in terms of the way things have gone for Tottenham this season. Every time the manager had seen “light at the end of the tunnel,” he said, it had “usually been an oncoming train”.

He was talking about the club’s injury situation, the crisis that never seemingly ends and yet the line about the train was an appropriate way to describe Liverpool, who did not so much as roll into the Carabao Cup final, their first such showpiece under Arne Slot, as steam their way there. They refused to countenance any other outcome. They utterly flattened Spurs. Continue reading...