Diagnosing and Healing Liverpool FC: A Deep Analysis of the Flaws and the Cures for 2022/23

Part One: Diagnosing

Diagnosing and Healing Liverpool FC: A Deep Analysis of the Flaws and the Cures for 2022/23

Part One: Diagnosing

In 2020/21 I tried the impossible: diagnosing what was going wrong in a season falling apart, including a run of six home league defeats in a row.

I reverted to the Black Swan metaphor – random and unlikely events – and how many Black Swans had landed on Merseyside that season.

A problem I had then, and which I'm feeling now, was that it's hard to distil detailed analysis and diagnosis into a readable piece.

Try to explain in depth, but then it gets too cumbersome. Perhaps my previous piece suffered from this, albeit it was a decent attempt.

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Yet try to condense things, and then you lose nuance, context and depth. Important points will always be omitted.

However, I'm going to attempt to get the balance right here: detailed but readable (if not short). Indeed, I turned the Black Swan piece into an early chapter in This Red Planet, my last book, as the starting point, before the team regained its mojo.

This piece, the Diagnosis, is more like a book chapter, as will be the Prognosis and Treatment, to follow tomorrow (hopefully).

This article will therefore likely be too long to arrive in full in your inbox, but the full version is here on the website.