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You Can’t Shrug Pressure Off, But You Can Eat It Up
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Posted on April 3rd, 2014
Posted by by Chris Rowland
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by TTT Subscriber Mike Taylor.
With six games left of this astonishing season, with 57% of Match of the Day viewers making us title favourites, and with the very comprehensive Sports Club Stats site estimating a 34.5% chance of our winning the title, the pressure is on. “Liverpool have not yet smelt fear”, Alan Hansen wrote in the Telegraph after the routine-seeming 4-0 win over Spurs. “The only certainty is that it will come sooner or later and how Rodgers’ players deal with that will decide the outcome of the title race.”
If you don’t accept Hansen’s assessment, here is our own Paul Tomkins, writing in these very pages a few days ago: “The hardest thing in football is to be brave, and to play your game, when the pressure is really on.”
There’s no denying that the pressure is real, that it’s huge, and that it’s mounting. What I’m not so sure about is that that’s a bad thing. Because one of the things about great players – one of the things that makes them great players – is that they respond positively to pressure.
http://tomkinstimes.com/2014/04/you-...can-eat-it-up/
Free, Talking Point
Posted on April 3rd, 2014
Posted by by Chris Rowland
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by TTT Subscriber Mike Taylor.
With six games left of this astonishing season, with 57% of Match of the Day viewers making us title favourites, and with the very comprehensive Sports Club Stats site estimating a 34.5% chance of our winning the title, the pressure is on. “Liverpool have not yet smelt fear”, Alan Hansen wrote in the Telegraph after the routine-seeming 4-0 win over Spurs. “The only certainty is that it will come sooner or later and how Rodgers’ players deal with that will decide the outcome of the title race.”
If you don’t accept Hansen’s assessment, here is our own Paul Tomkins, writing in these very pages a few days ago: “The hardest thing in football is to be brave, and to play your game, when the pressure is really on.”
There’s no denying that the pressure is real, that it’s huge, and that it’s mounting. What I’m not so sure about is that that’s a bad thing. Because one of the things about great players – one of the things that makes them great players – is that they respond positively to pressure.
http://tomkinstimes.com/2014/04/you-...can-eat-it-up/
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