"Kid Kelleher the Kop Hero as Reds win the League Cup"

Liverpool 0 Chelsea 0

Liverpool win 11-10 on penalties

A late night recounting and retelling of the 2022 Carabao League Cup Final at Wembley and an almost very good reading of a chapter I then almost saved with a personal story at the end!

Here's an extract from this chapter, together with a link to a book I'm immensely proud of and other ways and means in which you can support me as I try to thumb the eye of the traditional publishers who refused to even read my original manuscript!

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"It would be easy to jump ahead to the 21st penalty of a penalty shoot-out and Caoimhin Kelleher’s coolly taken kick that put the Reds of Liverpool 11–10 ahead of their Blue and bitter rivals from Chelsea. It would be equally easy to castigate Kepa Arrizabalaga, Chelsea’s substitute goalkeeper and only introduced to the game in the final knockings of an absorbing and nerve shredding Final, and only because of his supposed ability and superiority at saving penalties.

He wasn’t sent on as a substitute to score a penalty, but here he was, after 21 consecutive penalties scored that he now found himself having to score to keep his Chelsea team in the Cup Final.

He blazed over Kelleher’s crossbar and as the Red shirts descended upon their goalkeeper in jubilation, all I could see was the Irishman in the yellow goalkeeping jersey, and a young man I’d called “Kid” all match long.

The kid, Liverpool’s reserve goalkeeper behind the world’s greatest goalkeeper Alisson Becker, that kid in the bright yellow goalkeeping jersey, was the hero, and a hero at the end of an incredibly tense and nerve shattering Final that was heavily dominated by the Blues of Chelsea but which swayed from side to side throughout before the Irishman, and a goalkeeper lest we forget, scored a brilliant penalty and ensured Chelsea saw the Blues of Wembley defeat.

But that’s getting ahead of ourselves".

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