History Repeats Itself

History is a boring subject, so said many of the students. This is because they have to memorize lots of dates, names, blah blah blah. They always murmur that they don't have 8GB memory like their smartphones' memory card. 

However, history can be quite interesting, if studied in a creative way. Take for instance, Hiro Nakamura in the Heroes TV Series, constructed an interesting web strings in order to learn the history (and also the future). 

A web of history created by Hiro Nakamura

By studying History, we can sometimes predict the future. As an ardent fan of Liverpool Football Club, reading  this piece of historical information taken from a LFC Forum gives me goosebumps! (Keep in mind that my birthday is 25 January).

Shankly was born in a year ending with 3 - 1913, and won his 1st league title in a year ending with 4, 1964; Rodgers was born in a year ending 3-1973, and is 4 games away from winning his 1st league title in a year ending with 4, 2014.

Shankly won his 1st title in his second year in the league with Liverpool; Rodgers is about to win his 1st title with Liverpool in his 2nd season in charge.

Shankly shared a birthday with his son and a former great manager; Rodgers shares a birthday with his son and a great manager Jose Mourinho (26 January). 

Shankly won the league title after beating Man United 1-0 and 3-0; Rodgers is about to win the league title after beating Man United 1-0 and 3-0.

Shankly was top on Christmas; Rodgers was top on Christmas.

Shankly went top again after beating Tottenham on 30 March 1964; Rodgers went top again after beating Tottenham on 30 March 2014.

Shankly beat Arsenal with 5 goals but was knocked out of F.A Cup by the same Arsenal; Rodgers beat Arsenal with 5 goals but was later knocked out of F.A Cup by the same Arsenal.

Shankly ordered the goal nets to be painted red on his way to winning 1st league title; Rodgers ordered the goal nets to be painted red on his way to winning 1st league title.

picture taken from here

So, hopefully, Gerrard and co. will get to lift the coveted title in May, and hopefully, history will repeat itself!

picture taken from here

sources:

http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/special/can-history-predict-future.html
http://forums.liverpoolfc.com/threads/356222-Shankly-and-Rodgers-How-is-this-for-Omens
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Shankly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Rodgers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mourinho
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963%E2%80%9364_Football_League
http://int.soccerway.com/matches/1964/03/30/england/premier-league/liverpool-fc/tottenham-hotspur-football-club/587409/ 
http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/latest-news/story-behind-our-new-red-nets
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/History+repeats+itself