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1. How boss are last minute winners at Anfield in Europe? Bobby The One-Eyed Pirate plundering the winner too. Is right. 2. That would have been a total rip off if we’d come away with fewer than all the points because we dominated them. They just could not cope with our aggression or intensity. Whether it was Cavani absolutely shitting himself in a fifty fifty with Hendo, Neymar getting smashed by Milner early on or every player in a Red shirt covering every blade of grass - twice! - it was clear they just couldn’t get near us. 3. The midfield was sensational once more. James Milner. Again. What a player. He’s just ridiculously good. And Gini once more clever in his movement and use of the ball. However, let’s give the skipper some because Henderson was brilliant. If you’re one of these internet gobshites who constantly slags the lad and you did so tonight after that performance then I can’t help you, sorry. You’re too stupid to support Liverpool. That was a master class in dominating an opponent tonight and Hendo was at its heart. 4. The pace of our back line was important tonight as we mostly kept their threat tamed. What struck me more than the speed in our defence though was their exponential progress. It’s borderline weird how good we are at the back right now. When are these lads going to stop getting better? In theory it must happen at some point, but I can’t see when because they just go from strength to strength. 5. Seeing Sturridge back and scoring a big goal was both a surprise and a pleasure. Clearly he’s no Bobby, but I heard a few people around me surprised at his quick feet, clever movement and ball retention. I’m not sure who they were watching a few seasons back when he was ripping the league a new one, but at least he’s getting the credit now. I’m not holding my breath for sustained fitness, but that doesn’t detract from my joy at seeing him score because he’s boss. Long may his fitness be retained. 6. Negatives? Mo’s sloppy passing, some poor luck with decisions and, er, that’s it. 7. Nice to see Fabinho get his debut. Was it the full minute in the end? Shaqiri looked very hungry when he came on and I'm convinced all three will be vital squad members this season. 8. Their players? Neymar was poor relative to his reputation and Mbappé was well shackled by Robbo. I thought Thiago Silva looked sublime though. One moment in the first half showed incredible reading of the game and lightening pace as he tracked Mané’s diagonal run to snuff out his threat. He’s a real footballer, him. 9. I was going to praise their fans for their constant noise because no matter what the setback, they kept bouncing. But then I realised right at the end of the first half as The Kop quietened enough for me to actually hear them that they had a drummer with them! All that money and their fans just want to be Stoke. *Shakes head* 10. I said it after the Spurs game and I’ll say it again now, we have got a really serious team on our hands now. They are hungry, aggressive, fast, skilful and obdurate and in my view there are no limits to what they can achieve under this manager. Six wins from six and the promise of much more to come. Come on you Reds!!! Paul Natton View full article

I zoomed in on his mouth, and I'm pretty sure I could lip-read him muttering "One eyed prick" when Firmino scored.

In fairness, we've been hosting them at least once a season for years...

SteveO should bookmark this:

Scotsmen and no nonsense northerners were the foundation the club became great on. Now we're just 4 or 5 moustaches away from greatness.

Bahahahahahaha.

Match summary as promised… Strange game. No, not the result. Or the performance. Or even the atmosphere - which actually was a bit weird, in that it never really got going - although fair fucks to the Parisians who sang all game whilst semi-naked. No, the thing that was weird for me happened before the game. Unusually, Ainsy was coming the match. Even more unusually he was going to drive. This meant that Bri and I could have a pint or two, as neither of us would be driving. Obviously Ainsy was late picking me up. I started clock watching. Would we have time for the pints? Then he stopped for petrol. The minutes ticked by. He got in the wrong lane in the tunnel and got stuck for a while. But YAY, we got parked up, with just about enough time for beers, if we hurried. Woo-hoo. We left the car at the foot of Everton Valley and began our ascent. Quite a climb for old-timers through the park. As we reached the summit. Ainsy turned "Oh shit. I've left my ticket at home.". Really? It's pretty much the only thing one needs to remember for such an occasion. "I'll go check the car. See if it dropped out my pocket.". We waited atop the hill. He came back. "Bugger it's not there! Must be at home.". This obviously wasn't a new thing to Ainsy. He knew exactly the drill for such occasion, so we headed for the ticket office. Hmmm, I thought, we might just make this beer after all. I am so selfish. "Shit! I think I left the car unlocked." We waited again. Ainsy descended the hill. We waited some more whilst the tiny figure got closer as he returned on his third trip up the hill. "It was locked afterall." Sheesh! A quick hall home confirmed that the ticket was not in the house. He must have taken it. "I'll go back to the car and check again." I was trying to fake a look of interested, supportive yet thirsty. We decided to go to the fan park whilst he checked the car. I mean three people is too many to search a small car. Right? It was late now and the fan park was our best chance of getting served quickly. A text revealed that Ainsy had found the ticket. It had fallen out of his pocket. Whodathunkit. We got him a beer in, and he managed to get to the fan park in time for a nice pint together. After a refreshing couple of pints we made our merry way to the turnstiles. Travelling in anticipation of a great game, with all our bad luck behind us. Nothing gonna stop us now. The turnstile light buzzed and flashed a welcoming green, helping me in to the bowels of the main stand. The noise had started. Singing. Anticipation. I couldn't wait to get in now. I turned around just in time to see an unhappy looking Bri refused entrance at the turnstile and shepherded away to the nearest steward. The club had fucked up the Euro ticket purchases on the season tickets. Anyway. 3-2 . What a result!

Klopp is a footballing genius. Our defence is as mean as the front line now. Completely bossed them from start to finish. They were given a goal that should never have stood and we missed more chances than I care to remember, again. The 12th man played a part as per usual in big European games, they completely shit the bed and would have been on the end of a hiding with VAR and a fit and firing front line. I'll never complain about a line up again. Klopp can probably turn water into wine tbh. Excellent result in the Napoli game too and judging by the stats in that game, Red Star were battered, two points dropped for them. The group's well in our hands now.

Report by Dave Usher Just another standard Anfield European night. The more things like this happen, the less anyone will want to come here and face us. It’s not just that we beat PSG, it’s how we beat them. We completely dominated them and then even when it looked like we’d somehow let it slip, we still managed to get it done. Things like that will only fuel the whole “Fortress Anfield” narrative. There’s not a team in the world I wouldn’t fancy us to beat at Anfield, particularly under the lights. PSG have talent but they never have to play against anyone like us so it was always going to be tough for them. People forget that I think. Much of the talk is what a big test it was going to be for us. No, the big test was for them. We were in the final last year, this isn’t our first rodeo. The fuck have they done? Yeah they reach the last 16 or last eight most years, but so did Arsenal. They could never beat anyone decent either. We face a much tougher level of competition week in week out, and that makes a big difference. Our players will run and run and run and won’t complain about it because they believe in their manager and what he expects from them. They know his methods work and they’ve bought into them. PSG have it too easy in Ligue 1, they don’t need to work. They’re like me in junior school when I got by on my big brain. I didn’t need to study or revise because, all modesty aside, I was just cleverer than everyone else. Then I got to seniors and everyone passed me by because I was so lazy and couldn’t be arsed doing any schoolwork, and my big brain alone wasn’t enough anymore. There were kids nowhere near as clever as me coming away with A’s and B’s, while I was failing everything and proving to be a massive disappointment to my parents. You know what I got for GCSE English? An E!! I write for a living and I’ve got an E for my English GCSE. Not because I couldn’t do it, but because, like Neymar and tracking back, I just couldn’t be arsed. So yeah, the moral of that story is that Ligue 1 is junior school, the CL is seniors, and myself and Neymar are lazy bastards. Neymar and Mbappe should be embarrassed when they watch the replay of this game. They made Sturridge look like Dirk Kuyt. Fair play to ‘Studge’, he did his bit defensively. He mightn’t be the most energetic looking of players but at least he attempted to put himself in the right positions to close down space, and when one of the wide players went central he moved over to cover. There's just such an intensity about our play on nights like this, and Milner set the tone for it with an early challenge on Neymar that got everyone going. It was probably the best moment of the night other than Bobby's goal. Neymar skipped away from Trent and was doing a stepover and then BAM!!! He's on his arse. That fancy dan shit isn't going to fly with Milner, he's from Yorkshire. It reminded me of this.... Those PSG lads just reeked of ‘big time’ and you could see some of the dirty looks they were getting from their beleaguered team-mates. Poor Rabiot has probably had his career shortened by a year or two after the amount of running he was forced to do in this one. There was one incident near the end when he had to run 60 yards chasing Gini down the right wing. He stuck to his task to be fair to him, and then at the end of it he looks upfield and sees Neymar just fucking stood there. He looked like he was fuming, but you would be wouldn’t you? This is one hell of a team we’ve got right now, but we’ve got to start killing teams off when we’ve got them on the ropes. It’s been a problem ever since we rolled over West Ham on opening day. Since then, every game has been much closer than it ought to have been in the closing stages. We almost drew with Spurs at the weekend. That would have been a staggering miscarriage of justice, but this might have been even worse. We could have lost it before we eventually won it. I mean how the fuck does that happen? Going 2-0 up should have led to a Roma style hammering. The opening goal was great. Brilliant cross by Trent that was just missed by Mané. Then an even better ball by Robbo that wasn’t missed by Sturridge. Cue wriggly arms celebration, inevitably mimicked by Sadio, the celebration chameleon. This is only a teaser, click here to view the full report Please note that Match Reports are only available to website subscribers. Subscriptions cost just £2 a month (you need to register first) and can be purchased here.

Fuckin’ A. That’s a months worth of Kratom boxed off.

I'll be honest, all of our small, white midfielders look alike to me.

I’ve never put anyone on ignore. Tried it but it wouldn’t let me ignore the cunt that annoys me most. Old, bald, Scouse twat he is. My kids love me though. Since I made a will May change their attitude when they find i’ve left everything to Scientology.

Fuck off. Some of us are only here to read the arguments. I’m not even a Liverpool fan.

I've taken him out of my fantasy football team. You can all thank me when he wrecks Southampton.

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Freedom of movement without guaranteeing equal rights for all workers is a neoliberal wet dream; it allows unscrupulous employers (and forces those who find themselves competing against unscrupulous employers in an immoral system) to undercut local workers with a cheaper imported workforce. The employers engineer a race to the bottom, knowing that they willreap the rewards, while the inevitable backlash will be aimed at the immigrant workers. Any Labour Party worthy of the name will promote the rights of all workers equally. That's the way to reduce the numbers of immigrants "coming over here and stealing our jobs"; simply make them compete for jobs on a level playing field, by forcing the employers to give them the same rates and rights as the local workforce.

Tonight shows how small a club City still are. Nowhere near filling their stadium, no atmosphere besides groaning when their billion dollar squad doesn't perform for a single match, another loss in the premier European competition making it their 4th in a row. Tiny club no matter how rich they are.

How you doing in Europe, Clampet?

3% of Sun readers who voted, voted Lib Dem last time out. https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/how-daily-newspaper-readers-voted-by-title-in-the-2017-general-election/ Figures for 92-10 are here: https://www.ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/voting-newspaper-readership-1992-2010

Cloggy steals most of what he posts here from SixCrazyMinutes where the posters actually copy theirs from est1892 whose members plagiarise RAWK all the time. Full circle. Cloggy is a member of every LFC site and he’s also solely responsible for roughly 65% of the crazy African bloke profiles that comment on the club’s official Facebook page.

What would Labour have to gain by giving accreditation to racist liars who hate the party and everything it stands for? I'd be more than happy to see Labour tell them to fuck off. I doubt I'm alone in this.

Apologies for the tardiness. I'm probably breaking all sorts of rules here, but I'm going to do it anyway, deadlines be damned. AOW - Infotainment Scan by The Fall I've never really understood Smith’s appeal, on the few occasions I've tried to make inroads into The Fall's discography I've found his style impenetrable, and left suspecting he was an artschool tit hellbent on experimentalism at the expense of the music itself. Having said all that, I found Infotainment Scan far more accessible than other albums... in parts. Ladybird opens proceedings with what I expect of Smith, a laconic drawl delivering thoughts like a stream of consciousness, narrating a feeling as opposed to singing a lyric. The deliberate tactic of speaking across the rhythm of the track is evident. It might also be why I don't tend to feel comfortable listening to it. Lost in Music has another experimental opening, noise instead of instruments. Yet, it's a pretty good cover once things build, the underlying Sister Sledge funk is still there, leaving me nodding along. The repetition of lyrics suits Smith well. Glam Racket seems the wittiest track, sneering at its target "You are working on a video project." Though I hope the line about reading Viz comics is not meant in a pejorative manner otherwise I'll Big Vern him! I’m Going to Spain is pleasingly straightforward and accessible. Some guitar, lyrics I can follow and synth in the background to top it all off. Love me a bit of synth. The breathy upward inflection of the vocals makes me wonder if Pete Doherty wasn't / isn't (delete if the dirty finger-nailed grotbag has carked it) a fan of Smith's. There's definitely a hint of a Cure vibe there too, which I like, maybe it's the clicking and synth in tandem. It’s a Curse drifts by largely without anything of import to note. Guitar; monotonous; tight beats; fair enough. Paranoia Man in Cheap Shit Town promises so much with that title, and in a way I expect it delivers for fans of The Fall. It's everything I think it will be; truncated thoughts spewing out into the void of the music, like an abstract painting, each line delivered like the last, a sea of unconnected thoughts to the uninitiated like me. I'm trying here, but it's not my cup of tea. Service is far too dance for me, like a lost filler track from the Manchester club scene. The League of Bald Headed Men just makes me feel like an idiot. I desperately want to like it, how could you not with a title like that? I hear how smart Smith is, and how his lyrics are cutting and dry, but I'm left nonplussed. Past Gone Mad takes me back to the dance vibe. It gets pleasingly bassier but doesn't really go anywhere with it. Light/Fireworks is the kind of off-the-wall final track that almost sums up the album as whole; disjointed. The first minute is all loops and experimental beats, and the final minute is an upbeat tempo without vocals. Yet, in the middle is where Smith resides, and all I could think was it sounds like a man having a play with saying things into a tape recorder in his bedsit. I clearly miss something when it comes to The Fall. I'm not unintelligent (I got a C in General Studies) yet I feel stupid because I just don't get it. Reading Smith's lyrics helps things take shape somewhat, as it's more the type of thing I associate with beat poetry, however once the music starts, other than the odd track that's more mainstream in its guitar-led and traditionally lyrical approach, I'm left cold. I don't dislike it, I just don't actively like it, if that makes sense. 5/10

Superb report. Glad someone else picked up on Mbappe being a tit. I was giving him dogs abuse for that.

You didn't even mention Fabinho coming on and playing out of his skin. FFS

As prone to an error as any keeper. he isn't superman but he is 10 x better than anything we have had since peak Reina and I love him.

Give him this weekend off , I doubt very much if he was going to be involved in the league cup and get him back for Chelsea a week on Saturday

Would you two kindly pack it in, now's not the time for in-fighting. Let's get back to the topic at hand, Mo's apparent hatred for the club.

He'll score at least twice on Saturday. By which I mean, he better do, otherwise we should terminate his contract.

There is one half decent Christmas Song

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Bobby Firmino, you badass mo-fo!

”DRAFT WANKERS!” “It’s not even the international break, mate”

That Mariah Carey christmas song makes me wish it wasn't christmas whenever I hear it.

I admit that I was so fucking wrong about this that I cringe about this every time I see us play. The he man is a colossus and if he was paid twice as much he’d be massively underpaid. I am sorry.

Sign him up in January. He:s hoping Klopp's watching.

@Babb'sBurstNad Rules? What rules?

He has been fine 1 mistake and really little to do baring the late save against Brighton. He is deffo giving those infront of him far more confidence though Oh and im no longer shitting it at every shot,cross and set piece

On the evidence of last night I'd have him over Rabiot every time

It appears everybody is once we beat them.

Mbappe's one annoying little tosser, isn't he

Should’ve been a comfortable win. Our forwards will start clicking soon, surely? also, I thought Sturridge put in a performance today. Proved he can be a useful option for us. Midfield and defence absolutely superb, as is becoming the norm.

Rinus Michels over here.

Well said that man.

You might want to avoid Absolute Radio there mate.