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When Gerrard was 14 he was playing Junior Football for a team called Denburn (I think) in Liverpool. The club I was involved with had an “agreement” at that age group, that some of Denburns lads would play for us in Cup competitions on Sundays, and some of ours would play for them on Saturdays. I remember seeing this gangly lad turn up and then take this one game by the scruff of the neck, score a couple of screamers, then come off with ten minutes left, job done. There were other lads playing who also went on to play for league clubs, Jason Koumas being one, but Gerrard stood out. Conversations were of the “Who the fuck is he?” type. Shortly after, the FA stopped kids associated with professional clubs playing two or sometimes three games in a weekend, which was a good thing really, so we didn’t get to see much more of him but everyone knew who he was. I don’t think many professional players, let alone Tom Davies, will ever be as good as him.

That's a good point. It is always described as a bust up, clash, spat or something similar when in actual fact it was no such thing as Gomez didn't retaliate, he was just assaulted. It's staggering to me that no-one hammered him for the original statement, which not only wasn't an apology, but was more like a party political broadcast for the Raheem Party. Look at me, I care so much. Look at me, I'm a big enough man to admit when my huge passion for the game got the better of me. Look at me, I've made up with Joe and we're all good now. Get to fuck with that shit, you unrepentant, cocky little fucking gobshite.

Haha, awesome :

I assume the RAF assault courses are a lot easier these days ?

I think I've seen that one.

What’s she got against Helena Bonham-Carter ?

Wine and Xanax is the only way to fly.

If she ate a whole packet of biscuits without giving me one she would get a boot in the fanny.

I know, imagine sharing a pitch with Gini and big Virg.

Who ever said the players didn't have anything in common with the fans these days?

Huh... Richard. Rico... "squints eyes..."

Yes, I totally agree, not once did he use the word sorry in his so called apology. What really pisses me off, is how every report calls it a bust-up or spat. It was an unprovoked assault and Joe is totally the innocent party, but the press are shifting the blame on anyone other than Sterling. It makes me sick, especially seeing his grinning face at training.

I bet he has a shrine to Hodgson at home.

The decision just got even harder because now I have to consider which ones would suit my long blonde locks better.

That’s Germans for you.

The media has created a monster. They were looking around for a poster boy for an anti-racism campaign and - with the enthusiasm of Sterling's agent, who himself was looking to improve his client's image - they chose him. And they proceeded to erase all flaws so that St Raheem could be born. And now any criticism of him is racist and he cannot be seen to be wrong. Take his 'applause' for Gomez coming on the other night: he was clearly sitting in front of a TV monitor; he made no move to applaud Gomez until he glanced at the monitor and saw the camera was on him. He knows what game to play. Meanwhile his agent was busy briefing the Express that 'sources close to Sterling' blame Liverpool for ALL the negativity he's experienced since his move. And as for a blatant wrong turn, when Gomez did nothing and he attacked him, the media can only cope by depicting it as 'unfortunate for all concerned' or even insinuating that it might not even have been St Raheem's fault. It's a profoundly cynical process.

I predict the tories will win every seat, vote to end the democratic system entirely and turn us into a cold, wet slave colony off the coast of sunny Europe. And it will all be Jeremy corbyns fault for not being centrist enough

Nah, it's all sorted-

In a nutshell. when you’re one of the very best to have ever played for a club as successful as us, it’s fair to say you’re pretty special. Stevie can’t be a measuring stick for young players. They’ll never measure up.

Davies won't reach the level that Gerrard reached when he was 14.

What a fucking player this guy is

He’s such a class act. What a player we got there, and totally from out of the blue. We’ve missed that type of player since Didi left. Being in the middle of the park you see much more of the game and you pick up a bit of wisdom about game management. He’s a smart cookie for sure, knowing when a short simple pass, or a defence splitter, or a cheap foul, or a shot, is the right decision to either speed up and keep the tempo flowing or slow the game and buy a bit of time and have a breather. him and Virgil seem to run the game at the easy pace they dictate and allow the others to run tag arse doing the damage. it was a big statement that he got dropped against villa to avoid the suspension for the city game and hope to god he stays fit and available for the rest of the season.

Was in a hotel last week and there was a wedding on. I thought I’d stumbled onto the set of a period drama. Half the blokes were dressed in the most ridiculous clobber. I’m not just talking about a Peaky Blinders Cockbonnet; this was full on tweed suits tucked into socks, pocket watches, the full monty. What a shower of beauts.

I’ve been trying to find a quiet corner of the internet where I can argue about something other than politics. There was only ever going to be one place I ended up. Redcurrant jelly, my arse. The gf has gone to the dogs in my absence.

What the hell is Redcurrant Jelly? It sounds like something they’d have put on roast swan in the 1600s. I’m a traditionalist - apple sauce with pork, mint sauce with lamb, horseradish with beef, bread sauce with nothing, ever.

Thanks! Tastes great. At first I had way too much rum in and it sucked, but after drinking about a third of that down then filling it back up with ale it works really well.

Just done them quick to keep it going.

I’ve flown Business Class a few times with Emirates on the A380 and it’s fucking incredible tbh, as you’d expect.

No sweat

Remmie is a man of many talents.

Brilliant read some classic lines in there we could do with Dave's Mums comments every week

That is actually a very cool story. Bro.

Spot on re the Man City PR, their constant whining and Sterling's non-apology apology. Weirdly, now starting to like Roy Keane. Took a long, long time but he's winning me over!

Watched all of Mr Inbetween myself now. Good stuff. Nice one, TV nerds.

I support the Poppy appeal and people who wear them, but it seems they are getting bigger, in a I support our solders more than you type way. Or this shit;

I really rated him as a player when he broke through. Overrated by me probably to be fair, but there was something about his skills on the ball that I really liked. Hope he recovers quickly.

You can't even say in a better team he would have scored more because in a better team he would have been on the bench.

Strontz would burn Alder Hey down

“I’m going to write a letter to the lead singer of Echo & The Bunnymen”

This whole thing is basically over a fuck-all incident of the sort that happens between players fairly regularly. The vast majority of the time, they sort the matter out between themselves, move on and go back to being mates again. That's clearly been the case here between Gomez and Sterling. For very obvious reasons, the media have been complicit in turning this whole thing into a shitstorm that gets every S*n-reading, Leave-voting, BoJo-loving, Carling-chugging, six-fingered, web-footed, mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging Ingurlund twatbiscuit to demonstrate their stupidity. It wasn't long ago when these knobheads were booing Sterling for not reproducing his club form in an England shirt, just like they used to boo John Barnes. While Sterling has said that booing Gomez was wrong because he'd done absolutely nothing wrong, that very same sentiment should have been clearly pointed out by Sterling, Southgate and co immediately after the incident on Monday. They could have nipped it in the bud before the media could make a bigger deal out of it, but instead we've had Sterling's PR offensive and Southgate trying to demonstrate that he's still in charge by 'disciplining' Sterling (read: resting a player who wouldn't be needed for the team to batter the hapless Montenegrins anyway), leaving the media to continue to stir the shit. All this before the usual eve-of-a-tournament guff from the English press which alternates between calling the England team world-beaters and trying to find some salacious off-the-field shit to hammer certain individuals over.

I have been privileged to watch many great Liverpool sides over my years of support & the present side are certainly in the argument for greatest ever , but on reflection I would probably plump for the Hodgson side of Winter 2010.

Fabinho has been described by Liverpool’s assistant manager, Pepijn Lijnders, as being “like a lighthouse inside the organised chaos that we want”. Our Pep is WAY better then their Pep.

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I don't know what I was watching yesterday then. I went round to see my Dad at dinner time and Trump was playing Ronnie on Eurosport and had taken a 7-1 lead ahead of the later session. I said to Dad that the lads on TLW had reported that Ronnie was on fire the night before and Trump was murdering him. I just assumed it was the semi final of this tournament, hence my reply yesterday to @Bjornebye Turns out it must have been some repeat. Fucking Eurosport, the shit channel cunts.

Anyone who calls themselves a "free spirit". Its up there with "I'm mad me" "I'm off my head" "I'm the crazy one" and "I shag children""

And used Olive Oil for lube.