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  1. I usually sit on the FF sidelines and just soak up all the information from more knowledgeable and experienced posters. What I don't understand about this apparent lack of transfer funds or activity, is how anyone can be comfortable defending it with the season we've just had (English/Europe/World Champions) when the most basic tenet of professional sports is if you don't move forward, you're moving backward. I kind of agree with Senor Stroganoff for the most part that the money should be there, and they should be investing in the team. I'll go back to the cat thread now.
    7 points
  2. Since I've been self employed and not had to deal with working in the typical office environment I have found I miss absolutely nothing. I'm totally fucking skint in cash terms and living on about £20 a week, but not having to deal with managers fucking about trying to justify their own existence or micro managing like fuck to try and engineer examples to get promotion etc. is more than worth the drop in income.
    6 points
  3. I suppose Maguire’s tackling stats are boosted by him tackling both opposition and his own team mates.
    6 points
  4. Like a toddler, toys everywhere and plays with and sleeps on a paper bag.
    5 points
  5. It's traditionally been right at the top of world rankings for miracles to be fair.
    5 points
  6. I hope we do sign Lewis, because I desperately want us to win the title again and do it by spending fuck all money, just to boil piss in Manchester and London. That's why I want us to sign Hudson-Odoi as well, I want to recycle players that Lampard thinks are shit, and then dunk on his head using his own 'shit' players for the ultimate piss-boiling. Same with Lewis, relegated club, fucking nice one, we'll have him ta, watch us develop him into twice the player Wan Bissaka or Mendy is, you fucking idiots. I want a hat-trick of titles out of this Liverpool team, which would match the two trebles that United achieved in the PL, the one we did from 81, Arsenal in the 1930's, and Huddersfield back in the 1920's. Then I want us to be the first club to win a 4th. And I want all this done largely retaining the same players we have, and then adding fucking nobodies and kids, and I want to live off the fume of opposition fans hating us for doing that.
    5 points
  7. As if they'd build the new stadium on a Red planet
    4 points
  8. Criminal lawyer has large amount of cash mysteriously turn up in bank account. * strokes chin
    4 points
  9. The MiL got me a green CT cardigan a few years ago for Chrimbo. The Mrs thinks she gave it to me in error (she was in the latter stages of cancer and was starting to lose her marbles) but it is so comfy, I love wearing it around the house. Not the exact one but pretty darn close.
    4 points
  10. Disgusting from the Telegraph suggesting Klopp is looking to plug Lovren’s hole. They’re both married men FFS.
    4 points
  11. I've been working from home since the lockdown and I don't enjoy it for multiple reasons. Yes I'm saving a decent amount of money on food and travel and avoiding public transport has been great. But now I feel as if the lines between my home life and work life are blurred. When I left the office I would switch off from work until the next day. Now I find myself working more and more for some reason. I miss the interaction with colleagues too, as well as friends/former colleagues working nearby. I just feel at home I'm stuck indoors all day and it's driving me mad, especially with the kids running around not giving me a moments peace. My current accommodation isn't suited for a home office so I'm going through the hassle of looking for a new place. On top of that I'm getting more and more wound up by the missus (who works part time so is home most of the time) who wants me to take on added chores and tasks since I'm now at home full time, things I wouldn't do when I'm at the office and I'm not best pleased about that. Does that make me a whiney cunt? Possibly but either way I have felt a lot more tension with the misses since lockdown. The long-term effects could also be a worry. If you're not needed to be in the office, you could eventually become dispensable. Why would companies pay someone a decent salary to sit at home in the UK when they could potentially pay half that amount to someone sitting a home in a much cheaper country? I expect outsourcing to become a major problem over the coming years. Looking at it from a less selfish perspective, I'm worried about the economy of former office heartlands. It's not just coffee shops and sandwich bars that are suffering from a lack of office workers. Countless businesses will continue to suffer if city centres remain deserted. Bars, pubs, restaurants, hotels, builders, electricians, plumbers, security, cleaners, transport workers. The list of industries dependent on a thriving office environment is endless . These people will be struggling and will lose jobs and the knock on effect will continue.
    4 points
  12. It wasn't Israel. Or America. A lesson learned today. Don't piss off the pensioners.
    4 points
  13. I reckon this is gonna force a few forward thinking countries to accelerate the journey towards things like universal basic income. Economies have been floundering for years and it was never gonna take much to finish them off. The idea of building city centre economies around student debt and an ever shrinking retail and leisure sector was never gonna last. It's almost pathetic in a sense, the idea that an economy is being supported by a coffee shop with staff on minimum wage, which the government has to pay you to go to, and which after the scheme ends will probably go bust anyway.
    3 points
  14. Darn tooting. I got me a boss ear and nose trimmer. Now I’m winning the everlasting hair battle. i look forward to a trim i also grew my hair out over lockdown, having had a number 1/2 for the last 15 years. Well pleased with it
    3 points
  15. For my money Zeppelin made 5 all time classic studio albums (I love Houses of The Holy & Presence too but wouldn't include them in that category). I, II, III, IV & Physical Graffiti. The Stones made 5 (Beggars Banquet to Goats Head Soup). The Beatles made 6 (Rubber Soul onwards). Yeah, I think they hold their own on studio work alone. Obviously they didn't realise singles so lose ground on that front a bit. Live, in their prime they would've made mincemeat of The Beatles & The Stones.
    3 points
  16. Even taking our red-tinted spectacles off for a moment... They’ve got some tolerable players who could doubtless do a fair job for the right club and within the right set-up. Sigurðsson was a waste of cash for Everton, but he’s been decent for Swansea and Iceland; Keane was good at Burnley; Kean scored twice in three games for Italy and didn’t look out of place for Juventus: and whilst Pickford appears to have become a short-armed version of David James (without the y-fronts modelling contact of course) it’s only a couple of years since he had a really decent World Cup. Unfortunately for them, any side with a decent recruitment network is going to sidestep the chance of buying Everton’s squad players and reserves because they’re on silly money and will be vastly overpriced even if Everton take a loss on what they (over)paid in the first place. You could do far better if you signed from a Championship or foreign side, and you’ll certainly pay less. What they really need is a club with a British manager obsessed with signing British players (or at least those with Premier League experience), whose scouting network is dreadful, and who can’t manage their own finances properly. If a club like that came along and bought Everton’s dregs, maybe they’d have a chance to start building from scratch. The question is: What sort of club would employ a manager that shit?
    3 points
  17. Best thing about working at home is my seat in the room where I work puts me within arms reach of my beer machines when I log off. First pint of Franziskaner.
    3 points
  18. This forum can be fucking nuts. Litteraly a band who are lined up to play Warrington and The Wirral food, drink and music festival vs a band that will sell out any stadium in the world and its neck and neck
    3 points
  19. I find it odd people wouldn't want a back up left back? Last season when one of Trent or Robertson were missing we lost out attacking impetus. For how we play, full back is literally one of our most important positions, if not the most important. We need back up that is similar to the player that's there. Not a complete change to a defensive fullback every time one of them is suspended or injured.
    3 points
  20. I've probably watched Jamal Lewis play all his games for Northern Ireland. He is rapid (was a decent level athlete at school apparently) and can play football on the deck, and he has a great temperament for a kid. Perfect defensively, no, but he has time to learn. When we played Germany in Belfast in 2019 he had a pretty good game considering the opposition (facing up to Werner & Brandt). As a back up to Robbo I think he'd be good. He wouldn't be rushed in, he'd get his three months to work on the system in training, etc. and I reckon he'd be pretty ready come the winter schedule. £10m seems reasonable, £20m seems unreasonable, if Laurouchi is going the other way, maybe there's a price in the middle both teams might think works.
    3 points
  21. Yeah they could just take it back from what they've been siphoning off for the Red Sox, right? In all seriousness, you need to get away from this idea of owners funding clubs. They can't do that even if they wanted to as it breaches FFP. John Henry can't just go to the rest of FSG and say "revenues are down from this Covid thing lads, so let's write the Reds a cheque for £30m to cover it". That's not how it works and not how I'd want it to work anyway. I want the club to be self sustaining and spending money that it makes on its own merits, not using dodgy funds sneaked into the club via the back door through inflated, fake sponsorships like what City are doing. Criticising them for not spending money the club has made is one thing (it may or may not be valid, I have no idea to be honest), but criticising them for not throwing their own money into it is a different argument entirely, and one that's a bit daft.
    3 points
  22. All that red and green just reminds me of Souness, Mark Wright and the horrible early 90s fashion.
    3 points
  23. Good job Rooney is a blue (manc) because he'd be hobbling around in his pair as they'd be on the wrong feet.
    3 points
  24. The echo now spinning it that it needs to be a robbo type deal for is with laroucci covering the fee the way Stewart did for robbo and Lewis mightn't be interested as he's used to playing every week. So they've thrown in a few excuses for when the deal falls through for the fsg fan boys to cling to. Or klopp is fucking boss? He couldn't spend a fortune on a full back, knew pretty much anyone would be better than moreno and he was happy to have a project? We only moved for robbo as we couldn't get chillwell on the back of Wagner's recommendation, chillwell I think at that point hadn't played a premier league game. Robbo was not bought as a world star, he was a project and klopp combined with robbos willingness to listen and work became a world star. There's no secret Edward sauce, Edwards secret sauce is what brought is balotelli or etoo as the only 2 options to replace Suarez. Our secret sauce isn't very secret. It's the manager.
    3 points
  25. Scholes was 23 nearly 24 before he was 1st choice ahead of Nicky Butt in the Manchester United midfield. At 26 Ferguson bought Veron and pushed him out to the left. Liverpool players raced about the things Joe Cole could do in training. So fucking what. Paul Scholes was a good midfielder who could pass the ball. He couldn't run, couldn't tackle and wasn't as good as Alonso, never mind Gerrard.
    3 points
  26. Do those machines keep it chilled? They're a great idea. As I brew my own, I don't really have a need for something like that. I buy odd cans and bottles to try things, but I keg my own so have a fridge with 3 taps. I then also have those 5L mini kegs I'll "can" to too - they're a bit like the ones you've got there but a different style. You see maybe ghost ship in that style in the supermarket. I've got a little tap and co2 connection for them so they stay fresh for around a month.
    3 points
  27. Much like a snooker table, the city of Liverpool is 15 reds for every blue.
    3 points
  28. And I thought as an LFC site we would be having music 80s cauals listened to. It seems as though most people threw off their Lyle and Scott,Sergio Tacchini and Adidas when they got home,put on a leather biker jacket and bathed in petunia oil.
    2 points
  29. SD seems to be morphing into a Libertarian before our very eyes I guess their antecedents are in Classic Liberalism so it shouldn't come as too much f a shock SpyBee seems to be heading towards the quasi-religious end of things with his Hope & Faith over rational thought setup I reckon people deal with big traumatic events in different ways It'd be boring if everybody was the same
    2 points
  30. Just logged on to my banking app to check something, and discovered that somebody has transferred £33,930 into my current account today. Unfortunately, it’s not mine so I’ll have to make a trip to the nearest branch tomorrow to explain that somebody has fucked up and that it isn’t suspicious activity they need to report to the police as potential money laundering.
    2 points
  31. That argument is basically a mirror of Trump's interview the other night. Just go on the offensive by pretending to be defending yourself and try to move the goalposts before you have to answer for anything.
    2 points
  32. Yeah, it'll be great when all the selfish pricks stop whinging about wearing a mask. Or did you mean the poor cunts who've been shielding since the start because they're in cohorts that are extremely susceptible to the virus? Maybe the people who've been left with chronic health conditions because of it? Or the tens of thousands of families that have already lost loved ones and just won't fucking stop going on about it?
    2 points
  33. Also, the way the world is today, would we notice the brain damage all that much?
    2 points
  34. Cunt's trick from Arsenal, that. Kicking 55 employees onto the street and then wording the statement to basically say "you fans want BiG sIgNiNgZ, so in effect, these redundancies are on you." 55 £50k p.a. salaries works out at less than £3m. Unless they're shopping in 1998 then I can't see how this is going to alter their transfer plans much.
    2 points
  35. Fucks sake I can't vote. The Pistols started it all (or at least for mainstream punk) any inspired many many bands to this day, however they have a limited catalogue and lifespan. Manics first three albums are brilliant but they have still produced some great stuff after that. I'll have think but this for me is a stinker of a tie.
    2 points
  36. One of these changed music - the other is the Manic Street Preachers.
    2 points
  37. Yeah, that's before everyone realised he's shit. Accustomed to English football suggests he's already a success. As far as I'm concerned he's offered absolutely fuck all at the top level to suggest he's good enough to play in the premier league. Odoi might one day turn out to be a good footballer, but this summer he'd probably cost us almost as much as Werner would have. It would be a signing of Bournemouth proportions of stupidness from us. And there's not a chance it'll happen.
    2 points
  38. Page after page after page of Beef saying the same thing.
    2 points
  39. Attractive young girls seem happy to strike up conversations with me out of the blue. They clearly think I’m an old man who’s zero threat, not a romantic possibility and probably a little pathetic looking.
    2 points
  40. Just been looking at the Cotton Traders website. Their clothes look reasonably priced and comfortable.
    2 points
  41. Not sure mate, just know they were fucking around with baboons that had head colds or something for a while. For whatever reason!
    2 points
  42. I’m 52 years old and almost certainly won’t be popping out any sprogs now, so I’ll happily take my chances with the vaccine.
    2 points
  43. I've watched odoi loads. He's nowhere near the level you're talking about for me. Most clubs make mistakes selling players and the only big mistake there I would say there is de bruyne. Salah they never gave a chance and didn't feel they needed to, they sold him at a profit, which is their business plan. Sturridge they sold because they couldn't keep him fit. We got 12 months out of him. Lukaku they sold for a massive fee at the time. But that's all old news and doesn't matter. Odoi is so middle of the road, yes he's had an injury but he's been back from that for ages. The list of players who were going to be great when they were teenagers and turn out shit is much larger than the list of players who make it to the stars people predict. For me odoi is one of them. Williams? You did watch him the other week? He can barely even stand on his left leg. One guaranteed way to destroy the boy would be needing to chuck him in for 10 games should robbo pick up an injury. To be honest, I'd give chamberlain a role covering both full backs. Our full backs are more attacking than our midfielders and it's a kind of midfield role. He was a winger by trade and we might get more out of him in those positions than we do in midfield or attack where I think he's been ineffective since returning from that injury.
    2 points
  44. Sorry Paul. You'll just have to learn to live with his unattributed reflections as I have over the years.
    2 points
  45. They are fogging the planes between flights. I think they may be using HOCl, but I can't be sure. They are also recycling air at a more rapid rate, which means the actual flight is about as safe as can be & this is the only enclosed space you encounter. If you do need a bus to the terminal, this is limited to 25 passengers per bus. The airports are operating with social distancing in mind, although people tend to forget this in certain queues. At no time did I feel at heightened risk to be honest, although wearing a mask for about 6 hours isn't a nice experience. I would definitely feel at more risk going into a local pub and staying indoors.
    2 points
  46. I forgot to update you on that, sorry. She's been taken off marking my work in future, my boss also had someone from another team assess my calls & my scores went up to the extent that I've gone from failing to passing fairly comfortably. She's still off looking after her daughter who has some rare type of leukaemia so the matter is closed as far as I'm concerned.
    2 points
  47. I don't see the need for so much sniping on this thread to be honest. If people were suspicious this might not turn into such a big deal at the start it's for two reasons - there's form for scareomongering about pandemics that fizzle out, swine flu, SARS, MERS, to a lesser extent the Ebola flare up a few years back for which we were subjected to another Live Aid Concert. Secondly, the nature of our media which is focused on clickbait headlines and for which fear sells. It's happening all the time. You'll see a story about a second wave in Beijing or Germany, then nothing about the fact that it's dropped several days later. It's dropped in Leicester too and they're easing lockdown, again, nowhere to be seen on News at 10 last night. Italian doctors who've been literally in the trenches in hospitals in the North say that the viral loads are getting much lower and they're dismissed as cranks, stories about Sweden's cases dropping despite never having had a lockdown are barely reported (if it had been the other way around, there'd be books about it by now - Sweden, a warning from history.) Stories about the virus being remarkably stable making it much easier to vaccinate against are barely reported on. That WHO story I posted above about it having a death rate of 0.6% wasn't on the news this morning, but there was a WHO story about a one-liner from one of the head honchos saying 'we might never find a cure'. Wanting to get the facts and see things from both sides doesn't make you hopelessly naive.
    2 points
  48. Lazy Bugger’s sister
    2 points
  49. Saudis pulled out citing human rights abuses after visiting a sports direct factory
    2 points



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