Leaderboard

Sorry lads but whatever space, shed, cottage, summer house you have it WILL NOT HAVE THIS IN IT. THE ROCK BY PHILLY AND CAKE CUNT

Not sure if I’ve told this one here before (I probably have), but a few years back when I was involved in a charity in El Salvador we brought some Salvadoran lads over to Anfield. It was a surprise for them, they only knew they were coming to the city, but we brought them to the ground on matchday. Long and short of it, the one who was the biggest fan went with my pal into the ground to see the game, and was blown away. The other lad came with me to the pub to watch it on the telly, and spent the whole time with his jaw on the floor, chatting to all & sundry, etc. At full time we hung around outside the stadium, as the guys just wanted to soak it up for as long as they could. And sure enough, an hour or so after the match ended, Brendan came out. He headed straight to his car, but we approached him and asked if he’d have a quick chat with the Salvadorans. And he was an absolute gent, chatted away in Spanish for a good five or ten minutes. They were delighted. For that, he gets away with a large amount of knobbery. He could have easily just smiled, shaken their hands, and done one, but he really made an effort and it meant the world to them. As a man he’s alright by me.

I’ve got my own room downstairs, I put all my work stuff in the extension bit we’ve got built in the kitchen though. Don’t want my room contaminated by working in there all day. I don’t spend anywhere near as much time in here as I thought I would when I was putting it together to be honest.

Not so long ago there wasn't a forward in the world I'd have taken over Bobby. I remember writing that although Kane is a better number nine than Bobby, he wouldn't be a better number nine for us. No-one would be. At that time Bobby was perfect for what we did. Now, I hate to say it but there's loads I'd take over Bobby, and the irony is that Kane has now developed his game to a point where if I was creating the perfect number nine for this team it would actually be him (minus the hair, the chin and the drool). Kane would score forty a season in this team and he'd probably create twenty for Salah and Mané. He's now the perfect all around centre forward. He can drop off and play through balls, he's clever on the counter attack, he can score from outside the box and he's a poacher as well. He'd also solve the problem of us never getting penalties and free-kicks. Honestly, he's wasted at Spurs because he's genuinely world class and could play in any team on the planet. And I hate saying that because he's such a cunt.

Before I even start on the food the 1950’s wants their fucking plate back.

Stuff in general. I really like having one room in the house that she isn't allowed to fill with absolute fucking rubbish. "Oh, your office is really big actually isn't it?" Not overly. It just has a desk, sofa, telly, and bookcase, and nothing else. If I started filling it with shoes, candles, bags, etc, it would look like every other room in the house. A carboot sale in a phone box.

I'm pretty certain the plan was always for Fabinho to be 4th choice centre back. With Thiago coming in we anticipated that he wouldn't get as many games in midfield, so would drop in to the back four at times alongside VVD. We saw this as early as the Chelsea game, which was the 2nd/3rd game of the season. We started the season with 8 players that can play in the midfield three, 9 if you include Shaqiri. This is the most squad depth we have had in a long time. Our backup eleven thinking at the start of the season was Adrian, Milner Fabinho, Matip, Tsimkas, Keita, Jones, Ox,Jota, Origi, Shaqiri knowing full well that a number of those players would get games in other positions. This is where we are at. City currently have Laporte and Ake sitting in reserve, we can't afford the luxury of spending 100 million on a 3rd and 4th choice centre half. We gambled on VVD not getting injured and it didn't pay off. You are right about Matip and Gomez being injury prone, but could we have moved them on in the summer and replaced them? I think most people would have been strongly against Gomez being sold and Matip is a very good player for the 12 games a season he is available. In the long run, I do think we have reached the end of how far we can go with FSG. We need to move away from needing to sell before we can buy every season and living off a net spend of around 30 million. FSG must realise this too? They can't compete with City, United and Chelsea year in year out.

That should take the pressure off me being considered the wealthy land owner of the forum.

I'd be no good hosting a politics show. Every other sentence would be "just answer the fucking question" or "you're lying you contemptuous cuntbucket"

Hey Cumstains, what's your opinion on him pardoning Blackwater operatives who massacred women and children in Iraq? Or wanting to have the military crush BLM protesters during the summer?

Ah, a significant day in American politics so of course Red Phoenix rises from the ashes to spout some absolute horeshit.

After that last derby, Ancelotti is my most hated out the lot of them. Dirty Everton cunt that he is.

We started the season with three centre backs, which violates the first rule of squad-building, that you should have two players for every position. That our only non-injury prone centre back is out for the season is unfortunate, but could have been mitigated against if we had three fit and healthy alternates rather than two who are made of crisps. I personally don't care whether it was Klopp or FSG or both who decided 1.2 centre backs was enough for a 60 game season. It was a shocking decision which is the major reason why we're struggling to cling on to a top four place rather than pissing the league like we did last year.

Happy to say that my ma (age 77 and has diabetes and mild cognitive impairment) had her first dose of the Pfizer vaccine tonight, second one will be done in 12 weeks apparently. My dad (will be 88 in Feb) had his invite for his first dose last week but he's effectively housebound so can't go out to get it (myself and my sister have offered to drive him but he's too nervous to go out)! He's therefore agreed to wait until a GP or nurse can come out to the house which could be a while. Getting there slowly but still nervy times.

Gutted. Thought they said Garth Crooks was singing Amazing Grace and nobody can say that wouldn't have been an all-timer.

I am one flukey cunt. One of my dens is an oversized triple garage with just about everything I want in there. High points include a decent snap-on box and a fab Lincoln welder, but it's so well kitted-out the neighbour's lads are always round to "borrow" (rob) stuff for their 4x4s; "Rog have you got an eight "milli" (taking the piss out of my accent) bolt to fit this? It might need to be a "midgies" bigger." It also houses the lawn tractor and a fab erm classic car. I really want to add a lathe and pillar drill but I'd need to extend. Hmmmm. Well, I spend a lot of time in there....

Don't think they are even that good , perfornances on the briefings has been toe-curling at times, but they have a compliant media and a large proportion of thick or disinterested drones in the populace.

When me and the missus piss each other off we go down the classic Steptoe and Son route....Does wonders for the marriage Although when watching TV I make sure the knobs are on my side

Yeah there's nowt wrong with that, I just find the phrase a bit patronising, 'oh he's upstairs playing with his toys - the dickhead'. No, men need their own space because women take over the whole house with their smelly shit and crap telly.

Patel is doing the rounds, other than Johnson himself I've never seen anyone so utterly out of their depth, reminds me of when the Beeb put that cabbie on the telly by accident.

Jesus fucking Christ. All of the grief you've given people over breakfasts in here and you have the cojones to post that. Vegan black pudding? Fuck off. Sardines? Where to fucking start? They look like you ate them last night and regurgitated them in to a pan like a penguin feeding it's young. This is an absolute disgrace, you fucking rocking chair. Repped.

You'll win nothing with kids.

The capitalization is putting me off admiring the hottie. Is Sam Caught the fish's name? Is Sam Anymore the name of the hottie? 2/10 see me.

Nah fuck that, you look like a Chicago detective who plays by his own rules.

Didnt they give Spurs a goal at Anfield when Kane was offside at the moment the ball was kicked but because Degsy tried to clear it, said Kane way played onside? So the defender is expected to gamble on shit refs and \ or VAR giving offside after the ball's in the net and not go for the ball? The officials cant have it both ways that they expect defenders to play to the whistle when linos keep the flag down for offside but then say if the defender has 'tried to play the ball' that nullifies any offside.

Reality can be a harsh mistress.

Signing him would be a recipe for disaster.

I've just had a positive test myself. Really strange as on Friday I got a rapid test and it was negative then yesterday had a little cough got the other test and it's now come back positive. 10 day isolating it is.

Some people are mad, others just have weird agendas where they want to shift the blame from their untouchable hero on to somebody else. You honestly wonder the mental gymnastics some people go through to come to these conclusions. Our style hasn’t changed. When the opportunity is there we still break quickly. Virtually every single side we face leave enough men back to stop us doing that. People now seem to think last year and the year before that was us breaking on teams and have completely forgot that lots of games were won by one goal where we broke the opposition down by going from side to side over and over again looking for openings while they sat back like they do now. Adding Thiago into the mix helps that style because he moves the ball quicker and plays far more intelligent passes. He’s also a better dribbler in midfield that anyone else we have there and will commit opposition players. The fact is that the front 3 have been declining as a team for a while. Salah and Mane don’t like each other and it shows on the pitch. The problem for Salah is that he relies on other players to get his goals and Firmino and Mane aren’t giving him the ball any more because he doesn’t give it to them. Mane is still getting wide and creating chances occasionally but is still clearly pissed off with Salah so goes central looking for goals himself and crowds the box. This means all the creativity comes from a woefully out of form Trent and an isolated Robertson. The clear the air talks that keep being mooted are obviously to try and sort the Salah and Mane situation out. They were trying against United but it’s obvious you can’t just turn that relationship on and off.

Chelsea supposedly sniffing around Tuchel, Nagelsmann and Rangnick now according to the Athletic, i.e. a German speaker. Absolute joke of a football club, basing their entire managerial appointment around a single issue of getting a tune out of a couple of players. "We've just spent a lot of money on two Germans, but they're not playing well. Any ideas why?" "Maybe they need someone to talk German in coaching sessions?" "That's it! And a German manager won the league last year as well. This is the best idea ever." Shades of hiring Rafa Benitez to get the best out of Fernando Torres, although at least Rafa had a recent history of getting a tune out of Fernando Torres. Why Thomas Tuchel - a man who's both never crossed paths with Kai Havertz or Timo Werner and has been sacked from a big club job due to problems with egos - is potentially the man for the job because of his nationality alone is absolutely fucking wild.

Fish for breakfast is great if it's something like kedgeree. It's good if it's something like smoked kippers with butter. It is totally acceptable if it's a fish finger sandwich. It is highly questionable if it's part of a fry-up. It's fucking Yewtree behaviour if it's out of a tin and served with beans.

If it doesn't take at least 2 months off your life it has no place in this thread. This place is for breakfasts that contribute to obesity, high blood pressure and organ failure. So take your sardines and fuck off.

I'm lucky enough to live in a big old 3 story town house. It used to have 6 bedrooms but I had the top floor converted into a huge loft space when I moved in. Loads of skylights, a mezzanine, bought 2 x 2 seaters and a 4 seater sofa from Indigo and they're comfy as fuck. Got a Sony hd projector and a roll down projector screen hooked up to an Android box and dvd player, full 5.1 Sony surround sound, great for f**ty and films when a load of people come over. Also got a really nice hifi up there too; Arcam separates with Quad floorstanders. A beer fridge and my guitars and a few amps. I didn't need the 6 bedrooms.

Nope. 3 bed semi-d which I bought 2 years ago (an achievement in itself in Dublin these days), so all bedrooms taken by kids and our room, and downstairs is a big kitchen and decent size living room. The downstairs toilet is feckin huge though so maybe I could put a desk in there and a tv on the wall and shit my life away happily?

Just leave Keita out of the squad. He's rarely in it anyway. Problem solved.

I liked Ancelotti but he lost his L.A. privileges after the derby. I don't hate Rodgers. I don't particularly like him either though. I find him a bit nauseating and his off the field conduct when he was here wasn't befitting of an LFC manager. Of the top six though he's comfortably the one have the most time for. Other than Klopp of course, before some smart arse tries to pull me up on that!

Gradually converted the garage over the last 18 months. It has the washing machine in there, and will double as a home office, but it also has sofa, a 65" TV, a dart board, a beer fridge and a Sonus. It should be complete by the weekend. I can't wait to be able to go for a day out to the garage. Just a change of scenery from the house will be lovely!

Not sure people are too arsed about this one but I'll plod on incase. Through the play offs: Jurassic Park Karate Kid Die Hard Beverly Hills Cop The Dollars Trilogy Jaws Muppets So the final 32 is: Rocky Terminator James Bond Jurassic Park Bourne Films Indiana Jones Toy Story The Matrix Marvel Back to the Future The Godfather Dirty Harry Lethal Weapon Halloween Batman Lord of the Rings Star Wars Star Trek Carry On Hammer Horror Monty Python The Dollars Trilogy Sherlock Holmes (Rathbone) Mad Max Jaws Karate Kid Muppets Miss Marple Alien Wallace & Gromit Beverly Hills Cop Die Hard

Ancelotti is a massive cunt after all the shit he pulled after the derby. Going on about Virgil's tackle on the Colombian for weeks afterwards.

Tony should know that. His Ma's an expert in organology.