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  1. Get big Nat back in.
    5 points
  2. Done decent bashing on the BBC… https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/59190589 I particularly liked the line… ”Bruno Fernandes looked exhausted by the final whistle but this was more likely the result of his constant complaining to team-mates and the officials than any actual footballing impact on this game.”
    5 points
  3. I watched Ronaldo's interview with Sky the other day, and he's just so full of himself. Zlatan did it with a sense of humour, but Ronaldo does it unironically. He didn't sing a song when he arrived at the first team meeting - which is the usual custom apparently; he instead elected to give a speech about how brilliant he is and how he will win them titles. You can already see that Maguire and Shaw hate him - Maguire especially because he undermines his captaincy at every turn. He undermines Ole as well, with his reactions to defeats. He also sends the message that everyone at the club, except him, is fucking shit. That's not going to create a healthy dynamic amongst your teammates. Interestingly, Bonucci came out after he left Juventus and said he was never accepted in the dressing room. He made the team worse when he played because they were more porous defensively and less compact. Juventus were made up to get rid of him. He made them significantly worse, and he's doing the same thing with United.
    5 points
  4. We had a shit day. Other teams will have shit days of their own. Fuck it.
    4 points
  5. FSG have killed us. There's just no turnover in this team. Whereas beforehand we were signing the best defender in the league, the best goalkeeper in Europe, the best defensive midfielder in France, the best winger in Serie A. Who are we signing nowadays? Youth players from Fulham. Even in Klopp's first summer, we signed Gini after he scored 11 goals from midfield for a relegated team. He was Dutch player of the year. We don't sign these type of players anymore.
    4 points
  6. Not even sure its so much that we defend the situations we have to badly....more a case of the situations we end up having to defend are so critical and hard because we are too fucking open....We need to stop more or less every attack we face being one where we are stretched to fuck. We lose ball and we are far too often are facing 2 or 3 bearing down ontoutnumbered defenders who are trying to catch up/cover huge gaps. We need to look at being less easy to counter and not leaving so much space. Citeh dominate games, have similar possession stats to us, but they play with a bit more control and don't get countered in same way we do, where it is nearly always a critical situation when we lose ball/miss place a pass in midfield.  We are too open - and decent teams are able to exploit that.
    4 points
  7. Not often I get to see us these days, what with living in London and tickets being so hard to come by, but a West Ham supporting mate with contacts at the stadium has just come through with some free tickets for the game! Wahey!
    4 points
  8. Monday Nov 1: There’s an interview with Suarez on UEFA.com where he spoke about when he TWICE wanted to leave and that Brendan and Stevie talked him out of it. We knew about the Arsenal thing, but turns out he wanted to leave the summer than Kenny was sacked and Brendan had to call him in Uurguay and give him a big sales pitch to get him to stay. Fucking hell, he’d only been here five minutes and he was wanting to go. This is arguably worse than him wanting to go to Arsenal that time. Why the fuck did he leave Ajax two join us in the first place if he was going to be wanting to leave a year later? It’s not like he joined a good team and we suddenly went shit. The summer he first wanted out we’d just won one cup and lost in the final of another. And although he was boss, he was nowhere near as good as he ended up a couple of years later. He was too good for us when he eventually did leave. He wasn’t too good for us the other two times though. He’s gonna do something mental on Wednesday, I can feel it. He’s either banging in a hat-trick or he’s getting sent off for trying to chop Robbo in two. Also today, Spurs sacked Nuno. What’s that, ten games? What exactly has happened in ten games to make them think any differently about him than they did when they hired him, because this is pretty much what most people expected. He’s a counter attacking manager who doesn’t play good football. This shouldn’t be any great surprise to Spurs. Daniel Levy is a fucking bum. He might be great at refusing to be low balled on players, but he’s shit at everything else. Tuesday Nov 2: Simeone says he won’t shake Klopp’s hand after the game tomorrow because he doesn’t believe in it. Apparently it’s a “British thing” and it’s phoney. He’s such a piece of work that fella isn’t he? His dedication to the shithouse craft is admirable though in its own way. Klopp says he wasn’t aware of Simeone’s policy on handshakes and if he had been he wouldn’t have approached him for one. Fuck that. If I was Klopp tomorrow night, with about 30 seconds left I’d be going to stand in the tunnel to cut him off. I’d extend my hand, and if he didn’t take it he’d look like a bellend, and if he did I’d do this…. Meanwhile, Conte is the new Spurs boss and Newcastle are trying to get Unai Emery. Conte is too good for Spurs but that doesn’t mean he’ll do a good job. He’s going to need money to spend and by all accounts they’re skint. They’ll be better than they have been under Nuno but the best they can hope for is to finish above Arsenal. Right now I wouldn’t even bet on that as Arsenal are getting better. Emery would be a massive risk for Newcastle at this moment in time. In the summer, sure. But right now they’re in a relegation dogfight. I can’t see Emery coming in and getting them out of the shit, so I absolutely hope this happens. Short of us winning the title or CL, nothing would make me happier this season than Newcastle going down. Wednesday Nov 3: L 2 Atletico 0. Well that was a lot less eventful and a lot more routine than I expected. There were no Suarez fireworks, Simeone was subdued and we basically just put them over our knee and spanked them. We’ve thrown away two goal leads a few times this season but even before the sending off I never felt like there was any chance of that. We had the bit between our teeth and it just looked to me like Atletico knew there was nothing they could do about it. Even their shithousing was half arsed. It was one of those fast starts we often have in these games, when we just blow the opposition away with the speed and intensity of our play. Mo and Sadio were on fire and we had proper quality coming in from the two full backs all night. Trent made two goals but on the other side Kostas put some fucking boss balls in too. The midfield dominated the game and Joel and Virg barely gave Suarez a sniff. The sending off was hilarious. That was the very definition of ‘what goes around comes around’. All these years of their manager and players acting like twats and showing no respect to officials or the rules of the game. And then one of them is getting a yellow card but it gets upgraded to a red because he acted like a twat with no respect for the officials. Beautiful. As I said in the report, I was totally fine with the booing of Suarez during the game but I hated it when he was subbed. Proper small time, Soccer AM style shit that was. Like the shouting of “SHOOOOOOOT” whenever Virg or Joel got the ball in their half. It wasn’t a European night atmosphere, it was a bit weird. Presumably because the stakes weren’t so high. We were pretty much through regardless of what happened and because of the lack of any edge maybe it took some of the intensity out of it. Plus the fact the game was so comfortable. We’ve won the group now because Porto drew in Milan. Hopefully Porto can beat Atletico and nick second, but I can’t see it. We might need to give them a helping hand by losing at Anfield. I don’t think we’ll do that because of the prize money at stake, but one thing we defo should do is give Big Nat a run out in that game because he’s earned that. Thursday Nov 4: Jesus fucking Christ, this Torres love in is nauseating. LFCTV fucking love him don’t they? There’s a big interview with him on there and the club social media have been loving all the behind the scenes stuff with him posing for pictures with Elliott and Kenny. It will never sit well with me how he’s embraced but Owen is virtually black balled. I don’t have any affection for him but I don’t dislike Torres anymore either. This fawning over him and attempts to re-integrate him into the “LFC Family” doesn’t sit right at all. He was here five minutes, he won fuck all and he downed tools before leaving for another English club. All this prodigal son shit is just not right. And what's with his fucking massive neck and shoulders these days? Meanwhile, there’s a story today that we’re battling United to sign a kid from City who has been labelled the new Phil Foden. He hasn’t signed a contract with them yet and that has put us on alert. Barca want him too apparently, and presumably if he’s that good then every other top club will want him as well. James McAtee. I’ve never heard of him to be honest. He’s 19 so he should be knocking on the for now but he’s only made one sub appearance in the league cup. He’s gonna end up at Dortmund isn’t he? They always do. I haven’t read much from Stevie Nicol in a while but I stumbled across one of his notoriously flaming hot takes today. Speaking about our current midfield issues he said “100 per cent I would take either Rice or Kalvin Phillips. I’ll tell you what, I’d take Doucoure from Everton.” Rice will cost £80m at least so that’s pie in the sky. Phillips wouldn’t be much cheaper either, but Leeds would not even consider selling him until next summer. And Doucoure?? Fuck me, if he was somebody we wanted (which at one time he apparently was) then we would have signed him when he left Watford. Everton would rather go bankrupt then accept a penny from us for a player so why even mention that? Come on Stevie lad, fucking hell. Friday Nov 5: Still, there are worse takes than Nicol’s. The Spanish press are claiming Klopp wants to sign Eden Hazard. Honestly, this is almost as bad as the Pogba story from last week. I say almost, because at least Hazard can play. But he’s on upward of 400k a week and has a terrible fitness record since leaving Chelsea. And from what I recall he missed a fair bit of time when he was there too. He’s also pushing 30, so this is right up there with the “least FSG signing” you could possibly come up with. Klopp’s presser was quite interesting today as he singled out Bowen and said “I like him a lot”. We were heavily linked with him over the summer so naturally now people will put two and two together and come up with Bowen in a red shirt. I’d say this makes it much less likely. If he was planning on signing him he’d keep quiet about him, surely? He also said Bobby’s hamstring is serious and it will be at least four weeks. That means it’s going to be at least six. I’m not too concerned as long as we can get him back to full speed in time for January when we lose Sadio and Mo. Bobby has been contributing a lot so he’ll be missed, yet weirdly I just have this feeling that Divock is going to step up and do something, and I’m also curious to see what Minamino could do in that role when surrounded by the actual senior lads rather than the league cup side. Today was a good day. It’s very rare an opportunity presents itself when you can use a famous TV or Movie line in normal conversation, but one fell into my lap today. I was on the phone to my mum and she said “Your dad went for his booster jab yesterday but he wasn’t sure it worked as he didn’t feel it. Just a tiny prick” I was in there immediately with “I know he is but he’s still my dad”. Del Boy would be proud. It reminded me of the time my mate Chris (who hosts the midweek TLW pod) lost his Pulp Fiction themed wallet. He knew he must have left it at the gym so he rang them up and they asked him could he describe it. This was a once in a lifetime opportunity to put on a Samuel L Jackson voice and say “it’s the one that says Bad Muthafucka” but he shit out and I’ve never let him forget it. ….and that was the week that was.
    4 points
  9. Climate change is like the Hollywood sex scandal, in the sense that it's the rich and powerful who perpetrated it, then it was the same people who monitized the apology. Cop 26 was their Oscar speech. We'll give you plastic bags for decades, knowing what damage they do, then when David Attenborough rumbles us we'll start charging you 5p for them then tell you this has actually been YOUR fault all along for taking them when we doled them out. I mean the idea that you can do 'your bit' by cutting one minute off your shower time while the Chinese are building coal powered power stations out the ass and half the US Senate are bought and paid for by Exon is fucking laughable. Fuck the press for perpetuating the nonsense, and fuck the marketers who spin straw into gold.
    3 points
  10. Was a 90s Liverpool performance that, proper retro, from Alison embodying the spirit of James, keystone cops defending right down to the hope of a comeback not quite coming off.
    3 points
  11. Lack of investment is biting us in the arse just as well knew it would. Compare the spending on squad improvement between us and our rivals in recent years and we look like a poverty riddled club. FSG are fucking useless and nothing anyone can say will make me think different about them.
    3 points
  12. Klopp’s a great manager, but he does have some misplaced loyalties which don’t do us any favours
    3 points
  13. Tsimikas on at halftime. Ox off for Thiago as well. Not that Ox has had a bad game, we just need to do more with the possession we have.
    3 points
  14. Have that you jellied eel eating mother fuckers.
    3 points
  15. Aubamyemang playing like a man aware he is my Fantasy captain this week.
    3 points
  16. Joe seems to have Bucked off!
    3 points
  17. She's not fussed about penis size either, her ex didn't even have a cock.
    3 points
  18. 3 points
  19. Probably how the problem is escalating. Reaching the end of the street skint and deciding the only logical course of action is to join the queue of beggars.
    3 points
  20. There's loyalty, Gary, and there's delusion. Fair play for the loyalty to his mate, but what's the excuse for the delusion? He mentioned finishing 2nd last season, as if it's a possibility it may happen again, but last season was a massive outlier that's not likely, if ever, to be repeated. No crowds made a huge difference, as did having refs award them penalties for fun. Now full crowds are back and the number of pens they've been given has drastically reduced to one so far, and they've even missed that, to great hilarity. However, having Neville still batting staunchly at the crease in defence of his mate is influential, even if his defence is looking increasingly like a nervous tail-ender waiting for the inevitable and impending killer delivery.
    3 points
  21. Probably going to piss a few people off, but Nick Cave has just been on Jools Holland and my god, what a load of tedious self-indulgent drivel. The kind of act that you get told by hipsters that you can't be into music if you don't like.
    3 points
  22. So apologies for what I am about to post. I was in the big asda in aintree this morning. I normally avoid it at costs, but there was something I had to get. And I walked past their cafe and was reminded of the monstrosity I think @YorkshireRed posted from a Morrisons . So in the interests of science and this forum, I took it upon myself to check out the asda breakfast. It was something quite awful. I've had worse, but not by much. It's their full English, which I think is £5.80, it comes with either toast or fried bread, so the fried bread was an extra 80p. And the tea was £1.10, so about £7.70. So here's a breakdown 2 bacon - undercooked but tasted better than it looked. 2 egg - overcooked (the hard yokes happened about an hour before I got them I reckon) and cheap shite. 2 hash browns - they must have been in the warmer since I last visited the big asda sometime during lockdown 1 Beans - pretty tasty. Probably the best bit anti-beaners. 2 Sausages - I buy sausages from asda, I quite like them. But this wasn't the ones I buy in store. They weren't the worst sausages I've ever had, but I'm in no rush to eat them again. I tried a Gregg's vegan sausage this week and it was loads better than this. Fried bread - fuck me. This was bad. I used to avoid cooking fried bread before this thread got me on the path on how to cook it properly ( © lifey ) . This was worse than I used to cook, it was really bad. I could actually believe they threw it in the deep fat fryer. 2 toast - just shite bread. But they at least cooked it. Over all assessment, I reckon a 3/10. Perhaps 3 is too much. But I reckon still better than that Morrisons one.
    3 points
  23. The hope is that they'll fuck off to the MF though.
    2 points
  24. Fuck it. Move on and forget about it. Plenty of points to play for yet.
    2 points
  25. Listen,I'm pissed as aresholes now,drove down to my mates in Kent for weekend, I'm disappointed obviously, but we've lost three points, keep the faith. Early days
    2 points
  26. Very, very poor start to the season given the favourable run of fixtures - if we can cling to top four from here, it has to be considered a relative success. Spending is required in January, that’s for sure.
    2 points
  27. Poor with subs, timing or lack thereof as well.
    2 points
  28. I'm not ready to give up on the league. Top red, me.
    2 points
  29. Behave. He's been abysmal today but has been amazing for us overall.
    2 points
  30. We’ve done well after the worst possible start and playing against a side with eleven behind the ball.
    2 points
  31. Yet another advert for stopping the clock when ball is not in play
    2 points
  32. I wish Gary Neville was commentating instead of Carragher.
    2 points
  33. Both decisions right, for me. Sadly. Nowt wrong with the goal. Keeper has to do better. The tackle gets the ball and his leg appears to come off the ball and contact with Henderson. It'd be a very harsh red and I'd be disappointed if it was given against us. Plenty of time to get back in to this. Don't panic and try to keep playing football.
    2 points
  34. That wasn't a red. His foot hit the ball and bounced up.
    2 points
  35. I'm slightly in love with Lauren Laverne.
    2 points
  36. A good fart in the bath.
    2 points
  37. I was all in till I saw the size of her cock.
    2 points
  38. You expect us not to be hysterical when faced with a 60p increase in the price of Birdseye Haddock Fish Fingers at the local Co-Op! Fuck you and all your stiff upper lip brigade. Some things demand a hissy fit. The price of Fish Fingers falls into this category. I will not be silenced.
    2 points
  39. If you're out of petrol, simply construct a massive catapult and fire the bread into the sun.
    2 points
  40. Woodburn with a brace today, finally off the mark. They've been loving his play regardless.
    2 points
  41. Kelly exposing Neville for the colossal bluffer he is. It's like she knows what she is talking about or something. VLlSIFqMR4FRkv7A.mp4
    2 points
  42. How many did he have? He looks absolutely battered in the last two photos.
    2 points
  43. Maguire is so hopelessly bad, even Merson had him sussed.
    2 points



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