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I remember reading a story about WWII about some Jews who smuggled evidence of the beginning stages of the Holocaust (not the ovens/death camps at that stage, it was mostly work camps and mass shootings and ghettos) out to the West and how they were totally ignored, or even decried as liars. I used to wonder how that happened. Now I read this thread and I see exactly how it happened. Putin has truly won, in a sense. He has gotten enough people to doubt the plainest of evidence of his criminality. All he needs is the slimmest of doubts, the idea that it's at least possible that someone could have faked a video or some photos or whatever, and there are those who will rush to his defense. Most of them are not truly evil, just contrarians who like to show their scepticism of the mass media or whatever, but it serves his purposes just the same. Of course, history is going to reveal what anyone with half a brain can already see to be true: the Russians have committed mass war crimes during this invasion, in Bucha and elsewhere.

Doesn’t look half as good in this photo but I absolutely rocked a Thai meal last night at home. missus said as she was heading our late morning that she fancied something Thai with steak. cooked a wonderful Tom Yum soup from scratch for starter which was incredible and will be lunch today which I’m excited about already. then main was Pad Thai and Weeping Tiger. incredible even if I say so myself!

Report by Paul Natton Listeners to the podcast will be familiar with the term “trap game”, the Americanism from US sports which Jules has used a number of times throughout the season to describe various forthcoming fixtures. Pre-match this theoretically had all the hallmarks of such a game, coming as it did immediately after an international break for a dreaded lunchtime kickoff, the atmospheres at which - as Klopp directly referenced beforehand - are never good. Throw into the mix the return of Roy Hodgson who, despite his mediocre Liverpool credentials, is no mug when it comes to setting up a relegation-threatened team to do a job against a bigger opponent, and you can see why this game fit the bill. And yet it didn’t, did it? It turned out to be exactly what the lads and I all felt it would be as we chatted outside the ground before kickoff: a very comfortable win where we dominated the game in second gear and came away with three points. Entertainment value was low, admittedly, but at this stage of the season with the stakes remaining high in all three competitions we’re still fighting for as we aim to go all the way in each, our predictions were precisely what transpired: turn up, keep the ball, score a goal or two and then go home with the points in the bag, the squad rotated and injuries avoided. Watford had two shots in the entire game. One was pretty comfortably saved by Alisson and the other was put a yard or two wide of the post. And that was it. That said, there was a relatively high degree of jitteriness around Anfield, particularly in the second half. I have to say though that I found this both frustrating and bewildering. The ball barely left our possession throughout the 90 minutes and indeed forays into our half were almost non-existent from Watford. Almost the only times the ball ended up back there was when we recycled possession to start again on the other side after a move had broken down. Maybe it’s the stakes involved in this potentially most exciting of Aprils or maybe it’s just the scars left by the non-event of last season, but either way, what I was watching in no sense merited the jitteriness on show from The Kop. We’ve seen this team for a good six years now and the trust should be there. There isn’t a flake amongst them and the quality levels are stratospherically high. The first goal came just before the midpoint of the first half and almost immediately after that save from Alisson. The ball was switched out to the right to Joe Gomez, who I have to say has been the best Trent stand-in of the season so far for me, despite the small evidence base. He put in a quality cross, taking advantage of the fact that his man did not close him down, and Jota darted between the right back and right centre half to score with what is now becoming a trademark header. With the first goal in the bag, the match reverted to the pattern already established of comfortable retention of the ball at a relatively sedate tempo that did not allow Watford much of an opportunity to even touch it, never mind approximate danger with it. Gomez and Robertson were pushed quite high up but not aggressively so, an indication to me of Klopp‘s intentions. There is no doubt he saw this game as simply a minor - albeit not insignificant - obstacle to be safely negotiated in order to get to more considerable challenges beyond. The ball was used and retained pretty well by our midfielders with Bobby dropping in to join them, delivering a pretty good version of the Bobby role. The thing that has consistently frustrated me about him over the last couple of years during his decline is not the lack of goals, as they were never really in abundance; rather it’s been the sloppiness on the ball, the propensity to give it away and the absence of his trademark physicality imposing itself on the opposition. I’m not saying this was a 10 out of 10 from him but it was definitely a seven, possibly approaching eight and that is a welcome and timely return to something approximating his true game. Hendo put in a decent showing in the middle and, even allowing for the paucity of opponent, Thiago was sensational, distributing the ball intelligently and with ease. Curtis though was subject to a few grumbles which are becoming a recurring theme. However, while he didn’t pull up any trees, I felt he played to instructions and was no better or worse than anybody else. It does concern me a little though that his age is not factored in to crowd expectations at times. That said, it goes with the territory doesn’t it? As I’ve said on the pod a number of times, these are the levels and if Curtis wants to be what he absolutely has the potential to be, which is a Scouse mainstay of a truly great Liverpool team, then he has to cope with the mental and possibly emotional challenges such an ambition presents, in addition to the physical and technical ones. He eventually made way in the second half for Fabinho, the scorer of the second goal. There was some indication that he’d taken a knock as he seemed to gesture towards the bench before going off but it did not seem especially serious and I can only hope it was merely a precautionary request. The penalty award for the second goal was a strange one which bemused everybody around me as it came quite late in terms of the timing of the VAR review and was described as a potential handball on the scoreboard at Anfield. Only on getting back home again to rewatch the key moments on telly did I see the absolutely blatant foul on Jota and the penalty was obviously deserved. The finish by Fabinho showed exactly why he was the designated penalty taker at Monaco: it was hit at pace into the side netting of the top corner of the goal and Foster had absolutely no chance. Class - and with that the match was as good as over with the restart coming right on the 90 minutes and the final four minutes of added time then negotiated comfortably. So all in all this was exactly the kind of performance the pros always laud when commentating or analysing on TV. Dare I say it, it’s also exactly the kind of performance which in retrospect title winners look back on as one of those “job done, move on” performances. I would absolutely take more of the same on Tuesday night against Benfica if it left us with plenty in the tank for the huge game against Manchester City next weekend. That said, given the way our month looks, I’d really like us to make the Anfield game almost a dead rubber. Either way, we should go strong on Tuesday. So overall, a good result and we move on. Star man is the sublime Thiago but just before I close, a special word for Ben Foster. Not only is he that now rarity of an opposing goalkeeper who visibly applauds The Kop before kickoff without a hint of embarrassment that his own fans may see, but he added the classy touch of giving the practice ball which he’d retained until the very cusp of kickoff to a child in The Kop who was clearly delighted. Really nice touch from a guy who has been vocally praising the Reds for quite some time now. So another obstacle at the business end of what could be a unique and legendary season is overcome. More of this please Reds. On to Tuesday… Team: Alisson; Gomez, Matip, Van Dijk, Robertson; Henderson, Jones (Fabinho), Thiago (Milner); Salah (Mané), Firmino, Jota:

@AngryOfTuebrook Had a few problems recording the game yesterday, seems like they added more copyright protection in the latest browser updates. Caught me unawares yesterday. Here's a few gifs I just put together from motd.

Not my words, Lynne. The words of The Sport Star magazine.

So you will probably know that I've not been around much in recent weeks and that I have had some of the lads fill in for me on pods and match reports. I didn't elaborate on why that was as the situation , but the last four weeks or so have been a complete nightmare. Firstly, my mother-in-law passed away suddenly. So we were dealing with that but what I didn't know was that my mum was also really ill but had kept it to herself. The week of my mother-in-law's funeral, my mum had to be rushed into hospital. We weren't allowed in to see her for four days as she was in a&e because there were no beds in the ward she needed to be on. We were eventually allowed in because she took a bad turn and they didn't know if she would survive the night. She did, but it was touch and go and she was in ICU for a few days, where we were allowed to see her an hour a day. Initially there was some faint hope that they might be able to get her well enough to come home for however long she had left, but as hard as she was fighting she was in a really bad way and there were too many things going wrong with various organs. She was on a ward for a bit but for the last week me and my dad have been living in the hospital room they gave her. My dad was there virtually 24 hours a day but their dog is blind and deaf and can't go to stay with anyone else so I would go back to their house throughout the day to look after the dog while my dad stayed with mum. Yesterday morning when I was on my way back from sorting out the dog, my mum passed away. She wasn't breathing when I got to her but she had been seconds before, so maybe I got there for her last breath, I don't know. My dad was there though, which was the main thing to me. It would have been harrowing in any circumstances, but it's been even more difficult because I haven't been able to be there for Gail after she lost her mum. We can now help eachother through our losses and also make sure my dad is ok. For the time being I'm going to be leaning on the lads to keep things going on here with the pods and match reports, but I expect I'll be back soon as my mum wouldn't want me to be moping around for long. There are lots of things I want to say about how all of this went down, specifically the unforgivable negligence of her GP and the heroics of the NHS staff in Fazakerley, but that's for another day. Just wanted to let you know why I haven't been around and why I'll be away for a bit longer.

The Tom Yum soup was bloody epic at lunch.

The two parts of your post I've bolded ARE 100% THE KEY ISSUE. There is zero chance, absolutely none, that giving in and giving away the Donbas or whatever, in exchange for a peace agreement and ceasefire, will actually lead to a lasting peace. Putin is a complete and total monster, and he is absolutely willing to lie through his teeth, knowingly, to get what he wants. If you can't see that by now, then I can't help you. So if you can't trust a word he says, and he's shown an obvious willingness to use violence to achieve his goals, then the very, very clear answer to this has to acknowledge that the only way justice or anything approaching it can happen is a complete and total defeat for Russia on the military battlefield. If Ukraine gives in and gives him what he wants, he will simply re-arm and do this all over again in a few years. Doing whatever we can to help Ukraine win this war is not war-mongering, it is actually the best thing we can do right now to prevent future wars, where Russia attacks, is stopped, takes another 100 km of Ukraine, and then signs a peace deal, only to do it again in a few years. Have you completely forgotten that Russia actually did exactly this in 2014 - attacked, won a portion of the Donbas, then sued for peace, and signed the Minsk peace agreement? Then, a few years later, when they had built up their military somewhat (and also misjudged the corresponding Ukrainian buildup), they said "the Minsk agreement doesn't apply," tore it up and attacked again? They will do this over and over again, committing war crimes each time, until Ukraine defeats them or is annihilated and cut up into pieces. This is not some unfounded speculation, it is happening in front of our eyes! There is a reason they showed up in Ukraine with mobile crematoria and 45,000 body bags - Putin is planning nothing less than the subjugation of the entire Ukrainian nation. He just underestimated their response.

Difficult: Arsenal - their fans are utter cunts Spurs - Son and Kane are cunts West Ham - owners are cunts Man Utd - just cunts

Hahaha! From yesterday, but just saw it now. Nice burn.

All these discussions are moot really. The bottom line is that in the sixth biggest economy in the world in 2022, living standards are going down and not up. The absolute basics that anyone should be able to afford is food on the table and a roof over their head. Instead, we've got a government that writes off 12bn of Covid fraud, doles out contracts to their mates, and a queen who spends 12 mil getting her nonce of a son out of bother. The whole system needs rearing down. Eaton, Oxbridge, billionaire media owners, the place is rotten to the core and nothing will change unless ordinary people change it.

It is very simple. If an aggressor starts a war and ends up gaining what they wanted then that is a win for the aggressor. Meaning the war was a success. Generally success breeds more success, not less. You are hardly unique in wanting peace but I don't think you understand the implications of how it is achieved. I want Ukraine to push Russia all the way back to their borders. Then I want the international community to do everything in it's power to insure Russia pays for the re building of Ukranian infrastructure and reparations for damages to historical sites. Certainly if any war crimes are proven they should be prosecuted. IMO that is how you would lessen the chance of future conflict.

As I said yesterday, it's PRECISELY the kind of incident for which VAR was designed originally to intervene. THAT should be the story now. After more than a year of the most witless messing around with slo-mo and lines across the screen, and pondering how many angels are dancing on the head of a pin, VAR actually responded to a clear and obvious error. And in spite of the fact that most of the media have complained about the use of VAR over this period, they now seem too confused to go back and check on what it is there to do.

Burnley.

It's Jurgen Stopp

That was when YNWA was being sung and you could see he was thinking back on the good times, the crowds roar, the swirl of red of the players shirts, the smell of deep heat, the joys, the triumps, the famous “They’ll be a formidable challenge” of Northampton, the "The protest does not help" support of the existantial threat Liverpool face at the time the carpetbaggers were trying to dismantle and flog us off, his vast experience that led him to the very pinicle of football management "From Halmstad to Malmo to Orebo to Neuchatel Xamax...", his unerring understanding of what LFC are '"I don't understand questions about Liverpool and Fulham players being different types", that losing to Everton is fucking pathetic "As good as we have played all season" & “To get a result here would have been Utopia” and most importantly, footballing nirvana, a win at Bolton "A famous victory". He just gets us, let him have a moment of reflection of the good times and a job well done you naysaying cunts.

I get something in my eye everytime I hear this song.

It’s on twitter. He’s getting 400k a week, child care vouchers and a free hot meal with every shift, a cycle to work scheme and discounts from some of his favourite brands.

Fucks sake, man, this is awful news. Your mum was a bonafide FF legend, I looked forward to hearing your mums take on certain players more than yours. Look after yourself and the family, mate.

So that’s how the biggest month in our history begins; not with a bang, but with a whimper (of sorts). The very fact that Roy Hodgson was involved cut the irony so thick you could build a mansion on it. Yet it plagued certain pessimistic red minds (who, me?) with unsettling foreboding. Yes, the possession stats, yes, the attempts at goal blah blah blah. Don’t tell me you’ve not been waiting for the one, thunderbolt, Gerrard-esque moment that’ll scupper everything. When it all seems to be going your way, that only gives some of us one more ulcer. It’s genetic. We’ve come through the international break unscathed. Well, relatively. There was Keita, but that goes down in the book before it happens nowadays. Salah’s took another blow, with the obligatory extra time and pens and Sadio clincher. If they weren’t exactly bosom buddies before, it’ll be tense now. Trent’s injury was supposed to put him out for weeks, but there he was on the bench on Saturday. Hallelujah, praise the Lord! Ferguson must have given up the same miracle prayer he offered for Giggs on so many occasions. Though that seems less likely than Liverpool messed England around. Hardly surprising when Southgate has been so ambivalent about Alexander-Arnold in the past. There’s a case for both sides, and it may even be offering Gomez a way back into both teams. He’s certainly got the crossing down pat, that was a superb goal and there could/should have been others. I always felt with Joe there’s a dopey, complacent snafu around the corner. Not of a Traore standard, of course, more of an “I’m too sexy for my shirt” vibe. Even with those mutton chops. You’re not Wolverine, mate…… The semi final with City will still be at Wembley, the pig ignorance of the FA still awe-inspiring in its totality. I suppose when you’ve actually killed people, gridlock and empty seats are sort of a triumph. During the Watford game you got a sense of premature let-down, that Super April really deserved a better curtain raiser. It called for an efficient performance, no frills or thrills. That’s exactly what it got. Watford stayed deep and shot out of the traps at any Liverpool stumble, which was worryingly frequent. Better teams will punish that, so you hope complacency is all it is, given what’s coming next. Curtis Jones is in a quandary, like he needs to impress on the odd occasion he gets a start. Klopp must surely be saying that simple and patient is okay by him, either that or the lad’s too dense to listen. You would have got unprofitable odds for “Subbed on 60”. Thiago’s a better example, the Barcelona plod ideal for stubborn opposition who won’t come out to play and need unpicking. Even he has moments, the back pass at Arsenal and the slide to keep the ball in for a rare Watford attack. Ninety minutes’ total concentration is obviously impossible, so we play the percentages and hope for the best, especially when the second goal won’t come. They all do it now, sit there and just wait for a gift. As with West Ham, Watford had a bit of a cheek claiming they had been ahem robbed. Hodgson griped about a penalty that changed the score-line, not the result. That he even contested the decision would indicate relegation panic – or senility. Because we’re so good now, perceptions are skewed and teams barely in the game are presented as coming soooo close. Aggravating, but we’ve seen matches in the past when Liverpool were described as “plucky” and this is infinitely better. Salah was sluggish, again trying too much when a pass looked on. He needs a rest, won’t take one. The manager’s kid gloves may be the way to go, and with the 30 days we’ve got coming up, perhaps rest is a pipedream anyway. There are options, which is the important thing. Burnley held out for a whole ten minutes, reviving sour memories of 2019. That wasn’t a title ‘race’, it was more of a shuffle. Win followed by win followed by win. I could go on… Next Sunday can and probably will break that sequence, so it may not be like three years ago. It could be more like 2014. Gulp etc. Steve Kelly @SteKelly198586 View full article

I’m currently going through a Fry’s Peppermint Cream phase. Half a bar with an afternoon coffee hits the spot. I return the other half to the fridge intending to eat it the next day. This occasionally happens.

Perfect scenario is Moyes clinches 4th and gets knocked out by Villarreal in the qualifiers. He must never qualify.

We want merino lad.

Just seems strange that the only report I have ever seen you post is one of Russian "successes". Kind of makes it seem like you are rooting for one side.

Nice spring morning walk with the little bellend. Always pleasing to see the gorse in the sunshine.

I think that as a man, if you find yourself sending death threats to a female survivor of domestic abuse who has gone on and given millions of pounds to women’s refuges, you may need to think that maybe you’re not the good guy in this battle.

You're not in America, Cory. Date it properly or I'll cut your fackin jacobs off.

Or this, from The Times: Link to article The things the Russian soldiers are doing in Ukraine are like WWII-style pure Gestapo evil. And yet I fully expect the usual suspects to be on here responding with how Ukraine needs to bend to Putin's will in order to "avoid further bloodshed."

‘IT’S MO STAYAH!’ is an absolutely horrific attempt at a headline. It’s not a pun or any other kind of wordplay. Just absolute nonsense. Did they have a headline after Istanbul in 2005 of ‘IT’S STEVEN GERWINNER!’?

*Correction, 1x Everton fan for throwing a young fan which struck an object

Geordie lesbians

Sandra Bullock.

Guess who's going to Wembley, bitches! Couldn't be arsed faffing around with the official coaches, so - in honour of the new discovery of Clem's former identity - I've booked a ticket on a Big Green Coach. According to Google, the pre-match piss-up venue I've used on my last few visits (Moore Spice) is permanently closed. Any other recommendations?

Her brother is round for the game and said “why didn’t he play for one of us” my reply if he’s too shit for us and too good for you was met with silence and a snarl from my bird

Haha. Ok ok, you got me

I'm hearing reports coming in from @KMD7 that Klopp will be signing a new contract. The respected poster, when commenting on Salah's deal said "Klopp decided to extend his contract also." Click here to comment and subscribe for more hot transfer news.

Well they are for Ukraine.

I might be wrong, but I don't remember this much scepticism from certain quarters surrounding the administering of other ongoing vaccines. Take the flu jab, for example. it seems that the vast majority of people (including most 'covid vaccine sceptics') accept a few things about it, such as: having a flu jab is safer for most people than not having one; that there are side effects; that people will need to have flu jabs on a periodical basis. Yet, even though exactly the same claims are made about covid vaccines by the people who make them or promote them, a whole industry, swelled by an army of idiots, has built up around the need to inform society that: not everyone will benefit from having a vaccine; that people experience side effects from covid vaccines: and that they don't last forever. edit: And even after all that, they still resort to spamming us with irrelevant stories of people having heart attacks and other illnesses (as people tend to do) in order to give their bollocks some weight, because the bald truth is, despite their convictions and bluster, there is not anything like the evidence to support their apocalyptic view of the vaccine.

My geography knowledge (for what it is) is pretty much solely down to football and our european adventures in the late 70's/early 80's and radio 2. Peter Jones is the greatest commentator ever IMO. I used to love the sport on 2 european nights, the way they'd come on and say "and there has already been a goal in (insert name of european place)" and then play the commentary of it - used to be that split second of nervousness as waited to hear from comms if it was us or the opposition that had got it - you'd know when the commentary they played started by who was attacking!

I know when I'm about to drop £20k on a new watch I check to see what Roy Hodgson's son is wearing before making my decision.

"I can't work harder and I can't work better" He tried! I might only ever engage with the FF through Hodgeson quotes from now on, it's a veritable gold mine of utter mediocrity.

The fact he was here at all is the amazing thing. Hate is a strong word but I do actually hate the snide old cunt.

Advice from personal experience is always the best.

Here's another one. It's great the way she's been accepted by the other two.