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They never fail to amuse. Toney was laying bets not kids.

Christ, the Echo website really is like a virus trying to kill your browser. John Connor should've just sent Skynet a link to that shit. Two open tabs and it would've exploded.

He was fuming at 3 nil but as soon as the 4th went in he was like thank fuck for that go head lads concede more.

Yes, Blackpool next season.

Check out Carra doing the Champions League on CBS right now...

Not yet. He will be when Braverman catches up with him.

Exactly. Just last week I was talking to my window cleaner about the Rwandan genocide. It just came up in the natural flow of conversation.

If they get relegated I'm going to blow my cover on there. I've been on there 3 years like Donnie Brasco. They even bought my PEDS theory.

Our last league fixture before the international break (we do have another game before that of course), and we should understandably be going into it in high spirits. Not only did we thrash this lot 9-0 at Anfield earlier in the season, but we are coming off the back of dishing out a once-in-a-lifetime twatting to our historically biggest rivals. Both games showcased a ruthless edge that has often been missing this season. Bournemouth sacked Wing Commander Scott ‘Scotty’ Parker after that 9-0 game (less to do with the result and more to do with his public comments about the club not investing in squad upgrades so they had no hope of remaining in the top flight. He has since headed for Flanders fields and wound up as the head coach of Club Brugge somehow (so he’s actually in charge of a Mig!) and his replacement Gary O’Neil has done reasonably OK with a squad lacking the depth of some of the other bums down there. Anyway: Mojo. Organisation. Ruthlessness. Endeavour. Pace. Luck. Effervescence. Accuracy. Skill. Energy. I don’t ask for much. We have done very well on our visits to the Vitality Stadium (the capacity there is less than that of the Kop!), with the only aberration being the 4-3 in 2016/17 when the team surrendered 2-0 and 3-1 leads with some awful decision-making in defence. In the main, we’ve come away comfortable victors against teams then led by Beheddie Howe. Case in point being 8th December 2018. This was a Liverpool team that would finish runners-up in the league despite getting an incredible 97 points, but go on to claim Number Six in Madrid against Spurs. The chilly Saturday afternoon’s goal-scoring feast got under way when some sharp interplay outside the Bournemouth box between Bobby and Mo resulted in Mo tucking away the rebound after Begovic failed to hold onto Bobby’s left-footed volley from the edge of the area. We had to wait until the second half for the floodgates to open, and it was Mo again who did the damage, racing through to fire a shot into the far corner. He’d had his Achilles raked by Bournemouth captain Steve Cook as he was running through, but kept his composure. Cook’s already bad afternoon got worse as he turned a Robbo cross past his own keeper. Cook was then fairly barged off by Mo who again raced through on goal. He rounded the keeper but his touch took him wider than he’d have liked. No matter, as he cut inside the flailing Begovic once more, steadied himself and poked the ball past Ake on the line to complete his hat-trick. We went top of the table that afternoon. Marvel Studios changed tack and moved away from the MCU timeline, bringing us the animated tale Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which was atop the box office in December 2018. It’s bright, breezy, funny and with heartfelt moments all lit up by spectacular visuals. The story would not work as well if told with the real world and CGI combo of the MCU, and I think there’s a temptation to overindulge on pop culture and ‘meta’ references when using real actors whereas with animation, the visual creativity isn’t held back by physical and budgetary constraints so the story doesn’t need to be padded out so much with the other stuff. This is my nephew’s favourite film (he went to see it on his 8th birthday) and it’s one of the best Spider-Man films overall. Our team delivered a visual feast of their own at the weekend, but that and the 9-0 are even more reason to not let standards drop, to keep concentration high and not allow any let-ups in intensity. Following up an epic result with a damp squib just undoes all the good work. This game takes place before any of the others play so a win (and hopefully another handsome one) will put us in the top 4 on goal difference for a little while at least. That is something that looked extremely unlikely a month or so ago. That would be a nice shot in the arm as we prepare to travel to Madrid and look to pull off the impossible. Get the job done here first, and then focus on trying for a miracle.

How do you write something to encapsulate what we just saw? There’s a lot of hyperbole about modern footy where everything that’s pretty good will be labelled “the best ever” but what we witnessed at Anfield on Sunday is a genuine once in a lifetime occurrence. It’s literally never happened before. I don’t know if it’s fully sunk in yet and I can’t really process how I’m feeling about it. Beating them 7-0 wouldn’t have been a massive shock a year ago when we were flying and they were pathetic. We could have beaten them by more than that at Old Trafford if we hadn’t stopped playing at 5-0. We could have done it in the Anfield fixture too if the ball had broken a bit more kindly at times. This time the breaks did go our way. We’ve have won the game regardless, but you don’t get seven goals without some things bouncing the right way for you and a couple of the goals were like that. The other goals though? Fucking hell, this was us back to our best. The recent signs have been promising but I don’t think anybody other than maybe Graeme Souness saw this coming. He wasn’t thinking 7-0 but to his credit he did say that he believed we’d win well and that Anfield would drive us on to a performance. Keane and (especially) Neville were laughing at him but he was right and at full time it was Souey, Carra and Kelly who were laughing at Neville as he tied himself in knots trying to say Liverpool weren’t even any good. Keane was laughing at him too in fairness. Whenever there’s a result like this there are two stories to be told and usually the bigger story is just how shit the battered team was. And that’s fair. I’m fine if the wider football world wants to focus on them being a disgrace more so than us being outstanding. I don’t really care. The story for me is how good we were, but I don’t begrudge anyone who wants to put the boot in on Bruno Fernandes and co. We should not be able to beat any ‘top’ team 7-0 if they play the way they should but equally we know that if we play at our best then the only teams who can potentially live with it are City and Real Madrid. Everyone else is going to get blown away, even if they play well. Not 7-0, but they’re going to lose. But what we didn’t know is whether we were capable of hitting that top form anymore. It’s not been there all season except in flashes. The first half against Madrid was as good as anything we’ve produced in a long time, so despite what happened afterwards there was something to take from that. And it looks like we have taken something from it because this was like rolling back the clock. There’s so much to get into here that it’s going to be tough to keep any structure to it so I’m going to say whatever comes into my head and let it flow. Make yourself a brew or something, or if you’re reading it after work this evening get yourself a nice cold beer and strap yourself in as this is going to be a long one. View full article

There won’t be any rolling heads. Our own fucking FA, with everything that happened and everything they know, voted for Cerefin a few weeks ago. That’s the contempt in which football fans are held by their own authorities.

I’ve not read back through the thread yet so not sure if it’s already been posted but what really pissed me off was only 3 minutes of injury time. There were 6 goals and 10 substitutions second half, there should have been 7/8 minutes minimum and we were denied the chance to go for 10!

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One of the big ironies is that a lot of the people who say Corbyn was pelted with a lot of false shitballs do exactly the same to starmer and have been doing so since before he even took the role. They weren't that arsed about him until he decided to run against Long Bailey, the anointed one of ex greens and Garston Socialist plasterer party supporters everywhere. He then got grief for being a Knight, even though he was schooled at a comp unlike codbyn, lansman and Milne. And that he'd been a public servant in his legal career, unlike Long Bailey who'd spent her legal career in the private sector dealing with PFI contracts. Some of the grief starmer gets is justified but much of it is as batshit if not more so then what corbyn got, including him being an MI5 asset and 'as bad as Netanyahu'. That tweet I posted earlier up is typical of it. It was shared by one of my Facebook friends who is a green, was a green, supported corbyn, obsessed with Palestine. And the tweet in question was about a student in "Derry" not wanting a selfie with Starmer, posted on Skwarkbox. Even though nobody in Northern Ireland votes for uk parties anyway. Much mirth in the comments section about another Keith fail. How it used to warm my cockles seeing how popular corbyn was at Stormzy concerts, knowing full well I'd wake up the next day to another five years of tory state plunder.

Nunez and Elliot celebrating Gakpo’s second goal with the Kop. Superb.

That was such an un-Salah goal. Salah bends it. Salah chips it. Salah dribbles around defenders before passing it into the opposite corner to the one you think he's going to aim for. Yesterday he added "just twat it" to his repertoire.

I scored nine goals the morning at 5-a-side but nobody cares now, people won’t even remember because of that game, I’m fuming as you would say Dave. Why couldn’t we just win 1 nil ? Ah ha, what a great game to remember for ever. Let’s see where Bellingham wants to go now …

Fair fucks though one of their own got him chucked out.

Football writer Mark Ogden Gets paid for this shit

"I've always had a keen interest in PEDs over the years..." What the fuck hahahaha.

They should have gone last season and I’ll be honest lads, it irked me they had a dog that got them over the line. This season is different, yes they haven’t got Fat Frank, but Dyche has never had a team that scores goals, they need goals, it ain’t coming, the teams around them are better than them and they are getting flushed. Revel in it, they are getting flushed and I have given The Bitch seal of approval that this is the year. The horrible, stupid cunts.

Haha, my current hangover support

How can that be a penalty. How

He's shat himself. He and his fanboys in the press have been pushing the narrative that if we don't get top 4 we aren't spending which was getting bandied about a few weeks back after we lost to Wolves. We appear to be the only club in the Premier League who cannot spend money based on not qualifying for the CL despite earning record revenues and being one of the biggest clubs in the world. Now we've been on a decent run and there's a possibility that we could get the top 4 he's had to move the goalposts to something else to keep the expectation low about spending anything. They hate spending any of their own money and clearly can't afford to compete but he just wants to cling on as long as possible and extract as much money as he can from the club whilst putting next to nothing in. Now he's moaning about spending caps because he doesn't want to invest anything.

It’s dampening expectations. It’s their MO.

The reason none of this WhatsApp stuff and dead people in care homes shocks me is because I have a far lower opinion of our betters. I can't work out if the people who're saddened/shocked by all this are naive or what. You have to effectively rethink the principles you've been taught all your life, whether you went to Sunday school or watch TV/films where the bad guys always lose and we're all essentially nice people save for a few bad apples. Humanity has always been in the grip of an invisible war between everyday people who show empathy and compassion, and psychopaths. Shit gets out of hand when the psychopaths get the whip hand over the rest of us (they constitute broadly one in 100 people). They're not necessarily Norman Bates types, they simply have a brain that's structured in a different way - you can see it on an MRI. To them, setting you on fire is no different to setting a piece of wood on fire, they simply don't understand the difference. We've managed to contain them over time with things like laws, religion (do that and you – YOU – will go to hell), social convention, warrior code (hey thug guy, don't kill civilians it's 'dishonourable'). The problems ensue when these people are unleashed by upheaval, such as the rise of the Nazis, prohibition or in our case - Thatcherism. They destroyed the North because they didn't care, they destroyed the banks because they didn't care, they destroyed the state because they didn't care, they threw old and vulnerable people to the wolves because they didn't care - the sooner you reconcile yourself with this, the sooner things will start to make sense. Think of people like Trump, Johnson, Hancock et al and tell me this isn’t accurate: Glib and superficial. Egocentric and grandiose. Lack of remorse or guilt. Lack of empathy. Deceitful and manipulative. Shallow emotions. They also don't understand long term consequences, for themselves or anyone else - that's why they'd happily destroy the economy in exchange for a hundred quid.

Nothing quite like a bit of edgy Hillsborough banter.

"The best thing that can be said was that on this occasion the chant was not taken up by the majority of United supporters present, it did not appear to be repeated and there didn’t seem to be any retaliation from the home areas of Anfield. " The majority fucked off with plenty of time to spare. And there was no retaliation because there never is.

I think a new centre back is a must regardless, but if Matip really is going it would be disastrous not to sign one.

I'd like to hear Roy Keane's comments on the steward who took a few steps forward then stopped. You've got to put your body on the line if you want to earn the right to wear the hi-viz!

If we can sign Gvardiol we should make it happen. He is the best defender on the market, as Bellingham is for midfield. You would be adding two young world class players to the squad. Last time we did that it set us up for 5 years. Those two and another midfielder would be a great summer.

The right two midfielders are all we need this summer.

No Labour leader has won an election since Blair, that's the bottom line, whether people like 'centrist' politics or not, that's what the voting public would seem to want. The Change UK clowns had absolutely zero impact on any election or any result.

Can’t you see that you are doing this in reverse about anything Starmer does? You liked and supported Corbyn mate, everyone gets it, but we’re in the realms of possibly ousting an absolute gobshite government who have strangled the life out of the country’s public services, trade, value, harmony and community spirit, so if you wouldn’t mind mate, please can you stop throwing your weight behind preventing labour getting in by looking for and jumping on every grain of anti-Starmer press the tories are peddling. The tories are going to do this with whoever was running, that’s a given. Someone promoting their shite who isn’t in favour of them is doing exactly what they set out to achieve. You are nothing more than a vehicle for their message, and would no doubt be harping on about how thick the British are if they win the next GE, whereas you fuel that chance every day.

Well that worked. David Sullivan must have seen it on telly and donated £5k. Up to £21k now.

The various LGBT+ fan groups are all about solidarity... up to a point.

Been watching the post match analysis on ESDN. After picking apart the shambles of Utd, and in particular the absolute joke and disgrace of big ears Bruno, I heard something from Ian Wright which has just blown me away. He’s usually very careful to choose his words, and in a calm deliberate tone, he simply said - “watching that Liverpool performance in the second half……a….a fire was lit. It was beautiful to watch” Damn straight Ian. The beautiful game played by The Reds. Echoes of decades of heroes, genuine leaders and Red legends who have made our lives so rich. What a family we all belong to.

I just kept telling lies about how much money our players earn and how its all off the books worse than Man City. Told them i knew a fella who worked in the club shop who told me that Nunez was really £125m up front but the powers that be let Liverpool get away with tons of ffp breaches. They lapped it up as they do with anything that is remotely bad about us.

Great report and lovely to see the “Ten Haag is a tactical genius” given a reality check. Rashford through the middle? Brilliant performance from the boys, it made even Mica Richards bearable on MOTD. Crazy to also think that Bournemouth and Man U are responsible for +16 of our +19 goal difference! I have the feeling I’m going to be watching the game back many times this week!

If you've got a son but want a daughter, and you can find them...

The lunatics suggest selling him really are fucking idiots. Mo is just an utter unrelenting phenomenon.

442toons take on the game. https://youtu.be/6TTRPv2bhYk Have to post as link for some reason.

Dunno why I read this in the style of the A Team intro: the Gender Identity Development Service for children (Gids), a nationally commissioned unit at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in north London,

Hes doing ok at the moment. As his hair has fallen out 7 of his pals have shaved their heads today and raised a load of money. BBC North West were at the school today to film it. I think it’s on at 6:30pm.