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Took the dog for a walk earlier, found a Hedgehog curled up looking like it was on its last legs, so broke into full Daktari mode - located our nearest Hedgehog rescue centre on me phone, went straight home, got a blanket, a box and Mrs Butty(someone had to hold the box) then drove back, found it again, wrapped it up in the blanket, got it in the car and got it to the Hedgehog rescue centre. The lady there was sound, she established its sex(he), we weighed him, gave him a booster injection and wrapped him in a blanket and placed him in his own box with special food. She then asks me my name, contact details and what I’d like to name him - you’ll all be pleased to know, Jurgen is in good hands and on the road to recovery. I’ll be calling back in a few days to see how he’s getting on. Rooooooar!

Top - Jared Leto, Walton Goggins, Donny Osmond, Viper, Verne Troyer, Mark Owen, Robert Patrick, Louis Armstong, Fred West, Omar Bottom - Casey Affleck, Grace Jones, Susan Boyle, Johnny Borrell (Razorlight), Tamar Hassan, McCauley Culkin, Levi Bellefield, Joe Calzaghe, Spider from Corrie, Barry Gibb They'll claim anything them lot.

Yep, there's no real need for most of what's going on at the moment. 'The Tories have destroyed your income, your kids' life chances, you're paying more and getting less, we'll make things better' should be hammered home, not this stupid shite.

Surely there are better ways of trying to get cunts to vote for you than being an even bigger cunt. It is always amusing on here to see the anti-cultists on here rimming Starmer 24 hours a day and making excuses for him whatever he does or says. He may be miles ahead in the polls but it is 99% Tory implosion and if Labour had elected Count Binface he would probably have better personal scores.

I know I’m almost certainly on my own with this one, but I’m starting to feel quite excited by the prospect of the summer rebuild. I reckon we’re going to do more business than most people think, both in terms of money spent and also number of signings. I also have a sneaking suspicion Jurgen is going to be more ruthless than any of us expect. Not necessarily getting rid of swathes of players, but I do think he’s going to move on some who would prefer to stay. In a season as unremittingly shit as this, I’m going to look for any potential positives I can and cling on to them for dear life. Without the possibility of better, all there is is misery - and with Klopp there’s always the possibility of better.

Couple of things, this Chelsea Liverpool game was no where near the worst in 23 years. The nil nil at Anfield was as bad a game as I can remember. 2nd thing is Arsenal are top of the league and played Europa League football. Its a tired English excuse, probably originating from Harry Redknapp after one of his teams got knocked out. All being well we will actually need the extra games to keep players involved ticking over and shouldn't need to involve the top players until March/April. Enjoyed it again which is strange because it was depressing as fuck. And the Europa League Final in 2024 is in Dublin.

I think I have mentioned on here before that I watched the game in the Standard in West Derby, and when the Milan 3rd went in an Evertonian divvy in the doorway jumped up to celebrate and cracked his head open on the lintel. He was still being tended to by paramedics as we went level.

Left after a disagreement in the trans thread. Weird how trans issues have seen off Rico, Strontium and Nicola Sturgeon so far this year!

Francesca Jones,the world no 817 from the UK has reached her first WTA Semi final in Colombia. Nothing out of the ordinary you woukd think, but she was told as a child she would never play tennis to any decent level as she has 3 fingers and a thumb on either hand, 4 toes on one foot and 3 toes on the other. Go on girl.

It won't be any different to what they're saying now. We've seen it before. They had a once in a century chance to bury the Tories and didn't. Proper PR would have crippled them, and actually treating the public as adults and explaining that if you want nice things you need to pay for them would have destroyed them for good. Instead, they baulked on PR and never made the case that taxation = good things for everyone, hiding behind stealth taxes and PFI. A fucking 179 seat majority for the best part of a decade and nothing lasting was put in place.

I hear you mate, but those rock hard crisps are just a bit much for my dentures. If I had a hard crisp it’d be a walkers - cheese and onion, chicken or bacon. If I was reaching for a bag of crisps as my favourite type and not accompanying anything, it’d be Pringles. I’ve noticed I said bag of crisps there and Pringles come in a tube, but I don’t care. I’m brave enough to stand by my mistakes

By the sounds of that clip from the podcast it will soon be Everton weren't they.

Hi, 1997 here. Just want to tell you to fuck off before you get too excited. 'Compromises' will need to be made and you can stick any optimism you felt up your arse now to save time later.

Spatchcock 3, the latest sensation from the crew behind American Pie.

If you eat those, and then start posting dull posts that all sound the same, then you'll know they've done their job.

Looks like we are safe and pineapple-free

There are still loads of great posters here plus the tedious Trans shite no longer gets brought into every fucking thread. Many of us are also getting older and it becomes harder to post as much. It's expected. Fuck off, Code.

Roasted poussin, veg and Parmesan roasted new potatoes.

That Yellow Bastard. Closer to Sigurdsson in activities, if not appearance.

What are you doing for Easter, @Tony Moanero? I just finished making my second batch of chocolate crispie nests and thought of you

Really hope Koepka doesn't win. He's a twat and a LIV cunt.

There's time on here when I feel like I'm one of the few that has got over it. There's a gaggle of his fans on here and elsewhere that are still fighting his battles like some Japanese soldier on a remote island in the Pacific in the fucking 90s still thinking it's WW2. This is at the crux of all this smearing and cheap attacks on Starmer sand the Labour leadership. Criticism's fine, but much of it, like today's claim Labour are racist against Asians, is bollocks and stems from the fact he fell out with and got shot of Corbyn.

After an awful display at City last weekend followed by a somewhat fortunate goalless draw at Chelsea in midweek, we welcome the league leaders to Anfield. Arsenal have shades of Liverpool 2013/14 and Leicester 2015/16 about them this season. Players who’d previously been written off suddenly finding themselves in great form, a midfielder who has been one of the stars of the season, a South American forward who looks a real threat in every game, a young English livewire who runs like a T-Rex but is capable of making and taking chances, and an injury-prone centre forward signed from a trophy-winning team who has given them a dynamism in attack. AFTV must be boring as fuck right now as they get to enjoy a team well placed to win a surprise league title this season. It was much better when they aired their thoughts and opinions on the latest disappointment, much to the amusement of other clubs’ fans. Anyway: Control. Love of the game. Urgency. Bravery. Style. Heart. Organisation. Power. Tactical flexibility. Yer ma. I don’t ask for much. Last season’s corresponding fixture in November 2021 saw the Reds completely dismantle the Gunners. Again. We had become accustomed to this, scoring goals for fun against one of the flakiest teams in the division. Ramsdale had had to resort to some desperate last-ditch goalkeeping to thwart Sadio and Mo early on, but he was powerless to stop Sadio from planting a free header into the far corner following a deep free kick from Trent. We were dominant but only led 1-0 at the break. Into the second half and, after initially winning the ball off Mo tight to the right touchline, Arsenal full back Tavares carried the ball out and played a loose pass across the edge of his own penalty area, right to Diogo in acres of space. He took the ball into the box, put an Arsenal defender on his arse with a neat shimmy, and then rounded the sprawling Ramsdale to roll the ball into an empty net. 2-0 and we took our cue to swarm the Arsenal goal, creating chance after chance. The third goal duly arrived and again it was a work of art. Ali’s lofted pass to Robbo near halfway was headed onwards into Diogo as Sadio began to set off down the left. Diogo’s brilliant header set the Senegal man free and he raced into the box before squaring to an unmarked Mo to volley into the net from just a few yards out. We could take our foot off the gas and see the game out, or we could look for more goals. We sort of did both, and another intricate bit of pass-and-move freed Trent who squared to an unmarked Taki at the back post. Taki had only just entered the field as a sub. It was great stuff and we were flying. 4-0 it finished. Cast your mind back to the early-to-mid 60s. Alf Ramsey’s England would soon be hosting the World Cup in 1966, and the music scene was full of twenty-somethings making a splash on both sides of the pond. Live football was still a rarity, and the BBC looked for a new audience of football fans who could enjoy highlights far removed from the old Pathé newsreels. Even back then, football was a sure-fire way to get TV viewers. The very first Match Of The Day saw Liverpool take on Arsenal at Anfield in August 1964. Everton fans would probably claim it as a first via their usual mental gymnastics. Liverpool won the game 3-2 thanks to a goal from Sir Roger and two by Gordon Wallace. Wallace’s second was to prove the winner after Arsenal had clawed their way back into the match with goals from future Liverpool stalwart Geoff Strong and another by Joe Baker. Back then, the main camera was in the Kemlyn so the Kop is to the left of the screen. The big film making waves in August 1964? Why it was none other than A Hard Day’s Night, starring four fellas who were fairly popular in the States at the time. It’s basically an amusing caper mixing reality with fiction, a cracking soundtrack and a blatant cash-in on the band’s immense popularity. At that point, before all the psychedelia and sound experimenting, The Beatles’ signature sound was at the forefront of ‘Merseybeat’ which was at the forefront of the British invasion on US shores. Far from being a mere commercial cash-in though, it’s actually quite a good film that masks the fact these guys couldn’t act. They only really had to be themselves. Spice World it most definitely ain’t. There’s a genuine fear that a lot of our players have given up on this season. That’s alarming at any time, but with 10 games still to play, we can only get one more point than Arsenal’s current total, and that’s if we win all 10 games. That’s how much we have fallen away this season. Attitude and application have gone AWOL this season, but I want the players to play like this matters and show plenty of concentration, composure, creativity and clinical finishing. The shitness has to stop somewhere, so come on Reds, at least make me want to consider watching a clip or two of AFTV afterwards.

Third from right on the bottom row is the fella who fought with the Atalanta players with the kid in his arms.

It’s not a ridiculous insinuation. The only ridiculous claim in the whole affair is that Sunak doesn’t want child sex offenders to be imprisoned. He’s a Tory. He’s a twat. But, do better, Labour. The Starmer/Savile stuff is nasty, untrue, context free bollocks. And so is this. It’s fucking embarrassing that the self proclaimed “adults” now in charge of the party are having to have stuff corrected by Twitter. Anybody who can’t admit to that is embarrassing too. It’s a cheap, gimmicky ad. That’s full of mistruth and insinuation. If that’s the kind of “politics” that Starmer cultists want to advocate, then so be it.

Might put one in a jar of formaldehyde and leave it in the fridge. If I ever get raided by the cops it will keep forensics busy for a while. Stop visitors too when they go for the milk for the coffee.

Broke a bone in his hand shaking Guardiola's too vigorously.

"Whoa-oooo what a feelin' we're eating off the ceiling."

We should be announcing from now on until the end of the season, that next season any club whose fans sing this chant either at home or away will be banned en masse from the next fixture at Anfield. Fuck them and fuck whether we’d lose a few quid. How could any authority try and justify survivors of that day having to listen to that shite.

There was a great thread back when Rivals.net was a thing and When Skies Are Grey was the Everton site. "Laughing my c0ck off here" was the title, started at about 8.45pm on Wednesday 25th May 2005. First post: "Two pints of lager and a packet of Crespos please haha!" It did not end well.

People who imply a relationship between physical fitness and success. "Before my day at the office running six companies I get up at 4am and go wild swimming." Good for you, I hope you drown.

Ive been a TLW regular since the Evans Era in one way or another- the opening paragraph of this match report is vintage Usher..... "applause" The weird scenario we now find ourselves in- we could come back from 0-3 down to beat Arsenal 4-3 this weekend and none of us would be fooled. It would be such an empty celebration. Id agree Nunez is the only player with a positive style of play, but it pains me to say it- he's a squad man at best in a title challenging team. He's a Villa/Spurs superstar in the making. We needed better at the time and need better now

Curtis looked like his old self for the England U21s last week. It’s a Liverpool thing. He’s either being told to play safe or thinks he is. Either way, it’s not who he is and he needs to show that attacking edge those of us who’ve championed him used to love when he played for the youth teams.

I had a weird dream after falling asleep after listening to the pod. I dreamt I was at a Legends game and was in in the dressing room listening to the team talk! I decided to put some music on and put my phone on ‘shuffle’ - the first song was a Beatles one - spooky!

Main drivers electric window switch on my sportage was causing the other windows not to work, I found out after a few sojourns on the owners club online. 200 quid for the switch panel alone, before fitting at the main dealer! Local mechanic 100 quid plus the 200 for the switch! Fuck that! Quick search on eBay,2nd hand one procured, from Lithuania of all places, for 60quid including delivery, and a week later, with thanks to some very helpful you tubers, I removed door panel, fixtures and fittings, replaced the switch, screwed everything back together and it's a good as. Saved myself at least 200 quid and I also lubricated the sticky sunroof, not a metaphor surprisingly, so that's working proper again. Currently strolling around the gaff bout 8 feet tall.

It's like the Corona vaccines all over again. They're brilliant, but you lose your humanity.

Problem we will have if we have no European football we won't carry a large squad for only the league and domestic cups. Might make it harder for a complete rebuild. I can see them only bringing 2 or 3 in if that's the case and trying to make do for a year. We need to rebuild now though. Outside of Bajcetic I don't think there's one midfielder I'd lose any sleep over losing. The wages going out on Thiago,Hendo, Fabinho is nuts for all we get out of them.

This is from a period when I used to pay attention to all football. I think (I'm not certain but I think) it's from the celebrations after their last cup win. I'm sure I've seen a still photo of him with that blue nose on!

Mystery Road - season 2 It was alright but I wouldn't go back for a 3rd season. 5.5/10