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Used to love the Beano.

Kenny to announce all three on Christmas Day afternoon. A King's speech I could get on board with.

Presumably that they're hiding behind signing important players to new contracts to not spend money on anyone in the summer. Which is very much foreseeable.

Funny. Cunt.

Spellow Hub reopening today. The girl done good!

A beautiful village in Mid Wales.

TNT Sports couldn’t pick us for this one as they were supposed to be covering the derby last week, meaning that we are in that rare Saturday 3:00pm slot and not on TV. The thing is, Saturday at 3:00pm is still the ideal slot for a match. It’s not ridiculously early and doesn’t finish ridiculously late so you still have Saturday night to plan for, and hopefully all of Sunday to enjoy. A bit like with the British government going back forever it seems, the PL’s chase for the foreign gravy train means they have to bow to the whims of foreign TV markets. If Asia wants a PL match on during their peak Saturday night slot, it means a lunchtime game over here. Money takes precedence over quality and any real enjoyment. Plus ça change. After facing one of City’s feeder teams in the Champions League, we now take on Fulham at Anfield. They are one of those sides that can be a real handful on the day, especially if you are not on it yourselves. Not consistent enough to challenge for a top 4 place, but with a fair wind could make one of the other European places. Marco Silva has been there for 3 years now (longer than he spent at either Hull or Everton) so has had time to properly bed in his ideas. He wants his players to let the opposition know they’ve been in a game, win, lose or draw. We saw that last season where we were not allowed to get too comfortable in any of the 4 games we played. Not least in the corresponding league fixture last season, which was a real ding-dong battle needing some late heroics from both Endo and Trent. In the summer, they spent a lot of money to sign defender Andersen from Palace, midfielder Berge from Burnley, and attacking midfielder Smith-Rowe from Arsenal. He was always on the fringes of Arteta’s squad, had seen what regular game time had done for Palmer at Chelsea, and decided he needed to fly the nest. Harry Wilson had to make the same decision with us a few years ago, and he also opted for Fulham. They got a significant chunk of their outlay back on their new signings with the sale of Palhinha to sit on Bayern’s bench. They are a side that are unlikely to play on the front foot against the bigger sides, but rather try to counter quickly and crisply. They should have got something at the Etihad, and in their last 2 fixtures have beaten Brighton and drawn with Arsenal. We’ve seen what they can do if we aren’t at the races so we must ensure that everybody is far more tuned in defensively, more precise in our control and use of the ball, and much more ruthless in the attacking third. None of the sloppiness we saw at Southampton, Newcastle and Girona. Ali returned to action at Girona and should be OK to start again, and maybe Diogo (who also returned to training recently) might be an option off the bench. Maybe the Italian stallion will have overcome his sickness and be ready to be involved once more (you never know!). Macca is suspended for this one (he would have been missing for the derby had it gone ahead), and Conor, Ibou and Kostas are still unavailable. I’d expect Slot will go strong for this one with who he has available, and plan on more of a reshuffle for the League Cup tie next week. How have our previous managers got on in their first home fixture against Fulham? It’s a very good record, though Fulham didn’t play in the top flight until 2001, and have spent a few years in the second tier since then. Souness...N/A Evans...N/A Houllier...12/12/2001...Liverpool 0-0 Fulham Benitez...05/02/2005...Liverpool 3-1 Fulham (Morientes, Hyypia, Baros) Hodgson...N/A Dalglish...26/01/2011...Liverpool 1-0 Fulham (Paintsil og) Rodgers...22/12/2012...Liverpool 4-0 Fulham (Skrtel, Gerrard, Downing, Suarez) Klopp...11/11/2018...Liverpool 2-0 Fulham (Salah, Shaqiri) I don't ask for much. Maximum motivation, control, application, attitude and concentration from minute one. 3 points please. Get it done!

I don’t agree with American/Canadian footballers. It’s not right and I won’t have it. Not in my club. Not in my name.

I'd rather have a manager who treated a match with Girona like a match with Barcelona as opposed to one treating a match with Real like a match with Girona. No names mentioned.

It's changed me. It's fucked my lungs up and it took my mother from me, but it showed me just how delicate and how precious life is. Every day I wake up is a new day filled with new possibilities and to that end I feel truly blessed.

It’s truly abhorrent that people I respected and I even thought I could call them my internet friends haven’t seen Predator. It has shook me to the core if I'm honest and I’m now considering my options on this forum, you think you know people eh…

100%. This just seems obvious and it's appalling that it's never spoken about. Don't want to follow the rules? Fuck off and play somewhere else then. Cunts.

Guessing you are feeling better, laugh out loud stuff on there, helps that City, Utd, Arsenal and Everton either shit or dropping points or both!. With you on the Vardy take, would have taken him for us 10 years ago. Proper fans player. Do you want City out of the CL or still in it with a 2 leg tie to get through? I am on the latter if they get a tie v Madrid, Bayern or Juve.. as all of them in that mix at the moment. Just want their suffering to be as much as possible, then compounded by relegation to League 2 (more the better) all their tainted success falling on deaf ears and their "era" wiped from the record books. ??sorry Mrs telling me to calm down.

Announcing you are leaving months in advance. It’s the Canadian way.

Always makes me smile...

Some bloke on Bluesky who supposedly did his biography said he wants to be the most powerful man in the world, richest man in the world, and 'live forever'. I bet Adam Smith is feeling pretty fucking stupid now isn't he. Butcher baker and candlestick maker are all using foodbanks meanwhile three men have their own space ships.

I started off sensible. Five hours after this was taken, I’m absolutely fucked.

I've said before, their refusal to share their accounts should have resulted in immediate expulsion.

I’m doing okay mate am trying my best x

It's not really a policy/mindset I don't think, she's trying to become a character like, I dunno, Lee Anderson. "Straight talking, anti woke" etc. She doesn't really understand any of it, or of what's she's saying half the time. She's Johnson's legacy, a party completely emptied of any intellectual talent at all.

What next? Australians? It's utter woke nonsense.

Just seen that Selena Gomez has got engaged to Benny Blanco... I can only guess she doesn't know what that little shit did to Carlito!

I'm quite happy for people not to be ideologs. I think strong ideology is one of the biggest issues in the world today. We have too much polarisation and division and no room for evidence based approaches. I don't know what the new left is exactly, but I wouldn't say it represents the working man as it used to. It seems disinterested in personal freedoms and focused on consensus forming by almost any means. I don't actually know what they stand for anymore, other than criticising anybody who doesn't agree with them.

I've never known a manc take shit in Liverpool, but I've known loads of scousers get grief over there. I fucking hate the place and make no apologies for it. A giant Meccano hellscape full of scruffs and wannabee posh twats too lazy to move to London. "Have you been to new shit themed bar in the norvern quarter? It's got shit shaped glasses and pictures of shit on the wall, it's really wacky." Funnily enough no I haven't, now fuck off.

Yeah I’m pretending to WFH so I might as well do it now. It looks boss mate. Only mild concern is the badge looks a bit cheap but maybe that’s how it will look.

Smith wrote about The Invisible Hand at a time when the economy was dominated by people who owned a business and had an interest in the long-term success of that business. The rise of the shareholding economy overturned that and paved the way for grotesque plutocrats like Musk, who contribute nothing and hoard everything.

Think it's a Czech brewery.

Everyone of those cunts who turned up yesterday had a brand spanking new tractor to block the roads with. They had some young bird on Sky News last night talking about how it’s hard and her qualification in agriculture and crop management won’t be put to use because her Step-Dad’s farm will be impacted. They can all fuck off.

Between him and Ferdinand It's a toss up on who is more consistently wrong on anything football related.

Everyone I know hates the curmudgeonly, tax-dodging twats.

I'll be honest I don't think anyone is arsed about farmers. They may have misjudged the mood.

Oh, lucky you. It's not perfect that you missed it, but football comes at you, ready or not. It wasn't a marvelous display of pure football and viewers weren't enjoying the life of Riley, but all I want is a win; that makes sense and I won't change.

I wish, I'd be smashing myself all over the place

That's relegation form (and a place in Wales).

Reminds me of a recent T shirt purchase!

Henry Winter was bleating on about it yesterday but I'm sure he'll be on a plane out there and stay in the best hotels once it's on. Bit like most of them with Qatar.

I’d love to see Bernardo Silva and Bruno Fernandes fight over a piece of cheese.

Triangular twats

When that fat juice head Lino elbowed Andy Robbo, the first thing Gary Neville said on commentary was he’s gonna get into serious trouble for this. When they went back to the studio, they were all sat in silence looking absolutely stunned and went to the longest ad break I can remember. I was looking forward to see what the outcome of this would be but not a word was mentioned and it had me thinking something might be up here. That night, the silence from the journo’s and ex players who get the TV gigs was deafening on social media. Not one word was mentioned about the game at all and I had a feeling that the Monday was going to be full of then rushing to defend the Lino and castigate Robbo and it turned out exactly as I feared. Neville proved this by going full circle within 24 hours and Carragher was nowhere to be found. Later that week, a journo named Arlo White put on his Twitter that when he was doing prem games, they were warned that if there was any criticism of the refs, then they wouldn’t be getting anymore work and the stations would be warned that the access to the players would stop and when the contracts were up for renewal, they’d be pushed back down the line. There’s a Richard Keyes blog (I know) where he confirms this stating that he knows 2 ex players who can’t get work in the UK now after criticising the refs in games. The media are that terrified of losing access that they’ll do as they’re told. Uk match officials are the most protected species on earth and that’s why they’re getting away with it all the time. That photo of them all sitting with Thai hookers showed us what they’re all like.

Code obviously kept his eyes shut while Dalglish played as his magnificence could not be quantified with stats. He even made Scotland look half decent and that's some achievement in itself.

They are a funny lot,some of them. Whereas a lot of us who ref would rather be coaching,or playing if we weren't so old and shit, some of them see it as their pinnacle and do things to be the centre of attention. I find that I never liked most refs when around them as they felt they were as important as the players. When being a ref you should try to avoid,if possible,being the centre of attention. Some of them thrive off it.

He’s a lying, cheating fucking cunt up there with the biggest ever cunts in the game and anyone who ever forgets that should hang their heads in shame. This is the cunt who deliberately lied about the paramedics and ambulance service when they were treating his goalkeeper with a life threatening brain injury.

Went to see It's A Wonderful Life at the Plaza last night. The best bit wasn't in the film though, it was the unbridled joy of a ten year old when he won a Liverpool shirt signed by Jurgen Klopp in the raffle that was drawn before the picture started.