Nunavut Patrick

hsd has a good point- do we really want Emily on the reserves showing how to limp around for 75% of the match.

They need a Santa Claus. With apologies to my Jamaican friends at work, I don't care what the white man say Santa Claus is a black man

1-0 don't know who scored (H*****) but Ravenelli missed a pen.

Fulham, Charlton and Southampton. All these clubs have some things in, or had some things in common- all have come close to relegation in the past five years. All are relatively stable now and are considered to be "overachieving". Chris Coleman, Alan Curbishley and Gordon Strachan. Would you rather have one of these men in charge of us? Food for thought.

No. Too many lost points.

Leverkusen- Didi off. We go out. Had he stayed on, we would have won. Convinced of that. We would have had the mancs in the semis and at that time we had beaten them four straight I believe. Ever since then the wheels have fallen off. Injuries are part of it, but not all of it. Out in Cups at HOME to Bolton, Palace and Celtic. Failing to get by Basle in EC. The Board says we need EC football. Remember we needed one (1!!) goal in final five matches in '99. Failed to score, failed to qualify. Needed a win against Chelsea- failed there as well. Coming up on Christmas and we are 9th. Its a question of two things- either the players aren't good enough or the manager has lost the respect and ability to motivate the players. Given the amount of money spent on players the excuse that the players aren't good enough doesn't wash. Either way, it all lands in GH's lap.

Brondby for DT and Valernaga for hsd.

In the style of Dr McCoy: It's worse than that...... he's dead Jim.

This from the man who called me "an elk fucking muppet":thumbsup:

Economic left/right -3.50 Libertarian?Authoritarian -2.92

I think GH knows he is living on borrowed time. There have been more changes this season than ever before. Stevie being named captain, Kirkland in goal, the "attacking" style. He blasted his players after Bolton, not like him. Any more slip-ups and it could be curtains for GH. Perhaps Yeovil away is now the most crucial match of GH's tenure. LFC shouldn't "hinge" anyhting on the last match- tried that last year and now we face Ljubjlana and Steau whilst Chelsea enjoy Lazio. For Mr Moores this may come down to a business decision- if he feels GH cannot get 4th, he will be sacked. There is too much money at stake.

funny that, as none of the other blues appear "fat". Had to love the commentator yesterday- about five mentions of 101 years of top flight football followed by "relegation battles, relegation escapes, last day escapes". At one point they showed a 4-5 yr old boy with a pained, tired, cranky expression on his face and the commentator said ".. and it hasn't been a barrel of laughs for us watching this match, either"

A nice fruity Beaujeaulais and a Vegemite Sandwich.......:drool:

I'm not quite sure what john_mac is on about, but the gist of it is that the world doesn't owe us shite, and that support of this great club does not come at the price of trophy after trophy. We have been spolied of the 80's. I am as guilty of that, I expected the domestic championships to keep coming and couldn't believe it when the didn't. It was Souness' fault, Inces, Evans, get rid of the driftwood. Nothing is given, everything is earned. The players put the shirt on, they have to earn it. We have to support them. A point at Newcastle missing Owen, Kewell, Finnan, Henchoz, Baros is a point well-earned. Crisis of faith is a crisis of confidence, we are not going to win the prem this year, but next year we will. I was shattered as a nine year old when Keegan left. He was replaced by "Sir Kenny". We will win again. It will be taste sweeter than ever before because it has been so long. This club is great because of the support, the knowledge and above all, because of the humanity of the people who support it. Anyone can be a manc, anyone can support chelsea, but to support Liverpool is different. The Cups, the Championships, the way we played, the songs, YNWA, Hillsborough- these are what define the club. Grit, determination, humanity, glory, success- out of the Second Division with Shankly, the Kennedys, 1-0 against Real, Kenny's goal in the EC, the HJC, the gut-wrenching sickness I felt after my hero Clemence in the 78 FA Cup after the manc 2nd; the terrible feeling seeing the pictures of Hillsborough a continent away and listening to the snide remarks. I watched McNamanan and Fowler today against Everton and felt sadness. Robbie is so lost, Macca just a flicker of what he used to be. Sadness. This is what it is to be Red. If anyone doubts that we will not reach glory again (and by that, it means the EC and the Prem) that let them cast the first stone agianst us on the way out. I have supported this club since I can remember, and I may not get to many games, but I know this is the greatest club in the world.

The only worry I would have about selling Jerzy is CK gets hurt (has happened),and it seems everyone on the squad who means anyhting to us is getting hurt, we would be left with Luzi. I really feel Jerzys confidence will be totally shot now. I'd rather see him sold back to an European squad though. GH certainly goes through the 'keepers though. Sander and now Jerzy. Makes you wonder when he's going to mothball no 8.

So, Miss Canada (born in Iran, speaks four languages) is the runner-up to Miss Irlenad. We lost 3-0 to you lot at Lansdowne Road (no surprise). It's all getting tiring, so I'm going to put a proposal to my MP that we throw out all the paddies that came to Canada. I mean, what have they contributed here. The Chinese built the railroad. On 17 March everyone goes to pubs with names like Molly McGuires, Grace O'Malley and claims thier great-great-great uncle was a paddy, so serve me up a Guinness!! At least they watered down the Quebec gene pool so that you have people with names like Pierre McGuire and Patrick Lemieux. We could send them all to Boston. And to top it all off, Celtic are coming to Toronto to play a match. We have almost gotten rid of all the Orange Day Parades, now we're going to have put up with green and white hoops and irish flags everywhere. Ofcourse, I guess I would be on the first boat as me mum (Culhane) was Irish. So, anyone got a job for me (besides shagging elk Bill:thumbup: ) and do they have Labatt Blue over there?:beer: Oh, and gotta feel sorry for them paddies- France and the Swiss for 2006. How do two neutral countries play? Mind, the Swiss aren't exactly neutral when it comes to Nazi gold or African dictaors money are they?

Perhaps Jerzy's agent hasn't been watching recently. I've said it before- he has never been the same keeper after the WC. Kirkland is starting and doing well. He should keep the jersey as he is younger and therefore the future, he has alot more confidence than Dudek and controls the penalty area better than Jerzy.

Mad Erik is on fire in the German Cup. His team, Allemania Aachen had a tough away match aginst Braushweig (spelling?). Anway, it was four-nil to Aachen with 25 mins left. Now, we all know 0-4 is a dangerous score, and whoever gets the next goal is crucial. Mad Erik got and safely saw Aachen through to the next round. He can score in the Cups, can't he?

It is only the threshold of football business. It happens slowly until you realise that it is now money, corporations and players agents and television that control the game. Remember when the games used to be all on Staurday at 2? Remember when the y didn't change the kit every year or so? Look at the photo of the 77/78 squad. Look at the squad in the mid-90's. Twice as many players, three goalkeepers. Bosman transfers. Top four get into the EC. What is the first thing newly promoted clubs from Div 1 want- to stay in the prem? Why- for the supporters? To try and progress to a spot in Europe? No, they want the top flight for the money. Same as when a team goes down- no one feels gutted for the supporters- they all bang on about how much money they lose. Sat TV is a big reason for the explosion of OOTers. How many OOTers were there in the 70s and 80s from overseas? Not as many as now. Football on Sundays, football on Monday nights, didn't the FA Cup one year do the four QF matches back-to-back-to-back? Money ruined hockey in Canada, and eventually it will ruin football in England. Chelsea being a prime example. How's that make you fell that some Ruskie can come in with a wad of cash and buy a championship (potentially). It got Fulham to the top flight. If Fayed didn't buy them they'd still be down in the lower leagues.

Hermes you must realise that this a "paddy" site- you know that Caravan fella, that Reid fella, McGrath the greatest defender , that goal in the Meadowlands against the Azzuri. Foolish talk of England.

UTM- try explaining the away goals rule. Aside to that, there was a lad I worked with who just starting getting into soccer. I was explaining the different cup competitions and he asked about the merseyside derby.(He had heard announcers talking about the south london derby, the mancheseter derby, etc, etc) Told him briefly about the history, bitterness, etc,etc. Anway, the guy comes to work one Monday and asks me if am pumped because Liverpool won the "derby". I said what derby? They weren't playing everton. He says, You're wrong, I saw on TV that you beat Derby 1-0. Anyway, after that I was glad that Derby County got relegated.

Thanks UTM, I guess I don't know my spice girls. They called that movie the 51rst state? Sammy in a kilt, though, what a classic. Ofcourse I had to explain to all people here across the pond that we don't set off flares in pubs. Mike Myers dad was english so you think he'd know better.

Rumsfeld translated: Oil is a known. We know we need oil. We know the price of oil tomorrow will be unknown, which is to say that we know if we take Sadams oil, we know we will have oil, but what is not known is how many soldiers will die, unknowlingly. See, it's all really quite simple- just read between the lines. Others knowns- EM*** is shit Unknown: How the hell that 3rd goal happened.

I forget who this one was in reply to: Lady: If I was your wife I would poison your drink. Winston: And if I was your husband I would drink it. The greatest Englishman who ever lived, and quite possibly the greates man who ever lived.

Robert Carlyle in Formula 51 One of the Spice Girls in Spice World (the chubby blonde one) Me at the Blackburn Arms Pub in Blackburn Hamlet, Canada