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    That had to be sarcasm, right? And the communist party of St. Petersburg must be an elaborate hoax?
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    That's hilarious.
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    We're not gonna turn into Barcelona overnight and win games in overwhelmingly fashion. To get there, we'll have to win close matches first -- in which a close decision can decide the outcome. Hey, even Barcelona need at least fair calls to win sometimes, if not most of the times. I see nothing wrong in complaining about being punished for playing fair. Rodgers wasn't just being grievous about Suarez not getting his due penalties, but also about the likes of Shelvey or Henderson or Yesil not rolling around in agony even though they were entitled to in today football -- and therefore the refs assumed the fouls committed against them were no serious infractions.
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    I like Slate's political gabfest. Bazelon can sometimes come off as naive, but Dickenson can dissect all the angles while Plotz plays the devil advocate decently.
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    The US is mentally in a lost state. Its hegemonic role in the world is being challenged, its people are being divisive and unhappy, teetering on panicky, its political class is power hungry and somewhat disconnected, its soul is being wrecked between religious fundamentalism and greed. The causes are numerous, you may have to write a book to analyze them all -- chief amongst which is the collapse of the old industry and manufacturing sectors and increased competition from abroad, blue collar workers that used to have job security no longer do, if they even have a job, so they turn to the other center of their community -- church, and became more and more fundamentalistic. Concurrently, the internet and new expansion of important in health care, finance expanded the city-dwelling white collar professional class that have little in common with the church folks. The end of the Cold war also encouraged the free-market fundamentalists to turn the nut dial all-the-way-to-11 and this is where we ended up. But you'd better hope that we'll find our way again, for neither having China as the overlord or a pseudo-anarchic state in which 8 billions lost souls driven by self-interested egomaniac "national leaders" fighting over scarce natural resources and petty squabbles would make earth a decent place to live.
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    "Being Liverpool" is horrid, embarrassingly so. But what insights can you come up with analysing an infomercial that served with canned sentimentality and aimed not to offend though, seriously?
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    Once upon a time, "British" was occasionally used to describe people from the Brit isles.
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    British isles = GB + Ireland + Man + Wight + e.t.c...
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    Over how many years? 4? 20 mils a year is just enough to pay the wages for 2 Joe Coles (after tax).
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    Shouldn't it be up to the accusers to prove that the owners siphoning money off the club? I don't have the financial report, I can't answer your question. My guess is that money went to plug the hole of operating cost that CL money once filled.
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    Sturridge was prepared nothing. Liverpool wanted him on loan, he (and/or Chelsea) demanded permanent transfer. The price quote (20 mils) was out of our reach. The end. I've talked about Dempsey, I couldn't care less if FSG thought 6-10 mils were too expensive for him. He would only block the progress of the likes of Sterling and Suso, once those external cost were factored in, he'd be a lot more expensive than that. And you're calling me naive? Moving aging pros on high wages make complete economic sense for a team in rebuilding phase. Bello was in a deep depression, it's completely plausible that he wanted to be close to his family to work it out -- but things don't always work out. I think it's more naive to expect a big transfer budget every summer for a serious football club (as opposed to prosthetic dick for vain billionaires) in downtrodden. We made big investments last year, we blew it. I don't find it unacceptable to be prudent while the club is still figuring out what's what. I'd rather endure a little short-term pain for long-term gain than papering over the cracks with money that we don't have.
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    Right. We bought a striker -- Borini. He haven't been able to score. What options we had to replace Carroll? Sturridge on loan? Damiao on loan? Neither worked out, but unless you had evidence that the owners torpedoed the deals.... Eh? Erm, not really. We made some nice passes and crosses, but often didn't have enough bodies in the box to take advantage of them. That suggest some tweaking in tactics and timing, and the team need more confidence and definition in their play style. Other than that, most of our "clear" chances were created and missed by Suarez himself, and a few sitters missed by Borini -- again, the new striker can't guarantee goals argument. Look. Rodgers favors 4-3-3, since Suarez and Sterling are more or less the default choices for 2 out 3 attacking spot, and Rodgers seems to be willing to give Borini time to find his touch, the "we haven't scored goal because we didn't bring in another striker to replace Carroll" argument doesn't have a strong leg. By default, Carroll's place would be on the bench, and so would his supposed replacement. Yes, having a prolific goal scorer would make this transition period much more fathomable. But we don't. They are not exactly easy to find with our budget.
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    We couldn't score because we haven't "clicked". Our passing in the attacking third is still too overly safe and lack that crucial nano-second refinement. What striker could we have signed that would guarantee goals? Messi? Falcao? Perhaps Ronaldo? How realistic is that? All this harping because the owners didn't want to cough up a few extra millions for Clint Dempsey, who is 29 year old and who is not even a striker is rather silly, and reeks of scapegoaty. Lets also not forget they sanctioned 120 millions spending on dubious talents in the previous 2 transfer windows therefore have every reason to be more cautious. Like it or not, we ARE in a bulldozing-and-rebuilding phase, I think pegging your expectation accordingly is better for your mental health than just being angry over some speculation.
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    That didn't look like a real grenade, or the whole group would have been fragged from that distance. My guess is it was some kind of fire-cracker, or at worst a home made explosive device.
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    1. Shelvey 2. Wisdom 3. Coates
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    I don't know if Borini was trying to claim it. It might have looked that way because of the cam angle -- but he was sprinting toward Coates clenching his fist shouting "Yeah!"
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    That's not enough to get credit for a goal. You actually have to *touch* the ball and get it on target
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    Problem with Ngoo is that his clumsiness and gangliness will rile people up and make it easy for them to dismiss him before he could prove himself, like the young Crouch at Spurs and Villa. He should be given a chance, but if the knee-jerk ridicules shatter his confidence then it does him more harm than good. Personally I can't see him as a finisher. He has some oddly put-together attributes -- clumsy and at times horrid first touch, yet decent to really good dribbler and at times it's damn near impossible to take the ball from him. With decent supply, he can guarantee mayhem in the opposition box but not goal. If football match can be decided by giggles and laughs he's be the first name on my team sheet.
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    fixed your post
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    I've just seen that episode again recently (long weekend off, marathon re-viewing of season 1 and 2). Walt was definitely responsible for her death. The girl carefully lied on her side, so she wouldn't suffocate on her own vomits. Walt's shaking Jesse caused the unconscious girl to drop flat on her back and subsequently suffocated to death. His initial action was unpremeditated, but it had a consequence which he witnessed and did nothing to stop it happening. It was a murder just the same.
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    Not time to dwell on the negatives, but it's increasingly tough to see how and when this team will click offensively. It's an emerging theme -- Suarez was completely miserable, Gerrard was hapless, as was Borini. Downing didn't suck, but there was fuck all expectation on him to produce anything.
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    Sterling Allen Benitez
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    Or perhaps "they", whoever that was -- most likely Ayre and Rodgers, just didn't want him enough and the owners left the decision to them. Look, I found it hard to get worked up over the fact that we refused to get fleeced on transfer fees for a 29 year old who isn't even a forward and in his last year of contract therefore would be expecting high wages. Yes, we're short of strikers -- Sturridge and Damiao were possibility that didn't work out -- but lets be honest, our on-field situation isn't much worse than when Carroll was still here. Off the field though we might have saved ourselves a huge headache -- disgruntled international tend to sow discontent in the dressing room; and for once we are not crippled by overbearing expectation hence the rebuilding process can take its natural course.
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    Right head, wrong type of horses.
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    That something comes with the probability of a mutiny and more scrutiny by the press, especially everytime he gets called up by England. Who needs that?
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