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Doesnt that just reflect the difference in their own personalities though - Kennys' and Carras' I mean ?

No, Carra's is just a better written, better-structured and better-paced book. I'm just trying to be honest. It's not as if Kenny wrote the damn thing himself. It's certainly better than Alan Hansen's book, which didn't even look as though it had been proof-read.

(It's just a very hard job turning a football player's memories into good prose. A ghostwriter will sit down, turn on the recorder and say, 'What did it feel like scoring the goal that won this or that cup?' and he'll say something like, 'It felt fantastic'. Now there're only so many ways to say that if you've done it many times. So the ghostwriter then has to decide how to transfer that into something very gripping and entertaining. Leave it too much like the player's own words and it'll probably be a bit dull. Add too much of your own imagination and it won't seem like the player's book. Gerrard's book is an example of the latter - it's a well-written book but it feels like a journalist is speaking, not Gerrard. I've got Kenny's book. All I'm saying is you'll read it if you're a big fan, but it's not one you'd feel inclined to read again.)

Rafa's comments in the papers today: 'He can say what he likes because i can't understand a word he says' - brilliant. But as I've said before, it's only the type of hack who can't even spell the word 'psychology' who'd mistake Ginsoak's petty insults as 'mind games'. How the nasty little creep hasn't been sued by now is one of life's mysteries.

Even as someone who worships King Kenny I have to confess it's not a good book by ordinary standards. Obviously it's worth reading as a fan, and its better ghostwritten (by Henry Winter) than many similar autobiographies, but it's not as genuinely engaging as, say, Carra's effort. As has been said above, the Hillsborough reflections are very powerful.

That's really great to hear. Well done to the lad, and well done to you for posting it. I hope it gets wider coverage.

Rest is vital - otherwise it'll dog you for years. Use cold/ice packs on a regular basis, try wearing a heel pad to take some of the strain off the tendon. A strap like this one Achilles Tendon Strap - 436R should help as well. I know a couple of people who tried acupuncture and are insistent it helped, but for god's sake don't try to play through it.

Don't forget Bob Monkhouse.

Bob Monkhouse once thrust a viagra tablet in my hand. I kid ye not. I didn't ask for it. I was probably just looking a bit tired. I've still got it on a book shelf as a 'break in case of emergency' display. But he was a genuinely nice bloke. Didn't know Mr Bennett but he seemed affable. Whatever that means. have you ever been affed, missus? Lennie probably had. No, he sounded like a decent bloke. RIP.

Psst, Sam...

SHUT THE FECK UP!

Paul Parker. British football's Stepin Fetchit.

Les Lawson is discussing the matter on LFCTV. Sporting a very natty black and gold top, Leslie has declared that he would risk Gerrard tomorrow.

Always have a split second chat with Tommy Smith when he leaves the ground after a game, his analysis always is either 'It was great' or 'It was shit'

If only he'd leave it at that in his column!

I don't think there's been a more irritating manager than Big Fat Sam (cue the Major in Fawlty Towers to exclaim, 'No, I won't have that! There was a man called Warnock I seem to remember!'). He's that most dangerous of species - the idiot who thinks he's a genius. Give them any power and you'd really have chaos. For all of his Foucauldian surveillance accoutrements, he can't even realise when he is contradicting himself. He also toadies around 'Sir Alex' like the white working class equivalent of an Uncle Tom. He'd make Uriah Heep throw up with disgust. Some people can be put in their place by irony. Some with a clear and sharp rebuke. With Allardyce, I'm afraid it has to be a baseball bat.

why the fuck did you predict a 4-0 win then you tosser.

Because he's an inexplicably, or sado-masochistically, an idiot. And not much is happening tonight at the Emirates.

1. I'm more concerned with the league this season.

2. Apolgies to cockney idiots intruding on here with their mad budget-free 'night-nighty night little baby' dream teams, no matter how insulting they get, in a cowardly way, but we're much more likely to have a chance now than we would have had at, say, 0-0.

I can't get that bothered, really. I just feel exhausted of Chelski.

But bring on the league.

Has Dave culled himself by mistake? He's damn quiet these days.

That's what we use on here. We've all been negged for it at the start of our TLW careers. Don't worry.

By the way. It's I'm sorry. You will get negged now by RiS.

Fucking hell!!!! someone neg me please, need to get the first one over with.

Nope. I'm repping you out of spite.

ok am sorry. will use the queens english from now.

Don't forget the Queen's punctuation, and the Lord Privy Seal's upper case, while you're at it.;)

It will be cagey as fuck as ever and I have no fucking idea on who will win/go through. I'm just fed up playing those pricks year in year out.

 

I just hope we don't concede.

Yes. I can't remember a big match I've felt less excited about.

Hello again. I'm Claire Rourke, and you're watching LFCTV News. I have with me in the studio Les Lawson of the Merseyside Branch of the Liverpool Supporters' Club. Evening, Les.

I love you, Claire.

I know you do, Les. But without a bath and a clean set of clothes it's just not going to happen.

Fair enough, luv.

Now about the match tonight, Les. Do you think a win would be a good thing?

Oh, aye, I think it would be great. Really super and smashin'.

It certainly would.

Why do always ask me a question, and then, when I answer, you just say 'It certainly would' as if you knew the answer already? I mean, why bother to ask me it in the first place? I sometimes wonder if you actually listen to a word I'm saying!

It certainly would. Now, Les, looking forward to the second leg. A good idea to win that one, too?

Erm, yeah, I think so Claire. Or if not a win then a draw. But preferably a win.

It certainly- oi, I heard that!

It's a lovely idea, but I'm afraid I have to disillusion you all: his well-known nickname among Porto fans is 'One Knob Four Bollocks'.

Fascinating stuff, thanks for posting.

ITV are so chummy with Ginsoak it's comical - all first name terms and little pats on the back. They were almost hugging in the end. Maybe he'll ban them at the end of the season.

Cheers. I agree about the movie - I think the ending needed re-editing but otherwise it was terrific.

That really is quite brilliantly well-judged. Ginsoak was happy with Mourinho because Mourinho was a showman who wasn't anywhere near as smart as he thought he was. I bet he really feels unnerved by Rafa, because Rafa is a logician - he's much more in control.

The poor bloke will need a team of writers soon - they're using him all over the place and just expect him to improvise something or repeat the old routine. He does it really well though. He even does the Carra nose blow to perfection!

Gerrard has claimed this week he would like to play for England in the 'second striker' role he has at Liverpool.

 

And Benitez believes his new role playing just behind Fernando Torres has seen Gerrard's game rise to even greater heights.

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He added: "Against France last year I put Steven Gerrard into the team as a second striker and everyone said, 'why?'.

 

"Now Steven Gerrard is doing well for Liverpool as a second striker and people ask me, 'why am I not playing him there?' Thank you for supporting me at that time."

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And as for his role? Not so long ago Gerrard was, by his own admission, moaning about playing on the right for his club. Even yesterday he said he had "sacrificed" himself to play there. He craved the centre. A free role. Captain Fantastic. Now he's a second striker, released to cause havoc behind the formidable Fernando Torres and, with it, finding the form that means he is vying with Lionel Messi for the right to be regarded as European football's most in-form player. "

 

I feel that's when you get the best out of me," Gerrard said. "When I'm free to run at defenders and cause danger. That's down to Rafael Benitez. He's helped me a lot. He's certainly helping me to improve in this position.”

Dad, even Gerrard now doesn't know what his best position is!

WE do, son.

Yeah. Course. WE do. But nobody else seems to. Not even Gerrard!

That's course he's a bladdy foreigner, son.

Gerrard? I fought he was English?

Nah, son. I reckon he's a Malteser. Summat like that. Anyway, he's killing himself.

He's a suicide Malteser???

Probably. He don't know what he's talking abaht, any road.

Fancy a Chinese, dad?

Fought you'd never ask, son.