gkmacca

I hope they go down. What a mad bunch of hangers-on they've got as a 'coaching staff'. McDermott was one of my favourite players, but it always grates to see him so obsessed with the geordies, and what on earth is Arthur Cox doing there? - I didn't even know he'd come back! Owen looked so peed off even after scoring, and he's a lousy choice for captain. What a shambolic lot they are.

Nosferatu Skittles

I'd rather complain about Keys than Gray. Gray has become a kind of pantomime villain, too obvious to be anything other than tiresome. Keys, on the other hand, gets everyone in the studio involved in Red-bashing. He has really gone to town this season with an agenda that everyone bar Dalglish allows him to exploit, and his sheer pomposity really infuriates me. He's a third-rate TV presenter, yet he controls the whole climate of opinion on these programmes, and it's high time someone challenged him rather than meekly accepted his bias.

I think it's always been an over-rated show. Watching four ex-pros watching TV screens - what a waste of time. And then there's the uber-anorak Jeff Stelling, who revives Frank Bough's weird penchant for randon intonations: 'And that is THE fifth time in...OCTOBER that someone with an..."r" at the end OF their...first NAME has scored an OWN goal at a second division CLUB!' Is he trying to make sure you're still awake? The whole thing shrieks out: GET A LIFE!

I don't know if you saw the Press programme on LFCTV the other day, but all the journalists were saying he seemed almost like Carra the way he was so passionate about the club and the fans. They said after Milan he made time for every journalist and wanted to say how special the fans were, how great the club was etc etc - he's fantastic.

Yes, all those times when Arsenal went out with a whimper in Europe - never an inquest over whether he knows what he's doing. And as for rotation: it's no easier guessing Sir Drinkalot's starting eleven this season, but never a mention of his tactics.

Yes, and how much money did he spend at Newcastle? £47m? And Keys had the nerve to ask him to say that Rafa hasn't achieved much after spending so much!

I love it when Dalglish fixes him with that glare, implying 'Keep it up and I'll humiliate you on live TV', and Keys drops the wind-ups. Other pundits could easily follow suit, but they don't. Meanwhile Redknapp is allowed to hype up his bung-loving dinosaur of a dad whenever he stumbles on to a win.

Yes, the man who gave us Kozma, Piechnik and Kvarme tut-tutting about Rafa. Quite extraordinary.

The funniest moment was when that nasty little shit Shreeves asked Carra if Rafa was a top manager and, much to his disappointment, Carra said yes! Ruined Sky's night!

Wenger's team underperformed year after year in Europe, but there was no great 'Is he a shit manager?' inquest. Rafa's team reach the final twice, win it once and beat tonight one of the best teams around and Redknapp lays into him. Pathetic.

It's only Kenny who lets Keys know he recognises when he's trying to get a negative reaction. It short circuits the creep. The rest of them are like performing animals. He gives them a cue and they fall for it. It's idiotic.

Yep. They're all so gutted Rafa got it right with Torres their only response is to keep hiking up how much he cost every time they mention him. Torres will have cost £50 million by the end of the season.

Yes, I thought at least he still had a sliver of integrity to resist Keys's attempt to get him to say Rafa had spent too much (I mean, even Souey knows he wasted money at Liverpool and Newcastle). Mind you, for someone who once signed a player because of a prank phone call, then had to sub him in his first and only match, to lecture Rafa on tactics is pretty damn rich. (And did Souey take a picture of Hansen into the hairdressers and say, 'Make me look like him'? Bizarre!)

I decided this time I'd keep the sound down, but I turned it back up for the last few minutes and the idiot sounded so LOW! Sad bitter ****.

Redknapp isn't entitled to uninformed rants. He gets so many facts wrong about us it's insulting. Does he never get picked up about them? It's funny how it was Sky who gave the pundits elaborate statistics about how often Rafa changed the team, but no one at Sky tells Redknapp he's talking bollocks about Torres being rested 'so often'.

We all know about Keys and Sky, but that was still amazing. You would have thought we'd lost, so downbeat were they - it was all about our league form! And Keys was increasing the cost of the squad with every mention, Souey (nice hair weave, mate!) was suggesting Rafa came up with Gerrard's position 'by accident' and Redknapp was claiming Torres has been rested too often! The garbage they get away with is truly astonishing.

From the Post: . 11 Finance experts claims Tom Hicks's Dubai dismissal is just a tactic Mar 11 2008 Football finance expert Professor Chris Brady has dismissed Tom Hicks’ termination of Liverpool takeover talks with Dubai International Capital (DIC) as a “negotiation manoeuvre” and expects the deal to be wrapped up by June. Hicks ended discussions yesterday, insisting in a statement he was not interested in jointly running the club “by committee” with DIC and vetoed their proposal to buy out 49% of co-owner George Gillett’s 50% stake. It has led to speculation that the proposed £400million deal is dead in the water, but Professor Brady, who is the Dean of the business school at Bournemouth University, believes Hicks is angling for a better price. He told Football Insider: “Clearly Hicks wants out now. He probably thinks he can get £450 million by stalling and they (DIC) will probably go to £450 million. “My guess is that this is a manoeuvre in a normal negotiation. Hicks will wait and try to get as much money as possible by frustrating DIC, but it’s obvious from the dialogue he will sell. “From what I’ve heard there is no rush of alternative buyers out there and DIC are keen. “Dubai (DIC), presumably, will want to wrap the deal up by the middle or end of June so they have time to prepare for the new season.” Earlier reports - since been denied by Hicks - suggested Hicks and DIC had disagreed over the Dubai group’s plans to install a fan with full voting rights to the board. Brady, who thinks DIC will eventually assume total control of the club, believes the scheme would help any new owners avoid the same popularity issues suffered by Hicks and Gillett. “If Dubai buy 90% of the equity at some stage or another, then a group, possibly Rogan Taylor’s (Share Liverpool FC Group), can take 10% for the fans with board membership,” he added. “I suspect that’s what Rogan’s group are aiming for, and I reckon DIC will take that. “They would get the majority and controlling stake, and it keeps the fans quiet for five years or so, which is important. “No matter how much due diligence they (foreign investors) do, they do not quite understand how involved and awkward fans can be over here.” Finance experts claims Tom Hicks's Dubai dismissal is just a tactic - Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk

He's got a strange ability to say banal-sounding things that seem more like mystical puzzles when you think about them for a bit. Take his 'committee' comment about DIC's plans. What's he actually mean? In one sense Liverpool has always been run by a committee in the form of a board of directors, so if he's saying anything other than a dictatorship is unworkable he's nuttier than he looks, and that's saying something. If, on the other hand, he means that DIC proposed some kind of unique form of bureaucratic meddling, he should have explained it in greater detail. He seems incapable of real communication.

Hicks seems even worse than Houllier for reading about himself. Does he have time for anything else? 'Paw? Paw!' 'What is it, son?' 'You're mentioned in the Croydon Advertiser today, paw!' 'Git me ma telephone!'

Lost?

Kirkland seems even more delicate due to his strange penchant for short sleeved tops (what other keeper wears short sleeves? Is he HOT??? He's broken his fingers, his wrist and god knows what else. Most keepers wear padding on their elbows. So what does Chris do? He wears short sleeves. It's like Death Wish directed by John Inman.). Heskey limping again for no obvious reason - oh, the memories flood back.

Muller really would do nothing but score. They say certain players these days 'don't do much except score,' but Muller REALLY did nothing (except provide people with a stationary ad for bow-leggedness). A great goal scorer, though.

That Goofy lookalike Chris Kamara is acting like Slur Drinkalot's PR man on Sky today! He announced that he was sure the drunken buffoon 'didnt mean' to say anything bad about the ref, he insisted that Rooney didn't mean any harm with his wild two-footed lunge, he searched for any Pompey foul he deemed should have been booked and he even argued that their keeper hadn't meant to bring Baros down and so shouldn't have been sent off. By the time he'd finished I thought Pompey must have lost 5:0. What a twit that bloke is.

Some new shows coming up: Bascombe and Rash: Described as 'Saint and Greavsie rewritten by Strindberg,' the show will feature Chris and Rash attempting a number of crafty pranks which backfire badly, causing them to hold on to each other tightly and weep. Oldham's Not In Liverpool: Each week a C-list celebrity will knock on a door in a street near Melwood and ask, 'Is Dunk in?' If he isn't, they will have to donate a large sum of money to a Yorkshire-based charity. Well Parry'd: Rick Parry is asked a succession of questions, all of which he lets someone else answer while looking profoundlt morose.