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You Scouse fuggers wanna know who did the fuggin graffiti? OK. News flash: it was that fuggin Nazi Prince Frankenstein. Yeah. He did it with his fuggin no-good German wife, that fuggin gay butler and Tom O'Connor held the fuggin ladder! True! He also ordered Houllier to buy Salif Diao and that fuggin spitter guy Diouf, he tried to get Gerrard to go to fuggin Chelsea, he told Benitez to sit on it and rotate, he get Hicks to buy your fuggin club and he step on Agger's fuggin toe. Twice. Want more? OK. Tony fuggin Blair supports Everton, right? He tell them to let you buy Sissoko. I'm no fuggin liar! And that fuggin Dracula boss royal king guy send Christmas card to Richard Keys every year. And Geoff Shreeves. And Andy fuggin Gray! Big fuggin surprise, huh? I had it all on this piece of paper that some fuggin Nazi racist Austrian crocodile fugger has censored! Fuggin bastards! Good luck by the way tonight. (Don't get me started on what those royalist Milanese fuggers got up to back in 1965! Fuggin hell!)

Find one and ask him. To save time, rewrite it yourself.

Eh? And: 'No'.

He really is just a hack. A hack who used to have the luxury of well-established lines of communication with his local club. But he has no obvious writing ability, nor notable analytical skills, so I can't quite see why he should be so tetchy if Liverpool managers or other members of staff, or just us mere fans, treat him like what he actually is - a pragmatic, commercially-driven hack. If he wants to be loved, do a more decent job. He's a News of the World hack. That's it.

Bascombe needs to cover London clubs. Or spend a year in Norwich. Start writing again, not posturing. Take a complete rest from LFC. He's become so neurotic he resents any Liverpool manager who doesn't treat him with sufficient respect (or any poster who doesn't bow at his feet and call him 'Chris'). It's gone too far. He's a very limited hack who has become seriously conceited.

Yes, I've never seen such a spoiled bunch of players represent LFC. Their 'It's not for me to back the manager' attitude really angers me. If they're so committed to doing their best for the club, why are they wasting this season by going through the motions? Gerrard ran over and hugged Houllier after he scored during a really poor period, yet he seems content to watch this manager sink down to the depths. Rafa's growing irrationality is bad enough, but the attitude of the players really stinks.

Ridley gives recovering alcoholics a bad name. He seems so desperately miserable and bitter. The one link between Rafa and Ged is their belated inclusion of the Community Shield in their list of trophies. You always know players are going a bit mad when they refer to themselves in the third person (e.g. 'Andrew Cole has to do what suits Andrew Cole') and I always worry a bit when managers start, retrospectively, regarding the Community Shield as a major trophy.

That Duncan Hamilton book about Clough is a real eye-opener. For those who don't know, Hamilton was a local journalist who was sort of adopted by Clough to be his regular media ally, and some of the stories about how drunk Clough was in his last few years are extraordinary. To think he was kept on when he was on the whisky at 9 in the morning - and claiming his pet dog was to blame!

They're window cleaners. They clean the top set of windows at the Emirates.

Ah, the noise wasn't planned: Munich silence observed 'impeccably' by fans - Chester Evening Leader

Someone told me the shots were for each person who died. I didn't expect them, so I don't know it that's true. I don't recall there being enough for that. Anyway, a charity match would have made more sense - raise some money and do some good. It's gross hypocrisy of Ferguson - a man who deliberately encouraged a culture of hatred and bitter rivalry to develop during his years in charge, to suddenly claim the moral high ground and urge everyone else to behave. I'm glad it did go peacefully, but he really is a shameless hypocrite.

Is he really that thick? He makes Ron Atkinson sound like Wittgenstein.

This idiot is ALWAYS on Sky! Is he blackmailing them? They seem to have decided he's a 'national treasure'. If he's not acting as a pundit on a live game he's spreading his capacious arse over the couch on the Sunday highlights show. What the feck is wrong with them? It's him or Peter Reid, week in week out!

He's still pure class. He THINKS! Every pass makes sense. A gem of a player.

I don't disagree. All I was saying was what I know about the general practice. How could I know any more about this specific case? :yes::wallbutt::whistle:;):drool: [smilies added by mischievous copy editor without my consent]

Behind the scenes, John Toshack rowed with Shanks, Tommy Smith rowed with Shanks and Paisley, Keegan rowed with Paisley, Jimmy Case rowed with Paisley - but they kept it behind the scenes at the time. The attitude of some players today is downright childish.

It's common practise to draft the report at half time. That's why match reports often seem so muddled, with bits added on here and there and the tone all over the place if the story changed dramatically in the second half.

I'd move if I were you. Every paper messes about with copy to some extent, but not THAT much.

Bascombe is now being paid to deliver regular 'exclusives' - whether they're based on hard fact, rumours or desperate speculation doesn't matter much to his employers. Nor does it matter if one story contradicts the other. So Bascombe's list of contacts can now be extended from insiders to insiders, bitter ex-insiders, wannabe insiders, disaffected ex-players, Steve Mad Dog Morgan, Noel White...the names go on and on, all of them with particular agendas and axes to grind. All that matters to Bascombe is that he goes from a blank piece of paper to a full piece of paper in the shortest possible time. His job has become easier. If only one could believe his conscience has grown more compromised.

He's pathetic, but he'd fit very snugly into some LFC forums. The world's gone to pot. They ought to make it obligatory to support a team like Colchester for a month. Or at least post every day on their forum. The sense of perspective has long gone. I feel as sad about that now as I've ever felt.

Davey always looks like he's about to burst into tears. Or belch. One of the two.

Very nice of the feckers at LFCTV to send me (and charge me for) a text message informing me a statement had been made if I'd care to go online and look at it. And that's the message. I bet Brezhnev sent more open and forthcoming Christmas cards.

I think crediting Bascombe with dark tactical powers is really over-generous. If that article was some kind of considered attempt to conjure up certain reactions then it was incredibly rash and irresponsible, because it could easily have backfired calamitously. He has his sympathies, I'm quite sure, but ultimately he's in new job and has to impress some ruthless employers - and that means weekly 'exclusives' (whether there's any real news or not). It's a Faustian deal, whatever he claims.

That's right. You could tell that from the mood in the studio. Unfortunately - in a way - we're represented by well-mannered pundits like Hansen and McAllister, who make the odd point but try to seem impartial, so the anti-LFC garbage from the likes of Lineker, Gray and Keys just flows on through, and tonight it was farcical. You'd have thought someone had died! We won 4:1 and Keys and Co were mournful.

You summed it up mate. I avoided Sky until a few minutes from the end, and I was amazed - it sounded like they were reporting on a disaster! Keys was so bitter it was laughable.