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I never remember what Crooks asks. Crouch just had a look on his face that implied, 'Here we go - it's Crooksie, mustn't laugh,' and his mouth curled up on one side. I THINK the question was about defending corners (whatever it was, as usual, it had been asked before in a much more coherent, and brief, manner).

I'm sure Crouchy had to suppress a smile when Crooks started his 'question'. I bet they all hate him in the England camp.

Who do you think I am - the Admirable Crichton? Do your own damn research.

Not 'totally' different, Wittgenstein. Players leave for all kinds of reasons. And Keegan wasn't entirely 'upfront' with the club - the contact with other clubs started before we knew it at the time. If there'd been the level and intensity of media coverage then as there is now it would have been a far messier affair. And as for 'still respected him' - the reception he received when he came back with Hamburg in the Super Cup was atrocious. He did better when he returned with Southampton, but I doubt he forgot the earlier reaction.

I sometimes wonder if those who remember Keegan going grew to deal with players leaving a bit more soberly. Keegan's departure was so odd - you just didn't leave a big club when you were still on such great form - but it paved the way for all the others, and I suppose it made me a tiny bit more stoical about it all. I don't mean I accept it, I just don't forget what the player did for us. All of this jilted bitterness about Owen is depressing - not soon after, that's understandable and pretty much unavoidable, but the way it has got worse and worse over time leaves a bad taste in the mouth. As for yesterday, it seemed ironic that he started the game as if he was trying to prove how much better his movement was going to be, and then did his knee on out on the wing. I just wish him well, and the speediest possible recovery.

LOREN: [Thinks] 'Rash ain't goin' to like THOSE size 14 puppies!' JAYNE: I've banned the scrawny fecker anyway.

I gather the trick is to use Richard Madeley as a condom.

Craig was also trying to get investors for a script he was writing about Shanks.

I couldn't agree more. He seemed to have a real grudge. (And as for that idiotic 'ha-heh-heh' laugh of his - :wallbutt: )

The Neville one looked like they didn't know what to do with it. They just turned up and old labia lips suggested things as he watched. I reckon Neville figured out pretty quickly something was up. The frightening thing is the show was made by Ferdinand's company, and he's planning more shows with him as the presenter. What a deluded twat.

Get the man on the coaching staff! Playing the odd game while learning his new role would be better than working under Fred Flintstone at Bolton.

That's the one! Thanks for the link! :D

It's easier to imagine no possessions. I heard Hurst saying that he accepts every job offer in world cup year during the three months leading up to the event. So in 2010 I'm going to ask him to go into a house, lock it from the inside and then eat the key. Martin Peters was a much better player, but have you ever heard him speak? A stunning monotone. Exactly the same as that Steve Coogan character in the Day Today who guards the swimming pool in the fitness centre: 'In 1992, no one died. In 1993, no one died. In 1994, there was that incident with the pigeon. In 1995, no one died...'

I just hate it when people in places like Ipswich and Oswestry, who don't normally watch footie, start wearing Brazil shirts. When they beat Italy in that final in America, people who didn't know what great players Baresi, Zola and Baggio were went waddling around in yellow shirts. Aaggh! I know Brazil have good players, but they turn people into cliche spouting twits. :wallbutt:

Clive Tiddley says 'Brazil - everyone's second team'. Speak for yourself, Tiddley!

I think he was born in Leeds but he is a Red. Quote from John Simm in UNCUT Magazine:- "PET HATE - I'm beginning to really hate Chelsea Football Club because I just hate the fact that they've bought all their success. It really annoys me. We (Liverpool) are nearly catching them up, and I hope we do. It's just so annoying because they're going to go out and buy more of the best players in the world and buy people out of their contracts. I just hate the marketing of it all. It's just horrible. I'm not being bitter or twisted, but it's ruined the Premiership."

She was a bluenose before she married Bobby. And she had a normal Scottie Road accent, not that monstrous concoction she affects now. Ghastly woman.

John Lennon supported Liverpool, like his Dad, Fred, had done. Albert Stubbins was one of Fred Lennon's heroes, and that's why John suggested him for the Sgt Pepper cover. Lennon mentioning Matt Busby in the song 'Dig It' has often been misinterpreted, but, again, he grew up knowing Busby as one of his Dad's heroes. (George Harrison was into horse racing and car racing as a lad, but I think most of his family were bluenoses. Ringo I don't know, except that he had a soft spot for Arsenal at one stage.) As for McCartney: He told me his Dad was a Blue, so he was taken to watch them a few times as a boy, but his kid brother started going to Anfield and he went with him a few times. He admitted that he was more into 'track and field' than footie when it came to playing, and said he'd want any Liverpool team (blue or red) to win when it's a final, but claimed he favoured us against them. Make of that what you wish - I know he's disliked by many, but I've always found him to be a pretty decent sort. (An anorak writes: there is a live version of 'Coming Up,' released as a B side I think, which ends with Paul chanting 'Kenny Dalgleeesh'.)

Ken Dodd, Tarby, Les Dennis, Alexi Sayle, Stan Boardman, Paul Boardman, Eddie Braben, Craig Charles, DJ Spooney, Clive Owen, Mike McCartney, Paul McCartney (when it suits him), Darren Clarke, Martin Johnson, Mark Owen, Ian Broudie and Roy Cropper from Corrie.

Hargreaves has been pulled out of position and given the ball away cheaply. I guess he'll be praised for improving the match!

I know. Dixon says 'He's basically playing like a centre half, but a bit further up' - well, he is the holding player in front of the centre halves, he's hardly going to do much more in his first game there, nor should he! Even Hansen says, 'He's not going to spray passes around' - does Didi Hamman ever do that? Talk about negative coverage!

I'm always reminded of how badly Fergie treated Hansen when he was Scotland manager. Any scan would have shown that he had a real problem with his knees but that paranoid **** would never accept it was anything other than an Anfield conspiracy. Hypocritical barsteward!

Garcia was just shown on Sky Sports News talking at some function in Spain and he didn't sound as though he'd left us. He talked about Gerrard as a great player 'for us and for England' and seemed pretty upbeat. I guess that could just be him not yet coming to terms with the past tense, but these are the straws to which we clutch...

He was in tears after he came off. It was a lousy thing to happen.

LE SAUX: Ha! Game over! Lawro's lost a leg! LAWRO: Tell you what - it ain't over 'til I say so, mail mouth, and, at the moooooooment, I'm far from saying so! Take that! MOTTY: Ha-ha! Well, I say, this is really quite remarkable! Ha-ha! Lawro has just twisted both of Le Saux's nipples there, and I fancy that was mighty un-com-for-ta-ble! Ha-ha! He's crying like a girl! Oh, this is quite extraordinary! LE SAUX: To hell with my bourgeois pretensions - I'm going to chin you, you Daily Mirror-reading dolt! LAWRO: Too slow, mate. Cogitate on THIS! MOTTY: Ha-ha! Well! I say! Lawro has reached right in there and removed the poison dwarf's 'Corrections and Clarifications' section from his Guardian! Ha! I fancy the Prestonian Irishman has administered the most brutal assault on a crap left back since Arsenal's Alf 'Dobbo' Dobbins was eaten alive by a pack of rabid dogs in the third match of the 1907-08 season! I should point out to younger viewers, ha-ha, that the 1907-08 season was the penultimate season before the Football Association's eminently sensible 'anti-rabid dogs in grounds' legislation was introduced, ha-ha. HANSEN: The whole thing is lacking pride, passion, pressure and, er, punches. There's only one word for it: woeful! LINEKER: But there's less salt now than ever before. I just thought you'd like to know that.