Turkish Delight

It was my 23rd birthday and I bravely (stupidly) had a dirty pint with about 15 shots in that my mates bought me. At the end of the night I knocked on the back door of an ambulance and told the fella inside I was dying and needed to go to hospital to get my stomach pumped. He told me to fuck off. I then got a lift home in my mate's car and threw up all over it. We had a car flashing its lights behind us and after my mate in the back had put 2 fingers up to them had a Buweiser bottle thrown through the back window before the other car passed us at about 120 mile an hour. One of the other lads who was nearly as bad as me called the police and told them we'd been shot so we ended up with half a dozen police cars coming out to us. Can't remember how they reacted though as I was too busy chucking up over the wall at Calderstones park.

Alonso may cover more ground but I don't think his movement is as good as Lucas's. Lucas always seems to be close to the play when we're in possession and offering an easy pass. I don't believe he's as gifted on the ball as Xabi but he acts as a good link man for the team and I feel we play more fluid football when he plays. Barry also plays in a similar fashion but is a bit more solid than Lucas is and personally I'd be all for bringing him in to replace Xabi.

I've never voted before but the Lib Dem council is so fucking useless that I shall be getting off my arse tonight and voting Labour to get the cunts out.

I'm in an office full of people that's deathly silent apart from the clicking of keys on a keyboard and I'm not even going the match tonight but I've got an incredible urge to stand up and start shouting 'I'm gonna bounce in a minute'. Can't fucking wait for tonight. This one is going down in folklore.

Try flylal.com mate. Can't remember how the exchange rate works out but there's still flights available.

I now know I'm not going to be able to afford it either way but I did see a cheap route (165 quid return last I looked a couple of weeks back). Liverpool to Riga with Ryanair and then Riga to Moscow (via Vilnius) with some Lithuanian airline. Can't remember the exact name of it but if you google Riga to Moscow flights then it comes up. You'd be looking at a Monday to Friday job though if memory serves me right.

We took the same route to and from Istanbul as him for the final a few years ago and bumped into him in the centre of Brussels on the way there and Amsterdam coming back. Didn't have any massive conversations with him but while his match-going attire isn't for me I thought he seemed like a nice enough fella. Having read through the thread though I'm obviously in the minority!

I was totally gutted last night but on reflection we've shown in our games with them over the past couple of years that our maximum level is better than their's. And if Wigan, Villa, the Blueshite and Rosenborg can all get a 1-1 or better at Stamford Bridge then we certainly fucking can do.

On the basis that I think we will win and the number of likely first scorers for us is low I've had a fiver each on Torres (5/1), Gerrard (9/1) and Kuyt (15.5/1) first goal on Betfair. To be honest as long as we get a good result I don't care if I lose my money.

Isn't that just spotted dick?

That really is ace.

Absolutely spot on. The difference was that Fulham beat our shit side while they could only draw with it. On top of that, they still only needed a point off Wigan at home in the next game to be safe and couldn't even manage that. They went down because they were shite and for no other reason.

Lucas has excellent movement and while I'm unsure of his overall ability it means that other players have an option to pass too as he acts as a good link man for the rest of the team. I've been saying it for ages but when Mascherano and Alonso play together the movement isn't there and against good teams we end up with players getting isolated and conceding possession. This is what happened against Arsenal and prior to the Masch sending off against United.

:lol: I'll be having a few pints tonight and might try to get a bit frisky with the missus later if we win but there's no way I'd go that far! I mean who'd allow themselves to be videoed like that...:whistle:

I've gone for a bit of a stab in the dark one tonight and had a tenner on Babel first goal at 27/1 on Betfair mainly because the odds were ridiculously high. I fancy Chelsea to win over two legs but think they'll struggle in Turkey tonight. The atmosphere will be immense and I just don't think Chelsea are particularly good either. Good luck anyway!

I actually like him and think the movement and link up play in our midfield is better with him alongside Mascherano than it is when Xabi is there. He makes himself available for the ball both in front of the defence and when we're going forward. He ain't no superstar but at least he regularly makes himself available for the short pass which unfortunately can't be said of all our midfielders and certainly wasn't happening across the whole midfield at Old Trafford on Sunday.

Skrtel ran away with Tevez for the second goal instead of attacking the ball at the near post. If he'd attacked it then the ball wouldn't have reached Ronaldo. That's surely an individual mistake rather than a fault of the system.

I say.. Liverpool v Mancs Fenerbache v Schalke Barca v Arsenal Chelsea v Roma With semis being match 1 v match 2 and match 3 v match 4

I think they both have some truth in what they say. Gerrard is a fantastic player but if i have one criticism it is that at times he can play with his heart and not his head particularly when the team is struggling. I think that is what Rafa was suggesting when he said he was playing with too much passion in the derby as he wanted it so much he was trying to do everything himself. The team then improved massively with the introduction of Lucas as we started playing as a team and stretching their ten men. Having said that there is not one player in the world I would swap him for.

I agree with every word but sadly I guarantee that they will be twisted by "those in the media that don't like Liverpool" tomorrow to suggest that he's impatient and wants out.

Am I right in reading that he effectively believes that if we win the European cup again this season and Arsenal win nothing then Wenger has achieved more with his current team because his young team are full of potential with nothing to show for it while our young-ish team have less potential but are winning trophies? Don't get me wrong, Arsenal are a long way ahead of us this season and there is no doubting that they have the potential to be awesome but their ultimate goal is the Champions League and if we won that this season how can this article be treated as anything other than a load of shite. It effectively says "So what if Liverpool win Big Ears? Arsenal might win it one day so they have far more to be excited about". As a side note, if we got wanked over every time we played well but failed to take our chances and ended up with a draw we'd have drowned in the worst possible way a long time ago.

A manager's job isn't to be his employees' best mate. Gerrard has openly said in his biography that two of his favourite managers were Keegan and Houllier because they gave him the arm round the shoulder stuff but neither brought the best out of him as a player in the way that Benitez has. The same way in that it was Rafa who brought the best out of Carra as a player too. The media will bash Benitez all they can now as they smell blood but that article is just shite.

It's posts like this and people who have no idea of the big picture that make me made up that I'm fucking off to Florida for two weeks to forget about this shit. Peace out people.

I said this in another thread earlier. We only started playing proper pass and move football when he came on last night and because of his good movement he offers something that neither Alonso or Mascherano do and that is an attacking threat. If you are playing against a team who is going to sit deep and lump long balls forward I would play him and Gerrard together in the middle every time.

I'm happy with my day's gambling. Used a 15 quid free bet to do a £7.50 each way on AsK The Umpire at 6/1 in the 2 O'clock at Towcester and then had a tenner on the nose on Kings Euro in the 4 o'clock at 7/2. My only losing bet was doing a £7.50 each way double on Kings Euro with Bentley in the 3:50 at Southwell.