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  1. Mr.Smoketoomuch
    Ok. Great start, but get that creepy Spurs-feeling when we don't put them away. Lucas been really good so far, aprt from not scoring from 1 meter.
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    Rafa sitting next to Parry, again. Chatting away before kick off this time. Do they really hate each other that much?
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    I dont't fancy this team at all. Still we might win though, off course. Riera looked better than for a while against Bolton, so if he needed a rest he should have got it a month ago when he was pretty shit. As for Alonso - he could rest against Preston. Today it's make or brake for Babel I think.
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    Hard to explain - took silly dancing to a new level. All kinds of moves - not even remotely cool, either.
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    did anyone just see Robhinos goal celebration?
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    could this be the day when things go our way at Anfield?
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    Shit. United will be coming strong from now on.
  8. Mr.Smoketoomuch
    What a stupid sending off.
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    But it's not gonna happen. Carra as manager any time soon that is. Regardless of what happens to Rafa. In modern football - at that level - we won't see a player-manager. Unless Rogan Taylor gets his will when it comes to ownership of the club pretty soon. And even then I'd doubt it. If I ever believed a player would become a great manager that would be Carragher.
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    Great film and one of Cruises really good ones.
  11. Mr.Smoketoomuch
    If I remember correctly Dave said a year ago that the forum would go on even if he had to find "proper" work. The donations would pay the server for a while. If not, I hope we get the chance to donate again, as I'm sure a lot of people on here would.
  12. Mr.Smoketoomuch
    Lucas better perform now, playing in his preferred position and all. If not he better not log on to this forum tonight.
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    Alonso Sami Kuyt
  14. Mr.Smoketoomuch
    Liverpool and Gomes having a mare.
  15. Mr.Smoketoomuch
    Frustrating! Got a bad feeling from 60 min onwards. At the end they started to get the decisions and a tiny bit of pressure. Babel and Benayoun did nothing. Against Terry and Carvalhio Babel was winning everything in the air that was played to him, wheras King easily took the ball off him. Benayoun did nothing either.
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    Alonso Gerrard Arbeloa
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    Hamann was very underrated indeed, in his first few years by Liverpool fans as well, I thought. Our current holding midfielder, Alonso, just had a sloppy pass in his own half that a PSV player got hold of, leaving Gerrard nowhere near the ball - before the PSV player could controll the ball Keane and Riera were all over him getting the ball back. That is a crushing machine in play if I ever saw one. Imagine if Michael Thomas made that pass, partnering Barnes.
  18. Mr.Smoketoomuch
    Made up to see Keane score, though the celebration and "Keano" chants cooled me down a bit. When I turned on my stream, the first thing I heard was Keys saying "..invented the holding midfielder role". I kept thinking about who he could be refering to and thought about managers who had been midfielders when they played, and then I read on here that it was Makelele he talked about!
  19. Mr.Smoketoomuch
    5 4/3 1 2 (the dockers bit is the weakest sub plot in my opinion) And I still love season 2 more than anything I've ever watched (only the first 8 episodes of Twin Peaks and season 4, 5 and 6 of The Shield coming close) I watched season 5 back i late april in three days or so. I still think it's the best season 5 months later, but I'm gonna watch it again soon. Maybe I've change my mind. After finishing The Wire back in april and then season 6 of The Shield shortly after, TV-series is no longer a major part of my life, 2 years after The Wire really opened my eyes for the fact that "TV is the new movies". Although I strongly doubt that anyone will ever top The Wire, I need a new fix. Clay Davis must surely have the comeback of the century.
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    my exact thought when he celebrated his second.
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    Gerrard Skrtel Alonso
  22. Mr.Smoketoomuch
    My personal Joe Kinnear story: in july 94 my team played a pre season friendly against Wimbledon. After the game all the Wimbledon players, coaching staff and board members went to the local disco to get drunk as you would expect from a british team during pre season back then. Anyway, Vinny Jones had some kind of a single out back then (I've forgotten completly about it, but I know that the DJ kept calling him on stage all night and in the end he finally showed up to perform it). He was joined by a few of the players, Joe Kinnear and a couple of older men in suits (the ones I remember as board members). Two of the players were mooning at the end of the show. One of the locals wasn't amused by this and went over for a word. He ended up talking to Vinny Jones and Joe Kinnear. The three of them were shortly after seen walking out of the disco heading for a nearby departed building. As some might have guessed already, the local came back with a black eye and sore nose. True story, no moral.
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    That's what I thought too.
  24. Mr.Smoketoomuch
    Some shit goalkeeping in the first half. Carvalho, Deco and Van der Saar injured. Rio Ferdinand booked for verbal abuse to the referee (!!!!!!) Scholes booked in a game they will have to defend - possible sending off right there. And hopefully Chelsea will come back and win it. But I think United will hold out.
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    Just like no one really want to get rid of the free market/capitalism (as a term opposed to a completly state regulated marked) no one argues that the marked should be completly free. The discusion should be about how regulated the marked should be. A increasingly free marked have made people in the western world (us) and lifted millions of people in India, China and Brazil from poverty to middle class. Yes, Stu Monty, not everyone is lifted at the same time, hence its not a perfect system, but it's certainly better than anything these countries or any other have tried so far. After the first bank crises (1929-33) which started the great depression, when 8000 banks in the US alone went bust, the goverments/regulators learned two things: that the financial sector need stronger regulation and that you can't let too many banks go bust. If you let that happen there will be no credit available which means no economic growth and thereby less jobs etc: a very bad cycle. So the financial marked became more regulated and now and again governments have saved banks (in Norway they did this in the early 90s). However in the 70s the economic slowdown meant that more credit was needed to boost the econmy. The europeans deregulated in the 80s and the americans followed shortly. The americans, however, went too far, which we now clearly see. The risk is spread too widely and credit have become too easy to get. But probably most importantly: the people who sell credit (the ones pushing the loans) are not taking the risk themselves because the loan/risk is sold on before or shortly after. If people can't pay it's not your trouble, but you still get your bonus for selling the loan. Too me this is the opposite of what capitalism should be about. The marked need to be more regulated again.
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