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Thanks to Usher, for jinxing it by making fun of Forster all season. Turned out great, didn't it?

Problem is: Sturridge can't play anymore. He's hardly able to run. I've been a big fan of Jürgen, but I wish he could stop whinging about people doubting his team. Yeah, we do, and there's a reason for it.

A bit harsh to compare the careers of Gordon Taylor and Trevor Francis. Taylor made some 500 matches for substandard teams, while Francis - though perhaps underachieving - was the most expensive player in the world at one point, scored the winner in a European cup final, played in a world cup, won Coppa Italia with Sampdoria and picked up more than 50 caps. Taylor vs Francis careerwise is like comparing a Vauxhall Viva to a Lancia Beta.

Didn't Origi and Bob start up front as wide forwards with Lallana in the hole?

He was good today. Hang on to Pogba and won his fair share of the battles.

No, he wouldn't. He has lost his legs, and is only effective when playing teams that defends real deep.

Think we saw today why Klopp sold Allen and bought Gini: Athletism and power. The guy can run all day, and is built like a brick wall. Could turn out to be a very important player for us, like Essien at Chelsea.

Watched the Soton game last night against Spurs. Not so sure if Van Dijk is all that, after all. He's good one against one and really good in the air, but look at the goals Soton let in: He constantly drops off to early and makes space for the attackers to avoid offside. He also clearly thinks he is Beckenbauer or something, as he storms out of defence with the ball all the time, only to lose it and not arsing to get back. Don't think Klopp would fancy that.

Problem is, with 5 or 6 teams looking to win the title, there just isn't time to "bounce back" and that kind of shit. We just can't throw matches like this away. I love Klopp, but why he rates Karius, God only knows

No, not at all. Just a silly nick. I was just thinking of the big scandal of the catholic church and paedo priests. Now it looks like something similar has been round in football. But actually, it should not come as a surprise. Molesters are looking for environments where they have access to children, like in sports, schools, churches, and so on

He also says he used cocaine daily while playing for us. Can understand why, after reading his life story: “Playing alongside Gascoigne, Waddle, Rush, Barnes; to be on the same pitch, that is what I set out to do as a young player. I still have some fond memories, I just know the abuse affected my life. I thought about suicide constantly, even at the pinnacle of my career. I thought I was upsetting my family, I thought it would be better if I was not around. The only way I could handle it was to get drunk or get high. I would go on a bender and lose days at a time.”

Paul Stewart is looked upon as somewhat a symbol for Souness' bad management, but good heavens, this was a tough read. It's starting to look as football was just as bad as the catholic church when it comes to sexual abuse, doesn't it? http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/ex-liverpool-fc-player-paul-12216103

"Staying up" - Rick Gekoski .About a season with Coventry in the 90s "All played out" - Pete Davies. England WC90. Really well written. "Full time: The secret life of Tony Cascarino" - Interesting read about an insecure man in the world of football "The Glory Game" - Hunter Davies. A classic about a Spurs season in the 70s.

Did you really say that "Breaking Bad" is better than "The Wire"?

Blame Klopp? Fuck me. The tactics were absolutely spot on for a difficult away leg in Europe, but a last minute mistake/miracle pass made it 1-0. When they come to Anfield, we'll go all out and score early. Sturridge is a wonderful footballer. He is, alas, also quite lazy and selfish. Not what you want for a match like this. He'll score against them at home, no worries.

Yeah, but Klopp must bear some of the blame himself. Took way too long before he did something in the 2nd, and when he did, he made a mistake

Joe Allen is a nice, little player. Give him room and he can make nice, little passes. But he can't shoot, and it's enough to put an alehouse midfielder against him and boot him a couple of times - and wooosh, he disappears. I can't stand him.

Watching this team attack is like having pre-viagra times Pelè in a brazilian whorehouse: It looks great and really should be some proper fucking, but in the end, there's no penetration.

Pochettino would never let a left back so inadequate defensively as Moreno into his team. He can't defend if his life depended on it, and problem is - he isn't much of a threat attacking either. He gets into good positions and then either blast the ball into row Z or turns back and fade a counterattack into nothing. He's always pushing too high too early and leave acres of space behind him, constantly dragging the centre back out of position to cover for him. One against one, he's clueless. And he has the positional sense of a one-eyed man with double vision, trying to park a caravan in a bicycle shed.

I'm not sure why it should be important that SR is adapted from a short story. Yeah, King is a clever writer, and has churned out lots of great stories with a twist throughf the years. Whether a movie has depth, however, has fuck all to do with the story being based on a short story, a novel, a poem or the Bible for that sake. Look, I'm not even sure if we disagree on this one. I like SR, I find it enjoyable and I was surely wrong-footed the first time I saw it. But it's not one of the greatest movies of all time. It is a good, fun movie presented in true Hollywood style with sweeping violins and as black and white storytelling as...say... Uncle Tom's Cabin.

As I said, it's entertaining and not bad. But lots of people call it one of the best movies ever, and it's surely not. It's a nice enough little movie about hope and friendship, and comes through as watchable because of Robbins and Freeman producing some fine acting. The story is full of plotholes, the characters do not develop at all and the antagonists are just laughable evil. Why? No one knows, they're just evil people, just like a lot of the cold-blooded murderers behind the walls are noble Savages. The ending is as surupy as they get, and the last part of the Movie after the escape is almost as awful as the multiple endings in the last LOTR. Far far away from real masterpieces like Taxi Driver, The Godfather, Solaris, The Searchers, The Third Man or even last year's Leviathan.

Extremely overrated, but quite entertaining - if you don't mind the multiple endings and overall sappiness.

There are films that are just really bad; incoherent scripts, bad acting, incompetent camera work and terrible special effects. These movies are usually quite fun to watch if you see them with some pals and a couple of beers... films like "Manos, hands of fate", "Troll 2", "Santa Claus battle the Martians", "Birdemic" and, the worst of them all, "The Room". But the really bad films are those intended to be good, and miserably faling at that. For me, the worst is "Three of Life". Beyond words.

Country music is like any other genre: a lot of great stuff, a lot of junk. I am really into country. If I should recommend something, well - hardcore: Hank Sr, Lefty Frizzell, Ray Price, Ernest Tubb harmonies: Louvin' Brothers, Jim&Jesse, First Aid Kit bakersfield: Buck Owens, Dwight Yoakam, Merle Haggard neo-trad: Gram Parsons, Flying Burrito Brothers, Emmylou, Randy Travis, singer-songwriters: Kristofferson, John Prine, Guy Clark, Tom T Hall, Dolly Parton, Roger Alan Wade Avett Brothers are great. Find their cover of "That's how I got to Memphis"

Oh, come on. He's ace. Review from last weekend: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/24/paul-maccartney-review-kanye-promise And he has made quite a few good songs even the last years. Like this: