AngryofTuebrook

I want the manager to avoid mental burnout as much as I want the players to avoid physical burnout. If he needs a week away from football, he's earned it.

Not really "just another fan" - she does a bit of media work, like co-hosting a phone-in with Robbie Savage.

So, you're saying Klopp is a cunt with no regard to the traditions of this club? Apart from the Villa game (when it wasn't really his call) I don't think there's been a single cup tie in which he has chosen a team incapable of winning the tie.

Klopp is wrong on this. The replay falls in the middle of a run of perfectly winnable league games. The XI who started on Sunday are capable of winning at Anfield (even with a much weaker bench). By the 5th round, we should be on 80 points or more, so we can afford to go strong in the Cup (and CL) and, if need be, use some of the under-23s in the League. The last thing we need is something to disturb the positive atmosphere around the club.

Pundit off the radio. Olympic hockey medallist. Fit and genuinely funny. But (the real problem for cunts with "1878" in their Twitter handles) she's a Red, therefore she's fair game.

City got an 80m per year deal 5 years ago (and are a much smaller club than Everton). We have got a deal worth 12m per year for our training ground. Our stadium is state of the art, in an iconic location. There is no other stadium like it. It will cost around 17-20 million p/a to pay back over 20-25 years. We will be absolutely within our rights to easily cover any repayments of the stadium with a naming deal if we can negotiate such a deal. Any attempt to infringe upon that by the PL will see a likely legal case, which would ruin them. They might talk big, but will quite quickly realise they do not have a leg to stand on, if our rights are anything around what smaller clubs like Manchester City negotiated. It's another one of these.

God bless our patriotic heroues.

If that's true, the club is wrong.

Pointless? There's a major trophy at stake.

I've never been that arsed about breaking records. I've certainly never prioritised it above competing for major trophies. I get the idea that some people think it's OK to lose from the match threads for the League Cup and even the third round of the FA Cup - people on this forum were happy with the prospect of losing to Everton at Anfield. We had to accept the Villa defeat because the grown-upsquad was away on business. No way should we accept a repeat because some players who have barely played 15-20 games "need a break". And, yes, when teams prioritise relegation/promotion over the FA Cup it is all about the corrupting effect of the money that's come in with the Premier League era.

Record points totals mean nothing. Going unbeaten all season means nothing. Winning major trophies means everything. The way to do that is to use our squad wisely: give a break to those who need it; give games to those who need them (like the XI who started today); and never, ever allow the idea that losing is sometimes OK to take hold.

Ironically, it's simultaneously arrogant and shithouse. It's arrogant, because it's big clubs (and some of their fans) trying to change football to benefit themselves at other clubs' expense. It's shithouse, because one or two extra games a season should be nothing to be afraid of. Make no mistake, if we somehow manage to shit the bed so badly that we fail to get 27 points from 15 league games, it will have nothing to do with playing an extra game against fucking Shrewsbury! On the contrary, a decent cup run could help our league form: every one of today's starting XI could be called upon in the league; but every one of them (for one reason or another) needs competitive football before they're ready.

Well.... yeah. I don't think there's anything racist in preferring to wank over black people, or Asian people or whatever: that strikes me as being on a par with having preferences for redheads or "mature" women or "petite" ones. I don't think it's a category arising from a Venn diagram of "cock preferences" and "fanny preferences". "Interracial" is a category alongside the kinky and taboo stuff (like BDSM or exhibitionism). And it's taboo because of the pressures of a racist society... and the society in question is the country that produces most of our Goldie Hawn.

The only reason for fucking replays off is they get in the way of the big-money tournaments - and in the PL/CL era, money is far more important than winning trophies. It's the FA Cup, for fuck's sake! This whole discussion belongs in the "Shitness of Modern Football" thread. We would, quite rightly, call Citeh whiny bitches if they were talking like this. If we want to avoid replays, maybe we could try not shitting away a two-goal lead against a team 65 league places below us.

1. Chirivella 2. Adrian 3. Jones Larouci and Williams were also decent. The front three were just not in the game, with Origi being particularly shit. Matip and Fabinho looked woefully off the pace, but at least we know that they will get better with more games. Lovren's dogshit performance was reminiscent of too many dogshit performances in the past. I was happy with Klopp's starting line-up, but he was too slow to react when Shrewsbury were getting back into the game. The referee was just awful.