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It's not the case though, is it? At the start of the season, we had Torres in and out of the side with injury, and in and out of form after the Euros - and his replacement Keane playing like a dachshund trying to climb the stairs with an erection. Mascherano - who for me is as important a player as anyone in the team - suffering a loss of form. Benayoun, Babel, Pennant, anonymous. Kuyt struggling. the key to our 'resurgence' (wrong word, but you get the point) is that we have had players playing to their potential in more attacking places on the field. Kuyt, Benny Noon, Torres, Mascherano, ALonso. They were not playing as well before - there has been a click, and they look unstoppable. The irony has been that at the other end of the field, we have started to look shaky. I agree, we didn't play as aggressively as we are now. The question is, were we not playing as aggressively because of the lack of form, or were we in poor form because we weren't playing in the right way? For me, it is the former.

I applied for a job on the M5 once

Has anyone got any contacts at the club? Seriously, get in touch and get Parry to sue on the fans behalf. Get Hicks/Gillett to do it in the States. Make Cohen's life a misery. It will work.

Spearing, San Jose, Darby

All 4 goals were the keeper's fault - that really affects how the defence plays. I've seen Antwi a couple of times, he looks solid enough, but prone to the odd mistake. You'd really expect a decent keeper to have stopped at least 3 of those goals we shipped tonight though

I'm 43, 2 stone overweight, and had one hip replaced. I'd still be the best player out there tonight. They are playing shite, both sides. Only Spearing, Darby, San Jose and that Mooy boy from Bolton might come close. What the hell has happened to Pacheco and Nemeth? Is it the Plessis syndrome again? Too cocky? Although I accept 1 or 2 might do me for speed.

Couple of things. People who write to him should avoid insults - it only perpetrates the uneducated, out-of-control scouser image that twat wants to cultivate. He's like a holocaust denier--has his own specious contrary opinions on something the world has accepted a long time ago. And second, this is really something the club should be taking up... if the club launches a lawsuit against him for defamation, it will shut him up, guaranteed.

Is right.

I don't think anyone ever feels any single thing in exactly the same way as anyone else. He's fighting his demons--rightly or wrongly--and doing it in the public eye. He may have chosen the public eye, but I can't criticize him for today's behaviour. In general he upsets me. Not today. Today is not about scoring points. Today is about embracing the Liverpudlian diaspora -- red and blue -- and remembering a great injustice.

I think he is getting pretty much what he deserves from the club already. His contract will run down, his career will be finished. He will be on the scrapheap of life. What goes through people's heads at times like this? It seems pretty clear he is a dickhead with the mental age of a retarded goldfish. Maybe there are explanations for what he was doing. But karma exists, and Itandje will get his comeuppance one of these days.

“But we will never give up. We are Liverpool. That’s our character and the way we are. “We will continue to fight til the end.” Pepe Reina, he just makes you proud. Liverpool Echo.co.uk - Liverpool FC - News - Pepe Reina: Liverpool played for the Hillsborough 96 PEPE REINA today told how Liverpool were inspired by 96 souls in last night’s epic 4-4 draw with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. The result meant Liverpool’s Champions League hopes for this season were ended at the quarter-final stage – but not before Rafa Benitez’s team produced a heroic performance in a bid to keep their dreams alive. With last night’s second leg coming on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster, Reina admitted every single Liverpool player was desperate to come up with a display which would be seen as a fitting tribute for those who died in the tragedy. “We tried to do our best for the 96 but we just couldn’t do it,” he declared. “Being honest we were playing with a lot of passion, but we were also lifted by the 96 souls. “We were getting pushed by them. We tried everything to turn it around but in the end it was a pity. “We are disappointed because we didn’t get through, but to be honest the lads are really proud of themselves. We have to be because we gave it our all but we just couldn’t manage to do it. Whoever plays for Liverpool always plays with his heart and soul. “All we could give was passion with commitment and effort. “To be a Liverpool player is to feel proud of yourself. At the beginning it was terrific for us. “We had plenty of chances and there was just one team in it during the first half. It was 2-0 but it could have been even more.” Reina took responsibility for the decisive first Chelsea goal. “It was bad positioning by me,” he admitted. “I was too in the middle of the goal. I should have been closer to near post. It was my mistake. I have to recognise it – that’s the life of a goalkeeper.” Reina believes the Reds can draw inspiration from last night’s display for the title run-in. “We are still positive for the Premier League,” he added. “There are six games remaining and we have to win them all. It’s in United’s hands. We must try to win them and wait. “But we will never give up. We are Liverpool. That’s our character and the way we are. “We will continue to fight til the end.”

Juan Kerr

Who the fuck are you? What have you done with JMARKH? Just kidding mate - I know what you mean. One of those 'proud to be red' days. I just hope Barcelona murder them, because another Blue Scum red Scum final would do me in.

That is bollocks mate, there is nobody better in world football at drawing that foul than Drogba. He is an absolute master at it. He is so strong, the defender can do nothing. He pushes back at pace, arms around the defender, and the defender either gets pushed (loses the ball), stands his ground, which means he has to use his arms (concedes a free kick), or moves out the way, which means Drogba either falls on his arse (gets a free kick) or has a clear run on goal. It is pretty much unplayable. And the highlighted bit is a little bit below the belt.

She was only a farmer's daughter, but she liked her 'Uddersfield, arse n'all Boom boom

Mike Selway, I salute you. Superb words. Painful memories. Glorious tribute.

I remember the Tblisi game, they were absolutely brilliant. Bruges in the 76 final were excellent for about 60 minutes too, then they wilted. That was the scene of my first piss in the Kop! I don't think the two things are connected.

That is an awesome post mate, well done. Really enjoyed reading it.

Where do you sit Tom? [sorry, UEM]

Fair play to them, I say. Liverpool Echo.co.uk - News - Liverpool Local News - Everton FC semi-final players to wear armbands in honour of Hillsborough victims PLAYERS from Everton and Manchester United will wear black armbands during their FA Cup semi-final clash in tribute to the victims of the Hillsborough disaster. They will make the gesture during their Wembley cup tie on April 19. The ECHO understands the Arsenal and Chelsea cup tie on April 18 will also mark the occasion in the same way. At the same time, city leaders are in talks with their counterparts at Nottingham and Sheffield councils to try and set up an inter-city schools football competition in memory of those who died in 1989. The semi-final tie between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest was abandoned minutes after kick-off when overcrowding at the Leppings Lane end led to the death of 96 fans. Everton spokesman Ian Ross said: “It would be fitting and right to mark the event in this way in light of the game falling on the 20th anniversary. “It was a tragedy which touched both sides of the city.” The semi-final armband tribute coincides with a number of other high-profile events taking place around the city to mark the anniversary. The Anglican cathedral’s bells will peel at 3.06pm on April 15 – the exact time the game was abandoned. A memorial recording of the Kop anthem Fields Of Anfield Road has also been recorded with an extra verse commemorating the tragedy. Council opposition leader Cllr Joe Anderson said he wrote to the FA and the clubs to request they make the gesture. He said: “It is important to mark the anniversary. “There were Evertonians who lost family and friends on the day, and it is a matter not only of paying our respects but also reminding people justice has not yet been done for the 96.” Margaret Aspinall, of the Hillsborough Family Support Group, said she was delighted to hear the two teams would be joining in the commemorations. Her son James was 18 and at his first-ever away game when he lost his life. She said: “We are very pleased. I believe this should be done at all games, because our loved ones lost their lives to make stadiums safer for us all.” A council spokesman said: “We can confirm we are currently looking at instigating a tripartite memorial cup in memory of those who died.” A spokesman for the FA confirmed the armband tribute would take place at the Everton and Manchester United game.

Pointless, fucking pointless? Are you dead? Has your pulse stopped? Have you been alive at all in the past 20 years of sycophantic media spew towards that vile turd? Jesus Christ man, there are four people in this world that that is worth doing to -- and all of the twats are involved with ManU: PurpleNose; the ChinlessPortugueseCUnt; the GrannyShagger; and NevilleNeville'sArseWipe. Anyone of those four, take your pick. Pointless. Fuck me, The only thing pointless is the Scum after two games against us. rico1304, I salute your puerile humour. And rep you, sir.

If the twat had any brains, he'd be something other than a PE teacher. Note to self: Count to ten, read all posts before answering

The first couple of series of Shelley were outstanding. A lot of the stuff was used to model Seinfeld. I modeled my adolescence on Hywel Bennett.

I'm not sure if anyone has posted this--and to be honest, after reading through a few pages of the putrid bile on here, I don't think I can be arsed checking. But consider this. Jade Goody has pretty much the same reputation in the media as Liverpudlians (except maybe the sucking someone off under the duvet bit). Thick, gormless, brash, ignorant, --- 'trash breeds trash' I think some fucking neo-fascist Tory cunt said on here. Add in the thieves and murderers bit, and that's how people see us. Because we too are seen as "Proof of Britain's underclass." And people believe it because it is propagated in the media -- and let's face it, it's always nice to shit on someone, isn't it? Because as long as it is someone else being shat on, it isn't you. Before you say anything, I'm a Scouser myself, born and bred. And I am disgusted at the bigotry shown towards Liverpudlians in the press. But I am also disgusted at what's being said about her -- no matter how fucking dense Jade Goody was, no matter how much of a "chav" she was... there's always a chance there are good reasons for it. Have a read of this, see what you think. If it's been posted before, apologies. http://http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-jade-goody-showed-the-brutal-reality-of-britain-1651722.html Johann Hari: Jade Goody showed the brutal reality of Britain In her short life, this big-hearted and big-mouthed woman reflected our own bigotry and stupidity There will be no rewrite of "Candle in the Wind" for Jade Goody's funeral, but in her own glottal, gobby way, she jabbed a knitting needle into the subconscious of Britain just as surely as Diana Spencer did, and revealed something dark and darkening about us. Why was a big-hearted, big-mouthed young woman who came fourth on a reality show back in 2002 seized on with such glee and turned into one of the most famous people in the country? Because we needed her, to salve our own soiled consciences. In her short life, Jade showed how as Britain has spiralled into one of the most unequal and immobile societies on earth, we have begun to openly jeer and sneer at the people trapped at the bottom. We gleefully seized on her as "proof" that the people rotting on abandoned estates were not there because of the grim accident of birth, but because they were stupid and ugly and bigoted. And all we proved – with unwitting irony – was our own stupidity and ugliness and bigotry. Here was a 20-year-old girl with a noisy laugh, a quick wit, and almost no knowledge. She thought "East Angular" was a separate country, and wondered what currency they use in Liverpool. So the press jeered that she was "a moron", "the High Priestess of the Slagocracy", and "proof of Britain's underclass". That summer, a string of images of white, working-class women presenting them as bestial imbeciles dominated our screens. Vicky Pollard – a single mum so thick she swaps her baby for a Westlife CD, played by a multimillionaire private schoolboy – was becoming a national icon. A chaotic single mum established Wife Swap as one of our favourite shows. Words of straightforward snobbish abuse – "chav" and "pikey" – were becoming acceptable again. Go to any extremely unequal society, say, South Africa, or South America, and you will find a furiously suppressed sense of guilt. It's hard not to ask, at the back of your mind, "Why am I here in this mansion, while they are in the slums?" This guilt is resolved one way: by convincing yourself that the poor are sub-human, and don't have feelings like you and me. Oh, the people in the barrios and townships? They're animals! They stink! They're stupid! Jade and Vicky and the labelling of the poor as "chavs" filled that role for us. They know nothing! They are repulsive! Nobody wanted to stop and ask: why doesn't Jade know much? Here's why. Her mother was a seriously disabled drug addict, so Jade didn't go to school much because she stayed at home to look after her. From the age of five, she was in charge of doing the cooking and ironing and cleaning. Jade explained: "As early as I could remember, I'd spent my whole life trying to protect my mum, frantically hiding the stolen chequebooks she used to have lying around the house when the police barged in on one of their raids; desperately denying to the teachers at school that she'd hit me for fear of being sent to social services." Her father treated her even worse. He stashed a gun under her cot, and her first memory was of him shooting heroin in her bedroom, his eyes rolling back and his body juddering. Eventually, after periods in and out of prison, he was found dead from an overdose in the toilet of a Kentucky Fried Chicken. "He died without a single vein left in his body," Jade said. "In the end, he'd injected every single part of it and all his veins had collapsed, even the ones in his penis." Despite this, Jade always worked, in shops, for minimum wage, and stayed away from drugs (apart from weed). She applied for Big Brother because her mum was sinking into crack addiction, and she couldn't think of any other way to avoid witnessing it. To the end, she was terrified of matches, and couldn't bear to have tinfoil in her house, because they reminded her of crack. And so she appeared in British public life, and we jeered and howled and held her up as a poster-girl for "the underclass". Jade soon proved her latent smartness by turning her fourth place on Big Brother into a fortune, launching her own brand of perfume, a beauty salon, and a series of sensitive, rather beautiful autobiographies, all appealing to young women who had never seen people just like themselves on television before. The perception of her slowly changed. As people learned about her life story – and saw her chaotic, broken mother being interviewed – many realised that their gleeful poring over her mispronunciations had been vile. The sense of superiority was, for a moment, scrambled. Then came Celebrity Big Brother, and oh, how we rejoiced. Jade was placed in the house with Shilpa Shetty, a sweet, unworldly Bollywood star who had been raised with servants and never had to do anything practical for herself. She activated all of Jade's feelings of being sneered at and patronised all her life. Jade said: "Ultimately, we were fighting because we were from different classes ... I didn't want anyone to think they're better than me, just because they have more money or have had a more educated upbringing. And, to me, she was a posh, up-herself princess." One day, Shilpa tried to flush an entire cooked chicken down the toilet. Jade, enraged and perplexed, started to scream at her. "Who the fuck are you? You aren't some Princess in Neverland!" she yelled. She said Shilpa clearly had no idea how ordinary Indians lived, and howled: "You need a day in the slums!" This was seized on as racist, equivalent to telling her to go back where she came from. But it wasn't. Other housemates did say despicable, racist things about Shilpa: the beauty queen Danielle Lloyd said "I think she should fuck off home ... She can't even speak English properly." But Jade didn't; her own father was mixed-race, for one. But here was a way we could rehabilitate our Jaded view of the white working class, and feel self-righteous about it too. If we can't feel superior to the poor because they are stupid, then we can feel superior to them because they are racist. One newspaper ran the typical headline "Class vs Trash" over a picture of Shilpa and Jade, and a columnist huffed that Jade's problem was "hating her social superiors". Once more, we could hate the poor and feel good about it too. And even when she was dying, we continued to jeer. Nobody said John Diamond was "exploiting" his cancer by writing about it in The Times, but Jade's decision to talk about it on TV so she could leave a pot of cash for her kids was apparently evidence of her "vulgarity". One newspaper huffs that now we will be subjected to "a chav state funeral". Even as she rots, we still want to see Jade Goody as a "chav" imbecile, subconsciously reassuring us that our own higher place in the class pyramid is earned by our intellect and sensitivity and anti-racism, rather than by the fluke of birth. Believe that if you want, but you should know it's not Jade you are condemning, but yourself.

Or invite Rangers and Celtic into the Premiership... How much credibility can you give to a journalist called Leander Schaerlaeckens though