TheDrowningMan

That's a fair argument in some ways, but we're not provided with the details for everyone. We don't recognise everyone - some people have grown up with this person on the TV almost every day so it's inevitable that it will hit harder. Some people will have had their own struggle with, for instance, depression and will therefore find more to be sad about when exposed to the details of this situation...some people are just in tune with certain things, more sensitive to them. It's the same reason for finding the deaths of kids like Damilola Taylor, Rhys Jones or Jamie Bulger extremely sad while that of generic Iraqi child A who might receive the occasional column inch gets little more than a shrug, a tut, an "oh that's sad" and forgotten a minute later when you scan the news.

I know it's from a horrible source but the content is heartbreaking.... 'I loved her. Will I ever get through this?'...my last troubling talk with Mark Speight – just before he vanished | the Daily Mail Two people, in the privacy of their own home, being a bit silly with substances. Something a shit tonne of people do every day without keeling over. For these two, it results in an absolutely horrible death and the surviving partner being overwhelmed with grief, guilt and further trauma as a result of what he's seen (picture a corpse that has been in boiling water for the best part of 12 hours). He then is so overwhelmed that he feels there is no option but to kill himself. That, to me, is fucking sad. Really fucking sad and I'm not going to moralise over their drug use. Again, two people in the privacy of their own home were doing something that loads of people do each day and they drew a massively short straw. Sure, there's risk involved but there's risk involved in a great deal of stuff. I'm not going to go 'tsk tsk...he shouldn't have indulged himself by partaking in this activity he enjoyed...' the next time a racing driver is scraped off of the asphalt or a boxer expires after spending a week in a coma. I'm not going to chastise the rich and the wealthy who pilot their own helicopters (which are fucking death traps of which every owner must know the risk) and then end up decapitated because it's gone wrong. Two people who loved each other doing something silly, something a bit risky at home are not exempt from sympathy as far as I'm concerned. People who go out, get pissed and dish out physically or even verbal abuse to innocent people on the street are far more deserving candidates, frankly. But getting pissed in public and making a nuisance of yourself is wot evry1 does, innit and is practically marketed to children these days so that's okay.

Klinsmann is also one of my most hated figures in world football as a result of accepting that meeting behind Rafa's back. Absolute cunt, and if he cannot take a torrent of verbal abuse like none he'll have ever had before I'd suggest he allows his assistant to take the reins for any future European games his club might face at Anfield. Slimey, snide, smiley cunt faced tosser.

The more I hear about Parry, the more I don't think he's any better. In fact, one could argue that he's much worse given that he's supposed to 'know' about our club in a way a brash Texan never could. If he goes, he goes. He's no better than Hicks.

Sounds like Rafa is blaming Rick Parry for the Klinsmann meeting. Maybe, just maybe, he DOES respect Hicks brash, loud mouthed approach to what he perceives as weasel like behaivour from Parry. And I couldn't blame him if he did.

Statistically, yes. But then there's the team Paisley inherited and there's the team Benitez inherited and their standing relative to the rest of the great sides in Europe, which makes it slightly less clear cut if, say, he wins another one or two European Cups with us.

Here's a really cool Pro Evo Wii defence tutorial video someone's made for Youtube - Has helped me out as things get more trying against better teams and on higher difficulty levels: Their English translation is pretty hilarious though. :D

Careful, or he'll be certain to put in an incredible, match-winning peformance in the second leg.

A little tip in case you start to have an issues defending, which I've noticed with a lot of people (I'm really liking the defending in general now that I've got to grips with it): Make sure everyone around or in front of the ball holder is marked (clicking on them and pressing A once) once they enter your half and don't forget to press Z for an attempted standing tackle / interception of the ball comes their way. Sometimes click and drag is handy if one of their attacks (usually a winger) breaks free and you need to buy some time by blocking his route. Multi-tapping A to summon extra defenders to surround attacks is also very useful at times. Repeat for every attack. Anyway, I completely agree with much of what you've said. I love FIFA (360 version) but have been a bit scared to go back to it since playing this....! The only things (outside of a full edit mode and some sort of 'realistic' non-Master League management mode to sit alongside the entertaining Champions Road) I'd like to see implemented in the next version are: The ability to set markers (be it to man or zone) pre-match and have them stick to that for the duration of the game. A tad more control over shots (though I've heard you can use strong passes by dragging the cursor in front of you and aiming with the arrow as an alternate shot method in this, which I shall try in a few minutes...). And improved shooting at free kicks - I love the fact that you can set up players for set-pieces (corners are simply the best ever in this) but I'd like to be able to switch views to a behind the player one should I choose so that I can properly aim - perhaps the B button could be used to shoot in this mode). It really will be near-perfect if they sort these issues. It's incredible that - for a first attempt with a radically different control system - that they've nailed most elements so brilliantly. Thank goodness this was developed by a different team than the increasingly tepid 'next-gen' versions of PES!

"We massacred Fiorentina in the UEFA Cup and went out on penalties. We would have won the UEFA Cup if we'd reached the quarter- finals." :lol: :lol: Cue Evertonians in 2028 rabidly accusing "penalties", "Italians" and "UEFA" for cruelly snatching guaranteed European glory from their grasp.

Mario Galaxy, RE4 or Pro Evo Wii which redefines football games with its incredible control system.

He's brilliant, he's been incredible for our club but if he played for the Mancs and had given away the amount of penalties (unlikely, I know) he has this season and looked as uncharacteristically shakey and jittery, he's looked clumsier than he has for years & he'd more than likely be out of the team by now. Skrtel looks more comfortable on the ball and if he continues to play as he generally has since arriving and Carragher keeps up his form of this season, I really don't see why it would be so inconceivable to see him replaced, unless it is club policy to allow out of form players who've been great servants 'match credits' which make them automatic owners of a shirt regardless of what they're doing in the present.

Absolute crap. He was and is an excellent full-back. I have every right to state that he's been way, way below par this season and has displayed an alarming degree of recklessness. It's ridiculous that people should be pillioried for suggesting that it might benefit the team if Carragher is ultimately replaced by someone with similar defensive qualities but a little more comfort on the ball.

Man Utd are actually top of the fair play league this season. Make of that what you will.

Awful this season. Sadly, we'll probably never win the league with such a crude defender in the team, great as he's been for us. Man Utd just look so slick at the back in comparison - Even their bruiser, Vidic, is far more comfortable with the ball than Carragher. Same goes for John Terry, loathesome as he is. If we want to move forward, we need to improve the team's football ability in three or four positions. Unfortunately, Carragher's is one of them.

If that is to be the case, I'd like to think that our lawyers will be monitoring the situation and making notes of myriad identical incidents in which no punishment was forthcoming. FIFA get uppity about member clubs taking FAs to court, don't they? That would give the FA food for thought. It's about time someone takes a stand against the bias, scapegoating and corruption in the English game. Unless our club is involved with it, I see no reason as to why we shouldn't seek to make an example of the FA as they are trying to do with us & Mascherano.

I really respect captains like Neville & Keane. Steely eyed before the games, in the zone, not fucking around being chummy with the opposition players. Rafa should ban that sort of thing, make it worth a fortnight's wages if it happens in future.

I think it's fairly obvious why he can get away with it. And yes, I think that ultimately it extends to corruption which extends beyond just referees.

Head to head in the league, we've actually been marginally superior to Chelsea over the past two seasons (yeah, there's only one goal in it but it's true all the same). It's only Man Utd we are absolute failures against.

And it would be one of the biggest failures in football history if he wasn't, given the unprecedented value of the squad at his disposal.

That's very true, a belief I've held for a long time. Sometimes I do question if I'm being paranoid, but ultimately I always come back to the same point and I don't think it's coincidence. In fact, I'd go as far to say that it's overwhelmingly obvious. However, the average British fan is thick as pigshit so there will never be the necessary traction with the wider football public to uncover it here. Too many admirers of certain clubs. It always amuses me just how many supporters of smaller clubs masterbate furiously over every percentage of possession Man Utd have in a match.

There'll be a day of mourning nationwide. Cockney supporters of all teams will ring in tearfully to the phone-ins for him. It'll be a carbon copy of what will go down when Thatcher takes her place in the halls of Hell.

His Sky antics have tipped him over the edge. His comments about the penalty he conceded at OT have cemented his position.

Ronaldo writing in agony with a snapped achilles would be a better sight though. Everyone who masterbates over his every move would be clad in black for the next year.