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Spot on about Allison. Seeing as he's famously religious and loves a double point to the skies, I'd give him a period of self-reflection of about 3 weeks or 4 games. 

It's not going to cost us anything by having Kelleher in there, but we may also actually greatly benefit from him getting real games notched on the bedpost. 

I suspect, in fairness to Allison, that he was rushed back after his illness, as illnesses can affect your whole mind and body in a way that a niggle or a strain are isolated, and that's what it looked like to me. 

On top of all that, this goes higher than Klopp; new blood is required at this level.

I thought you'd mention the Klavan substitution, as it's the type of thing that adds to the clatter.

defo in

Hulk - a player I just don't get.

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A load of bollocks they are. Obscures viewing on telly too and allows that commentary to eh..comment on that, rather than the game.

I got 93%. Shit sticks though.

Of course there are defensive coaches. Clarke was defensive coach in all but name. Ask Kenny.

Dont go ringing the Clarke bell just because they beat us. He contributed fuck all to that win, fuck all. They should have been obliterated. At one point towards the end of the first half there was a close up of Clarke on the sideline and I actually felt sorry for him, his team weren't in the game at all, just totally outclassed.

 

Steve Clarke is a very, very average manager, and he was defensive coach at a time when we endured some fucking shocking results last season.

In fairness his point is just about the defenders coaching, rather than giving credit to Clarke to the actual final score. WBA's defending last night was (alehouse as they might be) well-coached. The belief in us scoring was completely sapped from the forward line, which in turn led to the this-is-not-our-night bullshit.

There was plenty of talk of wanting Skrtel gone under Rafa's last season/Hodgson. Then he suddenly discovered how to clear a ball with his massive head under Dalglish/Clarke, and also wpoke of how his game had improved under Clarke.

My point isn't to bring back Clarke, but to point to a seeming lack of defensive coaching in the team as a whole.

Skrtel has actually been quite good in my eyes, and nothing like as bad as he's made out to be. While Agger should be considering tattoo-removal for the first time.

Down to the caoching for me.

PS can anyone see Coates improving under the current set-up?

Boybands are cunts.

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That is pretty much the Maxi I remember!

This is true. Remember thinking in the United game in the FA Cup were he was booked for a poor challenge, 'oh, forgot he was even on the pitch'?

However, he was played as a winger of a 4-4-2 which is not his game.

Ancelotti was the Chelsea manager when they signed him.

Fuckin hell yeah! So six managers then. My point really was that ir was an Abramovich signing rather than of a given manager.

You can get over a lot of things in football, and this is just another one. If I remember correctly, there were some (pre-internet days admittedly, so hard to gauge) pissed-off fans when Rushie went to Juventus (post-Heysel don't forget) - I was one. Most thought he was gone forever, like me, but he came back for near enough the same money he went for, and did great.

So yeah, I'd take him back - wouldn't have near the same love for him, but would like to see how the original intended front-line with Suarez would work out.

Chelsea still don't play to his strengths - they actually play to his weaknesses, hence, how shit he looks; watch how many times he's on the heel of the last defender wating for the through ball.

He's played under five managers since coming to England too, and they all wanted to put their mark on him, except Kenny who just let him play. He was foisted upon AVB, who had to play him in a system that didn't suit him; accomodating Drogba, confidence dented etc.

Remember the loss to Everton when he had a go at Carra for not playing into the channels when we were a very rigid Hodgson 4-4-2? Then (can't remember exact numbers) he took off again under KD?

I can't really blame him for going - the club was all over the fucking shop during that time - but I can't stand who he went to. I'm done hating!

Look, I've fucked up in my life enough times to be able to realise that mistakes can be made, and yes you do have to live by them, but by the same token, if common ground can once again be considered, why not let him prove himself again? - for the right deal of course.

But for the tribal bits, third kit is damn fine. It's just a dark purple with whites shoulders ffs - not like it actually is bright pink with green spots.

I heard we're in for a kid with artificial legs, but has real feet.

Quite a nice kit really - it's just a kit though.

Jesus. It's the 3rd strip. Fucking hell lads is there anything that doesn't get us upset these days? I now hope it's pink with lilac fucking ribbons and pastel shorts. 3rd fucking strip. It matters not a fucking shite.

This. Who gives a flying fanny!

Perple shert looks alright! Nothing like the Shankly Sleeves mock-up.

Gina Carano - MMArtist

When I was a kid in the early eighties, I thought it was quite a cool term, not knowing it was a derogatory remark. I here Jap is off limits now.

They are mostly tragicomedy in concept, wit few happy endings, and once you accept that, it all comes together. The thing to remember is that he got a little fed up with just doing comedies, and they got intellectual as we got nearer the end of the seventies - understanable as he is quite an intellectual anyway.

The common complaint was that they got less funny, but true to Allen's ability to take it on the chin, he wrote this concept into one or two of his later movies, acknowledging this with nod and winks.

Small Time Crooks is damn funny.

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And he gets amazing performances from his actors. Michael Caine in Hannah and Her Sisters is beautiful - when Caine's career was in the doldrums.

Very very odd arrangement. It's not like we'll get any great insight to the king, nor will he have influence over coverage of LFC. Doesn't he know half the fanbase has turned away from The Mirror?

Rumours on Twirrer Wilshere testing positive to drugs test. Fuck knows!

He should have said it all in Spanish. It was foolhardy and naive. Still, that Star is such a fucking wipe.

Mark Kennedy. My overriding memory of him is of him vainly trying to put in a cross that was more than 2 inches off the ground in that hideous UEFA cup exit to the mighty Brondby. We were knocked out by a goal from a player three fifths of whose name was Egg.

 

Dark times.

I had Mark Kennedy as a passenger when I was a taxidriver in about 1999. Picked him up from Copper Face Jacks when the birds started to sing, after an Ireland swaray. Dropped him at his Ma's in Blanch. A more obnoxious prick I haven't met since. He was out on loan I think at the time. He had two mobile phones on him - in 1999. Complaining about pricks in Ireland and bitches in England. Asshole!

Never, I mean NEVER, meet your heroes.

Fair was a tenner dead-on - which is what I got from him.

\/0rON|n Aaaagh!

Right, I'll be controvercial - we've taken far too much flak for this, and without complaint neither. I know it's not being flung at us right at this moment. The fans sadly died because a fucking crusty wall collapsed when Juve fans were pushing against it after a charge by Liverpool fans. It wasn't like they were beaten to death by Liverpool fans - which is the way it's often portrayed by the ignorant.

There was a fucking heated atmosphere that was let boil over by incompetence. Yeah, there were Liverpool fans locked out of their minds looking for a row, but there was no fucking infrastructure to handle this. Barely segregated, in an era of hooliganism (though we were not known for it per se) - where Juve fans had running battles with the police.

If there wasn't as much security at modern games, there'd easily be a repeat of the violent scenes we saw on the terraces (and on the streets that wasn't seen) from any club, not necassarily another crumbled wall.

To younger fans who don't remember it, image there being no fucking police in place in preparation of crowd trouble. The main body of riot-police turned up way too late, like 40 mins or something - a day late and a dollar short. And that stadium was as unsuitable as you could get, even taking into consideration the time.

I've probably said too much, but it never gets said.

RIP 39

PS To this day, Juve are my Italian team. I always hoped that we might play in a black and white barcode strip for our away kit some year, as a footballing mark of respect.