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  1. Skrtel in the wall for their second, why would our best header of the ball be standing in the wall ? Spot on report as usual Dave
  2. From Daves match report: And when he does go, it means the players can no longer hide behind him. Some of them have been getting away with terrible performances because people are so pre-occupied with blaming Hodgson for everything and using him as an excuse for the shocking individual displays of some players. Well when he's gone, they may find themselves in the firing line unless they pull their fingers out. Top of that list is our illustrious number nine. Once again, his performance was an absolute disgrace to the shirt he should be honoured to wear. I don't give a fuck if he doesn't want to play for Hodgson, or if he thinks he's too good for this team or whatever. There's no excuse for what we are seeing from Torres. None whatsoever. For the umpteenth time this season, the opposing number 9 put him to shame. Some proper shit strikers have shown him up this season, and had Torres shown the same desire to work for his team that Ebanks-Blake and his J-Lo arse did, then maybe we wouldn't have lost this game. It wasn't just Torres though. Enough said..
  3. I'll take that bet m8. Take the money for Nando now while he still has decent market value.
  4. Spot on - anyone that argues with this is pure blind, Torres tonight hit a new low, body language, lack of effort, piss poor. Ngog should have stayed on and Torres should have been hooked, one good performance this year against Chelski, says everything. Fuck off dis respecting the fans, put a shift in or fuck off Nando.
  5. Good Article - well written, pretty accurate in the Irish Independent. Mutual respect for mediocrity spawned this fine bromance Sunday December 05 2010 We've all had enough pain. We've all had enough misery and dissembling. But the next 24 hours will bring more, although it will be disguised as a heart-warming story of friends re-united. Gerard Houllier returns to Anfield tomorrow and he will be met there by his great friend Roy Hodgson. If you had Roy Hodgson's away record, you too would have many friends in football. Since August 2009, Hodgson has won two league matches away from home, so it is no surprise he is greeted warmly wherever he goes. Hodgson, as he repeatedly reminds people, may be one of the game's most respected figures, but when he walks through the front door of a football club, he is also a walking, talking three points for the home side. All that is left is to choose the wine. They spend a lot of time talking abut wine. Instead of points, he accumulates friends, who tell him how well he's doing in his latest job, the management of the decline of Liverpool. He will be emboldened by the words from his great friend Houllier, who returns to Anfield, despite never really having left. From afar, he guided Liverpool to victory in the Champions League in Istanbul. It was his side, a side containing Djimi Traore, that won the European Cup. At the UEFA conferences where he sees his friends or when he sits down with a journalist, Houllier tells them this and they nod sagely. It is a version of the truth. Signing Djimi Traore was Houllier's achievement. Winning the European Cup with Djimi Traore was Rafael Benitez's. These stories of managerial bonhomie are not complete without mention of the "good bottle of red" that one has decanted for another. The mistrust of Arsene Wenger by many stems from the fact that Wenger, though clearly French, eschews the good bottle of red. There will be more talk of red wine in the build-up to tomorrow's game than during a Keith Floyd show where he is cooking coq au vin with red wine gravy followed by a red wine tapioca pudding. They are both friends with Alex Ferguson too. Ferguson has acquired many friends in football, but he has rarely shown up at a football ground without considering if he could build a lifelong grudge around the presence of some enemy in the vicinity. Hodgson last week described Liverpool's draw in the FA Cup with United as "sad". There are eight members of the team that won 4-1 at Old Trafford still in Liverpool's squad. Hodgson will be able to pick on seven of them and the painful decline of Jamie Carragher means he will not miss the eighth. If Liverpool have disintegrated since that time, Manchester United have got no better. Hodgson's sadness was over the meeting of two big teams in the third round, but there was the underlying sadness as he jokes about putting on his make-up for live TV that, once again, his real record would be scrutinised and exposed. He is just a patsy. Most of those who appointed him are no longer employed at Anfield but yet he must muddle on. Many of his supporters in the media castigate Liverpool fans for abandoning their principles and not showing the patience they have traditionally granted previous managers. This, they will claim, is a reflection, of our impatient times with its demand for instant gratification (my problem with instant gratification is that it takes too long). Yet Liverpool fans were pretty patient with Benitez and that was six months ago. It may not be the times that have changed just the credentials of the incumbent. Hodgson's supporters still point to his record, highlighting in all seriousness his exploits at Fulham. There is no real success. Hodgson has never won a league title outside Scandinavia. His methods, as he put it himself, "have translated from Halmstads to Malmo, to Orebo to Neuchatel Xamax, to the Swiss national team". Liverpool fans are not showing impatience with Hodgson, they are voicing their feeling that he was the wrong appointment for a club that demands more than going a year without an away win and nobody noticing. It could be that those who praised Hodgson so highly weren't really paying attention. It was easy to praise a friendly and welcoming manager while he was at Fulham. It was easy, even if he was going from one end of the season to the next without winning away from home to talk about his exploits. One journalist recently wrote a piece defending Hodgson (guess what? He needs time). Liverpool fans were criticised for chanting Kenny Dalglish's name and the writer wondered if maybe Liverpool fans should get Dalglish just to see how they would react if it was a Dalglish side that lost at home to Northampton, went into the bottom three or lost at Stoke. It was Hodgson who did this but it seems it is always somebody else's problem. Usually, it is Benitez's. Last week's news that Liverpool incurred £9m in agents' fees thanks solely to Benitez was another example. This cost came about "tackling the legacy of the previous regime" as it was widely reported. Hodgson arrived saying Liverpool were over-staffed and then recruited Konchesky, Poulsen and Joe Cole while letting some young talent go and releasing a finally fit Alberto Aquilani on loan. The reality is that Hodgson has discovered that Liverpool is a club apart, uninterested in the soothing words from the media. "Everyone I know in football respects the job I'm doing here and aren't too surprised it hasn't been an easy start," he said last week as he anticipated a meeting with another old friend, Harry Redknapp, before reminding people that Jose Mourinho had said Liverpool will get "worse and worse". Hodgson left White Hart Lane pointless and characteristically fatalistic, even after a good bottle of red. Tomorrow promises more warmth and conviviality. Hodgson and Houllier will talk about their mutual respect and reflect on their great gifts of survival, skipping over their exploits which have earned them such admiration from their many friends in football. A draw would be the most fitting demonstration of this great bromance. dfanning at independent.ie Sunday Independent
  6. :-) Bet that stupid Northern Irish git will claim that one on MOTD2 tonight. Well done lads
  7. Spot on dave m8, hope the moggy makes a full recovery :-)
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