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Jonathan "Arse Tampon" Wilkes almost kissing the Umbro badge there.

Is that twat Dermot O'Leary actually wearing a hankie in his pocket? Wanker.

Gay as a window, that one. The forced laughter from him and Fat Sam whenever Al Murray does his 'ironic' 'comedy' is excruciating.

Surely ITV has broken its record for cunts/minute tonight. From a channel with X-Factor AND Britain's Got Talent that's going some. Almost makes me want save up, fly out to Africa and kill the poor cunts with my bare hands.

So Purslow and pals have shown that the Fourth Estate still has much sway in footballing matters, but actions speak louder than journalese. We are told Benitez's exit will ease the lack of stability at the club, the boat rocking and shit slinging which puts off buyers. I'm sure the extortionate asking price might also have a little to do with it.

Pulling the wool (sic) over Henry Winter's Home Counties cunts and the Bascombe moutbreathership is easy, making them believe 'SACK RAFFA!!!11!one!1' is the cure to the club's ills is easy, proving himself to be a man of his word is going to be tough.

No way is the Echo realistically able to criticise the M.D. yet it also chooses to not even report criticism either (no mention of the anti-Purslow feeling at the flag burning protest.) I hope they're paying attention on the fourth.

If and when we complete our descent through the league(s) will Chrissy's EXCLUSIVES be as highly sought after as when he quit the Echo? His career has peaked methinks... and at the News Of The World.

His bezzies at the club are not going to be around forever - with this crusade Bascombe's will be proven to have shat on his own doorstep.

Where's the option for Paul Ince? I'm appalled

Sources close to a furious Ince reveal he has been snubbed due to his inherent blackness.

I reckon Kenny would have more sense than to take it. Besides, his relationships with the 'power players' and 'sources' at the club might just take things to the opposing end of the Rafa scale. In no way an Evans lack of respect but a... familiarity.

And that's before you throw in the inevitable legacy-pissing. Can't see it happening.

For what we need in the short term the ideal man for the job would be a low budget motivator with European experience, ideally young and British: if he was managing Newcastle or Villa and getting the same results then the screaming skull from across the park would be top of my list.

In reality I'd go for Hodgson.

I'm content being skint and principled, but thanks for the offer.

Funny how no one leveled these criticisms at him when he was at the Echo.

If you're referring to the AIDS thing - it's not Basco's fault he's dying of a shameful lifestyle choice. He needed the money.

It's true what they say: never meet your heroes :(

I see Chris is now on Twitter.

 

Chris Bascombe (ChrisBasco_NOTW) on Twitter

Nice one. Ordinarily I wouldn't follow this guy off a burning oil rig, but couldn't bear missing out on such nuggets as 'Favoured DVD viewing of many England lads is The Wire (great choice). Box sets are packed. Reckon Fabio more of a Sopranos man myself.'

How can a writer make it to a national without knowing the distinction between 'less' and 'fewer'? Oh...

Must admit I don't really take pleasure from slagging the guy off as, genuinely, I used to enjoy his Echo match reports - but I was only a kid then. Put it down to the naivety of youth (often I'd be swigging off a bottle of Orange Lucozade and piss in my own mouth by mistake ffs!). That, and his style of stock phrases and crowbarred topical 'wit' has long since worn thin.

I remember listening to him as summariser on Radio Merseyside growing up - he was insightful and knowledgeable... if you could get past that midget-on-helium-with-its-balls-trapped-a-vice nasal whine. Sometimes the commentary would cut out but if you checked the next room and the dog was having a seizure and shitting everywhere you knew it was just Chris talking.

Also, when did he get The AIDS? I remember him being much fatter and fanny-headed. That profile picture is shocking: a recovering Belsen freak with a nose that's been stamped on by an elephant.

Like I say, I don't take much pleasure from it.

I literally saw Redknapp literally talking bollocks on SSN earlier. I mean, bollocks were literally popping out of his mouth. Literally.

The one I really feel for is Montse. She'll be driven to distraction by him sitting round the house all day, rubbing his hands.

Woman banker claims she was sacked for being too attractive - Telegraph

Debrahlee Lorenzana, 33, alleges that she was ordered to stop wearing pencil skirts, fitted business suits, tight trousers and high heels because her appearance was too much for her colleagues at Citibank to bear.

She has filed a sex discrimination suit against the bank in New York and is seeking damages for loss of earnings and emotional distress.

 

"My entire life, I've been dealing with this. People say, 'Oh, you got a job because you look that way'," Miss Lorenzana said. "Are you saying that just because I look this way genetically, that this should be a curse for me?"

Miss Lorenzana was hired by Citibank in September 2008 as a $70,000 per year business banker, based in the Chrysler Building. After her interview – to which she wore a black Armani wrap dress and Christian Louboutin heels – she claims a colleague told her that the branch was "pretty much known for hiring pretty girls".

 

Within weeks of her arrival, Miss Lorenzana alleged that she was summoned to a meeting with two male managers who pointed to her bottom and told her that her trousers were too tight. Her suit claims that she was given a list of items she should not wear.

 

"I honestly couldn't believe it. I was in shock," she said yesterday. "They pulled me aside and told me I could not wear pencil skirts, business suits that were fitted – basically what every woman in New York wears to go to work."

The suit alleges: "As a result of her tall stature, coupled with her curvaceous figure, Lorenzana was told she should not wear classic high-heeled business shoes, as this purportedly drew attention to her body in a manner that was upsetting to her easily distracted managers."

 

Miss Lorenzana wrote a letter to the human resources department complaining that other female employees were allowed to wear what they liked "because they were short, overweight and they didn't draw much attention, but since I was five foot six, 125 pounds, with a figure, it wasn't 'appropriate'".

 

She attempted to tone down her appearance by going make-up free but her bosses continued to make daily comments on her clothes, she alleges. In July 2009 she was transferred to another branch and the following month was told that she "wasn't fit for the culture of Citibank" and sacked. The bank claims Miss Lorenzana was fired for poor performance.

 

In an attempt to prove that Puerto Rican-born Miss Lorenzana cannot help but look attractive at work, her lawyer, Jack Tuckner, hired a professional photographer to take pictures of her in business attire. Mr Tuckner described his client as a "babe" and said her bosses could not resist her Latin looks "so instead they wanted her to wear a tent or a burka".

 

Miss Lorenzana said she yearned to be uglier. "If being less good-looking means being happy and finding love and not being sexually harassed and having a job where no one bothers you and no one questions you because of your looks then, definitely, I'd want that. I think of that every day."

 

A Citibank spokesman said: "We believe this lawsuit is without merit and we will defend against it vigorously. We do not condone or tolerate discrimination within our business for any reason."

MOAR:

Debrahlee Lorenzana: Too Sexy for Bank?*Pictures - CBS News

Why can't our captain behave like this?

*deep breath*

If Rumours are to be believed Benitez has been sacked, and the club....is still here.

Eh? What does this even mean?

If you go down Walton Breck Road, you will see Shanks with his arms aloft. The Kop in all it's glory, and an area in desperate need of regeneration.

Rafa's fault, clearly. All those tinnied houses would be gone if only he'd have played Stevie in his preferred position.

If the past 30 minutes have proved anything to me, it's that his club is split into more sections than a loaf of bread.

Ok, an analogy. Let's see where you're going with this...

Anti Rafa, Pro-Rafa,

A loaf of bread made up of two sections?!?! Fucking hell, even one of those rip-off loaves from Sayers give you at least twenty slices.

it's clear to me that we need someone to Unite the fanbase, and we need something to unite the fanbase.

Again, what does this even mean?

We need to be united in beating the American owners.

"Give them the beating of their lives, Smithers."

What is relevant, is what is happening now, who owns this club and what will happen to this club in the future. Make no mistakes, despite what posters may post about Benitez, everyone and anyone knows the main problems at this football club are Tom and George, cancer and aids, twit and twat.

Funny how people have started coming out with this particular line since Benitez's exit becomes ever more tangible. Remember all those anti-owners discussions where little twats would impose their anti-Rafa agenda in attempts to derail the discussion? That was you, that was.

I said this before, from a personal point of view, it's very much 1 down, 2 to go. But we really need to up the ante where it matters. We no longer have a 'broken arm', but we still have cancer. It doesn't matter what your thoughts on Benitez are or where. What matters is beating the cancer once and for all, and what matters is putting on a united front.

For whatever ends, the manager fought like a bastard against the owners and their appointments. Do you honestly think the current owners will choose to employ someone who is going to rock the boat in a similar fashion? There is no cure for cancer.

I understand there is a march on the 4th July to protest against the owners, and I implore you to take part. I implore you to boycott everything to do with this football club, I implore you not to go the match, I implore you not to buy the shirt and I implore you not to fight for past servants or for players, I implore you to fight for the fans of this club, the people of Anfield and the people who have watched this club from years gone by.

You lost me at 'implore'.

I'd suggest a thesaurus. I hear Henry Winter has a few going spare.

Benitez, like it or not is not relevant anymore, his achievements will be remembered, but at this moment it's not relevant.

When Liverpool Football Club is falling through the leagues will you still be remembering his achievements? Will you even spare a thought for Liverpool Football Club?

I have mixed feelings as to what to expect of a potential manager, but what I do know is that Benitez's time was up, yanks or no yanks.

Hey, that's your opinion and that's sound.

This fanbase as I said, is split. But opinion is opinion, what we have infront of us is a potentially manager-less club, but a club in need of saving.

A managerless club is what the Rafa-out brigade have been striving for. Excellent work, Agent Purslow. Stage Two: So, er, who's going to save the club then? The fans? Broughton won't give us the time of day. And wasn't that supposedly Purslow's initial brief anyway?

We as fans must now unite in the one common goal in getting the Americans out.

Agreed. You do realise that is going to be a lot more difficult when the owners put in place a mouthpiece who is going to appease the players and toe the line with the media? A fuck of a lot more difficult.

Let the next 3 months become the most active in this clubs history, let a new reign both on and off the pitch begin, and let us as fans fight for that.

I admire your spirit and would like to join you but the whole 'let's-get-rid-of-the-nasty-owners' schtick is hard to take seriously from people who have until now viewed manager removal as priority number one. Ignoring - through ignorance, agenda or herd mentality - the REAL problems at the club.

i implore you if you can't make the 4th July, do anything you can to get the Americans out.

I'd be happy with Roy Hodgson. Discuss...

Sorry to piss on your chips but I think he's been married for years. :no

If any, or all, of Gerrard, Torres, Masherano or Benayoun do leave in the summer it will make an absolute mockery of everything Maddock/Winter/Bascombe et al. have been regurgitating from Purslow.

There'll be a few on here with red faces too.

Hang on. I thought Torres, Gerrard and Benayoun were leaving because Rafa was staying?

Haha. Yeah, me too.

Those goalposts shift quicker than a Cumbrian caught in the crosshairs.

*rubs hands together*

I'd come on my own face if we managed to pursuade Pellegrini to manage us.

 

Alas, it won't fucking happen.

I dunno man - if you leave it a couple of days, and get the trajectory right...

Momentous news and all a lot of people seem to care about is making some cracks about RAWK. What the fuck is that all about?

Gallows humour.

And does anyone think this is connected to possible new owners ? or is it linked to losing the dressing room ?

A bit of both, I think. Purslow was brought in to find new investment and failed; Rafa guaranteed fourth and failed. Rafa's been accused (rightly so) of using the ownership debacle to cover his failings and this is precisely what our slimy M.D. has been doing through his hounding of the manager.

Rafa saw off Parry but his successor is too slick an operator. Crucially, Benitez made too many mistakes in his job to get away with the politicking this time.

I will always maintain he deserved another season.

RAWK reaching new cringeworthy levels I see.

Probably a lot to do with the worryingly high oestrogen levels. And don't even get me started on the women.

If 'player power' had as much to do with Rafa's dismissal as Purslow and Gerrard are telling Maddock, surely whoever comes in next will have to be a yes-man? As already discussed ad nauseum: we're not an attractive proposition to the elite coaches, and most are already employed anyway. Pellegrini would certainly be good for the owners/powerful players in that he's used to being neutered. A greasy Roy Evans, if you will.

This leaves yet another power vacuum, but this one's on the already disastrous playing side.

Also, those who've been saying for the last few months "It's sound - we'll get Mourinho" will get a rude fucking awakening.

Gerrard, Purslow, Broughton, Cancer + AIDS; the cunts have finally taken over the asylum.

Wouldn't be surprised to see Purslag replace him as player-manager.