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  1. coutinho and gerrard playing shite so far.. both need to wake up.
  2. Maybe because they thought that keeping info as big as this a secret would be too difficult, and that if rumours started circulating, it would affect our team in our remaining games.
  3. Sami Hyypia took charge of his first game as Bayer Leverkusen manager and drew 1-1 with Hamburger SV. It will be interesting to keep an eye on how well he does there.
  4. I find it interesting you said "two of the most influential players in the dressing room", and not the two most influential players on the pitch because as far as I'm concerned one is finished as a first teamer and the other has been below par for a while bar a few games here and there. I think as their abilities on the pitch start to wane so will their influence off it, well that is at least what I hope will happen. All players in the squad should be treated equally and anything that can lead to cliques forming should be avoided as it could be bad for team morale.
  5. After the whole ‘handshakegate’ debacle at Old Trafford, the gaggle of knaves and perpetual shit stirrers that is the press saw fit to equate a man’s refusal to extend a hand as akin to an endorsement of the Third Reich. Yes we can argue about the flaws in our handling of the whole Suarez affair. But for me the main culprits are not Evra or Man Utd but the F.A. This organisation had a great opportunity to show themselves as being worthy overlords of this beautiful sport. But rather than suck out the poison, they decided to push their own agenda and used the media to destroy a player’s career. Slur Alex who more and more seems to succumb to his illness of acute hypocrisy, gets no reprimand for his ridiculous comments. But Dalglish gets accused of being an advocate of racism by almost every section of society. I personally believe that Patrice Evra was legitimately offended and I also believe that Suarez was misunderstood. This left the F.A. with an opportunity to act as moral arbiters and get these two men in a room to hash out their differences without the influence of both clubs and the media. Instead they used the situation for a game of one-upmanship with FIFA, destroyed a player’s reputation and added more bitterness to our rivalry with the Mancs. Racism it goes without saying is abhorrent, but sometimes education and not condemnation is required (especially so in this situation) to solve the problem. They could have told Luis why using terms like ‘Negro’ or ‘Negrito’ might be deemed offensive in England, even if the terms are considered fairly innocuous in Uruguay. Albert Maysles once said ‘Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance’, and from that you could argue we are no different to Iran or Saudi Arabia because in this country we have some right moral absolutist cunts who see things in terms of black and white, and good and evil. Some people even had the temerity to suggest John Barnes and Glen Johnson swear fealty to Evra because they’re all black which is racist in itself. Liverpool tried to move forward but I fear by accepting the ban we may have given ammunition to our enemies to attack us. I could go on forever but I won’t because this whole situation just pisses me off and has only increased my hatred for the media and confirmed the venality of the F.A.
  6. Those two dreaded words 'net spend'. The fact of the matter is, if you have a decent amount of money to spend, use it wisely. The evidence so far would suggest we haven't.
  7. Suarez still seems to snatch at his shots making it more likely to go wide.
  8. When this story first broke, my initial reaction was "fuck the rest", but truthfully that was said out of anger and despondency as to how football was going and has been going for a long time now. It's annoying when you've built a club from the ground up organically and some no mark team gets bought by rich crass individuals with access to government coffers. If this were to happen I wouldn't be suprised, the surprise is we were the first ones to say it so plainly. Maybe Ayres was just testing the waters, but if that's the case then I'd rather he tested them by suggesting the Bundesliga model as one we should perhaps implement where 51% of the clubs are owned by club members leaving 49% for corporate investment. That way clubs would be controlled by people who love their team and sport rather than capricious vultures ripping the last vestiges of flesh from the carcass that is football. If we want radical changes, we should try to change it for the better.
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