The Guest

More of this please.

Brilliant

Literally though. It is one of the best bits of telly ever. My favourite two quotes from French are "Every ounce of my warrior being" and "The people that come for me aren't coming with Ludo and tiddly winks, yeah, 38 to 45 pump action shotguns is what's going to be the resssipe for me" He spends the whole show trying to come across as articulate and makes a complete twat out of himself. Dyer taking him completely seriously though adds to the ridiculousness of it. If you haven't seen it, it's on youtube, give it a watch it's gold.

The only problem would be that they would start looking for other places to spout their shite. It's probably best they are kept in one place.

They seem to have some "watched" thing on there as well. I may be wrong but I am assuming that it is a way of showing the other posters who has had a warning etc. Every person who I have seen who has this by their name is someone who has expressed a negative opinion of Benitez. It's their website so fair enough they can do what they want but banning anyone who has the slightest sniff of a negative opinion of Benitez, and subsequently claiming their polls to be a good view of the fanbase is a bit rich.

It's Reina all day but if people are voting for Lucas then I am voting for Gerrard. He has been well below par for his standards but that's still above nearly all the players in that list. Playing Kuyt as a right winger and pairing Lucas with Mascherano nearly every single game has been the biggest problem on the pitch this season, so how they can be both joint second is astonishing.

I just went on RAWK to see if this had been noticed by them and spotted a thread about Aldridge. They are going mental because he has said only 30% of the fans want Benitez to stay as manager. Some idiot on there has said the 30% is plucked out of the air, a sentence after making his own statistic up about "most polls only take the view of 1000-1500 people." He goes on to say if you back up your opinions with bullshit statistics you deserve to be called a cunt. If only someone had took the pleasure with him.

I don't usually like Barrett's articles. He's seems to have his own agenda and doesn't review the actual football but this is a fairly decent article. There is lots of doom and gloom around at the moment and rightfully so. This season has surely got to be up there with the worst in my lifetime and that's not just to do with the total losses and no trophies. It's to do with the manner in which everything has happened. The hot air spoken by Rafa before every game about urging us to attack then playing negative restraining football no matter who the opposition has become unbearable. In footballing terms there has been no fight from the manager and that has bred into the players. Without wanting to turn this into another Rafa thread my point is that actually we have got a pretty decent team with quite a few world class players and some pretty good ones to add to that. Rafa has signed most of these and credit to him for that. That's why for me all the talk of net spend and lack of funds doesn't arse me. He has signed some howlers but every manager does. It's his serial misuse of the players at his disposal with bad tactics and bad team selection which have led us down this path. This is why next season whilst I want a new manager we will probably finish in the top four anyway because of the class players we have. They got us to second with with dire tactics last season and I am confident this is the worst season we could possibly have with them.

My boss is from Wigan. He hates Whelan and said all his mates don't like him either. I'm sure he told me Whelan is supposed to be a Liverpool fan though so I don't know about the above.

Great article that. I do feel like I have grown up in the wrong era to be a football fan. Competition wise everything is bland. It's going to take something big for football to change it's course now though. It's grown fat and lazy under Sky and people have lapped it up.

Very well written piece again. I'd go as far as saying the biggest highlight of the season for me is finding these articles. A lot of my mates slaughter Ngog but I don't think he's that bad. It's not his fault he's the understudy to the best centre forward in world football. Benitez put a lot of pressure on him last week by taking Torres off for him. That could have crippled some players but he didn't go hiding and he was unlucky with his chances. Yesterday again the onus was on him as you said (and Gerrard). The thing that pisses me off though is that onus isn't on him to get on the end of a chance and score it's to basically make a goal out of nothing like Torres at Sunderland. There are only a small percentage of players in the world that can do that at this standard. Another thing I thought might have been worth a mention on yesterdays game were some more quite typical Benitez decisions. I am no fan of Lucas but he put himself about against Benfica and probably had his best game of the season. Same goes for Kuyt. What happens to both of them? Out of the side. There is no competition for places at the club because there is basically no positive reinforcement. Ryan Babel didn't do that badly yesterday and Maxi became more anonymous as the second half went on so why not actually leave the one winger we have on the pitch. Surprisingly there were a lot of players huddled in the middle of the final third with nobody to actually play a ball into the box or get to the byline just a lot of chipped balls into there pretty sturdy defence.