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  1. France 0 - England 1 Ojo assist - Eurosport 1 just started
  2. when JwH's plane leaves Miami without an announcement then it's over
  3. BT Sport just announced they will be showing it live next Wednesday :)
  4. Gerrard, Carra and Rush to line up for LFC Legends in Sydney James Carroll Gerard Houllier will lead the official Liverpool FC Legends side including Steven Gerrard, Jamie Carragher and Ian Rush into action at the Sydney ANZ on January 7 for a clash with the Australian Legends. The Reds have confirmed that Gerrard, Carragher and Rush will be joined by Dietmar Hamann and John Arne Riise, with the full squad set to be announced over the coming weeks. The match marks the high-profile debut of the Australian Legends side, which will feature Brett Emerton, Tony Popovic and Mark Bosnich. Houllier said: “It will be a very proud moment to step back into the dugout to manage the Liverpool Legends team. I’m very much looking forward to working with some of the best players in the club’s history, some for the first time and some not. “But getting back out in front of the LFC fans will be the most special – wherever you are in the world their support is incredible and will make this game a really special experience.” Gerrard added: “It will be great to play with the official Liverpool FC Legends. The squad looks like it’s a great set of lads, it’ll be good to get on the pitch with them. Our fans are the best and to play in front of them again will be emotional, I’m sure.” Tickets for the game, which is being brought to fans by Destination New South Wales, will be available on general sale on Friday November 27 at 11am AEDT via TicketTek. http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/announcements/198574-gerrard-carra-and-rush-to-line-up-for-lfc-legends-in-sydney
  5. 'Rafa got the best form out of me, best coach I've worked with, tactically a genius for me' from min 10 on the above link
  6. It's part of this seasons club suit, can't imagine who could possibly have chosen that
  7. it's too easy, we never do anything easy
  8. hate the way he treats players, disgusting
  9. crocked at the weekend, knee ligaments
  10. one that was so censored they failed to show it live at 2pm as advertised, then failed to show any highlights on the 5pm LFCtv news other than him talking about Henderson's contract extension. Rodgers insists where Liverpool currently find themselves is “on a par” with where they should be. However, Rodgers says he retains the full backing of owners Fenway Sports Group. Asked if he was confident he would still be in charge next season, Rodgers said: “Very much so. I don’t think there is anyone better. That’s the reality of how I see it. “Three months ago I was a tactical genius, performing to a good level. “We lost some important games and now I’m not so good. That’s football, people will speculate. “I never get too carried away when we win or overly disappointed when we lose as you have to look to the next game. “I have a strong relationship with the owners. They understand this was going to be a process. http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/brendan-rodgers-insists-im-still-9103635 if he remains in situ, it's a sign of dreadful weekness from FSG IMO
  11. IF RAHEEM STERLING IS “GREEDY” WHAT DOES THAT MAKE FOOTBALL’S FAT CATS? by Tony Barrett // 7 April 2015 EVERY community has ways of using labels to damn individuals into loathing, suspicion or worse. In inner city areas, daubing “so-and-so is a grass” on a wall has long been a particularly effective weapon; in the middle ages ordinary people held responsible for crop failures were put to death after being accused of “witchcraft” by their peers. As Raheem Sterling has discovered over the past week, football has its own version: greed is the deadly sin that it cannot abide and he has been found guilty of the offence. How football, an industry awash with avarice, can hang anyone out to dry for pursuing personal wealth is unfathomable. If you have agents draining money from the game, players of immense wealth joining tax avoidance schemes, former players refusing to leave the gravy train, owners using the sport as an extension of their venture capitalism and journalists enlisting agents of their own to try to join in with the milking of this cash cow, how can any individual be singled out and accused of greed? A generation or two ago, a player refusing to sign the lucrative contract he had been offered would be worthy of such a damaging tag. Then, the idea that there was a collective effort involving players, directors, owners and supporters might have been romantic but there was a genuine sense that we were all in it together. Now, the Thatcherite ideal has well and truly taken hold, with fans treated as customers, players as commodities and club colours as flags of financial convenience. Greed is good for all involved so how can it be bad when Sterling morphs into Oliver Twist by holding out for more? The complexities of the Liverpool forward’s contract situation are too numerous to be reduced to sheer gluttony. For a start, Sterling, like every other footballer, exists within a marketplace in which your worth is determined by what someone will pay you and in which status is reflected by salary. If Liverpool are not willing to pay him as much as a rival club and as much as he feels he deserves, then the risk is that he will leave, which, funnily enough, was exactly how they came to sign Sterling from Queens Park Rangers for £600,000 when he was just 15 years old. There is then the issue of what a player is worth within the club he is at. In Sterling’s case, is he really worth about £40,000 per week less than Daniel Sturridge, who plays half as often? Does he deserve parity only with Mario Balotelli, whose signing has been an unmitigated disaster and who, according to Brendan Rodgers, ruled himself out of Liverpool’s defeat to Arsenal at the weekend? Should Liverpool not reflect the fact that Sterling has been underpaid for the past 18 months since signing a contract worth a basic £35,000 per week in any new deal? Is there not an argument that a player who is Liverpool’s most consistent attacker and a talent deemed worthy of the 2014 European Golden Boy award should be remunerated in keeping with such status? Should Liverpool not reflect their own financial health, the fact that they are about to have their coffers swelled further by the new TV deal and the imminent departure of two of their biggest earners, Steven Gerrard and Glen Johnson, by ensuring that their best young player is retained with the goodwill of all parties? There are, of course, counter-arguments to all of these standpoints. Sterling is only 20 and remains a developing talent rather than the finished article. Liverpool, a club that was on the brink of administration just five years ago, has a duty to put fiscal responsibility at the heart of everything it does, even in an industry which has been taken over by largesse. Rodgers, a manager who prioritises team spirit and unity, has to ensure dressing-room harmony is not destabilised by one of the youngest players being the best rewarded. Then there is the potential for the further erosion of relationships between supporters and players (not a concern that clubs have shown an interest in, to be fair) should Liverpool cave in to the demands of a 20-year-old at a time when many of his peers cannot afford tickets to attend the matches he plays in. Moral quandaries abound and there are no easy answers, which is why taking sides in this stand-off, damning one side as greedy or the other as mean, is pointless. As is almost always the case in football, Sterling’s fate will be decided by a range of factors and among them will be what Liverpool and other clubs are willing to pay him. If anything, it would be better for Liverpool if greed is his prime motive because that would give them the best chance of keeping him. If Sterling is motivated by ambition, they are in a very difficult position. They can always produce more money to give him higher wages, but unless they finish in the top four and win the FA Cup they cannot guarantee him the Champions League football or the success that all modern players crave. One thing that should never be forgotten is that Liverpool Football Club is part of an investment portfolio overseen by Americans with a background in hedge funds. If the pursuit of riches is a sin, then just about everyone in football is guilty. Sterling is merely following the example that is set by all around him. http://www.theanfieldwrap.com/2015/04/if-raheem-sterling-is-greedy-what-does-that-make-footballs-fat-cats/
  12. Been having injections since the Bolton match
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