Bloody Football!

[jimbo1974]

check liverpools wage bill in the next set of books.

I presume its gone down ?

Dunno really

[SammiValentine]

massively

[Stavros]

Sammi what is your position on a new stadium? Should Anfield be developed, or should there be one grand stadium in Liverpool for the use of Liverpool FC, and Everton -and maybe even Tranmere? Economically, I would have thought it made sense for a new one, and also, I think I might have said this before, in spite of the rivalry between the reds and the blues, the derby has more frisson there than anything other than, perhaps, Arsenal-v-Spurs. The Reds and toffees jokes are way ahead of any other footballing jokes even if I can't remember any (Where's Stand Boardman when we need 'im?)...

and where would it be? And...what would it be called...please please not the Beatles Stadium....or the Cavern Hub....but...the Shankly-Sharp stadium is possible-(can anyone ever forget that devastating goal by Graham Sharp.."the Evertonians have gone berserk..."??

[robertlouis]

Sammi what is your position on a new stadium? Should Anfield be developed, or should there be one grand stadium in Liverpool for the use of Liverpool FC, and Everton -and maybe even Tranmere? Economically, I would have thought it made sense for a new one, and also, I think I might have said this before, in spite of the rivalry between the reds and the blues, the derby has more frisson there than anything other than, perhaps, Arsenal-v-Spurs. The Reds and toffees jokes are way ahead of any other footballing jokes even if I can't remember any (Where's Stand Boardman when we need 'im?)...

and where would it be? And...what would it be called...please please not the Beatles Stadium....or the Cavern Hub....but...the Shankly-Sharp stadium is possible-(can anyone ever forget that devastating goal by Graham Sharp.."the Evertonians have gone berserk..."??

Never been to an Old Firm game, have you, Stavros?

[SammiValentine]

Sammi what is your position on a new stadium? Should Anfield be developed, or should there be one grand stadium in Liverpool for the use of Liverpool FC, and Everton -and maybe even Tranmere? Economically, I would have thought it made sense for a new one, and also, I think I might have said this before, in spite of the rivalry between the reds and the blues, the derby has more frisson there than anything other than, perhaps, Arsenal-v-Spurs. The Reds and toffees jokes are way ahead of any other footballing jokes even if I can't remember any (Where's Stand Boardman when we need 'im?)...

and where would it be? And...what would it be called...please please not the Beatles Stadium....or the Cavern Hub....but...the Shankly-Sharp stadium is possible-(can anyone ever forget that devastating goal by Graham Sharp.."the Evertonians have gone berserk..."??

if we can hold 65k in an anfield bolt on then its gotta be that, otherwise new. (id much prefer to redevelop anfield though for many reasons!)x

Name will be determined by £ not by sentiment sadly

Yay for football

[Stavros]

Never been to an Old Firm game, have you, Stavros?

A comment of no relevance to the situation in Liverpool; as I said, in spite of the rivalry, the reds and the blues at least know how to get a good laugh out of their historic partnership, which can't be said about Celtic and Rangers.

[zeebeedee]

Stavros, football fans who "get a laugh" out their rivalry as per your words , well it can hardly then create a "frisson" to use another of your words, now can it.
There is but one absolute rivalry that exists in football and its the Old Firm.

[robertlouis]

Stavros, football fans who "get a laugh" out their rivalry as per your words , well it can hardly then create a "frisson" to use another of your words, now can it.
There is but one absolute rivalry that exists in football and its the Old Firm.

Just back after 5 days gigging in and around Glasgow. Rangers' travails dominate the front as well as the back pages and the old rivalries are as sharp as ever. Everton and Liverpool can and have buried tribal rivalries when their community has needed unity. Spurs and Arsenal can get nasty, especially the tasteless and offensive antisemitic filth from the Gooners, and things can get tasty in the north east and elsewhere. But stir in that deadly poison of sectarianism and there's an altogether different and more combustible edge to the Old Firm.

But just to show how wonderfully parochial rivalries can become, a friend was at a game between Plymouth and Exeter for bragging rights in Devon, only to hear the Plymouth fans regaling their hated rivals with chants of "Dirty Northern Bastards!". You can't buy humour like that.

[irvin66]

[jimbo1974]

lol

Arsenal are shite