Shame on you Sammi ;)
Hope you don't buy The Sun aswell.
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I forgot Danny Murphy. He's excellent.
I should perhaps have left this post till after the West Brom vs Liverpool game, but do you still think that Man U are credible challengers for fourth spot, Stavros?
Right now it looks like a straight fight between the red and blue halves of Merseyside.
I understand the second goal was unstoppable and the first a deflection (I haven't seen Match of the Day), but for United to get fourth they not only need Everton and Spurs to lose more matches, they also need Liverpool to do the same. I think United cannot afford to lose any games at all now, so the prospects are receding. But football is a funny old game and you never know...
Hmmm...funny old game. Had United won they would only be 3 points behind Liverpool and I mean to say, if they can't beat West Brom....
On another note, Tony Hateley died a few days ago, I remember my Civics teacher, a supercilious moron who used to be a policeman in Northern Rhodesia, slating Hateley when he went to Chelsea in, I think 1966, this at a time when tall men who could head the ball were considered freaks. He then moved to Liverpool in 1967 where he failed to impress the legend is Bill Shankly. The wee man was not impressed with Hateley and when he suffered a head injury and the physio reported that “he doesn’t know who he is” Shankly responded: “Tell him he’s Pele.” On another occasion, when Tommy Docherty (another Scot!!) was Chelsea manager he said to Shanks: "You have to admit, Bill, he was good in the air”; to which Shankly replied: “Aye, so was Douglas Bader, and he had a wooden leg.”
Priceless!!
Chelsea were seriously impressive last night at the Etihad. One of the few times that Pellegrini has been tactically outthought this season. Mourinho is a cunning one and no mistake.
I thought it was Man City's to lose, now I'm not so sure. But Liverpool need to keep winning to be in the mix at the end of the season. Yes it's a statement of the bleedin' obvious but it's true as well.
A well performed 4-2-3-1. Not really a new tactical masterstroke, pretty much how he sent real madrid out a lot of the time. A system Rafa perfected with Valencia when winning spanish league, that he brought with him to liverpool and is his prefferedd setup. A setup that the spezzy one used to slate obviously, he is the definition of hypocritical.:)
City also helped, fernandinho being injured just before then playing that demiwhateverthefuckhisnameis was not a good move, really bad. missed aguero. as gary inbredmancrat neville (happy piper?) ;-) correctly pointed out, chelseas quality in the squad really does stand out. this will change as the old guard retire but .. i mean torres couldnt even get on the bench right? he would of surely started or come on as sub for dzeko if in the city squad. lets not start on defenders... city miss quality defenders. p.s yes i would have torres back for 5million or less to be backup for us:D
hats off to the original oil funded super soccer team !!! go chelsea!! *waves plastic flag* :)
seriously though, for my money chelsea have the "best run-in" on paper. citys hmm not as nice as chelseas, if the wheels fall off slightly then.... arsenals is quite horrible until the last 5 matches, will be fascinating to see how they do - i would hedge my money on the typical wenger "fade to black" end to seasons, win fk all and cling onto 3rd/4th.
Liverpools run in is also favourable (the big teams sure but all a anfield)... man utds is quite nice if they startto perform...but..
TBH as long as livepool make top4 and the mancs dont, i dont really care what happens :-)) I want to see gary nevilles face, i want to see peter schmeichal crying live on air like when fergie retire. Ha ha ha. ahem
Jamie Carragher says nobody wants to be a Gary Neville on Monday Night Football - YouTube
Arsenal are really, really overdue a good smashing at anfield in the league, hopefully it is tomorrow...
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Sammi knows.
5-1, a total smashing.
haha is right. but wow, that 1st 20-25 mins ive never seen any team go at it like that agaisnt "the best unit, defense" really impressive.
and that would of been goal of the season, or decade maybe.. saurez from the corner, mid air control, chips it up, facing wrong way.. hardest shot you can imagine.. haha . amazing stuff
happy days;)
I was checking the results live and it was bizarre that first 15 minutes, a credit to Liverpool and Brendan Rodgers, but what on earth happened to Arsenal? Match of the Day will be interesting! The top four now look like they are drawing away from the rest unless there is a seriously bad spell for one of them, so United will have to settle for the Champions League. Curious that Manchester City, 'the best team in the world' (Hansen) cannot beat Norwich, but out of that four, Arsenal suddenly look the most vulnerable.
Man.City and Chelsea still have to come to Anfield.
Todays result will make them think on.
Wishfully thinking Freudian slip there, Stavros? Europa League. Maybe. :dancing:
Liverpool were simply unstoppable in that first twenty minutes, no more, no less. The combined forces of Man C and Arsenal would have struggled to contain a team showing such ferocious energy and tenacity.
And while Man C weren't at their best, Norwich put on one of the most resolute and disciplined defensive performances of the season and could well have nicked it at the end.
But Chelski are looking ominously good. I can now see Liverpool finishing higher than fourth, don't think they'll win, but they are terrific going forward. Deadly.
United are still in the Champions League, and are probably on course to win it this year. And why not?
That was a sweet strike...shuf! shuf! Lot of support for Liverpool in the Arab world.
Grim, indeed. Clearing out the backroom staff who were always there for the corps of players has left a hole that Moyes and the staff he brought with him have failed to fill. I even saw a story that RvP wants to go back to Arsenal.
I wonder how long it will take for the Glazer's to start calculating their losses as the revenues and the value of the club decline -they came in for the money and I don't think they have any particular attachment to Moyes which they might have had for Ferguson. There are all sorts of rumours going around -Bobby Charlton intervened to prevent Mourinho from being offered the job, which allegedly reduced the 'Special One' to tears, or at least he was fighting them back when he was told he wouldn't get the job. I think most people have recognised for some time that Ferguson failed when he had the chance to re-build the mid-field and think ahead to the departures of Vidic, Ferdinand, Carrick, Giggs and offload useless players like Nani and Anderson. It is hard to see where Kagawa fits in this team, which leaves mediocre players like Smalling, Cleverly, Welbeck and Young, and Fellaini, whatever it is that he does when he is playing. But is Moyes the best man to re-build a championship winning team, and will he be given the chance? I don't think the Glazers will move now, but the end of the season will be interesting.
Moyes won a raffle once, in school. Unfortunately he lost his ticket. ha ha haaaaaaaaa
I think you know that I no longer live there, just as Ms Valentine understands my references, Surrey being not entirely unlike The Wirral, but with schools and churches.