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Nine Liverpool players scored that night. I wonder who, apart from Clemence, missed out?

Agger has also scored one.

Gary Neville gave the ball away half a dozen times and gave away freekicks and missed a sitter to boot. Very very very poor display.

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"My high five is higher than yours!" (What's the prize in this comp by the way? A fiver?)

A tall chunk, to be exact, as £7 M is exactly '1 petercrouch'...

If only the Finnish national team had more strength in depth and Sami wouldn't have to play in every qualifier... I think the biggest problem is the fact that Sami no longer recovers from top level matches as quickly as he used to and you have to remember that last month Sami played against both Poland and Portugal and that surely took its toll.

Well, the international break has slowed down the traffic on these boards somewhat, so I thought I'd do my share by commenting on a 30-minute Sami Hyypia documentary program I saw a few weeks back. Some snippets: - Sami's mother was a goalkeeper! - Sami's father was the coach of Sami's team early in his career. Sami showed the tree under which he went to cry after his dad had subbed him with a GIRL. - After the England-Finland international at Anfield Sami brought a set of diving gear to training for Emile, who dived when tackled by Sami. "He didn't take it too well, I guess, because I found the gear in the garbage bin and took it home..." The tackle in question was shown and I have to say it was embarrassing for Emile. I think England scored from the resulting freekick. - One of Sami's former coaches (current 2nd coach for Finland) described him as 'utterly and totally righteous bloke', always looking to do the right thing and expecting the same from those around him. - Sami expressed his sorrow for the people who got laid off from the paper mill in his hometown. The town in question (Kuusankoski) was affected a lot and needs state support.

Madonna. Who else?

He's not. 'Ace players' really don't need to do that sort of thing.

This is the only time I will ever post in or even open a thread which has the character string 'Cisse' in the title. Why? Because the contents of the thread are so predictable. There is never going to be any meaningful discussion.

Just saw the Zokora penalty. Good grief...

World Cup hangover. He'll be back soon enough.

Souness at n:o 9. I wonder how much higher he would he have climbed if he hadn't tarnished his name with that stint as manager...

I take it you mean Helsinki, right? The only option I can think of right now is to find a place where they have Viasat. But, as it happens, I have no idea of which bars in the Helsinki region have been showing matches via that channel. Anyway, I read somewhere that even Viasat shows our match delayed (starting at 01.00 EET, I believe), so that's not cool and it could be a bit of a problem to find a bar that will stay open that late. I'm resigned to having to watch it online...

Care to elaborate?

Funny how people who want to give the impression that they know what the manager thinks ALWAYS refer to him as 'Rafa'. 'Rafa doesn't rate him', 'Raf knows that...' As if they knew him personally and we very close to him.

He didn't shake the Kop properly though

It was. Doesn't change the fact that it's true. Mind you, I'm not blaming Carra.

Yes, absolutely. Cue the oil tanker posts!

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That's not much of a prediction is it? He will be the first to go even if we win it!

And Pepe looks the oldest of them all That's only obvious. Carra was there beside him and involved as much as any other defender. And he's never to blame for anything, that's blasphemy. And it has always been like that.

It was a World Cup qualifier...

I saw the match and the dive was truly pathetic and Sami did give him a b******ing there and then. After the final whistle it looked to me as if they just shook hands with a no-hard-feelings kind of look from both. To be fair, the handball incident was more a case of ball hitting the hand IMHO. I don't think it was intentional (although I wouldn't have been sorry if he'd been given a yellow card and free-kick against him).