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The Norwegian boys have been linked before. They are ridiculously wealthy.

Thanks for the directions, mods... Anyone still got the file since Rapidshare deleted it?

I think the point here might be the level of reported 'sectarian' abuse rather than actual abuse. Getting the full two barrels of being a fenian b*****d in Manchester might be what surprised people, rather than merely being abused. Though Celtic fans do think that everyone loves them no matter where they go (outside of Scotland).

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Should have done a lot better with the amount of ball he was given. Several glaring errors and failures to beat the first man. I suspect he is being over-coached, which I could say about several of our team right now.

Kev, for fook sake get a grip.

I normally dont watch the games in English commentary. After today I dont intend to listen to the English commentary again. Unbelievably inept. "Sissoko's off", it took the t*** a full 3 minutes to realise the fref had blown long before Agger had "saved Liverpool", season's over after 4 games, etc etc etc A new low.

He's doing alright, isnt he?

I think he just found it hard to settle in Liverpool personally. And the language too. Home bird, didn't give it his best shot.

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SOMETIMES a cigar is just a cigar and sometimes Rafael Benitez simply drops players. Liverpool's manager picked the wrong team last week but, as he admitted himself, it was the Merseyside Derby last Saturday rather than the game in Eindhoven that he got wrong. Liverpool made mistakes against Everton and so did the referee Graham Poll, but a feature of their performance was the lack of effort shown by Steven Gerrard, Luis Garcia and Peter Crouch. Xabi Alonso struggled. As a good Spanish Catholic who had spent childhood summers in Meath he was clearly coming to terms with the scenes he had witnessed in Windsor Park the previous Wednesday. Sami Hyypia, meanwhile, is old, so old. None of these players started against PSV last Tuesday leading to a meltdown among the broadcasters who took to the air with great solemnity to inform the viewers who they presumably considered to be distraught that - are you sitting down? - Steven Gerrard wasn't playing. Oh, and lots of other players too. Maybe Benitez did rotate them or maybe he had simply observed as he so often has since he arrived in England that there is a big difference between the Steven Gerrard who plays for Liverpool and the Steven Gerrard who is the hero of video montages and in danger of becoming the darling of the chattering classes now that Frank Lampard seems to be on the outs. Gerrard may have come close to scoring against Everton, as he did again on Wednesday night, but last Saturday he played the type of game which has no attraction for Benitez. He was uninterested in many of his responsibilities; while never slow to point out the failing of others. When he did not play on Tuesday, it would have been encouraging to hear one word on ITV explaining that he hadn't played well on Saturday and maybe that's why he was out, along with Crouch, Alonso, Garcia, and Hyypia. Instead there was doom and questions about the manager's judgement, but never, 90 minutes later, any about their own. Yet, it may do no harm for the Liverpool manager to let his players know that sometimes they are being dropped. If the idea of rotation becomes prevalent, then it can appear that selection in the team is merely a matter of being in the right position when the music stops rather than playing well. Liverpool players need to know that when they play badly as they did at Everton that is the reason six of them don't play the next match, not that they are the latest to be selected from the random list of rotation. http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/sto...;issue_id=14655

I will be there too. There is a big square where a lot if not all the craic will be. I have been to a game there before. Wouldn't be the best fun in Germany. We are staying in Frankfurt and going back up by train sometime on Sunday morning, full of rubber.

We'll learn a hell of a lot about the new players tonight. Won't be easy.

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And nothing to do with the fact that it is the apex, either.

You're all just saying that because you are/aren't Irish. Carr is a little prick who still thinks he's somebody after a couple of good seasons for Spurs in or around 2000/2001.

Football is easily the biggest participation sport in Ireland. It's a documented fact and anyoe with eyes would see it if you spent a year in the country. That it (doemstic football) doesn't get the same level of coverage as the Gaelic sports is hardly surprising nor does it have anything to do with more people playing football than almost hurling and gaelic combined. The game was a disaster on Wednesday but a bit of context is required - it's the biggest home defeat in 40 years. We'll have to judge Staunton's management team after a few competitive games and while the signs aren't good now I would imagine that things will be a hellof a lot better in Stuttgart. And international football is clearly the apex of the game Andy, whether you like it or not.

http://www.physioroom.com/news/english_pre...njury_table.php Dunno how exactly accurate it is but interesting nonetheless.

I am going but I believe tickets are very scarce. There'll be 20,000+ at this one, more than the French game perhaps. The German's stopped selling to Irish people but not before they had been fleeced by guys logging into the site. I reckon there'll be a lot of Irish in the stadium as it's quite small.

I agree. I was more impressed with his articles when he was singing Liverpool's praises 12 or more months ago. A guy like Lawton doesn't need to use a Charity Shield to back up his point, which exists independent of the evidence of that game.

God only knows.... There are quare fellas up in Louth....

Though I don't like this "financial doping" Chelsea are at, I find it hard not to snigger up my sleeve that Ashley is at the centre of a metaphorical roasting by Chelsea and Arsenal.

Look again, that's Rio Ferdinand and Lampard is tapping him up.

I think that's fair to say but equally we didn't start many of our World Cup players so there's a balance there somewhere...