Mono

Hey I don't care if we're labelled a long ball team. It's only a label and it could work to our advantage where opposition players are mentally prepared for long balls and less prepared for the variety our game offers. Rafa is turning us into the Borg (if you can get the Star Trek analogy) a collective unit capable of adapting our game to meet whatever the opposition throws at us. It says it all when pundits are analysing our style and can't pin down the way we play. That's because we can pass and move when we need to our turn a team on it's heels when needed also. The variety to our game has them hugely confused. Fans who see it every week understand tho

He'll be severly hampered by a lack of funds tho to bring them to another level. I think they'll be be consistent mid-table and borderline Euro chances but any good young fellows they bring through will be snapped up cos the can't afford to keep them

We'll probably get a 50 Cent investment

Are you one of our strikers????

I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today

The annoying thing is Sky were doing the Istanbul footage for all and they had a camera trained on Ancelotti for all three goals. And although there's a great shot of Ancellotti after goal number 2 for us and the crowd behind him comes into focus then, it's us going mental, I don't recall anyway Rafa footage

Eamon Dunphy thinks he's "a creep"

It wasn't a peno and if we had scored it well then we could have passed it off as what goes around comes around after last weeks bad luck.

Some chancer is selling the MMS from Warnocks phone from inside the Dressing room. I'm presuming that's what this is. You know the one with Igor's "Leg" Cheeky c*** clicky-->>>

Blackburn's academy seems to be a very attractive to Irish youngsters

Fowler hasn't scored for us in 4 years and 4 months longer than any of the other 3!

I wouldn't give it to Curbishley. He's got weird eyelids

I was excited by Djibs impending arrival back then. I thought it was gonna be CARNAGE

Didn't know that...... I hope you're not George Hamilton and think you're talking about the Baggio boys

Maybe they were all rich bítches

Diego Milito from Argentina not to be confused with Gabriel Milito who we nearly bought 4th goal was a beauty Sky Sports Clicky-->>> Telegraph Clicky -->>>

As sign that said no practising in the goalmouth!!! hahahaha

We need someone who can float the ball across like Gary Macca could. I've seen Alonso do it but he seldom takes corners when Stevie G is on the pitch and most corners are whipped across if put into the box or otherwise there's some attempt at working an angle with a short corner

Have ya heard about me brother Sylvest? He's got a row of fourty medals on his chest (Big chest!) He killed fifty capmen in the West, He knows no rest, kind of the man, hellfire Don't push, don't shove, plenty of room for you and me He's got an arm like a leg, And a fist that would sink a battle ship (Big ship!) Takes all the Army and the Navy To put the wind up Sylvest He thought he'd take a trip to Italy He thought that he'd go by sea, He dived off the harbor at New York And he swam like a man from cork He saw the Lusitania in distress (What did he do?) Put the big ship Lusitania on his chest (Big chest!) He drank all the water in the sea And he walked all the way to Italy. 40 medals....... obviously the guys a born winner. Just what we need!!!

Any other team news? I would ask ES who slept with who last night but none of ye need reminding about Patrick and Pat "are ya ready for round 2 tiger?" Butcher

He gets a good wage off Spurs tho

In fairness I heard he drew a cartoon of the Ballymena manager with a football head

YNWA the 21

I'm dissapointed with yesterdays performance but I'm also a realist. We have improved immensely on last season and being the realist I am I expect a similar improvement next year which will mean we will very close to League Title number 19 and possibly claim it. We've just lost a battle. Next year we'll win the war and I can't wait for V.Day

My exact phrase was "Football is a nancy boys game these days" When I said that I meant it to apply to football in general. Footballers these days are the biggest bunch of whingers and moaners and f***ing big girls blouses. It's a crying shame considering their wages are paid for by passionate fans and many continually let us down and embarrass us with their antics. How many users here get kicked around the place on Sunday mornings but just get up and get on with???? These Premiership professionals consider themselves athletes with the highest abilities WELL SHOW IT!!!.... OK they can run faster and farther than you or I but they're f***ing delusional when many can't demonstrate the mental strength to stand up for themselves (or stand up in many cases). Cheating f***ing Nancy Boys are ruining what used to be a Man's Game... Liverpool being top of the fair play league up to yesterday (no idea where we are now) is a reasonable reflection of the honesty and integrity of our players but I agree I think some Liverpool players tend to moan a bit to refs. That irks me too. Turn around get on with it and concentrate on defending and being there for the rest of the team. You can't focus when your aggrieved at a refs decision