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It was live on RTÉ in Ireland. It was the year I did my Leaving Cert. That team was relentless. The AIB hoarding near the corner flag always stuck with me - my future employer.

Wasn’t the idea that he was signed to get on the end of passes from where Gareth Barry would be positioned on the pitch? And then we didn’t sign Barry. Also, Rafa thought he was ‘thick’ in football intelligence terms.

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NetJets Cessna landed in Porto from Liverpool 10 mins ago….

Anyone know where they are staying or training in Pittsburgh?

Don’t forget Piechnik-Nicol. Whole write up in The Independent on it at the time.

Yes. Hansen and Lawrenson the best partnership; Hansen and VVD the all-time XI choice. Second Liverpool game I ever attended, away v West Ham in 1987, he made a mistake and Cottee scored. It was so unusual, it was the headline the next day.

I do the same. And did it with Rafa too. Not weird at all….

Is is the lead piece on the Guardian site now. completely one sided narrative. It’s an error like a throw-in awarded the wrong way is an error. No mention of the passage of time either. In any event, Konate took a kick in the head and it should have been a free out. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/mar/02/forest-furious-as-error-hands-liverpool-victory

Fabinho scored them for fun 2 years ago when Mo was away, IIRC.

It made it into the Dale Johnson VAR review. Couldn’t believe it. There was nothing in it.

In the Fulham game tonight on NBC, Jon Champion and Lee Dixon were commenting on the very precise language and clear messages been given by VAR on the feed they hear. Interestingly they said they don’t hear the ref’s side of the conversation but they hear VAR asking the ref what he saw etc. Dixon said it absolutely was not like that on Saturday.

NBC glossed over the offside - “ we’re told it’s offside” and both pundits were adamant it was a red.

You do have to wonder how we do pre-game this season. Are we too tight or too loose? Why do we give up the early goals? Even Thiago was sloppy at the start.

Nice penalty for West Ham there. Mike Dean on VAR.