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Thats fair enough. I live in the US and I feel that some day I will be harrangued by someone for letting my child advertise drink. As online gambling is actually illegal here, its just as well he's not a Spurs fan....

I've an 8 year old son with 2 Liverpool shirts and TBH I'd rather he wasn't running around advertising alcohol. Just doesn't seem right on a kid's shirt. Having said that, its probably better than online gambling.

he blew up on 2mins 45 having allowed a sub..... still not his fault. too many players didn't show up tonight

Yeah, Carra went ballistic at the linesman just after the goal when there was another ball played in that went straight to Pepe, but with 2 Reading players clearly offside and no flag went up. He was waving his arms like maniac. Ref talked to him then a few mins later. The ref was very poor though - no consistency at all.

Yes.

But now Kuyt scores so its all ok...!!!!!!!!!!

Truely appalling cross from Kuyt. He had no one to cross to anyway....

Riise just came on for Gonzalez. At least we have 11 men now....

No - watching in the US. We were 3 mins behind in the first half though....

Pennant for Crouch...

Team of Carraghers at the moment - because there's not much from anyone else

Except v Barca away maybe?

Thats fantastic. Sometimes the genius of football songs is amazing.

There's no salary cap in baseball.

He didn't like it, it has windows...

People are getting overly upset about the use of the word 'franchise'. I live in the US and generally the word is used when describing the business aspects of a sports team......e.g. "we need a new stadium deal to move this franchise forward". The operational aspects are generally referred to as the 'organization', which has a shadowy, sinister ring to it....."as General Manager I want this organization to...". The franchise word has a bad name in the UK due to the whole Wimbledon/Franchise FC thing. Its just a word, don't worry about it. Winter's comment about the club being an "ATM" is so wide of the mark its untrue. Sports teams (frnachises) are rich men's playthings in this country. The NFL is the most exclusive rich men's club in the world. The price of entry is incredible. I'm in banking and I've worked on 4 NFL financing deals and nobody is getting rich on the cashflow. There is plenty of prestige attached to owning an NFL team but you only get payback on the day you sell....and thats assuming that you have a better stadium deal than on the day you bought. All other revenues are more or less split evenly between the teams. Its better that Hicks and Gillett are hockey and baseball guys. There isn't the same cushion of shared revenues that the NFL enjoys. As an owner, you have to spend to put a good team out otherwise there will be a direct impact on your gate receipts which are key in both sports as the media contracts are much smaller than the NFL. A good tem in an attractive stadiium (or hockey arena) is vital. They also understand that nuturing of young talent coming through the ranks is essential.....both sports have "farm systems" whereas NFL teams are generally looking for prime time ready talent from the college game. I do think that these guys really get this. Just give them a break on the language issue.

Draw was the best result but just seeing them getting beaten in the last minute....priceless.

It was UEFA, not FIFA. FIFA are the crowd you lot left the FA Cup for when you fancied South America in January 2000.

Didn't they have Cudicini back on the bench at the w/e? Is it not more likely that he will play?

Three days on the trot now - McCarra, Doyle and now Williams. Seems to be a concerted campaign by the Guardian. Crouch compared to Tony Hateley.....straw clutching at its most extreme. Some of the so-called Liverppol fans writing in the reply secton have been funny. Some guy using Albert Stubbins as his name claims that Le Tallec is far better than Sissoko and bases that on 2 pre season game in 04, the semi v Juve and 8 games for Sochaux this season. Haven't laughed at much this week but that was good.

Yep, spot on. Very painful and even more so for those who were there obviously, but we've got to move on.

Don't seem to remember him playing in Cardiff last May and he hasn't signed a contract since........unless its been a huge secret.

Great. Rafa the clear eyed realist gets all soggy and sentimental about promises and we're on our way out of 2 cups in 1 week....

Played Everton 3 times at goodison in 86-87...league, league cup and screensport.

GK Henchoz RB Whelan LB Ablett (was really a CB...) CB Molby (sweeper) CB Staunton (good there for Ireland anyway) RM Diouf LM Heskey CM Burrows (remember the marking job on Gazza?) CM Lawrenson FW McManaman FW Barnes