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Disgusting. Take it somewhere else.

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I love the simpler liver bird crest on the initial fake posted. Much better than the current official crest, in my opinion. I'd much rather have something simple like this, albeit perhaps with one "eternal flame" incorporated somehow.

Is it? Come off it, an estimate of 55 million isn't that far of the mark. "The population of the United Kingdom on Census Day 2001 was 58,789,194 for England and Wales, for Scotland and for Northern Ireland. The populations of individual countries were: England 49,138,831 (83.6 per cent of the total population); Scotland 5,062,011 (8.6 per cent); Wales 2,903,085 (4.9 per cent); Northern Ireland 1,685,267 (2.9 per cent)." So, he was 5 million out, but whether he meant the population of England or the population of the United Kingdom, he's still about 5 million out; thus I think you have to give the benefit of the doubt, rather than casting "typical England = Britain syndrome" accusations. (http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=185)

I'd rather Liverpool won the Premiership and England won the World Cup, TBH. If nothing else, maybe people would stop going the f*ck on about nineteen sixty-f*cking-six! Man, I'm so sick of hearing about that. It's embarrassing that we harp on about it so much after 40 years, and just serves to illustrate how much we've underacheived since. Liverpool FC is more important to me than the England football team, but it's still important to me that the national team does well, and there's no way on Earth I could see myself cheering on another country to beat England. Now, cheering on another country to beat Germany, Argentina or France, now that's another matter...

That's a good price for the Anfield Rap, I reckon. My copy was bought just before Christmas for less than a tenner on Ebay.

I had a go at one: I'm crap at Photoshopping...

Good for Cisse, maybe, but where does this leave us in terms of our strike force for next season? Obviously, a loan deal doesn't give us any cash with which to buy in a striker, and we don't retain Cisse to fill the role from Oct/November onwards. If anything, doesn't it leave us in a worse position? Better for him than dossing about in a team that "doesn't want him", but I don't think it helps us much, does it? Would Marseilles be paying his wages, at least?

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Damned red tape!

In case it bites the pigs?

This one? The Miracle of Istanbul The 96 were watching as we walked out in Istanbul, And Shanks and Bob and Emlyn, they were looking down as well. It seemed to be all over when Milan scored their three goals, but someone else was watching and that man was a Pole. So the folks up there in heaven were a little bit surprised, When Pope John Paul the second appeared right before their eyes. He smiled at Shanks and Bob and Em then knelt down and said some prayers Then turned back towards the lads and said "I just spoke to Him upstairs. He can't do much that's obvious, but he'll see what he can do. He thinks it might be better if you played a 3-5-2 He saw the team was struggling, and that Finnan needed a rest But don't you worry lads 'cause now the 'keepers gloves are blessed. You see - the lad in nets is one of mine So I put in a request "I know I lived in Italy, down in the Vatican But I can't quite bring myself to be shouting for Milan So the words gone down to Rafa, to do the best he can He whispered very quietly he'd do better with Hamman He's says you'll be alright from now The game it isn't dead And things will soon get better if young Stevie uses his head It was Vladi's birthday yesterday and the man owes him some luck He'll even do the decent thing and make Milan Baros duck We owe Xavi a big favour because of the broken leg But he'll need to chase the follow up and score with his left peg And then just to make it interesting He's ordered extra time And we'll see how good them gloves are when Dudek saves it off the line. We've done everything we can to make sure the ball stays out. But we cannot interfere with the penalty shoot-out. So Shanks, Bob, Emlyn and good ol' Pope John Paul Watched the match in wonder and cheered on every goal And full time went to extra time with the fans nervously sick And they waited until the time came for Serginho's first spot kick. Serghino he missed the goal, and Pirlo's shot was saved But Didi and Lord Frodsham proved their nerves were not so frayed Then Thomason put one in, but Riise missed his shot Then Kaka scored, and Smicer scored, the atmosphere was red hot. And then almost in slow motion it was time for Shevchenko's chance But Dudek had different ideas and did a little dance Then waited for a second as the ball came flying in Dived to the right and parried it to save it for the win. As they look down on all the fans and scenes of wild abandon Em turned to old Pope Johnny Paul and put his arm around him And said "That was unbelievable, the best game without doubt - But I thought you said you wouldn't help with the penalty shoot out?" John Paul looked up and smiled and said "Look son, it wasn't me" And I wouldn't doubt the word of God in truth and honesty So Emlyn he was puzzled as the crowd was going wild But in the corner, on their cloud,Shanks and Paisley sat and smiled. The moral of the story is that money can't buy success And neither can a constant whinge to people in the press And writing a team off when the clock reaches half time Might just result in something coming out of the divine Because Shanks and Paisley knew, as the cup was coming home God wears the red of Liverpool and WE'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!!!

It's O Fortuna, from Carmina Burana, isn't it? Only watched it once, so I'm not sure, but I think that's likely.

I just assumed that it was a few Inter fans, acting like AC fans, and they're poor actors. I mean, why would someone video themselves watching a football match, anyway? You're right, the reactions are wooden and emotionless, and scream "fake".

There you go, stealing my thoughts, again.

There's one based on the old Dads' Army theme, too. The chorus is something like 'who do you think you are kidding, Jurgen Klinsmann?' It starts with an air-raid siren, apparently. Unsurprisingly, I believe The S*n has got behind it... Hell, they might even be behind it. Either way, I'm steering clear.

Having survived the "Crazy Taxi" ride from my hotel, I was in or around Taksim Square.

Legendary.

All our subs had been used, so they had little choice, anyway. Who knows if either one of our players at the end might have asked to come off if there'd be a substitution left to be made. In the same situation, Owen couldn't have come off, either, and no one would know if he were staying on because he wanted to or because he had to. *shrug* I don't see the point of knocking Michael in relation to an FA Cup final he didn't even play in. Stinks of small-mindedness to me. Let me remind you of something... One-nil down, two-one up Michael Owen won the cup. 'nuff said.

Isn't http://www.michaelowen.com/ the official one?

Shameful. I loathe diving. But, then, I'm one of those rare people that would rather take a loss than gain a win through cheating. There was an incident that I recall when Robbie Fowler was awarded a penalty. He started protesting that it shouldn't be a penalty, I think. Good for him. I can't remember if we scored from it (or if it was Robbie that took the kick even after saying it shouldn't have been awarded to him). I hate players that "go down easily". They should try to stay on their feet. If they still end up on the deck, then fine. Diving is obviously cheating. "Going down easily" after a challenge is less clearly so, but still an element of gamesmanship that I hold in some contempt.

A. I don't remember seeing red nets. B. No, no way, never.

X says: PwC scores with Liverpool FC deal X says: not got hte article yet Daren says: Huh? X says: but PwC are Pricewaterhousecoopers X says: could be that they have been appointed accountants X says: but it is a headline story! Daren says: Hehehe =) X says: there could well be a press release soon OO Don't you just love over-excited MSN mates that just jump on anything as a potential story? =)