Bald Devil

Athens: It's Gone

Isn't anyone going to give him Masive respect fr this?

It's boss when you can lipread an accent and I loved him calling the manks raj w'ankers and dos c**** last night He wouldn't get a game for us mind.

They've got a new baby as well. His family must have been s***ing it last night.

I thought UEFA might try and have us off at first, but an all-English final would be a nightmare for them regardless. I'm expecting Milan to get a few decisions tonight.

Nice work DJDunk

Ha ha. Reminds me of when I left the main stand at Goodison this season just after the third goal went in. Some auld bluenose asked who scored and I said "Tim Howard dribbled through the redshyte midfield and beat Reina from 30 yards." He was about 70 and he did one of them jumps where you click your heels together.

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Probably this prick

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Same with Ginsoak a few years ago. "We should be up there with teams who've won it three times or more - Ajax, Bayern Munich, AC Milan...er, that's it"

Chris Bascombe on the Arsenal Website: THE STORY SO FAR "It's probably been quite similar to Arsenal except Liverpool still have one competition to play for. What Arsenal did to Liverpool in the two domestic cups was repeated at Arsenal's expense by Chelsea, Blackburn and PSV. It can all be over very quickly. As for Liverpool they made a very slow start in the league, the new players took time to adapt, and it was very disappointing to be so far behind in the title race before they got going. Liverpool found their form in the winter, winning nine games out of 10, they beat Chelsea and there was brief talk of being back in the title race. But that didn't last long. It has been another stop-start season, you always feel there is more to come because they are capable of great performances, but they need to produce that consistently." MAN OF THE MOMENT "Jamie Carragher. He had a slow start to the season when the likes of Sissoko were more impresssive but Carragher's performances since then make him a worthy player of the season. He has been particularly good at Anfield and should really be in the top three when the national awards are handed out. Carragher is an out-and-out defender and has proved himself to be a quick learner after playing in so many positions. There was a rawness about him when he came into the Liverpool team, we thought he was a tough guy, a David Batty-type player in central midfield, but he's reinvented himself. Carragher moved to left back and grew into that role superbly, then he went to right back and improved in his attacking play. Now he's a centre back and he continues to absorb information." NEW FACES "Has Benitez brought quantity rather than quality? There might be some truth to that but he obviously thought the quality was there last summer. Craig Bellamy cost £6 million and he has done OK but he hasn't lived up to the expectations of those who thought he might do a similar job to Michael Owen. Jermaine Pennant is another one who arrived to use Anfield as a platform to get in the England side but he has been in and out of the team. The fact Steven Gerrard is back on the right now says a lot. Some of Benitez's signings have been a big success. Daniel Agger is a class act, he just goes from strength to strength. Momo Sissoko is still only 22 and has been compared to Patrick Vieira. We've had a few players compared to Vieira in the past who have been plain embarrassing but Sissoko is different, he has lots of attributes." CAUSE FOR OPTIMISM "The squad is better than it was a year ago but, having said that, Liverpool are going to struggle to get the same number of points. Djibril Cisse was up front last year and he has been replaced by a better player, Bellamy. Liverpool's defensive strength is still intact, but overall the team is five per cent better when perhaps they should be 15 per cent better. Manchester United are the only team to beat Liverpool at Anfield in the league and they were lucky to do so." CAUSE FOR CONCERN "Liverpool's away record hasn't been impressive and as far as the squad is concerned I still think they need two strikers, a wide man and a full back. Benitez tried to address those problems last summer but they need more quality. Last year there was talk about buying the winger Daniel Alves but he was deemed too expensive at £15 million. He would probably cost £20 million now. If they could make the decision again I think they might have got him." TALKING TACTICS "The players who haven't been away on international duty tend to get a look-in so that means Peter Crouch, Pennant, Robbie Fowler and Fabio Aurelio. You can expect a lot of those players to be in the squad, especially with the Champions League game against PSV on Tuesday. The team which wins on Saturday will have a bit more breathing space as far as Champions League qualification is concerned but I suspect that Wenger and Benitez are too concerned about whether they finish third or fourth, as long as they are in the top four. If there is a losing team on Saturday they might have to sweat a bit more before the end of the season but it's hard to see them failing to qualify." IMPRESSIONS OF ARSENAL "From an Arsenal point of view it's a good time to be going to Anfield with the PSV game looming on Tuesday. Liverpool will need to play a lot better than they did in the Carling Cup tie in January. I don't think you'll see a different approach from Liverpool, especially in the first 20 minutes. They will go for it and as usual the first goal will probably be decisive."

I agree, but it's a weird one for UEFA. It would spark life back into the UEFA Cup but be admitting that it's the CL's poor relation at the same time. But I do think you deserve a place in the CL knockout for winning UEFA.

It's a joke. The Echo had been plugging that game for about a month, it's for a cause you'd think the s**** would want to support and they get a turnout like that. They probably all stayed at home to watch Johnson get a hattrick against Andorra.

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"Either Rafa's signature or his pen pal's brains will be on that contract"

Redknapp's not convincing me as a pundit. Last month he was there doing keepy ups with John Terry before a game and he obviously can't see past Lampard's halo. He's a sound fella but if he's going to be that f***in pally with Chelsea then he shouldn't pretend to be a neutral when he's presenting their games.