Bootle Buck

I would rest him against WBA and have him practice on his deflections. He has to go a long way to match the severity of deflection Lampard gets. Only practice can help that.

Personally I have erased the last two summers of Gerrard's Indecision from my brain. To me he is our swashbuckling, marauding Captain, who at the moment I wouldn't swap for anybody in football. The fans love him, he loves the club and the players respect him. What more could you ask for.

When Rafa came in he has his own targets of Alonso and Garcia. He obviously had to be creative in funding them as cash wasn't available. Given that he had a player in MO sitting on a new contract and with a possible Bosman on the horizon. Rafa didn't allow Owen to stall any longer and helped move him on. At the time the 8 million came in handy to help secure Alonso and Garcia. In hindsight we picked up a superb midfield general and a player who has scored some very vital goals. Both whom are commited to Rafa's cause 100% and players he obviously likes and trusts. Owen on the other hand could not give him that same comitment. In the end I think Liverpool FC have come out on top and Big Ears in the trophy cabinet was a nice bonus.

Reina 7 Finnan 7.5 Carra 7.5 a little rattled for a few minutes Sami 7 Warnock 6. We need Riise as our regular LB Kewell 6.5 Momo 6. All over the place but his distribution was poor Xabi 7 A little off tonight but still dominated SG 8 Great running first half but was asked to sit deeper. I will give him MOM for his goal and setting up Crouchy Cisse 7. Henryesque goal taking Would have been an ideal game for him but we didn't really need to push it. Crouch 7. Great goal, quiet otherwise

A Goal for Harry will do his confidence the World of good. He hasn't scored in over a year.

He was great for us Even the disallowed Beattie goal was a very tough call.

His running and tackling is spot on. His distribution and final effort is poor. I can't see him scoring many goals.

Where is he...................... He should be home by now.

Wigan keep rolling on. A UEFA spot is looking promising.

It was a shame we didn't push forward more after Djibs goal he could have had a hat-trick tonight.

I thought they were lucky we took our foot off the pedal somewhat after Stevie's and Djibs goals. Otherwise we would have absolutely slaughtered them.

I would have loved us to keep a high tempo to see him run against their back four. Obviously too many games in a short time to do that.

If Brum can put a good run togethor the blues**** could be in the bottom three very shortly. Imagine if they lose to Sunderland.

It reminded me of Tuesday's game in the sense we dominated possession and apart from their goal never really looked tested

Arteta is a fiery little barsteward

Man Utd draw 2-2 Final Great result for us. Wigan win away 2-0 WBA winning bad news for the blues****

Warnock tackle FFS He just let Cahil walk right past him.

Come on lads let's have another 2 to really rub it in.

Just think Everton's next game is Sunderland away

Spod Neville the younger is a gonner

Brum 2 v Mancs 2

Crouchy has been quiet apart from his goal Give him a rest and get Moro on.

Spod Neville Jr with a typical tackle

Now let's put a foot on it and dictate the game.

Cisse with an Henryesque finish. Terrible defending