Paul B

TRAITOR!!!! BURN HIM!!!!

Flipping heck, he's come up with something I agree with! Nice one, CarraLegend.

Come up with any excuse you like mate, I've said it before and I'll say it again, it's soft. Mentally soft and corrupting.

No, soft.

That's just soft.

We can only ever see things from the filter of our own minds. You can never take perspective out of anything. This argument comes down to how fit the observer is and everything stems from that. If you are a chip-eating lazy-a*** who's idea of excercise is walking down stairs to get your breakfast, then the idea of people (gasp) running 9-11 kilometers a match is one that will make you faint and wonder how they can cope. If you are a fit, 25-year-old 2.25 marathon runner, then you'll think all footballers are puffs who need a kick up the a***. Having seen some of our past teams play on pitches that made yesterday's look like a perfectly manicured bowling green and played opposition off the park with a nonchalant disdain regardless of weather, suspensions, conditions or any other external factor, I think this argument is over elaborated. I'll believe it when Rafa Benitez himself mentions it. Until then, it's an excuse and in my opinion, a poor one that smacks of excusitis and feeble-mindedness.

Yeah, Mickey Quinn.

Oh, loads of coke-snorting, roastings, wife-swapping and the usual football-related shenanegins as you might expect. But yes, jeans are verboten.

Hey, Scally, do they always play Northern Soul at Wigan's ground? Is "The Snake" a regular half-time song or what? I'm asking since I know you live there and assume you may have ventured in there a time or two.

Smorgasbord. Well she is a foodie!

Well I'm going to come right out with it and say I wanted him to get the sack of plaudits he deserves.

But somehow we've had several. That means the scouting system must have been phenomenally good for a good while. Why's it dried up? Are we expecting all the plants to grow in Kirby now?

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We're all playing the CM manager s**** here but what we SHOULD be doing is bringing on another Rush, Fowler or Owen through the ranks. How come the answer to our future lay in the development of a multi-million pound academy and the production line has dried up? It seems the more money you throw at a problem, the less results are forthcoming. Players will come through regardless of the playing circumstances, in fact, maybe DESPITE them and so more should be spent on scouting rather than giving a load of kids comfortable surroundings.

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Oh dear. It's one thing to be loyal to Liverpool, mate, it's quite another to be trecherous. And if you're NOT English, go to a forum of a team not playing in England will you?

I'm telling you, there's no disadvantage in having ten men! The ref should make the transgressing side put on an EXTRA man and play with 12! That'll work until some smart (doubtless, European) coach trained for that eventuality.

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It's one way of getting people to read it, ain't it?

Well some cheeky Scousers also made a bit back by finding a loose panel in the front for the warm pie counter and, ahem, "relieving" them for the benefit of the hungry, while the counter was unmanned due to the necessity of providing a timely service at the bar.

24-ist.

Yeah, but that was in August (or was it July?)

Agreed, twas BAD.

flipping heck, it was COLD!!!! Met Anny Road in the pub we ALL said we'd be meeting up in pre-game and there was him, me and...our Liam! Amongst loads of Wigan-ers! Our fans were good despite the MFI-flat-pack build of the stadium (new Anfield builders please take note). Wigan's fans had a perfect antidote to our "We've won it five times" song when Cisse came on; it was, "He's beat her five times, he's beat her five ti-i-imes, Djibril Cisse, he's beat her five times." Class, hats off. Also, at half time, and this being Wigan, the DJ adhered to the Northern Soul history of the place and played "The Snake" Class again. With the pies also being class, Wigan have gone up in my estimation despite the fact they couldn't alter the temperature in the vicinity. What's going on there??? Also despite the fact I struggled to identify most of Wigan's players, Paul Jewell has done a brilliant job of turning such journeymen into a good, attacking, attractive outfit. We controlled the first half but the second belonged to the pie-eaters and we were rather lucky to come away with the three points. In the ground, we met loads of lads we went from Bulgaria to Istanbul with and were dragged into the Orwell for a reminisce with them so all in all, it turned out to be a good day out.