Billy Dane

How much of his rantings are an effort to further increase the seige mentality at Chelsea and take the medias focus off the game tonight?

Better choice than Manc Riley and Steve Bennett though.

so, simple mistake, lazy journo or do the Echo know something?

I know Morgan owns 5% of the shares, but I didn't realise he was a director - thought Moores wouldn't et him on the board?? Reds director gives bus to children's charityOct 17 2006 Liverpool Echo LIVERPOOL FC director Steve Morgan answered a call for help from children on Merseyside. His charity, The Morgan Foundation, runs the Smiley Bus Scheme which aims to distribute minibuses to charities across the region. The first beneficiary of the scheme is the Barn-stondale Centre in Wirral which gives children from urban communities the chance to enjoy holidays in the countryside. Mr Morgan, founder of Redrow Homes and chairman of The Morgan Foundation, officially presented the bus at The Barnstondale Centre and said: "We are delighted to support organisations doing such good work to improve the lives of young people in the Merseyside area." George Jones, manager of Barnstondale said: "We thank the Morgan Foundation for its generosity which has given the Centre a tremendous boost in its commitment to providing the best possible service to the young people who really depend on us."

My first game was in Feb 69 and I was standing on a beer crate peering over the wall at the front of the paddock. Callaghan booted the ball into touch and it came right at me. I ducked down behind the wall and heard it thudding into the other side of the wall.

Goalkeeper 1. Clemence 2. Grobbelaar 3. Lawrence Left Fullback 1. Lindsay 2. Nicol 3. A Kennedy Right Fullback 1. Lawler 2. Neal 3. Babbel Central Defender 1. Hansen 2. Lawrenson 3. Tommy Smith Left Winger/Left-mid 1. Barnes 2. Heighway 3. Peter Thompson Right Winger/Right-mid 1. Callaghan 2. Case 3. Houghton Central Midfielder 1. Souness 2. Crazy Horse 3. Gerrard Striker 1. Dalglish 2. Rush 3. Fowler Subs: Molby, Keegan, McDermott, Beardsley, Yeats

The question is who do you hate, not who are your rivals. Everton are rivals but don't hate them like I do the Mancs. and why would "real" Liverpudlians hate Everton? Yes it's got bitter over recent years, but still don't think it's as bitter as it is with Utd.

Perhaps he should try IVF then.

For Bung of the month?

Bellamy has also been accused of a large number of the above during his career, and is also apparently a nob off the pitch. Cisse doesn't play for us any more.....

Roeder's staying that long? Is that a record for the Geordies?

I hope he sorts himself out, he could have been a superstar. Not holding my breath though.

FWIW Bellamy was played as a striker, Cisse spent most of the season on the wing. Kuyt will be a good replacement for Cisse. I'm sceptical about Bellamy - at the moment he is shaping up to be another Morientes. I look forward to being proved wrong.

Wasn't the same said about Morientes last year?

Can see your point, but doesn't he also need to factor in that we have our toughest games at the start of the season? Cheslea, Mancs, Arsenal, Everton and Bolton (we find it tough) away? Great if our players are all fit for a relatively easy run in, but not if we've already blown the league by the end of October.

I thought someone in the wall got a touch on the free kick, but as Andy Gray wasn't chortling about it, I assumed I was mistaken.

Can see the sense in making one or two changes per game - fitness levels, specific opposition etc, but not 4,5 or 6 changes each game.

Drop Pennant, move Gerrard to RM. Drop Bellamy and play Crouch and Kuyt up front. Luis at LM, and then stop tinkering with the line up. FFS.

You obviously don't listen to Big Sam. He continually tells everyone that his little team can never match the big spending of Us, Utd, Chelsea etc.

You don't need oodles of money to compete in the league?

The Porteguese lad writes extremely well in English. As it is in the Benfica programme and aimed at the Benfica fans I'm still puzzled as to why he wrote it in English though.

what a load of tosh. It was the world cup you loon, he was #1 choice striker for England, he'd just got fit, what did you expect him to say, sorry I'll sit this one out and make sure I'm fit for Newcastle next season? I don't think he expected to rupture his knee ligaments.

The moron who sits a few rows in front of me on the Kop is at least consistent - he booed Owen on his return, and did the same with Murphy. I think Michael and Danny both rue the day they left Liverpool, as the vast majority of players who leave us do. There aren't many players I can think of who have left us to go onto bigger and better things. If Murphy deserved a round of applause to show our appreciation (as he did), then so did Owen.

I've yet to meet a businessman who wanted to pay over the odds for anything, so it is rather odd for people to criticise him for trying to buy Liverpool "on the cheap". His original offer struck me as an opening gambit in a negotiation that Moores decided he wanted no part of. I'm not saying Morgan is the answer, but an Investment fund certainly isn't. They tend to have the short term aim of building up the profitability of a brand in order to sell it as soon as profit levels justify it. While LFC has the potential to increase revenues, I'd be surprised if an Investment fund really was looking at the club.

Joe Lovejoy at The Sunday Times is not much better: Bellamy apparently hasn't scored since his move from Blackburn....this after his report on the West Ham game when he talked about the Norwegian centre half, Daniel Agger. Just love it when a journo is in full possession of the facts and is able to demonstrate his wide knowledge of the game... Liverpool 3 Tottenham 0: Reds punish toiling Spurs Joe Lovejoy at Anfield DESPITE the scoreline, which flattered them, Liverpool hardly played like the Great Contenders they were portrayed as before the season started, but Anfield remains a fortress, and their second home win in the space of four days has them climbing the table at last. After 6 games, they certainly have taken their time. Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez still seems unsure of his best team (he has made 19 changes to date) and in such circumstances it is no surprise that his charges are taking longer than most to gel. Liverpool were poor in the first half yesterday, but familiarity bred cohesion after the interval, producing all three goals. If Benitez is in the process of getting it right, what about Tottenham? Fifth in the Premiership last season and tantalisingly close to a Champions League place, they were widely expected to make further strides this time around, and yet, despite expensive reinforcement, they are sliding backwards, with only one win to show for their first six league matches. Disturbingly short of penetration, they are without a goal in seven hours and 13 minutes of Premiership football, and none of the three strikers they used here threatened to end that barren run. After Wednesday?s victory over Newcastle, Benitez still saw fit to make three changes, one of which brought in Mark Gonzalez, the Chilean winger, for an impressive first start in the Premiership. Significantly, for all the tinkering, Liverpool have fielded the same two strikers, Dirk Kuyt and Craig Bellamy, for the last four games. Peter Crouch spent the afternoon on the bench, with Steve McClaren looking on, and with Wayne Rooney available for England again, the most aptly named of strikers could suffer the same fate when the European Championship campaign resumes at home to Macedonia in two weeks. The continued selection of Kuyt, who had scored for the first time in the Premiership against Newcastle, had handsome vindication when the Dutchman thumped in the second goal. Bellamy, clearly in need of one, spurned two straightforward chances to get off the mark for his new club. The first half was utterly unremarkable, producing just one strike on target. McClaren was late resuming his seat after the interval, confirming the growing belief that the England coach is not such a bad judge after all. Xabi Alonso was encouraged by the crowd to shoot every time he gained possession, after scoring from inside his own half in midweek, but the only time he tried it the ball bobbled wide. For those first 45 minutes Spurs gave as good as they got, and Ledley King should have given them the lead after 25 when, from a Danny Murphy free kick, he failed to make proper contact with an unchallenged header close in at the far post. It was a bad miss from the England wannabe, but he atoned with a well-timed tackle to dispossess Bellamy in the act of shooting. Spurs manager Martin Jol opted for a little and large combination up front all last season, when he showed a marked reluctance to play Robbie Keane and Jermain Defoe together. This time, in Ken Dodd country, he used the ?diddy men? in combination and spent most of the game exhorting his troops not to loft high balls towards two of the smallest strikers in the game. Why he waited until 10 minutes from the end to throw on Mido remains a mystery. Murphy, against his alma mater, had a good first half, shepherding possession cleanly and cleverly in midfield, but both defences were largely untroubled until the 45th minute, when Bellamy demanded a decent save from Paul Robinson, plunging to his left. To the relief of all present, the second half was as entertaining as the first had been grim, with Gonzalez, Steven Gerrard, Mohamed Sissoko and Kuyt all raising their game to seize the initiative for Liverpool. Bellamy somehow missed an inviting cutback from Kuyt, who then met a Gonzalez cross with insufficient power. Back-to-back reprieves for Spurs, who immediately sent on Edgar Davids in place of Teemu Tainio and ought to have had instant reward when the Dutch midfielder broke away on the left and set up Jermaine Jenas for what should have been a tap-in. Instead, Jenas nudged weakly wide of the open goal. Tottenham were still shaking their heads with disbelief when, just seconds later, Liverpool took the lead. Gerrard, increasingly influential, was at the root of things, beating Benoit Assou-Ekotto before delivering an accurate cross which should have laid on Bellamy?s first goal since his summer move from Blackburn. The Welshman, his confidence low, succeeded only in prodding the ball against a post, and was greatly relieved when Gonzalez safely dispatched the rebound. Two-nil was about right, but Liverpool were not finished, and in the 89th minute John Arne Riise thrashed in the third from nearly 30 yards. Benitez, ever the gentleman, assured a crestfallen Jol that Spurs would come good sooner rather than later. ?It is the same for Tottenham as I have been saying about Liverpool. We need to wait a few months to see the real level of each team.? Of the match, he said: ?In the first half we couldn?t find the space to create opportunities, but in the second half we raised the tempo and played well.? Of his decision to persevere with Kuyt and Bellamy in attack he said: ?One is quick and the other makes chances as well as scoring goals. I?m trying to give them time together because for me, they are a good pair.? Jol, increasingly frustrated, shook his head a lot and looked mostly at the floor. Referring to Jenas?s miss and Liverpool?s immediate goal on the breakaway, he said: ?How many times will that happen? Instead of scoring, we were behind in the same minute. Before that we had played well, and Jenas should have had a goal.? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,277-2372222,00.html