meredithmathieson

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Absolutely. 100%. Hate all this "We have to immediately sing Brendan Rodgers' name if we sing Kenny's" s***, in case it causes offence.b******s.

Aided and abetted by the media, who are giving Wenger the full Rafa treatment now.

The last time I felt this confident about finishing fourth was just before we played Villa at home.

Phil Dowd, the fourth official in the Suarez-Evra affair whose contemporaneous notes mysteriously went missing afterwards. Although looking at him tonight, he probably ate them.

Oh yes! I think he was more excited than Mark. He said that Sterling was a complete bag of nerves, and that Joe Cole was really nice to chat to. Brendan wasn't there, apparently.

The annual visit to the chidren's hospital. http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/latest-news/pics-reds-play-santa-at-alder-hey In the first picture, the lad sat on Danny Agger's knee is my mate's lad, Mark Cheminais. Diagnosed with a brain tumour at the age of 2 and a half years old. Spent a full year in Alder Hey undergoing chemotherapy. And that picture has just made his old fellah's Christmas.

From memory I thought Cally got booked in a home game against Stoke City (I think). I was only a nipper, but remember the crowd booing the ref for ages for booking him. And it was never a foul.

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Brendan Rodgers made a lot of that "In 79% of cases, the team with the most possession wins the game" statistic. Trust us to be continuously in the 21%.

I still cry.

'Rocheteau' : I believe FSG are sincere that they want us to have Champions League football and there is a compelling commercial and sporting logic to that. Could there be an equally compelling strictly commercial logic to not-funding us to the level required for Campions League, but simply ticking over with a huge fan base, TV rights etc. 'Rocheteau' : They have brought in a bright progressive manager with a remit to play attacking football which suggests that they have some ambition if you believe Tom Werner, but the club needs an injection of £30m plus the summer sales at least to build towards it - thats a first step - then another £30m the season after should we get Champions League qualification. a bright progressive manager : who was on nobody's radar for being the next Liverpool manager back in the summer - see the poll on this site alone. Bright, progressive manager = inexperienced, no track record of success, cheap and malleable? if you believe Tom Werner therein lies the problem with that statement. Werner has shown himself up to be a man of soundbites with no substance - aren't we able to compete financially with any club in the world, according to Tom Werner? Apart from Clint Dempsey, obviously. We'd rather leave the club with no strikers. And I don't like these leaked stories of who we were going to bid for, but never quite got them. Very Everton-esque, trying to appease the fans. I think that the strange thing is with FSG is that, two years into their stewardship, you can make equally compelling cases that they are good owners for us at this time, or alternatively that their inexperience in football matters is costing the club an awful lot.

A footballing genius That's what you are.

Just got on the plane back to Liverpool, other passengers still coming on. Two lads came up the gantry and asked: "Is this a Dublin plane, boys?" "No, Liverpool, mate". So off they trotted to the next plane down. Utter, utter chaos. Never showed my flight ticket or passport to anybody. Would have been carnage there had we been humiliated in that game. Oh, and obviously the walk to the ground after the traffic came to a complete standstill. The ground looking like a UFO that had just landed in the middle of nowhere. And then the trek to the ground, which was always a damn sight further away than it looked. A mate descibed it as "Like a colony of red ants, but all carrying ale".

Exactly what I would have said. Like a coach full of lobotomised simpletons, all grinning and shaking their heads but making no noise. Bizarre.

Anybody seen that YouTube video outside Old Trafford, where the Mancs were singing "Murderers" at a passing coach of Everton fans? I think quite a few Mancs must be in the category "d" camp above.

Re: point 2: I went to the match in November, I think it was. Freezing cold. To be honest, the police were almost sickeningly friendly and had obviously been told to be on their best behaviour and to help fans wherever and whenever they could. This was highlighted when a fellah appeared back in the stand at half-time with a couple of drinks and then exclaimed "b******s, I've forgotten the coffees". The nearest Police Officer said straightaway "I'll get them for you, mate". And meant it too. Cue much guffawing and requests for ale etc. But that to me was the tone of that match, although I appreciate that it doesn't answer your point about any pre-match briefing.

I think it becomes ever clearer why The-Candidate-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named didn't even merit an interview. But this is a perfect storm of ther own making: FSG appointed Commoli. FSG sacked Commoli. FSG appointed Kenny on a permanent deal. FSG sacked Kenny. If they aren't prepared to support their candidate, the one who polled less than 4 votes on this site for the next potential manager (and that is not a criticism of BR, by the way, just an illiustration of how he wasn't really on the fans radar to be next manager), then I think that there is a real argument for saying that we should have kept Kenny on. The way FSG change with the wind (apart from on the stadium of course, which doesn't even merit a mention in the "Open Letter") is hugely disconcerting.

That should bring Ostrich Man to the thread!

Didn't see that bit in the Season Ticket renewal form!

So they wait and choose to demonstrate their Post Traumatic Stress Disorder by totally undermining and publicly humiliating Brendan Rodgers? Smart move.

Like that wasn't going on before the complete c**k-up that was the Liverpool FC Transfer Window debacle!

If Mr Ferguson was that non-plussed about Suarez (ever since he ripped the Mancs a new one in the 3:1 game at Anfield), I doubt that he would have gone to the lengths that he has gone to ever since to try and get Suarez out of Liverpool. And the paranoia bit re. the 6th match was a reference to the Juventus model of having the opposition's best players removed beforehand by tame refs through red cards/an accumulation of yellows. Not that that could ever happen in the UK of course.....

Haha!

Took your advice Chewie and tweeted Jen Chang. I've got a reply to email him and he'll sort it with the Ticket Office. Hopefully common sense will prevail! Fair play to him for getting back to me so quickly, as well.