meredithmathieson

"f*** off, Chelsea FC, You can't just buy a history, You're a very small club that won the Russian lottery, Not what we call history".

Surely a retort to that tiresome "You know what you are" drivel could be: "We know what you are, We know what you are, A footballing genius, That's what you are" ?

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Some of the Mrs' family know Dario Gradi. Met him at a family 'do' once. Fair to say that he is not enamoured of Liverpool generally, but specifically Kenny. Reckons Kenny stood him up once for a coaching appointment. Even though it was years ago he was still unhappy about it. Kept comparing Kenny unfavourably with Mourinho, with whom he had some dealings. He is a seriously odd character though. Btw, Danny Murphy spent most weekends at Dario's home between the ages of 13-18, I think he said, as his Dad was an alcoholic absentee and his Mum worked in a pub. Did it to prevent young Murphy from going off the rails. He said it used to be funny on the coaches coming back from an away game when a 14 year old Danny Murphy would sit alongside the first-teamers and discuss their game, pointing out their flaws or where they could have done better. He was usually right, Gradi said, but obviously some experienced old lags didn't like their game being picked apart by a kid.

Anybody else heard that the London Bizzies were adamant that our game was not going to be the late one? Apparently there was murder between the Mancs last year, and they didn't want to see a repeat of it. Not sure how that ties in with Spurs-Chelsea being a late game, but there you go.

Is it just me who always checks that the right number of CLAPs are used in posts like this?

The thing is though, Hodgson was lucky to get as high as that - remember West Brom at home? Outplayed until Torres scored a screamer. The football was absolutely dire. The football now is infinitely better. We have probably deserved to lose only 3 games in the League this season - Spurs, Bolton and Sunderland. Maybe the Mancs away as well.

So, the BBC have chosen to run with a selective, partial document which quotes an unnamed, uncorroborated and therefore unverifiable "Merseyside Policeman" from a Source they don't/won't reveal (the agenda for whom we can only guess at) about a story that has been plagued with top level corruption from the outset. Top, top journalism there.

I agree with both of these quotes. Can't help thinking that there is a potentially great player in there, if only he would let himself be one. But his timidity in forward positions is worrying.

True that.

Was he not just taking the piss that it said £100 instead of £100m?

Absolute f***ing b******s. If we can't control the midfield, how come we've bossed all bar about 3 games we've played all season? The scoring bit I'll grant you, but I take it you didn't see any of the first half of last season? We're a million light years better than that turgid s**** now.

And it would help keep him off the ale...

Hearing yet again John Barnes on the radio, speaking sense and from the position of authority of one who has seen it and done it, I really think that Liverpool should find a role for him im a completely revamped PR/media unit. The failure to get our side of the story out has been shocking. As a side-issue, I've also been interested in the almost complete silence on this matter from SOS. After initially stating that they would wait for the report to be written (a fair enough stance), their comment after that was, in my opinion, lukewarm and wishy-washy. SOS are very good at holding the club to account, but surely this could have moved on to try and hold the FA to account? I would have thought SOS provided a useful vehicle for LFC to use as a backchannel to get their side out, the facts which might just make people query their original opinions - e.g. the number of statements that Evra is meant to have submitted to the FA, tailoring his story to suit the available facts. Even the FA report on the coin toss at the beginning of the match would have provided ammunition for SOS to query the "credible, consistent" status afforded to Evra by the FA. I may be misjudging the situation here (and, if so, I am sure that PeeGee will correct me!) but it seems to me that various influential figures within SOS were actually of the opinion that Suarez was effectively "Guilty as charged", and that this has effectively severly muted the SOS response.

Is he still running a pub? Last I heard he was up in Bowland Bridge in The Lakes. He had a big glass case with his England caps, medals and so on. At the back of the case was a photo of the 60s Liverpool side. A pre-season type one, all sat down. Rowdie Yeats was at least twice as wide as St John. Absolutely massive.

Martin Samuel's complete lack of credibility can be summarised with his match report when Liverpool played Inter in the San Siro in March 2008. When Liverpool fans sang "Inter,Inter" to the Inter fans at the end, Samuel wrote about how touching it was to see Liverpool fans chanting "England". When this monumental c**k-up was pointed out to him, and he was lambasted by Reds for what he had written, in a subsequent article he then accused Liverpool fans of being parochial. Parochial??? For singing "Inter" and not "England"! The fat buffoon.

I am shocked. Shocked to see that he actually comes from Manchester, that is.

FWIW I think that Red kit may be there or there abouts. "L.F.C." underneath the Liver Bird, perhaps? Wasn't somebody saying the flame might be on the back, like other kits have the nickname of the club on?

I wouldn't say panicked. I would say that at the time you could not overestimate the potential damage to Liverpool in their star striker wanting away in order to win trophies with a club the type of which we all thought that he despised, like us. Politically, we had to be seen to not lose in the Torres transfer. And signing Carroll did that, I would say.

Haven't we all learnt yet that it doesn't matter if it is true or not? "Merseyside Police investigating allegations of Hillsborough Memorial spat at" would be the headline. Except rubbish, ill-informed reports only ever seem to be used against us. e.g. Was that 'cup full of s***' thrown at the Mancs ever proven? Or another Manc myth?

If true, the "Possibility of cash plus player or cash and our player on loan" - any guesses as to who we are trying to part-ex for Texeira?

Stephen Martin has posted on Twitter that we are negotiating with Groningen for Texeira: " Possibility of cash plus player or cash and our player on loan." He's supposed to be reliable, isn't he?

I thought that it was generally accepted that Bellamy's knees won't stand two games in quick succession? I was kind of presuming that he won't start on Wednesday as he did today?

Some of Gerrards passes - thinking particularly in the second half, a slightly reversed pass to Kuyt which he couldn't quite get to - were absolutely made for Torres.

Ah, the Didi crumple!