meredithmathieson

Peter Beardsley in the Anfield Derby (without looking it up!)

They seem to be trotting out this kind of line quite a bit: "Our portfolio of companies - including the Boston Red Sox and Fenway Park, New England Sports Network, Fenway Sports Group and Roush Fenway Racing - are all committed to one common goal: winning." Whilst we are all now well versed in Red Sox World Series successes since 2002, can the same be said of their other sporting franchises? i.e. have the others been successful?

I was on the left side and it was clear enough there, just after the Kenny chant.

Can't find a link on YouTube or via Google. Could anybody assist, please?

Was one of the few in the ground that day, as away fans were banned. Nearly got my head kicked in at one of those penalty shouts - it must be one of the hardest things to do, not shout for a penalty when it's your team. A Liverpool fan in K stand did get well and truly battered. The first time that Sky postponed a mtach in order to allow a returning Manc to be made available to play. Cantona's ban ran out on the 30th September, so they played the game on the 1st Oct.

Re: Mascher: Although not the most important issue at play here, it always irritates me that we have paid the wages throughout the summer in these situations. Enquiry mafe for Bobby Zamora according to The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/7972518/Liverpool-rebuffed-by-Fulham-over-Bobby-Zamora-interest.html

" Without disrespect to Roy, he has not been appointed to bring us back on our perch." Absolutely. The first time in my lifetime where we have appointed a manager with no expectation/hope of winning the league.

Glen Johnson poor, yet again. Can Roy have a word with Steven Gerrard and tell him that he doesn't need to try and find Nando with every single ball - most obvious when he ignored the simple pass to Maxi, bombing down the right, in favour of a 'through the eye of a needle' reverse pass, which failed.

A modern day Emlyn Hughes?

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/100/petition-against-the-rbs-loan-to-lfc Currently stands at less than 5,000 signatures.

Ibrahimovic is indeed a conundrum, DH. Top managers have spunked multi-millions on him over the years, yet most fans (that I know of) just don't seem to rate him. One thing that must go against him though is that damning statistic in the CL game last year - was it against Inter at the Nou Camp? - where the ProZone figures showed that he had covered less ground than the Barca goalie. I must admit, I wondered if we might ask for Balotelli in exchange for Masch, on the grounds that we can recruit a holding midfielder (Poulsen, Flamini etc) for far less than a top striker. Plus it would piss Man City off to boot.

How so, Swipe?

My take on it too. The fact that the Huang camp have gone public with their bid suggests that they, too, are unsure of which way Broughton will go. At least we know, via his proxy Maddock, that Purslow is pro-Huang.

Just one more sleep, and the whole nightmare will be over.

Piece of piss for The Hodgemeister, that one. But: Would he have fired a tazer at Raoul Moat? Or attack an Israeli paratrooper boarding a Turkish aid worker / ideological activist's boat [delete to suit personal bias] Anybody else hearing about us being in talks with Steven Ireland?

Sounds like you've spent hours pondering that one, Tony, sat in front of an open fire, stroking your chin..'Mmm, I wonder, if only he had the money...'

Great turnout. Geat day. A credit to all involved.

Dion Fanning article. Pretty much on the money, as usual: http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/hodgson-makes-right-noises-in-the-wrong-place-2245508.html

Is it just me or are we missing the purchase of Mascherano in that list? [Not the loan value of 'O'].

Funny, but I read it as quite the opposite! i.e." Younger-Sky-I want-Everything-Now" Generation as anti-Rafa, and the arl arses of the world such as myself, more pro-Rafa. Having said that, I must be in a minority because, compared to the fans reaction on the offal, nobody I know has been more than lukewarm about this appointment.

First mention that I have seen in the press of the much travelled '£560 million Middle East bid' rumour. Hiddink? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1289894/Liverpool-snub-Rafa-Benitez-25m-Javier-Mascherano-Barcelona-preparing-pounce.html?ITO=1490

Or maybe it was the moveable feast that evolved last summer over what is regarded as transfer spend (copyright Mr. C. Purslow) that led to the request this year? Anybody stil believe Purslow's assertion that transfer monies are ringfenced in their own transfer 'pot'?

Surely we need to know whether or not the 'P' in 'P Thompson' stands for Peter or Phil? Drastically affects the balance of the team.