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F*ck off Purslow!

only a complete idiot would think otherwise. Oh....

Joe Cole concedes that his long-term future at Liverpool is in doubt • 'It has been difficult this season,' says Cole • Harry Redknapp reported to be interested Joe Cole's Liverpool career got off to the worst possible start after he was sent off against Arsenal on his debut. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images Joe Cole has conceded his long-term Liverpool future is in doubt eight months after arriving at Anfield on a four-year contract worth £90,000 a week. The England international has endured a difficult time since leaving Chelsea on a free transfer and electing to restart his career at Liverpool instead of Tottenham Hotspur. The first red card of the 29-year-old's professional career on his debut against Arsenal set the tone for a campaign disrupted by injury and a struggle to adapt to a left-midfield role under Roy Hodgson and Kenny Dalglish. Cole made only his 17th start for Liverpool in the deserved defeat by Braga in the Europa League on Thursday. When asked if he believed he would still be at Anfield next season, with Harry Redknapp reportedly still interested in bringing the midfielder to White Hart Lane, the Liverpool player was noncommittal. "It has been difficult this season," he said. "I find myself playing these Europa League games trying to catch up but I am still nice and positive, still myself. I know what a great job it is playing football for a living but what will be will be. Of course I still think I can make it here. There's nothing stopping me but I'll just take it day by day, step by step and we'll see where we go. I am happy, I like the lads, I like the training now, the manager has come in and been a breath of fresh air. "Do I think I made the wrong decision to come here? As I say, it's day by day. But I'm proud to play for Liverpool. I am working hard every day and enjoying myself. So personally I will just keep going, keep working hard, doing my best and enjoying my football. It was nice to play 90 minutes in Braga. We've got good players, the club is looking really positive, going in the right direction and I am proud to be part of it." Dalglish admitted Liverpool were fortunate to leave Portugal with only a one-goal deficit after a performance that prompted his first public criticism of the team since returning to the club. "We know one goal in our last five away from home in Europe isn't good enough," said Cole. "We are still well capable of going through but it will be a tough night next week." Regardless of his own position at Liverpool beyond this summer, and despite the setback in Braga, Cole believes the club have the managerial team in place to move forward under Dalglish. "I just think we have the right man here in Kenny, the fans love him," he said. "Damien Comolli's come in and brought in some fantastic players while I know Steve Clarke from Chelsea and I don't think there is a better coach around. You can just feel this club's going in the right direction but for me I will just take it day by day." http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/mar/12/joe-cole-liverpool

A bit more detail on the interview: Fernando Torres has revealed he resolved to leave Liverpool long before his January transfer to Chelsea because the club were in "chaos". In a damning assessment, the striker said he could not reject a move to Stamford Bridge because the remaining six months of this season would have felt like three years at Anfield. Torres hit out at the direction Liverpool have taken, describing them as a club no longer living up to their history and unable to compete with England's biggest teams. He said he had found greater togetherness in the Chelsea dressing room than at Anfield. "[Leaving Liverpool] was a decision I had mulled over for a long time, even though it appeared to be taken very hastily," Torres said in an interview with the Spanish newspaper Marca. "I had made up my mind a long time before. In the summer in which Xabi Alonso left [2009] I started to wonder. "I had the best three years of my career at Liverpool. I thought I was at the best club around, one that would win things with time. But when Xabi and [Javier] Mascherano left, and before them [Peter] Crouch and [Alvaro] Arbeloa, when reinforcements didn't arrive, I started to wonder if Liverpool was the club its history suggests or if it was in fact a selling club. "I knew I was an idol at the club but it was no longer the same. There was also the departure of [the manager Rafael] Benítez and the club was in chaos with the sale. There was so much said, so much talk about projects, but then nothing. It reminded me of Atlético Madrid: great history, lots of ideas but without money you need time. And I didn't have much of that." Torres said that he had first tried to move in the summer but was told that he could not depart with Liverpool in the midst of a battle over ownership. "They told me they would not sell anyone and I turned down an offer from Chelsea in the summer," he said. "I understood Liverpool's reasons for not wanting to sell me, even though I knew I was letting an opportunity go by – one that might not come back again. [but] the club was not the same, it wasn't heading in the direction I thought it should head in and I could see that a change was needed. "What other teams could I have gone to? I couldn't go to [Manchester] United out of respect for Liverpool. Or [Real] Madrid, because of my past. I don't think Barcelona needed anyone. I didn't like the idea of Italy. Chelsea were the only club left. There was only one option. In fact, I thought there were no options at all until Chelsea appeared out of nowhere [in January]. The idea was in my head before but it was a long way from being a reality. "And then suddenly one day, 20 days before [the end of the transfer window], the opportunity appeared. I didn't expect it; it was like a light bulb coming on in a long, dark passageway. I thought that the six months left at Liverpool this season would feel like three years." In a veiled criticism of Liverpool's handling of his move, he said: "I wanted to be honest. If others haven't been honest, that's not my problem. Football is not a sport populated by honest people. You can't tell the truth or be up front with people. It's a business and no one is friends. I was honest. I know [the transfer] wasn't [handled in] the best way but I was honest. If anyone used the press, it wasn't me. I was straight and I have a clear conscience." He said he had no regrets at joining Chelsea. "We have an owner who will invest when it is necessary and I have been surprised by the atmosphere in the dressing room, considering there are so many stars. There is more of personal relationship and jokes between players than there was at Liverpool. There, it was much more serious. Here, you don't have to prove you are a professional. That's just taken as read." http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/mar/11/fernando-torres-liverpool-chelsea-transfer?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Ffootball%2Frss+%28Football%29

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Poulson is the worst player ever to play for us.

PSV was the rupture in 2007. I meant the injury in the 2nd half of the semi 1st leg the year after when he was replaced by Riise. We all know how that ended up.

If only he hadn't injured his achilies in the first leg against Chelsea in 2008....

Jammy.

Haha

He was. Front row of the directors' box. F*ck off Purslow.

None of them were in the usual specs in the directors' box.

Kuyt Suarez Lucas

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Yeah. Straightforward abseil that.

Ferguson has said tonight that Ferdinand and Evans are both out for our game. Probably lying the c*nt.

I assume his point was he was born in Wales to Welsh parents, is Welsh and therefore played for Wales. He couldn't play for England as he's not English, he's Welsh. Playing for England schoolboys is irrelavent as you don't have to be English to play for them, just go to school in England.

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