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He also has a preference for one year 'rolling contracts,' so hopefully we can be rid of him by the autumn of 2011.

If a hack said something like, 'Rafa, you don't know who will take over the club, and you don't know if they'll want you to stay on or not, and you don't know what their plans in general will be. Do you expect to stay on?' at least it would expose the stupidity of the hack for the more dim-witted spectators.

It's a bit like a hack saying 'Gordon Brown refuses to commit himself to remaining PM after next week'. It's the wrong question - isn't it?

Keys asking Redknapp why Gerrard 'keeps' making errors. It beggars belief. It sort of makes sense of the attitude some of our younger supporters have acquired.

We'll be unlikely to get in as good a manager as Houllier now. That's what depresses me. And some people seem to think all of this is some sort of 'triumph'.

It could be Barnsie against QPR all over again.

Souey. I'm sorry that it's confusing.

Yes, I hope he's all right. He even sounded quite frail.

Webb's booking the spine of our team. He's nothing if not meticulous.

Ha! I think I'm LFCTV's only viewer. But it's not bad post-match.

The most laughable Sky moment for me was when it got to about 63 minutes and Tyler said, 'Well, Andy, it's getting close to what you call Rafa time for subs!' And SPURS made a substitiuion! Tyler's been around long enough to know that MOST teams make substitutions round about that time - why persist with this nonsense?

I was too excited to remember, but I think he went for the other corner, didn't he??

Er, LFCTV. Sorry to distress you!

Well done, Dirk. He said Gomes came up after the first pen and said in Dutch 'Are you going to kick it in the same corner again?' Dirk said 'I haven't decided. Wait and see'. Cool customer.

Richard Keys seems to know what a cliche he's become, because, all of a sudden, he's now adopted the new mantra: 'This league needs a strong Liverpool'. As if he's been willing such a thing all this time!

Wasn't he just? Standing there so eager to get the card out. Pompous ass. And will someone shoot that idiot bell ringer?

Well - and I'm fighting a natural inclination here to think the above is absolutely right - to be fair to Lawro he might just celebrate in a more laid back way. I doubt Benitez would ever leap up and down. It isn't a sure sign of someone not caring about the club, even though, I quite agree, it's very endearing when someone like Jocky or Thommo reacts as they do. I've mellowed about Lawro since seeing him play last season in the Marina charity match - it reminded me what a hell of a player he was.

I quite agree. Souness actually seems to think Keys is a likeable bloke with no agenda at all. Did you ever see that ghastly 'comedy' piece Keys did a while ago, showing players with pink boots and then showing some clumsily photoshopped pictures of Souey with pink boots? Souness loved the attention. For a normally quick sharp-witted man, Souness often seems quite naive when dealing with media figures. Compare his attitude to that of Dalglish when he was alongside Keys in past seasons - the look of contempt on Kenny's face was always priceless.

Your memory needs replacing then.

So that's Darby finished already? These games are quite handy.

What hasn't appeared to have been considered is that, after his Arsenal appearance, the medical team might have checked him thoroughly and decided he still needed careful assessment in training. Instead of that, the immediate assumption - a la the likes of Andy Gray - seems to be that Benitez played him, all was well, and Benitez has been content to ignore him ever since. The mid-week substitution did no one any favours, but some of the speculation just seems prompted by prejudice rather than reason.

Did you see Gary McCallister on Sky at the weekend? Keys asked him about zonal marking and suddenly looked gutted when he pointed out that he won the league with Leeds playing zonal marking. You could sense Keys making a mental note: 'Don't invite HIM again!'

He seems unusually eager to depict managers - other than his dear old dad - as cynical operators, with LFC managers at the top of his list. He's had some cheap shots against Houllier in recent years (now that Houllier is safely out the way), such as his account that sneered at Houllier's move to get him lifting the cup with Sami when he was injured, claiming Ged wouldn't have thought of it had other players not pushed him into it. Maybe he knows the truth, but he keeps nagging away about such things.

Then there's his brother, Sean. Have you noticed their voices go up really high when they try to defend themselves? Laughable pair.

Fixed it.