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I was very disappointed in Roy Evans on LFCTV after yesterday's match. For someone who went through all of his own crises as manager, I would have hoped he would have shown some 'insider' sensitivity, but he appeared disinclined to consider any reason other than the average punter's for anything that happened. Add that to his frequent comments about what a nice bloke Ginsoak is and he seems a bit 'St John-ish' these days.

'Post match comments'. That is the relevant part. If he just got on the coach, as I'm sure he would have preferred, the press would have slaughtered him. If he said 'yes' to all of their loaded questions, he would have been slaughtered. If he did what any normal manager would say and try to defend his players and avoid admissions of resignation, he would still be slaughtered. The match was terrible. The press have a storyline worked out. The comments might sound silly, but what, honestly, would you expect someone to say in that position? It was a post match press conference, not a football forum.

Didn't he have an op at about this time last year? It's a bit worrying if he needs another one.

Owen complained last night about how low tabloid newspaper reporters scored him in their post-match player ratings. This from someone who normally claims he ignores such things and remains impervious to any criticism. He's a bitter little twit.

Blimey, I don't remember him being that fast! Great goal.

Ha ha! This bloke 'Babar' sounded exactly like 'Apu' from The Simpsons. It was completely bizarre. I think Claire Rourke blinked a couple of times and then said, 'Er, what do you think about that, Roy?' Then Roy looked like he used to look when asked how to defend against corners.

During the phone-in that followed the match on LFCTV, someone called 'Babar' called to say that Owen shouldn't have been booed and it made him very unhappy and then...he burst into tears! The bewildered look on Roy Evans' face was priceless. It was the oddest thing that happened all day, and somehow added to the overall memory.

Did I mishear it or did Richard Keys just claim Kelly is the first Academy player to reach the first team since Gerrard???

You do understand the phrase 'some might call,' don't you, you pompous little t***?

Paul Hayward, rather surprisingly, has emerged as the major apologist for Ginsoak's fake apology, straining to defend him by pointing out that Allardyce accused refs of worse and got away with it. Talk about skewed logic!

It's spelt 'their' not 'there'. Hacks these days!

He was very good indeed. He wasn't what some might call a 'high concept' player, in the sense that you didn't immediately think of his speed or his height or any other distinguishing factor, but he had a very decent all-round game and scored plenty of goals.

Wasn't he due to work with Ian Ridley on his autobiography?

I remember sitting there at Anfield at some points during his last season and feeling like bursting into tears. It was the accumulation of so much mind-numbing frustration. The witlessness was was got to me - we just had nothing when things went wrong. And you looked at the bench and knew nothing was going to change that. The fact Ged was a likeable man made it even worse.

Preceding 'clang' with a comma or dash or even a colon would be much neater.

The problem with the show was that the questions weren't then backed up with examples or statistics, so the hacks simply batted everything straight back. 'Is there a London bias?' 'No'. 'Thanks. Next question...' By the way - a surprisingly interesting programme later on tonight on striking partnerships now seems to have cut out half way through - can't they sort these technical problems out?

As usual...

Yes, I like him, too. Both of them are raw, but they've got pace and are cocky enough to make the most of a chance.

Ecclestone deserves to figure at some stage.

Rest Torres and Gerrard, fine, but don't treat it like reserve team daydream. Bring in three promising reserves surrounded by established first team regulars, with a couple more to come on from the bench, and they'll benefit from the experience. Bung loads on in an unfamilar line-up against a settled and very confident team and I'm not sure it'll do them much good at all. It's neurotic at best to be so wary at this stage in playing a side that knows how to win together.

First team keepers don't need rests, and second choice keepers don't benefit from playing one-off games behind back fours that will probably never feature together in the first team. The whole silly 'it's your turn' routine does the club a disservice, as well as the fans who travel and buy their tickets.

That was an unintentionally hilarious show - faux Fine Young Cannibals signature tune, then we saw what looked like four 'resting' taxi drivers sitting in a tiny room under a 60watt bulb, with cameramen dressed in black roaming around in the shadows. Then that metamorphosed into Jimmy Hill's kitchen, with Martin Samuel eyeing the plastic croissants with barely suppressed eagerness, and now it's the Wooly Woolnough Show, featuring Woolly as a resting market stall trader and three resting taxi drivers (unless Henry 'The Vicar' Winter pops in). The main problem with the show is that it is based in London, therefore features London-based hacks and has a London bias. Dreadful. And they have the nerve to offer a podcast of 'highlights'. There'd be more highlights on a bald man's head.

One of them also sneered at Ngog for not being a 'legend'. And they implied all Rafa needed to do to improve the squad was to buy a few superstars in the summer, but he was just too stubborn to do so. They seem to glory in their ignorance about the club.

Fred Kite is alive and well! They'll be calling each other 'Brother' soon.

That's the spirit.