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Well that's downright cheeky.

'The Booing of Lucas' sounds like a P G Wodehouse short story.

You should have smeared a brown wig with goose fat, put on an old potato sack with a sewn-in Primark label, looked strangely sullen and he would probably have mistaken you for Claire ('But from me it's goodbye') Rourke. He likes her.

The one good thing about Setanta's website is you can copy the name of whichever manc is slagging us off in the 'comments' section and submit a contrite apology on his behalf, followed by fulsome praise for LFC. It's quite therapeutic.

As Kahnee says, it's the casual ignorance that is most maddening - it's just bad broadcasting, regardless of whom you happen to support as a viewer. Torres being out last season through injury playing for Spain? Sky perpetuated the myth Rafa simply decided to 'rest' him while we slipped behind the leaders. That's not bias, it's just wrong. Redknapp now seems to know Rafa's thoughts - he never just criticises his judgements in the league, he always insists we don't do well because 'Rafa loves the Champions League' - I mean, again, that's just stupid, lazy 'analysis'. Does he explain his dear old dad's record by saying that, apart from one season when he suddenly got horny for the FA Cup, he doesn't love any competition enough to do that well in it? He really has got worse and worse as a pundit sitting next to that hairy-handed son of the soiled, Richard Simian Keys.

There was a moment in the first half that really underlined why commentators should be made to cover matches alone for a while until they regain a sense of discipline and actually COMMENTATE on the action. Sunderland were advancing towards our goal, and Tyler was ignoring it because he was chatting idly to Gray ('Heh heh heh!') about the 1981 movie Escape to Victory! Incredible they get paid for this garbage.

It's hard to tell what's blunter - Redknapp's wit or his razor.

Redknapp's tactic is to slag Rafa off and then say 'I'm not trying to slag him off'. Best of both worlds, eh, Jamie? Just once I wish someone like Kenny would put up with the likes of Keys long enough to really point out how biased this coverage is. It's gone beyond a joke.

And that's all from Critics' Choice' this week. Next on Radio 3, German music in Argentina - a retrospective.

Has he played a blinder? By doing what? He's whined at times, and there have been no 'rant' headlines; there have been some awful performances, pretty much brushed aside by Richard Keys and Co; there have been some vital points dropped, such as yesterday, barely commented on by the usual suspects. How is that 'playing a blinder'? He's insisted fourth place is still not out of reach - a claim, bearing in mind the points deficit, that would bring ridicule to certain other managers chasing certain other targets, and he's been either ignored or reported without editorial comment. What a blinder.

Like Wenger, gawd, he always wows fans on here pre-season, but next pre-season, cor, he's going to blow your heads off. Van Persie's even going to get a new haircut. This is going to be THE pre-season!

Unlike last season, when we were the story even though we hadn't 'blown' anything and were still in the top four.

1. Good job we're not out the top four, then, in Arsenal's position. (Hoof!)

How Arsenal and Wenger aren't on the back pages every week for 'crisis' reasons, rather than us, is a mystery. They've had a terrible season in comparison.

Pack Parry!

Of course it is - the title is self-explanatory.

I quite agree. Mind you. even the nicest, kindest, wisest person on the planet, while under pressure managing us, would seem like a twitchy nutty mess.

It's amazing, really. If you'd got in late you'd have thought we'd bombed. A fantastic result and Keys is gutted.

Souey - for all his Shakespearean moral flaws - clearly loves the club. Keys, on the other hand, has greeted a great result by a British club against a spectacularly in-form European club by belittling the whole thing. That man is a real creep.

On reflection, I have to agree,

Here's good old Veggie's site: Vedge-Fish. Alec was at the Foundry Arms in Leigh.

Ronnie Rosenthal is a 'football consultant here and in Israel. His boys are at Watford's academy. Alec Lindsay is, I think, running a pub somewhere in the north-west. Stig Byornebye is back in Norway as far as I know - he had a spell as Norway's assistant coach. Veggie Heggem is the owner of some sort of salmon farming business. Igor Biscan is captain of Dinamo Zagreb and the spokesman for Pencil-Thin Prophylactics. Mad Erik was coaching at Alemannia Aachen last time I heard anything about him (a couple of years ago). Chris Lawler coaches kids in the area, I think - and doesn't he still do some informal scouting for us? Titi Camara is back in Guinea, isn't he? Not doing much, as far as I can tell.

Wenger has made some decidely odd team selections but they've been accepted as 'daring' or 'unavoidable' by London hacks charmed by man. He's also said some strange things during press conferences, been incredibly petulant after some bad results and recently suggested the league leaders are untouchable. It just doesn't suit the local hacks (yet) to mock him. The treatment of Rafa has been startlingly disrespectful - criticism is one thing, but the likes of Keys, Sherwood, Nicholas and others treat him like he's actually an idiot.

How you know Igor a bit whiffy?

Because of this incident, Elisha is now in a witness protection programme, living in Bury under the alias of Rashid Neville. Don't tell anyone.