Redray

For the last six seasons, the team that has knocked out Real Madrid have never gone on to lift the trophy. Also, that side has always been knocked out by the eventual champions! http://fourfourtwo.com/blogs/fourfourtwovi...ons-league.aspx

Forget, Sky, Setanta News Channel on Tuesday night was a sight to behold. The k****ead presenter read out a stream of emails from LFC ‘fans’ from places like Bromley saying how much they hated Rafa and wanted him out. They must have read out about 20, not one positive about the club. The tool watching the game was fat boy Graham Roberts. He said the fans were booing at half time and Rafa would be out by next Wednesday after Real (probably) beat us. Even after the match he said we were s***. Sky Sports love us in comparison.

The point, in all seriousness, is that were it not for the first goal, courtesy of Riera, Ngog may not have had the confidence to lay on the second. Maybe not fact but an arguable theory.

Is fact.

2 without the 1 No 1 but the 2 how?

How do you get to 2 without getting 1 first?

Still a bitter blue Andy Gray: My Everton spell meant so much "My time at Everton was, without doubt, the most successful, and probably the happiest couple of years that I've had. "We had a brilliant couple of years, brilliant team-mates, fabulous friends, great togetherness and a huge desire to succeed, so if you put all that together we did okay!" When he arrived at Everton the Blues were five places off the foot off the First Division, goals were in desperately short supply and Howard Kendall's swoop for a supposedly burned out striker with dodgy knees was seen as the act of a desperate man. But the Scottish gladiator enjoyed a glorious Indian summer at Everton, his boldness and hunger for the ball enlivening team-mates on the pitch, and his effervescent energy and charisma off it imbuing his team-mates with a winning confidence. He won League, FA Cup and European Cup Winners Cup medals – scoring in the finals of the FA Cup and the European trophy, and asked about the never to be forgotten Bayern Munich semi-final he said: "It was one of those special nights that come along very rarely in football. "If I go to my grave with one game in my mind, and only one I can take with me, then it would definitely be that one."

Paul Stewart

He’s one of us. If he wasn’t he would have been long gone by now. Wart’s and all, he is still the man. Back him and he will return the glory days, if he is allowed to. When you sing his name sing it so loudly so the charlatans and shysters have no doubt where we stand. The external forces would want to weaken his support. Ignore these no marks that try to break the resolve, by undermining his position through spreading doubts that encourage polls like this. They seek to stop us getting back to where we belong. Don’t be helping them. We are Liverpool football club. Show him solidarity and support and he will reward. That is all he is trying to do.

Are you suggesting the two issues might be linked?

The real question is how will this affect the performance tonight. s***

So bets have been suspended, that's all. ....as they were on Moyes leaving Everton some time back.

Yeah. This is precisely the point that Tomkins makes well; http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/drilldown/N...090223-1321.htm The fact that expectations were raised beyond reasonable attainment speaks volumes. This is the point being lost.

Not ideal at this stage, with them wanting to kick lumps out of us.

Each point dropped is going to be painful. It will be a painful season, not necessarily an unsuccessful one.

Who has dropped more points at home this season, us or Chelsea? Do the Mancs look comfortable either today or with the incredibley flukey win against Sunderland. Should we discount a***? This is a sound thread, long way to go.

No doubt he still feels we play in a ugly way. "The first leg was weird, even the goals they scored were weird," said the teenager. "The problem we have is that most of our opponents play in an ugly way, waiting for us to leave gaps at the back, and then counter-attack us. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/footbal...lay-439010.html

Hi Akadimi what do you think of our academy?

a*** = arsenal

Totally unwarranted. You play passes to marked players in the reasonable expectation that they have enough quality to to deal with it and make space for others. Sadly we have no such players. He would be a revelation at a*** and that it why he must never be allowed to go there.

Preparation is the key. I got loads.

So we are going for 0-0 then! Blow them away in the first 20 minutes.

Please go and have that feeling somewhere else! I'm very confident. They don't know what's waiting for them. 2-0.

No way. I can see a 0-0 to them though.

Without going too gung-ho. If we go a goal down it will probably end in tears I feel.