posted Oct 25, 2007

sensationalbodhran wrote:
"In years to come people will stand in the streets discussing the great teams of history, and someone will say "Linfield were the best team in N.Ireland, United were the best in England". Then realisation will creep in. England? In the history of football, two World Cup semi-finals, one of those as hosts. Suddenly being the best side in England doesn't seem to mean much."

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Your comparison between the strength of English Clubs sides and the English National team doesn't hold much water. For instance, teams like Real Madrid and Barcelona have long been among the top teams in Spain (and Europe) - but just remind me again how many World Cups Spain have won?

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posted Oct 25, 2007

fearlessSERGIO and i were talking about Istanbul n Milan,hope u do not mind,LOL ronnielove

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posted Oct 25, 2007

If there's no point in winning it, then surely there's no point in placing 4th or anywhere else in the table. Oh wait, then no one would give a toss about the Champion's League because it is supposed to be a competition of the top teams in each league.
Posted by Fry.

Indeed Fry, as I said, the premiership is merely a qualifying group for Europe. At least someone else agrees. The rest are the insular people I am talking about.

I also said the fact that England have only one world class player,and a second on the way possibly, counts against them.

Team fans want to win the premiership, some of them. Football fans just look at it to see who qualified for Europe.

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posted Oct 25, 2007

I think that Raffa needs to go, he tries to do this squad rotation crap and as yet it has failed, you need to be great to rotate, and to be honest we are far from great, Liverpool are not gonna qualify for the next stage if the squad selected does not play with pride and passion, To put on the Red Shirt for Liverpool should be an honour and not just a job!!! Now c'mon lads pull your socks up and show us loyal fans what we know you can do, and lets start by beating The Gooners on sunday, coz if we fail to get all 3 points on Sunday then we have no hope of anything this year...........Mark D @ wellingborough

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posted Oct 25, 2007

Lets see where you are at the end of the season mate?????, like yourselves we aint lost, so dont start to sing till Liverpool bring it home! You will suffer your first defeat this season at ANFIELD on Sunday........

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posted Oct 25, 2007

Forget about passion, focus on the facts.

Hyypia must retire. he's not only gifting our opponents lethal headers(Berbatov-Keane=2 miserable goals)but he's scoring them now "for the sake of others".

Babel must play as a right winger.Against Porto he played as a left one, he was uncomfortable then, but each time he departed from the right he created danger.

Against Marseille, he was rested at the benefit of Benayoun on the right,and we lost.

On our lef side that night, the Leto/Aureio duo (no stamina at all) was our worst one of all times.

Against Everton, Babel litteraly lifted Liverpool on his shoulders as a right winger.

For the first time ever Rafa's blind lottery brought us finally one of our best trios.

The terrific triangular display between Babel, Kuyt and Finnan made of short passes and pacy dribbles brought us efficieny and destabilised Everton until we got the second penalty.
Even Sissoko became smarter and lost less and less balls when combinning with Babel the pacy.

Unfortunately as we are uesd, Rafa sent Pennant on the pitch in the closing time and guess what happened then(please watch the game again),we instantaneously lost our momentum.

I thought Rafa has learned from that. Unfortunately he seems to be stubborn and sticks only to his blind lottery.

Yesterday, Babel was really misused on the left wing. He did no serious combination with Riisse cause the latter was looking after Hyypia(our current weakness).And so did Gerrard.

A legitimate question comes to mind then,how could a player by the standard of Hyypia be subjected to such a rapid decline?

We used to have a tree which hiding place the forest.He's Agger the metronome, the guy who fixes all our weaknesses and silences the likes of Drogba.May God send him back soon for the sake of Liverpool.

Yesterday,Voronin was crap. If it was up to me I would've used Crouch between lines, we would've at least eased both Babel and Gerrard.Pennant as usually was crap.My suggestion for the next tie against Arsenal is the following line-up:

Reina
Finnan - Carragher - xxxxxxx - Riise
Babel -Gerrard/Sissoko - Masherano- Benayoun
Kuyt/Crouch
Torres/Crouch

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posted Oct 26, 2007

Liverpool could still win a European cup.
Don't bottom teams go into the EUFA Cup?

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posted Oct 26, 2007

This is taken from a board form just a feqw weeks ago, oh how it makes me laugh

dippers - brilliant

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"shame it only lasts for 24 hours as chelsea plays tomorrow."

Very possibly. But you never know...! And besides, they will have an excuse, as they will have played one more game than us, so it's not entirely fair to compare.

"Its amazingly premature but its nice to be top"

I totally agree. No-one can know what will happen in the coming months. But we can enjoy it now, while it lasts. And now with this massive goal difference lead, we have something to fall back on if, in coming games, we don't score as many goals.

"wow ur top its not end of the season ... its the start "

Exactly. And what a great way to start! Just shows that the Liverpool team really is as good as us fans always insist and that all Rafa's money-spending has actually done some good!

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posted Oct 26, 2007

Maths are simple, win all three remaining games and we will qualify!

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posted Oct 27, 2007

also i think liverpool have gone downhill ever since pako the assistant manager left

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