ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC"

[bizzaro]

He who laughs last laughs loudest.

 

[davek]

...and then this from Rodgers before the Palace game:

in another dig at Chelsea’s agricultural tactics, Rodgers believes yesterday’s match was good preparation for the trip to Selhurst Park.

“This game will prepare us for Crystal Palace,” he said. “We will have to deal with long balls forward and we will have to deal with long throw-ins.

A classless bunch of freaks handed their arses back to them and utterly humiliated in the run in when they were found out as bottlers.

We wont have to hear too much like this for the next few years. Neither Gerrard or Rodgers will ever get a sniff of a title again.

 

[peteblue]

Ended up shagging one of the ushers in the loos apparently

Fixed.......

 

[Goat]

Suárez admits that, beyond the obvious names, the player he most likes is Leighton Baines and describes this tournament as a good opportunity for Wayne Rooney. He warns against overburdening the Manchester United striker, though.

“Baines is a player I like a lot,” he says. “His focus is less on the defensive side of the game, more on getting forward, but he has got the best left foot in the Premier League. He’s spectacular. He has a lot of quality, he strikes the ball very well and, with good players around him, England can benefit from that. We have to be very careful,” he says. “Rooney has that will to win and this is a good chance for him. I read [Roy] Hodgson saying that people were piling responsibility on to him.

http://www.theguardian.com/football...ess-knee-surgery-liverpool-england?CMP=twt_gu

Pipe down Goofy.

“I was particularly pleased when I heard that Raheem and Jordan [Henderson] were in the squad. I didn’t have their numbers so I got hold of them to send messages saying congratulations."

LOL

 

[Deleted member 28206]

BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHA CRYSTANBUL

 

[toffeejack]

are those comments from the hondorus coach luis suarez?

 

[paulbefc]

Crystanbul though

LOL

 

[toffeejack]

haha IT WUZ CHELSEA!

 

[efcarentwe]

that's quite easily the best thing I've watched on the net in years.

 

[toffeejack]

Luis Suarez is interviewed by several national newspapers today, includingThe Guardian. The Liverpool striker recalls the moment he was told he needed surgery on a knee injury, threatening to jeopardise his World Cup.

Suarez said: "When the doctor first spoke to me three little tears fell but no more. My wife said: 'I can't believe how strong you're being' but I knew I'd make it."

lol just lol, the whole episode

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

lol just lol, the whole episode

I can't decide whether I'd prefer to see the kopites burning Suarez shirts and calling a fatwa on him after he pushes through a deadline day move to Madrid and Brent then buying assorted last minute European garbage with the windfall.

or

He rushes back from his surgery too quickly driven by his ego for the WC, and ends up snapping his knee ligaments in Brazil....

Choices, choices.........

 

[toffeejack]

I can't decide whether I'd prefer to see the kopites burning Suarez shirts and calling a fatwa on him after he pushes through a deadline day move to Madrid and Brent then buying assorted last minute European garbage with the windfall.

or

He rushes back from his surgery too quickly driven by his ego for the WC, and ends up snapping his knee ligaments in Brazil....

Choices, choices.........

i'd much much prefer this. his value is at an all time high and wrongly so imo. he snaps his ligaments they're left paying his massive wages for a year and then he comes back a crock and they cry about how good he "use" to be. after all they've stood by him through they'd have to keep offering him contracts with that false hope he may return to his best, just like people do with torres.

they never get their big fee, but have to continually pick a grock because of how much the fans will pressurize the manager to play him

 

[davek]

Crystanbul though

LOL

Sweet as a 'kin nut.

 

[davek]

Some decent red-on-red action taking place on that RAWK Anfield renovation thread. The issue being the creation of 4,000 extra corporate spots out of the 9,000 they're adding to the Centenary Stand. One side are trying to come over all working class hero; the others (who are potential corporate customers themselves) are insisting they really are working class uber scouse Libpool fans 'from dee 'ood lad' and can jump the queue with a clear conscience.

It's going to be hilarious seeing this unfold.

Here's one of the opening salvos from the camp who Shanks 'wid 'is socialism lad' would have stood shoulder to shoulder with.

 

[MikeH72]

England captain Steven Gerrard claims former manager Fabio Capello never believed in him to lead the side.

But the Liverpool midfielder says that current boss Roy Hodgson has total faith in him.

"Capello didn't believe in me as his number one captain, but Roy does," he said.

Gerrard took over the armband under Capello almost by default in South Africa but felt the Italian was not convinced by his credentials.

Capello's captain, Rio Ferdinand, was injured in England's first training session and John Terry was overlooked after being stripped of the armband previously, leaving Gerrard to step in.

Speaking about Capello's lack of belief, he said: "I don't know what it was. I think he believed in me as a player and rated me as a player.

"It was totally up to him but for me, now, I know I'm Roy's number one captain and that's a big confidence boost for me."

Gerrard, who is expected to be back to lead the side against Honduras in Miami's Sun Life Stadium on Saturday (2145 BST), added of Capello: "Our relationship was totally fine and I enjoyed working under him but, at the time, we had Rio Ferdinand here and maybe John Terry as well.

"Maybe he thought they were going to offer something different from me or they were his preferred choices."

Gerrard said he would still have acted as a figure of authority even without the captaincy, given his experience and the fact that he has led Liverpool with distinction for so many years.

"I'd have still have put an arm around the shoulder of the young players," said Gerrard.

"Just because I'm the captain with the armband on, I still want the likes of Frank Lampard, Wayne Rooney and Phil Jagielka to still be leaders in there with me and back me up and we all do it together.

"I'd rather be captain than vice-captain that's for sure."

Isn't it great that Roy now trusts him after he single handedly led a squad revolt against him and got him sacked as rs manager in 2010, topped off by the crowning glory of him missing a penalty on purpose against Blackburn. I mean seriously, look at this. Pathetic. Not even trying to hide it