The Equaliser
Player Valuation: £50m
Really hoping that all their luck isn't being saved up for next weekend. Wouldn't be surprised if it was though...
Prepared here for the worst as well. We could be 2-0 up in the 88th minute and Stevie Starfish will do one of his speciality dives in the area, get us reduced to 10, score from the pen, and then bundle in an equaliser off Carra's arse in the 90th minute. Meanwhile we are denied a stonewall pen in extra-time after said Carra rugby tackles Cahill at the other end, and they win the shoot-out after their keeper wobbles his legs while 5 yards off his line which goes unpunished.
Will be all the sweeter when we win...
Post of the season!
Dalglish was in no mood to claim a moral victory. After six defeats in seven matches, Liverpool needed real wins. The frustration was unbearable; he denounced Oliver for failing to award a penalty when a ball appeared to strike the arm of Villa's American defender, Eric Lichaj, and for booking Suarez for diving.
If it was pointed out to Dalglish that Lichaj had his back to goal when the ball hit him and that Suarez possesses a serial offender's form for falling to the ground, he was in no mood to listen. A month's worth of defeats does that to a manager.
He claimed that Oliver had told Dirk Kuyt that Lichaj had been "unlucky". "I have never seen a penalty given by a referee when he said a boy was unlucky," Dalglish said. "What chance have we got?
"Suarez was booked for diving and their guy [Stephen Ireland] trod on him. That is a joke because you can imagine the headlines tomorrow. He has been booked for diving and he is lucky he has not broken his foot.
"There have been an awful lot of coincidences if you go over the last three games and the number of decisions that have not gone our way.
"The danger is that paranoia will set in and you think there is an agenda against our football club. When you are refused a penalty because the referee thinks your opponent was unlucky, then what can you do? We have integrity but maybe we are going about it the wrong way. Perhaps we should shout our mouths off and complain about things."
Since a fortnight ago Dalglish had sat in the same room and claimed that Suarez's punching of the ball into the net should have been allowed, maybe paranoia is stalking the corridors of Anfield. Liverpool were unlucky, not in the non-award of a penalty but because they battered their opponents and emerged with a point. However, once more they failed to make superior resources tell.
That they were facing one of the few Premier League sides that could claim to be in worse form than themselves could only have made the bruise more livid. This was a contest between two animals baring their gums at one another and it was Aston Villa who bit first.
At least Villa got a point like...
Bunch of beauts.
At least we're not villa.
I went to Klanfied yesterday. They are seriously gash. I don't mean that they are out of form, just seriously gash. Their fullbacks are crap and can't cross a ball. Henderson is a complete joke, Downing a waste of space, the refs have finally sussed out the diving bugs bunny and they were in real danger of going 2-0 down at one point. They had to resort to putting Gerrard on the left wing to throw in crosses for the Donkey. The atmosphere was non existent with just one chant for Dalglish before the game started and that was it. A crap game between two really bad teams. KKK threw on everything he has got and it was still rubbish. We will batter this lot next week.....
I went to Klanfied yesterday. They are seriously gash. I don't mean that they are out of form, just seriously gash. Their fullbacks are crap and can't cross a ball. Henderson is a complete joke, Downing a waste of space, the refs have finally sussed out the diving bugs bunny and they were in real danger of going 2-0 down at one point. They had to resort to putting Gerrard on the left wing to throw in crosses for the Donkey. The atmosphere was non existent with just one chant for Dalglish before the game started and that was it. A crap game between two really bad teams. KKK threw on everything he has got and it was still rubbish. We will batter this lot next week.....