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Saturday, 13 November 2010

Thursday Miscellany

By: Noel | November 11th, 2010
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With the games coming fast and furious this week and a hugely disappointing show put on yesterday one might expect a great deal being talked about involving Liverpool. Which of course means that everybody is busy staring at the bottom of their pint and feeling vaguely surly and disinterested. Still, there’s always something or other floating out in the tubes somewhere, so let’s get on with your Thursday links and whatnot, brought to you as always by Nicholas Cage’s killer pornstache. Because god damn that’s a killer pornstache. Can I get a bwow-chicka-bwow-bwow? No? Fine, on with the linkage, then…

* While Hodgson was busy shifting blame to the young players in our now understaffed squad, Gerrard decided to shoulder the blame for the team’s failings against Wigan. A tired side and ten camped behind the ball at the edge of your own eighteen yard box, and afterwards the manager passes the buck while the man who set up the first goal and almost pulled an unlikely three points out of the bag at the end faces the firing squad. Seems fair.

* Squad rotation is the work of foreign devils. Until the day it maybe isn’t. Roy Hodgson brings in Poulsen to bolster Lucas’ image, he brings in man-marking to show people how foolish Andy Gray is, and he refuses to rotate to show just how daft it is to not give players sufficient rest in the modern game. It’s a damnably thin silver lining, but he is singlehandedly doing more than anybody to discredit the footballing outlook of the Glory of ‘66 sorts so common amongst the English media, at least for those amongst Liverpool’s followers who hadn’t long ago bought into the Liverpool way being different than the English way.

* With it still being November 11th in some parts of the world, this seems as good a time and place as any to note that Liverpool’s shirts will be affixed with an embroidered poppy for the match against Stoke on Saturday.

* In probably meaningless agent musings, Frank Rijkaard’s has hinted that he’d like the Liverpool job, which hardly seems a shocking thing to say and does nothing to speak to the club’s intentions. I remain unconvinced on the Dutchman, though all the mentions of Chile surrounding his future do put me in the mind of a certain quite possibly batshit insane but undeniably top-class manager who is available right now.

* And a longer read for you to pass the time with, a recently updated excerpt from Pay as you Play for those still looking for a bit of insight into the role Damien Comolli played with spurs.

Well, this was fun. We should do it again some time. Still, I should probably go and get my head wound looked at now, and–what’s that, Roy?

“MISTER HENRY! I CAN WALK!”

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Category: Team News

Tags: Chile, Christian Poulsen, Frank Rijkaard, Lucas Leiva, Marcelo Bielsa, Media Watch, rotation, Roy Hodgson, Steven Gerrard, Stoke City, Team News, Through the Looking Glass
« Tuesdays With Roy | Home | Match Preview: Liverpool v. Stoke City, 11.12.10 »GalahadThreepwoodI've been in a funk since Wednesday...it seemed like Liverpool were finally moving forward, and then they took a big step backward, complete with Roy putting his foot in his mouth again. The win over Chelsea was stirring, but it looks like the problems we've all noticed are still there, and are unlikely to show any real sign of improvement until a new manager arrives. If we do get a new, forward-thinking manager, I think things can be turned around really quickly--Sunday's win showed what this team is capable of when playing to its strengths. I hope NESV will move, and soon, before we actually lose someone like Pepe or Torres.EdPepe committed, Maddock confirmed as a cunt, I hang my head lower for getting caught up in the Twitter madness last night:

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/latest-news/reina-i-m-fully-committedRedtrev73That's more like it Pepe...Didn't hurt himself with the ferocity of his statement or even clarify that he envisaged staying for the duration but at least Mirror-Monkey looks like a twat...so that's nice.Redtrev73David Maddock has proven himself an even worse hack than Chris Bascombe...and whilst we all know where the News of the Scum gimp sources his info inside Anfield ( take a bow Mr. Liverpool ), I am unconvinced that Maddock has any such insider knowledge, such is the regularity with which he spews forth inane inaccuracies. Losing Pepe would be a tragedy and his comments are immensely disappointing as they only encourage the kind of paper-selling tosh beloved of both of the afore-mentioned 'journalists'.Rusty1404UK press would tear Marcelo Bielsa apart. Not 4-4-2, those ungodly heathen devils.GrubbIf Reina leaves, no amount of curse words, masturbation jokes and references to boobs will brighten my outlook.

Hopefully Pepe is taking Rafa's place of standing against the wrongs of the club. He should probably wind his neck in and think of us fans, but if he's trying to shake Roy loose then I appreciate it.

I really hope NESV act and make everyone happy.EdHey this is cool:

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Transfer-news-Pepe-Reina-wants-out-of-Liverpool-and-could-move-as-early-as-January-Exclusive-article626727.html

If that's true, and assuming it's the presence of Roy Hodgson and the talk of his stress on English goalkeeping (emphasis on howlers and the like), NESV need to go into damage control mode and get rid of him immediately. Can't happen.NoelOh, a Mirror EXCLUSIVE!!! without quotes that rehashes older Mirror EXCLUSIVE!!! rumour mongering point for point except with more urgency? Have you been looking at .tv's rumours feed again, Ed? Because we can get you help for that; maybe stage an intervention or something.EdTwitter has warped my mind, it's no use resisting. Social media will be the death of me.NoelAnd here I was thinking convincing your wife to set up a netnanny program to block tribalfootball and caughtoffside might be the thing to help you sleep at night.EdListen you bastard, sometimes the shimmer off Maddock's curls makes it difficult to tell truth from fiction.

Apropos of nothing, netnanny programs are no good when those in control use the same password for everything.

KERZHAKOV AND HONDA TO LIVERPOOLNoelNOT IF SCHWARZER AND PIENAAR GET THERE FIRST!

And as has been said before, it's not exactly an outlandish rumour. There's probably some grounds for being nervous about the general idea that Reina and others could leave if X, Y, or Z happens or A, B, or C doesn't, but no more or less now than a month ago, and no more or less regardless of whether the Mirror's throwing shit at the walls to get people wound up. But this is just a repackaged version of their escape clauses "article," and I expect they'll repackage the Torres half of it separately over the next few days, too.NoelOh, and apropos of nothinger, it strikes me that even if there are legal reasons why the club crest can't be used for any current EPL sides except for Wolves, we should still be able to use the red Liverbird. Though I imagine there's already been some conversation about that at one time or another.steven.to be quite honest, i was more excited about Stevie's pass than Torres scoring .. that was a hell of a pass....BillHe's a total prat and John henry needs to sack him now before he causes any further damage.redtrev73Pwat Bill...he's a total pwatRed2deathWell pointed out. For that, you get a bwoy-chicka-bwoy-bwoy...NoelAll three of you get pwawn sandwiches for stringing that together.blog comments powered by Disqus

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