Friday, 10 December 2010

Lucas Leiva is the Fifth Beatle, and Other Friday Notes

By: Noel | December 10th, 2010
O Brother George ClooneyWhaddya mean I look like a Newcastle supporter?

Ah, Friday. A day for cutting out early to spend extra time with your true loves. By which I mean alcohol and Dapper Dan. Your liver might complain, but the ladies won’t, and that pesky organ will just have to learn to keep its place. Until then, try to look busy while you catch up with the various Liverpool goings on and sip discreetly from the flask in your desk…

* Not to step on Ed’s toes, but seeing as I spent half the week dancing around the seemingly inevitable return of Gerrard against Newcastle I feel as though I have to mention he won’t be involved. Yeah: not starting, not on the bench. Not nothing. At least this I get to spend all of next week discussing his return against Fulham, then. Wait, why is everybody grumbling and walking away?

* AND IIIIIEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIEEEEEEIIIIIIII WILL ALWAYS LOVE YYYOOOUUUUU!!!1! And in related news (to the caps lock bit, not the Gerrard stuff), people were starting to worry that Lucas only had a year left on his contract and that it might make a sale in either January or July inevitable just when the entire world seemed to finally be coming around on him, but it appears as though getting him a new contract is a high priority now that Comolli and a new ownership group is starting to settle in. Now I just need you to keep thinking of that song from The Bodyguard while you click through to the story.

* Lastly, the Liverpool connection may be tangental at best, but Brian of The Run of Play does a little digging into the various fannish connections The Beatles had in football. Inevitably Liverpool does come up a couple of times, though less often than you might think, and in the end it’s mostly an excuse for me to send that one Australian reader of ours who doesn’t already visit over to The Run of Play to read a really interesting article. Because if you aren’t hugely jealousalready a reader then what the hell is wrong with you?

Well, that’s where things stand. I guess. Or something. Ed will be along in a bit with the preview for Newcastle, but in the meantime slick back your mullet, break out the pixelated devil horns, and pass the time with some 8-bit classic metal. Because nothing is more Satan-worshipingly-awesome than 8-bit versions of classic metal, especially when every sign was pointing in another direction…

Today’s phrase of the day of the day of today is, “Lars uses FOP because he’s a little bitch.” Because he is. Though the FOP part is mostly a guess.


Some Related Liverpool Posts:Daniel Agger, Dani Pacheco, and Other Friday NotesHodgson Presser and Friday Wrap-UpMonday News and NotesCarragher on Istanbul, Itandje Gone, and Other Wednesday NotesFriday Whatsit and Poll Wrap-Up

Category Category: Team NewsTags Tags: I Can Stop Any Time I Want, Lucas Leiva, Puppy Love, Steven Gerrard, Team News
« Blog Pollin’: Worst Official in the EPL Edition | Home | EdJust words right now from Roy, but is it a flicker of insight?

"(Raul Meireles) and Lucas have done extremely well together. I'd be more than happy to keep him in the centre of midfield. I might have a difficult decision to make when Steven gets fit as to where to play (Gerrard)."

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news...NoelThat's a change from the comments the other day about how he didn't think Meireles was any better/worse in the center or on the wing. Fingers crossed, then.Jesse Raii think lucas always had the potential, from moving to this country from a young age, picking up the pace of the Premier League which is like no other, playing with established household names like SG XA JM, having the mental fortitude to block out the constant media criticism and plough on, to ignore the catcalls from the terraces (usually from his own fans), to steadily improve with each passing game, to have developed the holding midfielder playing role to augment his more natural position of a more forward thinking midfielder, still aged 23, into he Brazilian national team... well i guess that all adds up to one hell of a player who will soon be a MONSTER able to face down any player.. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!blog comments powered by Disqus
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