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Saturday, 30 October 2010

Friday News and Ramblings

By: Noel | October 29th, 2010
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All work and no Liverpool news make Noel a dull boy.

Things continue to be quiet. Oh, sure, there are whispers that Galatasaray’s new manager hasn’t taken to Emiliano Insua and that it opens the window to a January return for the left back should a new Liverpool manager arrive, but there are no whispers out there as to whether a new manager is actually more or less likely to arrive. There’s no news on back room appointments. There isn’t even much out there in the lead up to the match on Sunday against Bolton.

Roy’s not even saying anything daft in the press this week to ridicule. From a fan’s perspective that’s a good thing. Sitting here trying to find something to blog about I can’t help but find that a part of me is somewhat disappointed at the lack of an easy target to take a couple of shots at. But I’m like some kind of Liverpool-article-finding superhero, and so I’ve still found a few crumbs to keep you entertained…

* Hodgson has come out fairly strongly against the Reina rumblings talked about yesterday, saying, “We have heard nothing from Manchester United and, more to the point, we don’t want to hear anything from Manchester United.” At the very least he gets points for saying the right thing this time around, unlike when rumours about Torres to United were floated the other week. He also says a couple of things to make you squirm a little bit, but at least he’s showing some signs of learning on the job. Which probably shouldn’t be the situation he and the club find themselves in, but that’s another story altogether.

* In player news, Glen Johnson isn’t likely to feature this weekend, though a slim chance of him reaching full fitness by Sunday does remain. Meanwhile, Dirk Kuyt is ahead of schedule as he works towards recovering from his ankle injury suffered in international competition, and while he certainly won’t play against Bolton, the Dutch attacker could still feature against Chelsea next week. Said Roy Hodgson: “He shouldn’t be as far advanced as he is with his ankle but he’s looking good.” Which, really, is what we’ve all come to expect from Kuyt.

* It’s from earlier in the week, but over on the official site there’s video from a “Seeing is Believing” bit the club did, in partnership with an organization of the same name, for the benefit of said initiative against avoidable blindness. Yeah, that seems a bit much to wrap your head around to me, too, but it’s video of Carragher, Torres, Pacheco, and Wilson trying to play a bit with blindfolds on. And they don’t do all that well. So it’s good for a watch in any case.

* Looking at the social movement that took place around Liverpool Football Club as fans and supporters around the world came together to coordinate the attempt to push Hicks and Gillett out, Doreen Massey takes the wider view and asks if a template for such popular uprisings and collectives of like-minded individuals the world over in areas beyond sport may have been formed in those recent struggles.

The ownership of football clubs, writes Martin Kettle, does not matter. The ownership of Liverpool Football Club, in particular, ranks among those things “about which one does not care and which don’t matter either”. I don’t care whether or not he cares, but it does matter.

Right, so I guess it’s time for followers of LFC to band together to crush the various unsavory followers and descendants of Thatcherism? I mean, now that we’ve helped get Hicks and Gillett out…

Words to live by. Words. To. Live. By. Oh, and today’s phrase of the day of the day is… let’s say… “How to eyeball vodka without going blind you dumb bastard.”

Some Related Liverpool Posts:Quick Friday Thoughts and News Run-DownBlog Update, News on Aurelio, and Johnson on the WingRoy Gets Something Right and Friday Cache ClearingThe Arjen Robben Endorsement, Europa League, and Ownership Pseudo-NewsThe Squad Heads to Switzerland and News on Torres

Category: Team News

Tags: Dirk Kuyt, Emiliano Insua, Galatasary, Glen Johson, Pepe Reina, Roy Hodgson, Team News
« Torres and Reina in Bullshit Rumour Shocker | Home | Roy Puts Foot in Mouth Again, News at 11 »CSDCan't believe that manic depressive, John Arbuckle, hasn't off'd himself yet.RoscoHas anyone seen the news on kenny huang today? Looks like we dodged a bullet thereGalahadThreepwoodIs this what you're talking about, Rosco? Good grief. Can you imagine what would have happened if he had somehow managed to take over Liverpool? We'd probably be pining for H&G right now.Red2deathI don't know. When you're involved in big business, dealing with lawsuits is part and parcel of life. Too much money at stake, and accusations of almost anything will fly (and sometimes if your lawyer isn't good enough, you could be found guilty too).

Heck, our own club has been accused of grand epic fraud to the tune of 1.6 billion, but that doesn't make us any less respectable as an institution.RoscoYour quite right I suppose, pretty sure NESV will have had problems aswell over the years. It's always on the back of the mind, hicks rearing his ugly head again at anytime.
Haloween coming up, no doubt he's got something sick planned for the evening.RoscoThe very one. Forgive my inferior link adding skillsRoscoDon't know if you've seen the tv coverage but that stupid grin on his face no doubt wouldve seriously grated on me after a while.
Then again Noel could've had a photoshopping field day. Every cloud eh?GalahadThreepwoodHeh, true. But man, we are lucky Broughton didn't fall for his noise. He would have been a disaster.GalahadThreepwoodI was happy to see this statement from John Henry regarding the idiotic transfer stories from earlier this week. Talk about a tempest in a teapot. NESV say they're going to try to get value for their money in the transfer market instead of throwing cash around like a drunken lemur, and the press comes out with a bunch of articles about how there will be "no transfer budget for Roy" in January. Stupidity on a grand scale. But then, I guess I shouldn't expect anything less from the British media.

I'm still hoping that Roy's exit is just over the horizon. We need to get rid of him and bring in a manager who can take us forward. Sooner rather than later.Ed"Roy’s not even saying anything daft in the press this week to ridicule."

The words of an impatient fool--ask, and you shall receive:

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/latest-news/roy-outlines-transfer-plans

My favorite is, "We have got a lot more expensive failures on our list than good players that we have brought in for next to nothing."

The man's an inspiration.
Red2deathI like the part where he's happy he has two weeks to prepare for the Bolton game. Brings back such fond memories of Everton... a fortnight to prep and he comes up with the exact same tactics he's been using for the past 35 years (and sticks with them till the final whistle).

Ah... good times with Roy...NoelHa, that was meant in jest, not as some kind of reverse psychology invitation for him to go and put his foot in his mouth. Serves me right.

And thanks for the good links, Grubb and Galahad.RoscoWhat's the odds he values konchesky in the latter?
Because he's fackin amazing!GrubbAnd your first extra link from yours truly:
http://www.weaintgotnohistory.com/2010/10/28/1779620/liverpool-moneyball-and-awful-journalism

A good pants-downing on Paul Hayward from The Guardian written by a clever chappy named Graham, for his below-Guardian-standard article misrepresenting the ideas behind Moneyball and how they could be misapplied to LFC. Oh dear. Link below to the orig.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/oct/28/liverpool-tom-werner-nesv-baseball

And just for those who are tighter than a fish's backside, Moneyball - read it for free. Thanks Open Library! (Low quality, but hey, I'm managing!)
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL23247692M/Moneyball
RoscoWhen it comes to parting with pennys Ive been compared to a hens face
Free things please :) :)blog comments powered by Disqus

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