Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Cole and Hazard and Rafa, Oh My

By: Noel | November 23rd, 2010
coleWho wears short-shorts?

Hey, looks like we’re almost half way through the week. Before you know it it’ll be time to hand the Spurs a royal thrashing at White Heart Lane. I think we’ll come out attacking like all get out and they won’t have a clue what’s hit them. It’ll be a classic.

Why are you all snickering?

* It looks as though Joe Cole is fit again and will play against Tottenham. What’s less clear is if the club has finally found him a pair of big-boy shorts, and also whether his return will lead to some kind of head scratching positional domino effect that ends with Raul Meireles playing center back.

* Last Sunday Roy Hodgson and Liverpool scout Laurent Viaud were in France to take in a Lille match for the second week in a row. For those not in the know, Lille is where young Belgian winger Eden Hazard currently plies his trade, and as one of the brightest talents in world football in the last decade Liverpool supporters can only hope and pray and offer to make deals with the devil that somehow he ends up in the Red of Liverpool either this transfer window or the next.

* In news that isn’t strictly speaking about Liverpool but that is likely of interest to this blog’s readers, Rafa is going through some tough times at Inter. Perhaps his eyes were bigger than his stomach when he decided to take on an aging squad at a club that made a 45-million Euro profit in the summer transfer window after a season in which they played sixty-plus matches and saw most of their stars head to South Africa following its conclusion. Throw in the whole following up Mourinho and his cult of personality thing and perhaps it was always a recipe for disaster, and the above linked piece on it is about as good and thorough a read on the subject as I’ve yet seen.

I’ll be taking a short break and Ed will wander by to keep you company when daylight hours roll back around to the Western Hemisphere. In the meantime you can always brush up on The Liverpool Offside’s corporate standard’s and operating policy as it pertains to the rights and obligations of you, our valued reader and/or commenter. There will be a test.


Some Related Liverpool Posts:Liverpool Sign Joe ColeRafa Benitez Leaving LiverpoolVictory, Friday Wrap-Up, and a Moment for RafaRafa Offered £3 million to Leave: Does This Count as Real News?Wednesday Miscellany, Dropbear Edition
Category Category: Team NewsTags Tags: Eden Hazard, Joe Cole, Phil Ken Sebben, Rafa Benitez, Team News
« Tuesdays With Roy | Home | More Dani Pacheco Goodness »LFC4LIFEMaybe there was a Spurs fan in the crowd so Joe was gonna SMACK his ass,in advance to 'the game'ChrisLFCTwo-way stairs!NatalyaShall I start a small charitable venture to raise funds to purchase a proper track suit for Joe Cole?

My gosh, the shorts....epic blunder!MikeI hope Joe's position in that pic isn't an indication of how what the spurs do to the reds this week...if you know what i mean.KennetholearyLiverpool should buy Charles Nzogbia for the left wing and not Eden Hazard. They should buy Andy Carroll to partner Torres. They should put Danny Wilson at centreback with Soto and put Mavinga at leftback.David Guestnumpty.GrubbI like Nzogbia too Kenneth, but surely Hazard is worth a shout? Could potentially be a Ribery-type player, world superstar in the making.Tom FooleryMy God, The Liverpool Offside leads the industry in breastmilk-flavored LSD?
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please.MikeSounds very american. I'm gettin thirsty.NoelYou made me look it up, and now I know LSD was invented/discovered by the Swiss. Hooray for useless factoids.blog comments powered by Disqus
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