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Never new this existed. Fucking class.

Their net total over the last 2 years is even less though. £30m, so 15m a season. I think their signings have been shite too. But its been largely funded by selling their best players like Torres, meireles and Mascherano or even further back Alonso.

exactly. Liverpool have one trophy in the cupboard, are 7th in the league and in the semi final of another major cup, to "show for their money". These sort of knee jerk short term reactions, based on one season or a short run of results, that try to "prove" selling and replacing is a viable alternative to genuine ambition and building and improving, are a joke. Anybody who knows anything about football knows such policies do not succeed in the long run. But you have to look at Arsenal as well. They spend less than us but look how they are doing? It is possible. In the words of that great lyricist, Jessie J, it's not about the money money money, Ain't about the (ha!) cha-ching cha-ching. Ain't about the (yeah!) ba-bling ba-bling.

What Dalglish has spent makes it look worse than it is. A huge proportion has been offset by sales. The story you posted shows their net spend over 5 years is under £100m. £20m a year is less than half the TV money....and only the amount Ashley claims he'd planned to spend when he bought the club. They got more for that than Sunderland got from thieir £12m a year.

Jesus.... Wow that's awful that, bad craic :/ Yeah, I'll have to change my Fantasy Team.

I'm not blaming anyone. Don't get touchy. I'm just correcting Leazes' view that there's desperation to prove Liverpool are doing it wrong, because very few actually think we'll remain more competitive than them for very long.

in a nutshell again. This Liverpool "misfortune" sour grapes is funny, as is the desperation to "prove" they are doing it all wrong and ought to be doing it like we are doing instead. I think most people are just enjoying it while it lasts. I'd be surprised if many posters would bet against Liverpool finishing above us next year.

Just delete the string of quotes and leave the last one or two.

Googled it but not sure what CSS describes, you saying I should avoid indenting, bold, italics and certain fonts or summat?

Liverpool last finished outside the top 7 18 years ago. Their current position (even with a trophy in their pocket and another on the cards) is seen as very poor, considering they finished second 3 seasons ago and have spent considerably since. Being 6th is currently a cause for great celebration for us, having not finished in the top 6 for 8 years and having been relegated 3 years ago and spent relatively little since. The overall balance of power hasn't shifted between the teams at all though, whatever has happened this season and whatever either team spent achieving it. It's not changed any more than it had between Everton and Liverpool in 2005 when Everton took 4th off them. Liverpool were and are still a team who will go out and try to challenge next year, who better players will want to go to. Everything the club says suggests we (like Everton) will remain a feeder club, unwilling to risk an audacious transfer bid or knock back an attractive offer for our best players.

You should start an intelligent thread. I didn't like the one you've done so far (on egg chasing).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZtVm8wtyFI

I hardly know a thing about Ed Miliband. The main things I do know are his eyes look bonky and during interviews he'll use the same answer whatever the question, even if it means repeating himself 43 times.

Did Keegan get a minutes applause when he came off his bike on Superstars? It looked very nasty there for a bit.

Which outlansdish criteria do I need to add?

I've not read the thread, but I think it would need to be a Venn diagram.

Spoil your ballot tbh.

Fans of BBC nature shows rejoice. Sigur Ros are back!

Cheers, I'll have a read up on it at some point.

Those criminals that used to acquire us tv from btjunkie, where do they acquire US tv now?

It was pretty dissapointing bearing in mind the hype. The plot is as weak as fuck and ALL the characters are thinly drawn caricatures. Some of the stuff in the forest is alright. The thousands of cuts and wipes per scene left me feeling that it was a very lame attempt at emotion/sensation overcoming any kind of critical thought. [/farenheit451]. I sense the books might be pretty good mind as there was glimpses of deeper machinations that were just glossed over. 6.2/10 I wanted more from the riots. I wanted to see the overthrow. It was annoying to see the fighters continue to play by the rules to the very end....I guess it's being saved for later films/books.

I'm sure the underlying feminist themes weren't even considered by 90% of viewers who just liked being scared by the alien. Just letting J69 know it's ok, he won't be surrounded by 11 year old girls cheering for different boys as and when they appear on screen. ...Mind the trailer for the new Twilight film was on beforehand and really fucked up the last film to come out for those of us that haven't seen it yet.

Hunger Games. Don't be put off by the Twilight comparisons J69. There's much less mopey "should I kiss this lad or that lad?" high school bollocks. Rather than a teen soap with action it's action first (albeit rapidly cut inferred gore than actual carnage) and the only 'will she won't she?' shite is based on self preservation within the game rather than 'feelings'. The lead being a girl is as relevant as it is in Alien. Stick a fella in there and it wouldn't make that much difference.

What happens if all the teams above us fall foul of FFP?