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Tbf they did work Krul more than we worked Mignolet. Only to be expected with 10 v 11 mind. 7 on target to 4 for us. Including a vital save from the Suarez free kick right at the death. But we still fully deserved a point.

He was an Everton fan as a kid, hardly a true red. Players have only one crack at the chance of a career most would give a kidney for, and they stop being fans, with the very odd exception, very,very quickly. Wayne Rooney was 19 when he left Everton, his family is steeped in support for EFC, but money talks. If Liverpool hadn't won the European Cup in 2005 he's have gone around then iyam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9vQaVIoEjOM#t=49

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5os4NFeKFFs

Cheers TM

Only caught snippets of everything; pub was full of yokels: "ere! thayt steffy jerruds scored undred goals since sky invented football"

What did Ginola do in the studio?? @Chez or anyone else? Good performance with 11. Interesting system, they rotated across the front line quite a bit in the first half. Second half as good as we could have hoped for, Dummet not only scored but showed he's not a mug defender either. Good attitude from all the players. Quite pleased. Now, in the words of the song, "bring on the clowns"

Who played Suarez onside just before the penalty?.....

What passes for informed comment on national tv is fuckin lamentable in this country. Am off to the pub to watch this shit. It will be full of plastic scousers who wouldn't know the Anfield Road End from their own bell end's

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revie_Plan Using the system Manchester City reached the 1955 FA Cup Final, but lost to Newcastle United 3-1

Yeah, we play that Barcelona system well They won't like playing against Remy and Ben Arfa, that's for sure. Are they playing 3 at the back?.... Mignolet, Johnson, Cissokho, Toure, Skrtel, Sakho, Henderson, Gerrard, Moses, Suarez, Sturridge. Subs: Jones, Agger, Kelly, Flanagan, Alberto, Sterling, Allen.

These have been beat at home by Southampton and only got a point at Swansea. Don't believe the hype.A lot of their victories have been quite narrow. We've played two really poor halves of football all season (Everton and Hull) where we really didn't deserve fuck all. The rest have been mostly competent. We need to score first though to stand any chance of winning this. Confidence is a bit fragile at the best of times, and we're missing Colo. We'll see.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWuAc4pnYFc

As far as I remember the first "sack the board" chants were around the christmas of 88 i.e. we knew we were going down then, 4 months after Gazza was sold. Simpler times in those days, and the average teenager's football knowledge is far more broad and refined nowadays due to mass media/internet, but on top of the sales of Waddle and Beardsley it was the last straw for many. It was definetly the first time I'd heard the phrase "lack of ambition" in conjunction with NUFC, but sadly not the last. Am pretty sure Hall wasn't a figure to rally round during sit down protests on the Gallowgate or in the road outside the Strawberry, it was just youthful exuberance mostly. Me and my mate Gog were on front page of the Journal at the time, I think the picture is on that facebook page with all the old NUFC piccies on it. I don't think I'd heard of "the magpie group" or whatever Hall and co called themselves till the second season in divi 2, but I could be wrong in that. Think they were definetly active 89ish . By 91 he was in the Journal every day though.

I think the fundamental unfairness was pretty much illustrated by my family, which went from my old man paying a tax on the rateable value on our home and his small joiner's workshop which was easily affordable, to all five of our family paying the same, with my mother a housewife and me, my brother and sister all at various stages of YTS or training/apprenticeships, none of the 3 of us earning more than £40 a week.The sum went from around £500 in rates to 3k in poll tax. The Duke of Roxburghe is the local landowner paid the same as me. The richest man in Scotland saw his circumstances radically improve on the back of our struggle to pay even half the amount we owed. Agreed about Ashley, his is the only game in town as we speak. Till he accepts the Keegan Consortium's offer

people feel impotent so theyre doing something. even if it is a bit futile. most people are against "the man"...whether its someone like Ashley, big business harming the enviroment, government etc etc...look what we acheived by a bit of action 20 odd years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF5-enWLYGU That basically got rid of an unfair tax and brought down Thatcher So as long as they take a scaffold pole each Ashley should be gone by Monday morning

Have NO seen that particular little beauty

No, its the job of one of the midfield 3 iyam.

See, I think thats where players are lacking nowadays, they seem to need to be instructed to do everything and nothings their own fault if it goes wrong. Its happened enough times for them to have learned what to do now. If Santon or Debuchy have been instructed to push on, all Pardew should then have to say is "make sure you drop in to cover" before the game to the midfileders tbh. Its basic football intelligence and it should be second nature to players at this level.

This is spot on like. The double standards and hypocrisy are staggering. Why not sit on the story?...they want the right to press freedom but they refuse to use that freedom responsibly. Cunts.

The £20 thing is a good move by the clubs involved but I'd be surprised if more than half of Premier League clubs took it up.

It depends on the day,time and location tbh....Everton and Man City were down in numbers, both Monday night games and shite performances. Villa and Cardiff were were full and in good voice for obvious reasons, Saturday, 3 o'clock, good performances.

Fuckin hell http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/england/10384676/Roy-Hodgson-forced-to-apologise-in-bizarre-race-row-after-making-joke-about-England-winger-Andros-Townsend.html "London biased media darling Redknapp"

Hats off to audacious Bosnia-Herzegovina There is so much to celebrate about Bosnia-Herzegovina's qualification for Brazil, primarily the happy aside it offers to a country that has suffered so much. It is also a boon for neutrals because they are far more fun to watch than Greece, the team they beat to the top of Group G on goal difference. Whereas the best Greek players are defenders, the brightest Bosnian talent is in attack – and their manager, Safet Susic, has the wit and neck to choose his tactics accordingly. Only Germany, Holland and England have scored more in the European qualifiers than a Bosnian team that hurtle at opponents with no handbrake. "It may sound tactically immature, I am fully aware of that, but I just think it would be wrong to play different," said Susic ahead of the decisive win in Lithuania, where his side only scored once despite playing with their usual abandon. "I just think that it would be wrong to play differently. We know that we expose ourselves too much and that there is a huge risk in a way we play – using one defensive midfielder and opening up huge space for an opponent – but it would be unfair to the fans, to the game and to us if we were to suppress such a talent and such a skill. We know that it can cost us, but that is the price we are willing to pay. In the end, we play to score more goals than the opposition – and it has paid off so far."