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You might be right. However Rafa has a stubborn streak in him which will implode the relationship with the yanks at some given point.

That would be ace. That would put Liv football back another decade.

Let's not forget MON.

The supporters are baying for Rafa. He'll do a decent job, but can't compete with the new money paradigm. Capello would have a hard time there, not a good communicator. I guess Martinez and Rodgers are outside bets. They should go for Klopp.

Not looking forward to it with the Krauts laughing in my general direction and babbling about 'Kick and rush'.

Hope we're not going to play 451 with Caroll leading the charge.

Would have taken Johnson over Downing and get him bedded for the world cup.

Get this down. Brilliant.

Really don't think Ba is mobile enough for the 433.

Is that Gloom??

What he didn't do however was try and sell Russian assets to Amrican companies. [/Khordakovsky]. History will show in time that the whole oligarchy period was also a carefully considered strategy of Russian wealth protection. If you don't belive me ask BP. How the fuck haven't you seen Eastern Promises yet??!!

Sushi for me.

His strategic approach to Chelsea was getting a British passport.

Really dark like what?...The financial scam that has left millions without a hom in America? The use of phosphorous skyburst bombs on civilians in Palestine? Give me a ballpark idea of 'dark' then we can talk. Big business and future of nations is always 'dark'. You perhaps believe in fairytales.

The French pay massive taxes on yachts and other stuff and they aren't allowed to register in Monaco and the like if they are French. That's why althought Monaco is the back yard of gliterrati for the industry, very few big boats are French owned. It's a similar story with the Germans, although places lake Hamburg have the super-rich they restrain themselves to buying yachts upto about 30m and most are moored around the Spanish side of the med. Unlike Chez I've met Roman a couple of times and his buyer in Hamburg is someone I have a sushi with sometimes. It's ridiculous to suggest that he isn't one very smart cookie and also someone who came from nowhere and nothing and got himself 'under the wing' of some very big Ruskies although unlike them he doesn't 'drink' and unlike a lot of them he ain't sitting in jail...Go figure... HF talking about comparing us to Arsenal (a project more than a decade in the making) and Spurs (half a decade in the making) is seriously misguided, although standard fare as a 'talking point' on here. Our club has taken the first tentative step back into the big blue yonder that is Euro football and all the 'catchalls' that comes with that. The bank will look even stronger another year down the road. But in all reality our 'project' is just beginning and we've had that spoonful of luck (I agree with Stevie and HF on that), that we have been OWED for god knows how long...So I don't feel bad about that at all. Of course we aren't going to roll over sides as Arsenal and Spurs do from time to time, but the signs are there that this is becoming more of a reality as the days go by. Well handled and carefully nurtured there is no reason we can't challenge for CL next (and I think we will). The future is NOT WRITTEN. Just ask Roman.

Yeah but the majority of games in the PL are won by one or two descisive moments. Even Arsenal and Spurs were stuttering for long periods. Only two teams have managed to dominate the maj of their games and they finished in the top 2.

He's a quarter Vietnamese himself ffs!

The Carroll money has been spent, looking for the Carroll money. End of.

It is a funny shape tho.

Yeah but he was an orphan! Top that fucker!!

Proper Bo!

Royston Vasey.

The defence crumbles.