Park Life

Not as easy as that is it?

I keep more of an eye on the oldskool clubs like Forest, Wed and Leeds rather than Blackburn or Hull or whatever.

The grim forecast from the club's accountants, KPMG LLP, came despite Liverpool posting a record turnover of £159.1m for the year ending July 2008 and a profit of £10.2m, and relates to the co-owners' attempts to refinance a £350m debt before a 24 July deadline. The current uncertainty, claim KPMG, "may cast significant doubt on the group's and parent company's ability to continue as a going concern". A source close to Hicks, however, described the Texan as "very relaxed" about the accounts and "confident" with how talks on the latest refinancing package are proceeding. Kop Football's losses are due mainly to the interest payments on the debt incurred to enable Hicks and Gillett to buy Liverpool in February 2007.

I eat eggs every day.

The Dutch anti-immigrant maverick, Geert Wilders, scored his biggest victory yesterday, seizing 15% and second place in European elections for the Netherlands, according to exit polls last night. The bleached blond populist, barred from Britain and facing prosecution at home for hate speech, led his Freedom party to win four of the Netherlands' 25 seats in the European parliament at the first attempt, pushing the Labour party of the coalition government's finance minister, Wouter Bos, into third place. Wilders wants the European parliament abolished, Bulgaria and Romania kicked out of the EU, the mass deportation of immigrants from the Netherlands, and a minimum say for Brussels over Dutch policy. The virulence of his anti-Islam and anti-immigrant activities saw him barred from entering Britain earlier this year, while the Dutch authorities are prosecuting him for inciting hatred. He is also under 24-hour security amid intense hostility to his statements on Islam, likening the Koran to Hitler's Mein Kampf and making a film depicting Islam as a vehicle of violence and terrorism. Last night's estimate of 15% represented a big increase on the 6% he took in the last general election in 2006, despite fielding a list of unknowns for seats in the European parliament. "Geert Wilders' onward march in Dutch politics continues," said the newspaper, De Telegraaf. A war is coming.

People who look around/scan the room continually as they are talking.

He wasn't sacked cause of the footie it was cause he asked Mort for more money in Jan.

The way things are the 15m parachute payment is good for about 3 months wages. Then what? Need to get nearly all the high earners off the books as there will be no more PL telly money coming in late July. *They have admitted there are no relegation wage cuts in the contracts.

Who cares?

In hindsight sacking SA was a tactical error this is clear, notwithstanding the shit footie we would have still been in the PL IMO.

This is what the Barclays thing is all about. We are now borrowing directly from the bank for running costs/wages etc. MA is taking himself completely out of the loop.

That's the problem with you though. You needed stability at that time more than anything. You singularly failed to realise (and still fail to realise) that no one manager was going to take you from your state post Roeder, to a state where you'd be up there challenging with United again. You failed to realise football changed completely in the 10 years from 1997-2007. If you thought any club could get from where you were (5 points from relegation after Roeder) to even come close to challenging for the title in anything less than 7 or so years, without a Man City like cash injection, then you successfully satisfy all the deluded Geordie stereotypes. You want the one manager who will take you on that journey, when in fact you probably need a succession of managers. The reason why Sam would have been good for you was that you needed someone to get you in amongst the top half again, pushing Europe, shore up your backline which has always been poor, instill a bit of steel into your side which you badly missed last season. He's not an amazing manager by any stretch, but he's bloody effective at what he does. And when he left you were 11th. You mightn't have finished top half that season but you wouldnt have been relegated either considering you were 8 pts away when he left. And no, we don't just strive to stay in the League. We've seen two more trophies this generation than you folks have, we finished top 10 the previous 3 seasons to this one (and has top 10 form in the 21 games that Allardyce took charge in) and have been finishing above your team for the last 4 or 5 seasons. We have every reason to believe we should be challenging amongst the top 10 (though new money for the likes of City and Villa makes this task difficult), and considering we've bettered that a good few seasons and won a domestic trophy it's not an unrealistic aim. You guys need to put those ambitions of being up there with United to bed, since it's about as likely to happen for you as it is for us. Is Blackburn near Leeds?

I know your ways Stevie.

Our delusion was wanting good football when we couldn't even play survival football. THREAD CLOSED.

Not really sure how the two yank clowns will ever make money from Liverpool.

One of these two will fuck up.

Fish is coming across as some kind of work busybody/grass.

Have you got Olympic medals for boring the fuck out of people? Says the tedious git who starts threads on such riveting subjects as eating chips and beans. I can carry any thread cunthead. You can talk shit at length on any subject, I'll give you that. Probably why you get on so well with Fop. Which is a rather damning indictment itself really. I consider myself damningly indicted.

Legend. R.I.P.

Where you been all my life chap? The images you have conjured up have brought on a kind of semi-on, almost pre-cum like state from the depths of the old nether region. Your use of language turns me on big time........I think, with me carrying a hammer and you tied to a chair, wearing nothing but a gimp mask and my mams knickers with a ciggy in your gob (or arse even for that matter), we'd make a lovely couple. I can see that.

Btw men complaining about the smell of cigarette smoke shows how ponsified and passive the world has become. Running around like little hens imagining themselves as little well kept havens of anti-perspirant and after-shave. Smokers won the second world war and put people on the moon.

I find most smokers have a sexy death wish kind of charisma.

Is it doable though?

Good call.