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When are they playing next? Not tomorrow it seems.

But let's be honest, WBA isn't a major threat.

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Hope you enjoyed your day out and had a few jars because the game was complete shite and it sounded on the telly that they'd turned WHL into a library. :thumbdown:

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They play on Monday. I was going to make a snarky comment that they are more of a threat than Liverpool this season then decided against it.

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But it would be true, unfortunately.

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I'd have a far more enjoyable experience watching Liverpool if Suarez had to wear a mask so I couldn't see all his "poor-me" face pulling.

I think they should make him wear this:

http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/24..._Golliwogg.jpg

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Sh*t.

I suppose most years coming away from Anfield with a point would be satisfying, but not this year.

Sh*t.

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I've been to White Hart lane probably just over 60 times in my life.

It was the worst atmosphere I have ever seen there. The performance was really poor as well.

The back four simply had no midfield coming back and wanting the ball pushed up. As a result were resorting to long balls to Jermaine Defoe.

In the old days we would have sung songs and even mocked our team so it would have been mildly enjoyable to even lose but alas like MU, ARS & Chelsea too many prawn sandwiches are consumed in the crowd now and fans fall silent when there is not the expected win.

Lastly Sandro is injured now. With no Sandro and no Dembele I fear for our visits to City and Arsenal. We did not buy enough quality players in the summer.

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I've been there just once, went with a few friends to a Wales v Brazil friendly. We went into the Brazil end and made sure we stood by some jiggling female Brazilian fans.

I think we lost, can't really recall. Didn't watch much of the football.

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Stood by??? Would it not have been smarter to stand amongst :-)

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With the recent racism events in the PL and other leagues is football now going to become the next battleground for political correctness.
Now I know its the Daily Mail but is this going to be the start of it

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...k-Lawyers.html
Are Man Utd fans now going to be tarred as communists or devil worshippers/satanists Red Army Red Devils
Will the spuds have to rename their ground NON DESCRIPT COLOUR Hart Lane
How about non ethnicpool or non ethnicburn Rovers
Spurs again the Lilynon ethnic colour
Sunderlands Blackcats will definitely have to go

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This made me giggle

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Lucas Leiva may be the only player in history whose transfer value doubles every time he gets an injury...

Liverpool need him back in a hurry!

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And Newcastle are of course, just as they bounce all the way up to 6th place......hold on, who`s that just bounced up to 6th ? COYI

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Yea. It sounds as if the match was top class entertainment. Well done the Hammers.

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i liked the fact Kevin Nolan was just about to his chicken dance when he scored..then realised where he was:)

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I think Hodgson may have overdone the substitutions somewhat......

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20306158

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"The goalie has got football pie all over his shirt"

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An interesting development.........

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/fo...-1226518548322

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I see that Chelski are now looking for their 9th manager under the wonderfully enlightened ownership of Abramovich.......... the man is pathetic... a manager has now been sacked who won the Champions League and FA Cup last season and now less that a third of the way through this one with them strongly placed in the league. The guy leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

I hear that the 9th manager is likely to be another joke........ Rafa the Gaffer.

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Can't believe they let RDM go so soon. WTF is going on in the in EPL....nobody gets a chance to do anything.

I personally don't think he should have gone.

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Thats enough TLAs for one BEP:D

Its crazy. 5 or 6 bad games and he's axed, after winning the C-L last season; Still he lasted longer than AVB, Grant and Scholari...


The problem isnt the manager in my opinion.

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Agreed.

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Is Benitez in the frame because*

A: After 2 years on the sideline Rafa really needs the big payoff he will get after his inevitable sacking, and Abramovich is a big softy with a heart of gold, happy to oblige.

B: He has a history of being prepared to compromise in order to get on really well with difficult owners.

C: He was the last manager that Fernando Torres actually looked like a decent footballer playing under.

D: Abramovich has fallen out of love with attractive attack based football after a brief experiment and wants a return to ultra defensive win 1:0 footy a la Mourinho again...

E: He has such a great rapport with the Chelsea faithful after all those happy hours spent at liverpool, managing against them.

F: No other bugger will touch the job with a 10 foot pole, least of all Pep Guardiola.


* Some sarcasm may be present

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im surprised abysmalvich hasn't appointed himself manager by now..i know Stalin would have done by now..or had the manager and players shot at least..really the Russians have gone soft.

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Given Romans need to fire managers the question should be WHO wants to manage Chelski as opposed to who their next manager will be.
Id be looking for a contract with a payout should he wake up one morning on the wrong side of the bed.
Even Shankly or SAF wouldnt feel safe at that club. Im waiting for the day when he ****s off and what happens to Chelski then:eek:

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That could happen once financial fair play finally kicks in in a real and meaningful way and his financial muscle has less effect on results than it once did


That should be IF financial fair play kicks in in a real and meaningful way I guess.

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Citeh must be shitting themselves then if FFP will ever kick in.

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Rafa it is then, at least until the end of the season .... or could be sooner

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I think with the idiotic Russian it now becomes possible to sack a manager at half time in his first match in charge if they don't happen to be in front.

Chelsea have now spent 69 million paying off managers they have sacked in the last 8 years...I suppose its loose change for the Russian Mafia.......:confused:

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It's crazy really, he is clearly mental but again Chelsea probably wouldn't be where they are without his cash.

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So, what money that the traditionally rather ruthless Benitez sells Torres come January....

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Some have suggested that Torres played better football under the FSW so if Torres does turn it around why sell him?
Strange game eh
Arsenal not doing great in the PL qualify for next stage in CL
Citeh current PL champions and top of the PL crash out again in the group stage
Chelski current CL holders look like they wont qualify
Utd have qualified but not playing great football

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Always the sign of a good team they say if they win and play below par. FSW ?

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If Abramovich thinks reuniting him with Rafa is going to spark him back to life, well, good luck with that.
Torres is done, hes like Joe Cole, simply not the player he was 3 or 4 years ago. Confidence is shot, body is creaking. But he is very clearly the owners pet player, like Shevchenko was. Benitez had better drop him early on, while he's still relatively bulletproof in the job, and hope that plan B works.

Rafas biggest problem is that hes already a lame duck as the owner has made it clear they want Guardiola to come in in the summer. Why should the players buy into someone who is probably just passing through?

Mind you, I cant see Guardiola actually taking the poison chalice, everyone will want him and there are better, more stable places for him to go work than working for Abramovic... The City job might be open by then as Mancini seems incapable of making it come together in the Champions league, even SAF may decide to step asside if he thinks its the best chance for Man U to find the right man to replace him, some people in north london seem to be loosing patience with Wenger too, and thats just some of the better jobs in England.


What Rafa will do for chelsea is firm up their defence, introduce a bit more tactical discipline, they will likely be a better team for him being there if the players buy into it and the fans can be convinced.

Interesting times....

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FSW = Fat Spnish Waiter a term given to him by some Utd fans when he was at Liverpool in his Facht rants.
I know some Liverpool fans still want him back there and look on him as a God.
Apparently outside of the game he is a decent bloke and still likes Liverpool.
I enjoyed his rants and some of his interviews. As a manager I dont really consider him to be bad or great just a manager but in these days that description doesnt cut it.
I was baffled that Pardew at the barcodes was given an 8 year deal.
Im giving it this season and one more for SAF before he steps down though you just never know.

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He has done a lot of work for Hillsborough even after he was let go and still has a residence on Merseyside I believe. Good manager, not great.

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Caldy, Huge house on Kings Drive. I dont blame him for not wanting to move.


I used to walk past it on the way to school, not that he lived there back then.

Used to be L48, now CH48

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Is it near Caldy Grange Grammar School ?

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Calday Grange, why yes it is.;)

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Wow memories. They were one of our opponents when I played rugby for St. Edward's in Sandfield Park on the 'right' side of the river ;)