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Old enough yet to be Toon's next local hero manager?

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Gazza is born the same day/same year as my brother and I'd be worried if my brother looked like that.

His accent reminds me of the geordie guy on Alan Partridge who Steve Coogan found incomprehensible.

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its coooming, its coooming, I can feel it in the water. :rofl:


http://link.brightcove.com/services/...id=20156276001

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And people on these forums complain about the inane shows on TV in Canada. Thank goodness more premier league games are available on tv here in Canada than in the UK and we don't have to rely on these guys who gives us the play by play.

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The only thing that concerns me is the fact that Benitez has improved the teams finishing tally almost every year he has been at the club. It will take a long time if we suddenly got rid of him for Liverpool to recover to what they are today. The team is better than people give it credit for.

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The main thing it did is give him the control over transfers that he thinks he needs to bridge the gap to the top of the table.

I'm not sure how often new ownership brings a change of manager? Man City and Man U didnt... I suppose it depends on who the incumbent is and how good a job they are doing.

Personally I cant see liverpool bringing in a new manager with new ownership...just as the Glazers knew a good thing when they saw it with Man U, I dont think any new owners would dream of ditching Raffa, and why rile up the (majority) of supporters who are behind him.

It is a bit odd though that after Liverpools best playing season in years, there is the distinct possibility that the third best team in the city is better placed to bring home a trophy than the reds:unsure:

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I think that a manager should have control over what players he buys. The owners should only tell him how much is available for transfers. After all, it's the manager who works with the players, and who gets fired if the owners feel he isn't doing what they expect.

I guess the change depends on whether the new owners (if any) think Rafa's done enough to stay, or whether they see another possibly under-achieving season as the future under Rafa. I hope he stays.

Haha. Liverpool Ladies are 2nd from bottom in the Women's Premier League, or did you mean 4th best Everton?

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Remember the good old days...Everton and Liverpool at Wembley chanting Merseyside...fans travelling together...

I heard a story from the weekend that Mark Lawrenson was being pursued by a bunch of little scallies down wembley way and nearly getting hit by a bus...who says the friendly derby has gone!

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That was before ordinary fans were priced out of the games.

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Good result for ManUre there.

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Yep.

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It's sad, I do remember those day, and I really dont get why fans dont get along, its still just a game after all.

I went to the Liverpool Porto game in Toronto a few years ago and it was mixed seating!...the atmosphere and the banter back and forth was better than the last premiership game I went to, but maybe that cos You could have a beer or two during the game... I cant imagine that not being terribly abused in the UK.

Then again, things are perhaps a little better now than they were at the worst of the hooliganism era. But, if you treat fans in the stadiums like they are going to fight and keep them seperate, maybe they get conditioned to the idea that they should behave like that...

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Try being a Swansea fan with Cardiff fan's about !!!

Its the case now where Cardiff fans turn up at Welsh matches wearing their blue tops looking for Swansea fans to batter.. Idiotic thugs most of them!

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I don't suppose this is any more 'off topic' than some of the other posts but last night I had this dream.

England v Germany.

A long ball forward finds a couple of Germans coming back from offside positions. One of them lets the ball go past him knowing he’s off. But the one who was even more offside gets the ball. Astoundingly, the ref plays on. :frown:

Even more astoundingly, the German collecting the pass and now moving forwards with just the keeper between him and the goal is the team doctor. He is even wearing a white coat. :blink:

The ref still plays on.

The doctor knows he was offside (and not even a player) and he “sportingly” runs the ball over the goal line. The ref gives a goal kick but keeper Foster insists on taking a free kick where the offside took place and gets into a row with the ref.

Weird or what?:rofl:

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What do you think it means?

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A major injustice on the way?

A German winner in the semi final at WC2010 scored by someone who should have been sent off earlier?:mad:

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I think it means BristolUK should be more careful in his choice of tipple.

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I have to agree with you and I'm a Spurs fan. We had loads of trouble with them lot until we took enough lads down with us. Even then the younger scallies were trying to have it with loads of the OB around. Just hope they don't come up to the proper league anytime soon.

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Looks like Swansea's out of the Championship play-offs this season, unless one of the teams above them has a major meltdown.

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It means that Howard Webb was the ref.

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I thought the Man Utd ref was Zac Hunt.... :thumbsup: :p

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Or Peter Sutcliffe. We woz . . .

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0-0 toon, not looking good, are they the next southampton?

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Maybe they need a new messiah Ant & Dec or Jimmy Nail or even King Kev again because Shearer sure is a shit one:rofl::rofl:

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Not looking too good for the barcodes, squeaky bum time indeed. Need to win both home games and hope Hull continue to slide.

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That about sums it up. We're DOOMED.

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Pretty much done and dusted, you'll be playing the likes of QPR next season

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At least we might win once or twice.

But I haven't given up hope yet; the Toon actually played quite well this afternoon (for the most part). No luck in front of goal yet again though.

I also had the honour of meeting a very personable new young barmaid at the nearest Setanta venue.

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You planning on following Southampton, Charlton & Narrrrch into Division 1?

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Not at this stage.

<vindictive bastard>

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See what happens when you are too cheap to pay for Setanta:thumbsup:

I watched parts of the game......Crouch was poor but NUFC weren't great. The owner didn't look too perturbed....Gazza seemed more concerned.

Do you think Mr. Creosote will stick around if they are in the Coca Cola Championship.

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They've still got a shot. Don't underestimate how bad Hull are.

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Probably. But I likely will have killed myself before then.

Edit: Or at least have changed my avatar again.

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As Keggy Keegall once put it, "I'd love it" if Hull went down. They started the season well and had everyone's respect then they started losing and Brown started hitting out at everyone except himself and his players. He hit rock bottom in my estimation when we knocked them out of the Cup and started throwing all sorts of wild accusations around.

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Never saw the game but most comments were along the line that Shearer must have picked the team to play out of a hat.

The last time Swansea played Newcastle in the second division (use of its real name there), was when we were on the way up... so good omens for Swansea really, not so good for Newcastle but good ones for us. ;)

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FT Barcelona 0-0 Chelsea

i hate to admit it but that is a sterling result for chelsea. i was looking forward to playing barca in the final this year, looks like chelsea again, got to fancy them to nip it 1-0 at home.

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I disagree I still make Barca favourites, Chelsea went there to snuff them out they succeeded it will be a different game in London and Chelsea will have to leave more gaps, remember Barca only need a score draw to go through.

I always think a 0-0 home leg when the teams are quite evenly matched favours the away side second leg.

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That's the problem then...should have picked the team to play on grass.:rofl:

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Dunno, Chelsea don't have an away goal, which may be important

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That's always a worry. Generally I'd rather be the away team in the 2nd leg.

But this was a great result and Chelsea actually had the better chances. If they can achieve that with so little possession they'll be likely to create far more chances at home and Barcelona will make even more defensive errors.

It's just a case of taking enough to put Barcelona away.