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Football
Down. And Out?
Jun 17th
I spoke to him three weeks ago and it was clear he was not happy. He was down and wants success Not the words I like to hear coming from Rick Parry when he’s talking about the best midfielder in Europe. For all Houllier’s claims that he has left this club with a footballing legacy More ...
A Special One?
Jun 2nd
The biggest non-secret in football was confirmed as Chelsea held a press conference to appoint their new manager: Jose Mourinho. This guy is so confident it is breathtaking, so refreshing from all the “we’ll do our best” attitudes of most managers these days. We have top players and, sorry if I’m arrogant, we have a More ...
Rafa on his way?
May 31st
Rick Parry claims Liverpool will be ready to unveil a new manager within two weeks, maybe it’s just co-incidence but Rafa Benitez would have to give 2 weeks written notice to leave his contract at Valencia should he be on his way to Anfield… More ...
Bloody Blatter
Mar 1st
Sepp Blatter is again trying to interfere with English domestic football, apparently he’ll ‘let us’ have 18 teams in the top flight if we abandon F.A. Cup replays. Maybe he hasn’t noticed, but in this country domestic football is a lot more important than national football, and to be honest international fixtures in the domestic More ...
Substitution-a-thon
Feb 19th
Following yet another mass substitution-a-thon in Portugal that made a mockery of the game of football Sven has ‘warned’ FIFA that restricting the number of substitutes that can be used in friendly games to a maximum of five would be a big mistake. I think any fans that travelled to Portugal to watch a game More ...
Liverpool 1-2 Man Utd
Nov 9th
Liverpool outplayed Man Utd for 75 minutes at Anfield today. Unfortunately in the 15 minutes where we had a bit of a slump Man Utd scored two goals to Liverpool’s one. Once again Emile Heskey was guilty of missing easy chances to add to our goals tally. I wonder what dirt Emile has on Houllier More ...
Liverpool – Olimpia Ljubjana
Oct 15th
The big day! Leaving work at midday to start the 240 mile trip up to Liverpool. We made pretty good time most of the way. At one point the motorway was closed to a single lane, when we got to the point where the “accident” had been we found that there was nothing; no accident, More ...
Arsenal 1-2 Liverpool
Oct 4th
Liverpool lost 2-1 to Arsenal despite playing very well for most of the first half – Arsenal aren’t top of the league without reason, but we really should be turning performances like this into 3 points. Two weeks running now Houllier has bemoaned ‘poor finishing’. Defensively we have major problems, Biscan seems intent to give More ...
No Excuses
Mar 14th
I am not going to make excuses for him but the boy is young and I can tell you he is devastated by what has happened. – Gerard Houllier (not making excuses for him) More ...
Interfering with Play
Aug 5th
If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be. – Bill Shankly More ...