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Unless the press are taking the piss out of Pennant and winding him up ...

Pennant just isn't that good :BLINK:
 
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YoungGun_UK said:
:LOL: :SS Why are Europeans big boys chasing Pennant like he's the BPITW?!
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25 year old winger, who's had experience playing at a big club, and playing in a CL final, available for cheap as a squad player.

Makes sense.
 
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I think it's a good sign of how much more the prem is being respected if he of all people goes to a big European club.
 
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It is on a bosman to be fair...
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? But it isn't though, is it? He's got a contract till the summer so its either cash in on him now or a loan deal out of the club (meaning no wagecosts for six months).
 
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Oh oke.

Was just browsing through the stats for this season. I've read quite a few omments that Liverpool are top due to Chelsea and Manu dropping points this season:

Liverpool
League Record 2008-2009
Pld W D L F A GD GFA GAA PpG Pts Rank
Home Record 10 6 4 0 16 6 10 1.60 0.60 2.20 22 2
Away Record 10 7 2 1 19 7 12 1.90 0.70 2.30 23 2
Overall Record 20 13 6 1 35 13 22 1.75 0.65 2.25 45 1

League Record 2007-2008 [for the same period]
Pld W D L F A GD GFA GAA PpG Pts Rank
Home Record 10 4 5 1 21 7 14 2.10 0.70 1.70 17 10
Away Record 10 6 3 1 13 6 7 1.30 0.60 2.10 21 3
Overall Record 20 10 8 2 34 13 21 1.70 0.65 1.90 38 5

Chelsea
League Record 2008-2009
Pld W D L F A GD GFA GAA PpG Pts Rank
Home Record 10 4 4 2 17 6 11 1.70 0.60 1.60 16 8
Away Record 10 8 2 0 23 3 20 2.30 0.30 2.60 26 1
Overall Record 20 12 6 2 40 9 31 2.00 0.45 2.10 42 2

League Record 2007-2008 [for the same period]
Pld W D L F A GD GFA GAA PpG Pts Rank
Home Record 10 6 4 0 20 8 12 2.00 0.80 2.20 22 4
Away Record 11 7 1 3 13 8 5 1.18 0.72 2.00 22 2
Overall Record 21 13 5 3 33 16 17 1.57 0.76 2.09 44 3

Manchester United
League Record 2008-2009
Pld W D L F A GD GFA GAA PpG Pts Rank
Home Record 8 7 1 0 20 4 16 2.50 0.50 2.75 22 1
Away Record 10 4 4 2 9 6 3 0.90 0.60 1.60 16 5
Overall Record 18 11 5 2 29 10 19 1.61 0.55 2.11 38 3

League Record 2007-2008 [for the same period]
Pld W D L F A GD GFA GAA PpG Pts Rank
Home Record 11 10 1 0 23 3 20 2.09 0.27 2.81 31 1
Away Record 10 5 2 3 15 8 7 1.50 0.80 1.70 17 6
Overall Record 21 15 3 3 38 11 27 1.80 0.52 2.28 48 2


Arsenal
League Record 2008-2009
Pld W D L F A GD GFA GAA PpG Pts Rank
Home Record 10 6 2 2 17 11 6 1.70 1.10 2.00 20 4
Away Record 10 4 3 3 16 12 4 1.60 1.20 1.50 15 7
Overall Record 20 10 5 5 33 23 10 1.65 1.15 1.75 35 5

League Record 2007-2008 [for the same period]
Pld W D L F A GD GFA GAA PpG Pts Rank
Home Record 11 10 1 0 25 7 18 2.27 0.63 2.81 31 2
Away Record 10 5 4 1 17 9 8 1.70 0.90 1.90 19 4
Overall Record 21 15 5 1 42 16 26 2.00 0.76 2.38 50 1
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So really the only difference is Manu need to win their games in hand to stay oncourse. Other then that its the same for those two.
 
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Yep, the only reason your on top is because the FA gave us the toughest possible start to the season but it will help us in the 2nd half :))
 
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TikTikTikTikTik said:
Oh oke.

Was just browsing through the stats for this season. I've read quite a few omments that Liverpool are top due to Chelsea and Manu dropping points this season:
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this notion is ridiculous considerng we have drew games we usually win or should have won.

So we have dropped points just as much as United and Chelsea, but some of United and Chelsea's dropped points are due to being beaten by US.
 
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You're up there because you haven't been quite as poor as us or Chelsea. I think whoever wins it this year will feel a little lucky because no team has looked like champions yet.
 
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Here we go, I knew it wouldn't take long before someone said we'd be lucky winners if we finished top at the end of the season :D

I knew this would happen though, if we do win the league, all's we'll get from the Bitters and the Mancs are that we only won it because we were lucky :LOL:
 
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Agree with Dags, if you win the league you'll be the best team in the England no questions asked. (says it knowing they'll feck up) :))


(Please dont bump this post in May if....)
 
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Yep, the only reason your on top is because the FA gave us the toughest possible start to the season but it will help us in the 2nd half
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I responded to this awhile ago now, but basicly looking at the fixtures you had one game more, or less (can't remember) against the top 10 then Liverpool. If you win your games in hand you will have an improved, relative as you will have played one game less at home, record on last year. Same goes for chelsea, if hey win their next game they will be a point better off.

You're up there because you haven't been quite as poor as us or Chelsea.
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Like Peter said, the main difference is that Liverpool have won 7/9 points this season vs 1/9 last season. Those 6 points put us at 44 (45 real). Manu and chelsea have improved on last season.
 
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Just to echo other sentiments, team at the end of 38 games is the best in the land. End of story. There's no point talking about the table right now, other than to say that so far, given the matchups that have happened, Liverpool have a couple, or more, points over United and Chelsea. I don't think anything has been decided.

There's no point in talking about how teams 'should' be playing. If it were that easy they'd just use FM and simulate the damn season.

You lot hoping for a draw this weekend, or does one of the two trailers scare you more?
 
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Guys, anyone know what is consider an student in England ? Because there are discounts for students for the Liverpool Stadium and Museum tour, I am an student here in Argentina but I´m 16.
 
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Liverpool legend Ian Rush has announced plans to put a familiar-looking six-a-side team together to play in the UK's Prostar leagues. The team-sheet reads: Clemence, Hansen, Carragher, Dalglish, Gerrard and Rush - but the catch is the side will be made up of fans with the same surnames as the Anfield favourites. Anyone who fancies their chances of selection should email info@cliffordfrench.co.uk
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:LOL:
 
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Liverpudlian Rhapsody.

Is this our Stevie?

Captain of LFC?

Arrested in Southport

All caught on CCTV.

Open "The star"

It's there on Page One, you'll see.

I'm just a Scouser

I need some help

Because I'm Huyton-born, Huyton-bred

Once a Blue, now a Red.

Whatever the truth is, it doesn't really matter to me.

[Piano: Dumm di dum dum, dumm di dum dum]

Rafa! It's Stevie here.

I've just t*watted a DJ

And they've taken him away.

Rafa, we were four points clear

But now I fear we'll throw it all away!

Rafa! Ooooooooooh.

Didn't mean to make you sigh

If I'm not back in time to play at Preston Tinker on, tinker on, my career is all in tatters....

[Piano: Dum di dum di dum, dum di dum di dum]

Too late! It's Walton Jail.

I don't think that I can cope

I can't bend down for the soap.

Goodbye everybody - I've got to go

Gotta leave the Kop behind and face the Bench.

Rafa! Ooooooooooo! (Anyway the sh*it blows) I don't want to go to jail I sometimes wish I'd never joined Liverpoo-ool!

[Piano, guitar and stuff]

I see a little silhouetto of Hamman

There's ,more dosh, there's more dosh if I sign for Man City But joining such a sh*ite team is very very frightening to me

Calling Barry

(It's Rick Parry)

Calling Barry

(It's Rick Parry)

Calling Barry! He's Magnific-o-o-o-o

I'm just a poor boy from a Scouse family He's just a poor boy from a Scouse family Spare him his job says Co-Coach Sammy Lee

Piano: Tinkle, tinkle tinkle

Easy come easy go! Will you let me go?

It's me, La!

No! We will not let you go! Let him go!

It's me, La!

No! We will not let you go! Let him go!

No no no no no no!

Rafa! Sammy! Rafa! Sammy! Rafa! Sammy! Get me out!

A Big House con has a shower set aside for me! For meee!

For meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[Big Guitar Riff]

So you think you can say my career's in decline!

So you think you can suggest my kids are not mine!

Oh DJ! Can't do this to me DJ!

Just gotta get out! Just gotta get right outta here!

[More guitar and then the slow bit]

My career is now in tatters

Anyone can see

Nothing really matters! Nothing really matters to me!

Anyway the sh*it blows!
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Written by a Bluenose I think, brilliant stuff :LMAO:
 
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I'm beginning to like Rafa more : http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8652_4770206,00.html

Not content to talk directly to the kid at school bullying him, he makes a list of all the bad things the kid has done, and then hands them into the headmaster. Hehehe.

Though I have real contention with this one:
"We have seen players sent off at Old Trafford and we do not see our opponents sent off." Erm, Rafa, check the facts mate, no one has had more opposition player sent off this season in the league than Liverpool.

Will set an interesting precedence if the FA do anything.
 
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Actually reading through the full transcript, it's pretty bollocks. He brings up the Macherano thing, bizarrely claims that Steve Bennett is pro-United and biased (surely if he did that just after a match, he would be brought up before the FA); he claims Fergie is not punished a few weeks after Fergie has served his second ban of the year; he (as I said above) says United get people sent off and Liverpool don't (facts show the opposite); and he ends by saying he doesn't want to talk about United because there's a big game with Stoke. At a conference for a Stoke match that he brought a written statement on United to. Erm.

Fergie's probably knocking back a good glass of red in celebration.
 
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Not really, I think it's a very clever move by Rafa. It's going to highlight Fergie to the FA and he wont be able to get away with any ref rants or approaching the ref for the rest of the season.

For Rafa to do this just before the United - Chelsea game as well? Interesting tactic.
 
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But Fergie has been punished twice for doing that in 2008. I don't think the FA are going to forgot that. In fact, Rafa even starts his rant by pointing that out.

I'm all for some good banter (I hate it but I do miss Jose for that) but if you're going to do it, a) don't read from a f*cking list and b) at least try not contradict yourself in the first minute.

Rafa Benitez January 2009

"Two years ago we had a lot of early kick-offs away on Saturdays when United were playing on Sundays. And we didn't say anything"

Rafa Benitez September 2007

"We will analyse it and talk with the Premier League. We will see how to stop this situation, but if you play on Tuesday, for example, in an international break, it will be easier. In the Champions League, if you play on Wednesday, you must play on Sunday. In Spain its like this. The television companies decide on early kick-offs on Saturday, so someone needs to talk to them as well. If you want your teams at the top of the Champions League, then protect them."

I mean, I'd say it could have just slipped his mind in the heat of the moment, but he had prepared a friggin list!

Anyway, it'll all come down to 'Pool fans going "Yeah have him Rafa, that old Fergie is a cheat" and United fans going "Haha, Keegan part deux". I'm much more intrested to know what neutrals think.

Like I said, I love the banter, but Rafa's delivery and facts (fats? fahts?) are just wrong.
 
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