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Singing the Torres song was cathartic. One of the best songs we've had and was a shame we had to stop singing it. Enjoyable match all round, appreciated for what it was. A pen (or two) for the captain was inevitable. Great to see Pepe getting his goodbye, and nice return for the others too.

it is annoying the way Luis always takes the "It wasn't me" approach. Just admit you're a crazy loon and look to change your behaviour.

my mrs has had hers, but I haven't had mine

he's a good shot stopper, but doesn't appear to organise the defence very well. You can argue that's not his job, but the keeper can see things the players maybe can;t. Reina was always b******ing his defenders, and they kept loads of clean sheets. I rarely see Mignolet shouting at those in front of him. If he's our long term keeper, I hope he develops this part of his game.

Could do with some more of this magic from West Ham on the 11th... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1372472/West-Ham-Man-United-1995-Ludek-Miklosko.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/6627803.stm All 3 of Man City's opponents (currently) have something to play for, if that means anything.

This happened. There was a £5 fee to stay on the list. You obviously paid it

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/26852466 Real will be happy, but interesting that action has been taken against such a big club.

just read this on BBC. It's absolutely mental, although maybe more weight to certain refereeing decisions over the years.

it also ignores form. We've won 4 of our last 5 away PL games...

sorry if this has already been posted... http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11669/8742624/Transfer-news-Luis-Suarez-staying-at-Liverpool-agent-tells-Sky-Sports-News

gotta beat spurs next week...

So Torres has been telling his teammates he'd rather be back in Liverpool. Ok.....

that player's arm behaves in the same way Suarez's did when the ball hit his. You don't see that with deliberate handballs.

This "his hand moved towards the ball" thing I disagree with too. It did, but I don't believe it was to hit the ball with it. Look at the still picture on the previous page. His left arm is in the same position as the right. Both arms were up as a consequence of his running action. There wasn't enough time for him to consciously think about handballing.

it's the movement of his arm after the ball has hit it that make me think it wasn't deliberate. If it was deliberate he'd have more strength in his arm to stop his arm flying back in the manner that it does. Then his reaction after is pure frustration that it hit his arm and prevented him getting the goal. He turns and sees the refs given it and embarrassingly celebrates. Honestly can't see how anyone thinks it;s deliberate.

That was because Villa were wearing green which would've clashed with Pepe's home kit

Suarez or Gomez?

we did

my favourite was when someone in the Kop threw a mobile phone at Shrek

This. Ronaldo may have run for 10s, but there's no proof that he covered 100m in that time, and he did so from a moving start, not stationary. The likes of Ronaldo could be good sprinters, and he'd probably make the olympics for Portugal as I'm not aware of many top Portugese sprinters. But to suggest he could run 9.5 is bonkers. I doubt he could even run sub-10 with all the training in the world. As above, sprinters are powerhouses. Bolt's acceleration has been mentioned a few times, but what about Gay & Blake who accelerate much better and still cover the 100m in 9.6. Anyway, back to the original point which is it's incredibly unlikely that Bale EVER arrives at a challenge doing 23mph.

It's not wrong in the context of the article. He implies that Bale's diving is because he want's to avoid a collision at 23mph. I would suggest that given how quick that actually is, Bale rarely hits that speed. And given that his dives would also happen when he has the ball, and is dribbling, his speed would be much less than this. It's also not like he is trying to avoid full front contact. More generally, a kick to the shin/lower leg. My point about speed being irrelevant is that Ashton seems to be implying that Bale's speed magnifies the opposing player's force, it doesn't (it kind of does, but not really...). I'm not explaining this bit very well, but it doesn't turn that player into a polar bear, does it! He says it's the equivalent of "running into a polar bear weighing 600kg" it's not. Maybe the force is equivalent of a 600kg weight (polar bear) acting upon a stationary object. But running into a polar bear of such weight is clearly not the same as running into a 75kg man. Anyway, it's not really worth this amount of text, I was just commenting on the exageration of the dangers faced by Bale.

It's rather pointless but I can't help point out his absurd mathematics at the start of his piece. 23pmh would mean Bale spends his time running around the football pitch at 9.73s 100 metre pace! He should have been in the Olympic stadium in August with speed like that. If he weighs 74kg and is running at whatever pace, it is not akin to running into a 600kg polar bear. It's a bit like running into a 75kg man. His speed is irrelevant.

to be fair, there's some reasonable stuff posted on that CFC forum... http://forums.cfcnet.co.uk/index.php/topic/54567-official-rafa-benitez-appointed-chelsea-manager/page__st__735 there's also some right bellends

Barnes, defo

This article indicates that Possession is important.... http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/apr/10/premier-league-possession-battle-tactics More worryingly, Swansea had loads of possession under B.Rod, but failed to make the most of it. Sounds familiar to LFC. Hope we can make better use of possession this season...