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Indeed sir - spotters badge!

Jim Smith or some Scottish twunt...Souness will be free in a week or so...

A great player in many obvious ways - but one of our best 'take it down a blind alley' players too - we didn't/don't need to replace him - that's always a strange revisionist road to go down.

And Anderlecht at home.

I'm one of those that don't think Owen will ever be back - which makes the whole thing moot. However, also being one of those who believed he would sign, I've seen and heard enough since then and in the closing stages to know he did indeed manipulate the situation to his own ends. Yes, he had a right to do it - but as a supporter of the club promarily I think he treated us very shabbily at a sensitive time for the club. Like so many players who are occassionaly prone to beleieving their own press, I got the feeling he felt we entirely owed him, and that he owed Liverpool nothing. It took him 18 months in all to um and ah over a contract extension with us, but less than four days to agree a deal with Real Madrid. When it went sour over there, he told them he wanted to come back to Anfield, and I believe him - however, he lacked the courage of his convictions in forcing Madrid to deal with us and went to Newcastle for a ,ountain of cash and an eye on his England place. That's his choice - are we supposed to support him in it? I didn't and wouldn't boo him - or any returning Liverpool player - unless they had maybe done a Souness and written for THAT rag. I think we can take criticism aplenty (as if we had a choice!) but like any reasonable person, I respond better to constructive or objective criticism, much of what comes our way is neither. Owen has done what he thought best for Michael Owen, as is his right - even if he is wrong, which I think he is. I don't see his style fitting well with the all-as-a-team-together Valencia-like approach that Benitez has got us working with. Our attacking options are multi-layered with goals coming not almost exclusively from a poacher specialist (potentially easy to nullify as we have seen with Owen on occassion) but from all over the field - This season from Gerrard, Crouch, Cisse, Morientes, Carragher(!), Garcia, Alonso, Zenden, Pongolle etc...it's a new Liverpool. ( 9 premiership games won on the bounce so far, one goal conceded. We don't need Owen anymore.

Economical, but accurate.

'Leave it Kat - 'ee's not werf it!' 'But he's six foot seven! That means he's probably got an enormous...' HOT DOGS - GERTCHA HOT DOGS...THEY'RE LAVERLY...

Is right - once you get that Cockney mass up to optimal momentum, the legs can shut down and save energy as the relative 'G' forces take over in a Newtonian stylee - again proving scientifically - as with Everton's 'school of science' Lampard too knows what he is about.

I thought it truly bizarre when I first heard about it - it was in the press too at the time...strange stuff! Mind you, Carra does sound more like he's doing a 'yee-ha' Major Kong (Dr Strangelove) style... see here for one version...

or the last as it makes a better photo...

I think you're missing the essential 'irony' nature of the thread - it's like goldy and bronzey - only made of iron.

Gerrard lacks the ability to point classlessly and meaninglessly at the sky after scoring (particularly when deflected) in ignorant imitation of born-again christian brazilians too - very sad.

Well the Everton players didn't argue much, considering they argued about everything else during the game.

This might be it - not certain, but here goes - just before he joined us, Crouch was in a club in (I think) the west end, upon leaving the premises and heading for a taxi, two buxom blondes got into a fight with each other over him (I know, weird!) and it's been the subject of several injokes and piss-takes ever since - could be that rearing its head again.

To be honest, I couldn't tell...certainly the most ironic chant of the night if so. I liked the single rendition of 'what now my preciousssss?' after Cisse's goal!

Yes - got a very good view of that - did it with Finnan a few times too directing him near post.

Having seen that on telly since I got home, I'm quite happy that was out, despite Woodison not providing an 'absolute' camera angle - besides which, both Sami and Pepe stopped with the whistle. Not the worst reffing performance by a long way - but a very fussy one. Neville was right to go off, he'd had a few hacks at legs and a few warnings. Arteta - tougher call - but he got gobby with the ref a couple of times which didn't help his cause.

Booing Owen was wrong, though I can understand the feelings of some who did it, I disagree with it. Nevertheless, he's long gone and we have much more to think about - all of it positive.

Nope - 24: born Aug 12th 1981

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