Florist Cinema Pond Goal

Our 2 problems: 1) Not clinical enough. 2) This season we fizzle out when we go behind.

Isn't it a shame that the two biggest stars of the current season have to mix brilliance with an element of sliminess. Highly talented diving c****.

Utter c****, I'd be surprised if it were any other club.

With regards to Barton, to complement what we already have in that area I'd like to think our 4th central midfielder would be more brains than brawn. I also doubt he'd be happy to sit around collecting a*** splinters.

Gerrard should be put back on the right as soon as Sissoko returns otherwise we'll have nothing to argue about.

Which in itself will be a phenomenal acheivement, enough to drive the hype of next year being our season. Which ain't necessarily a bad thing, because next season definitely is our season.

It'd still be a great season if we finished 2nd now.

Joe Cole had the same under Mourinho did he not?

Playing Agger regularly should go about rectifying that.

We also had a weakness at times last season at right back and sometimes right midfield. C***.

Why is every nomark who thinks they know their football spouting out this irrelevant comment in an attempt to belittle Benitez? I blame Andy Gray.

0-0

Also nice to see 1 (which was a wonder goal) conceded in 4 after the Derby debacle.

I'll give them all 9 cos I'm that nice a guy.

Think that came about due to our lack of a similar option on the left flank. Pennant was carrying a big burden today and disappointed even if he may not have been as poor as some make out. I would have loved to have seen a fit Harry Kewell on the left today.

Just did. It was 'im!

Erm hello, 2nd best player in the world?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,297-2339382,00.html Odd.

Apparently, Defoe is on his way to Portsmouth according to Talksport so make that 25. Is he still knocking about?

We all dream of a team of Carragher's arch enemies. We're putting in an £8 million bid for Gary Neville, replacing Rafa with Mourinho and handing out trials to anyone Carra chucked that coin at at Highbury.

But in the Thuggery Circuit that's young. Vinnie Jones, Ruddock and Dicks are spring chickens no longer.

Plays like it too. It's every lifelong Liverpool fan's dream to break Jamie Carragher's leg.

Crap co-commentator though.

Whereas Lennon and SWP have deficiencies in their play Pennant essentially has it all to be a top right winger - strength, pace, work rate and crossing. I'd definitely back him to oust both by 08. Articles like this certainly won't hurt his cause. Whether any of the 3 will oust Gerrard by the Euros is another matter.

Chelsea will struggle for the first 10 games before Cech returns and Mourinho realises 4-1-3-2 is not as effective in acheiving results as playing with wingers and 3 in central midfield. Going forward United look best in the league right now. Getting rid of RvN has helped the fluidity of their play whilst losing Ronaldo would have brought them down a peg or two - although a w***** his ability to win free kicks, create chances and hurt teams with his pace would have been hard to replace. However I'm still not convinced defensively. Although all decent enough players too many of their defenders are prone to f*** ups. Yesterday could have easily been different, a better team than Charlton would have made more of an Evra slip in the first half whilst Brown blatantly handballed when the game was still open at 1-0. The standard overall of each team in the Prem seems to have improved upon last season - United have started with 2 of the easier teams but have broken both down well. We will lose 3 or 4 games this season but so will United and Chelsea. This title will go to the wire.