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My lips are sealed but it won't matter as according to the Mail on Sunday, we're going to lose Fernando anyway. Selling Fernando Torres looks increasingly like Liverpool's only option if they wish to redress their financial worries and ensure they meet Michel Platini's criteria for qualifying for the Champions League. Liverpool, Manchester City and Chelsea will fall foul of the UEFA president's new financial restrictions on entrants into European competition if they carry on making losses. UEFA are currently finalising the regulations which will prevent clubs from making consecutive losses over three seasons. Details should be revealed in the next few months. Despite the gestures of Roman Abramovich and Sheik Mansour in writing off the debts of Chelsea and Manchester City respectively, all three clubs will have to find huge cutbacks in the next three years if they wish to qualify for the Champions Lleague or Eeuropa in 2012. Chelsea recorded losses of £44.4million last year, their sixth consecutive year of huge deficit, while Manchester City lost £92m during Sheik Mansour's first year in charge and next year may even beat Chelsea's record of £140m from 2005. Liverpool lost £40.9m in 2008 and selling Torres would bring in a £40m fee. Read more: http://www.mailonsun...l#ixzz0cCbPjrgt

I'm sure Fernando Torres appreciates your desire to have him subjected to an operation that he may not even need coupled with the risks of the procedure not working. It could even make the injury worse or end up him having to have his leg amputated. And that's not being sensationalist either. I was at a clinical meeting last week where a vascular surgeon presented a case of woman he'd performed a 'routine' operation on seven weeks ago. It really was the most simple procedure you could imagine - laser ablation of varicose veins - yet the woman contracted the flesh-eating bug necrotising fasciitis. Even the hard-bitten surgeons at the meeting winced as he showed pictures of what this bug had done to her and the flesh he'd had to cut away. In the event, she didn't lose the leg but it may have been better if she had as it was literally half of what it had been from groin to knee and will take a massive amount of physical and psychological help to get her to come to terms with what has happened. This operation by the way was performed in one of the NW's better private hospitals with good facilities and no previous cases of necrotising fasciitis and very little MRSA so its really a case of if it can happen there, it can happen anywhere. I appreciate it is a tiny risk but these things can and do happen and it's as well to be aware of all the potential eventualities beforehand, don't you agree? Operations really are the last course of action that should ever be considered and only performed when there are no other options available. Remember poor Denise Hendry?

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I understand that was narrowly rejected as the Tories' election slogan.

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Speak for yourself. I use Rohypnol.

I have to say I cannot remember the weather being this bad and this cold for this length of time. I remember the winter of 78/79 as being bad and our FA cup run was severely curtailed and yes, we did play with frozen pitches or snow on the pitches but the snow and cold that winter was much more intermittent. It would be very very cold for a week then it would rain and get warmer and then go back to being cold again. I remember we had seven consecutive months of there being snow on at least one day of the month! The area around Anfield for the worst affected game, a 4th(stand to be corrected) round tie V Blackburn was nowhere near as bad as it's been for more than a week now for instance.

I remember just before Christmas 2004 getting to Molyneux and walking up to the gate to be informed the game was off due to a waterlogged pitch. That day was no fun, I can tell you.

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Most footballers will not be on websites discussing the ongoing gossip as to whether Darren from Doncaster should get a tat or if Steve from Southend should get back with that Tracey sort.

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He's Czech, He's great, He's Paddy Berger.

Yes, isn't it tragic?

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Well he's gone....right down in my estimation. I did have respect for him but now I see him as a man of little ambition and even less loyalty. I reckon Mike Phelan will get the Burnley job now.

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England cricket legend Geoffrey Boycott has urged struggling Manchester United striker Michael Owen to try the ancient Chinese art of feng shui in order to break into Fabio Capello's World Cup squad. Owen has not scored a Barclays Premier League goal since his dramatic winner in the Manchester derby at Old Trafford in September. And the out-of-form striker scuffed a chance to draw United level against Leeds in their shock FA Cup defeat on Sunday. Out-of-form: Man United striker Michael Owen has scored seven goals this season Owen, who has scored 40 goals in 89 appearances for England, had hoped that his summer move to Old Trafford would re-ignite his World Cup chances. But he is out of favour with manager Capello and his chances of boarding next summer's flight to South Africa appear increasingly slim. Chinese new year: Geoff Boycott has urged Owen to try feng shui However Boycott, who used feng shui as he overcame throat cancer in 2002, has told the former Newcastle and Liverpool hitman to try it out. 'Michael is struggling with his scoring and obviously wants to get back in the England team for the World Cup finals in South Africa,' Boycott said. 'So I wrote to him a while back urging him to give it a go. If he is not interested, fine, I've not a problem with that. 'I am only trying to help and if it helps him find his scoring boots again, then great. Everyone has won. 'He hasn't replied yet. But if he does, I will put him in touch with some experts in feng shui and see where that takes him.' 'When I was very ill, I had a Chinese expert come round to my house and he said do this and do that. We did it and I am here now, still talking. I am alive and, at the time, I wasn't sure that would be the case. Feng Shui expert Eddie Lui said: 'I really think I could help Michael. I can make him do better.' <h4 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-size: 1em; "></h4> Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1240723/Geoffrey-Boycott-urges-Manchester-United-hitman-Michael-Owen-try-feng-shui.html#ixzz0bjpUnEVM

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