Jimmy Hill's Sunday thing on Sky

[Andy @ Allerton]

Does anyone watch that and think "My, what intelligent knowledable people who know a hell of a lot about football" or do you think (As I do) I've heard more sense off the pissed up geezers in the pub

 

If these people are supposedly the best the media world has to offer - then no wonder the reporting of football is so terrible

 

Do these people need qualifications or experience or do they just pick them up from shop doorways?

[Maldini]

Seriously, don't get me started.

[floyd]

Seriously, don't get me started.

Patric Barclay this morning, his dislike of us was shining through, like the glare of the studio lights of his Meekon head.

Paul McCarthy, Martin Samuel and all the other to55ers who are now on tele and think their as popular as the players.

f*** off back into the pub, were all good reporters should spend their time.

 

Take a look at another example of Fleet Streets finest, and their devotion to putting us down. Fvckin southern cvnts, the lot of them.

 

 

26 November 2006

FORMER GIANTS LIVING ON BORROWED TIME

Coca Cola CHAMPIONSHIP CALVIN'S COMMENT THE SLOW DECLINE OF LIVERPOOL

Michael Calvin

 

LIVERPOOL are not used to scuffling on the undercard like a nightclub bouncer moonlighting as a six-round boxer.

 

Yet with the main event, the title fight, being staged down the M62 today, they are having to live with being little more than a makeweight.

 

An unsatisfactory victory, courtesy of the inevitable Steven Gerrard, failed to dispel a nagging sense of irrelevance.

 

Anfield is an old fashioned arena, a world apart from the corporate theme parks springing up around the Premiership. The anthems celebrate cherished traditions, legends forged in European combat.

 

This all disguised one unpalatable fact. As far as the Premiership is concerned, Manchester United and Chelsea are the only game in town. Liverpool are falling behind. Slowly, subtly, but surely.

 

The search for a sugar daddy has switched from Asia to North America, but it's still no nearer to producing hard cash.

 

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Liverpool are hardly paupers. You won't find Rafa Benitez busking at Lime Street Station for a few coppers. But in the lunatic domestic environment in which they compete, they're being forced to settle for being the best of the rest.

 

Bearing in mind the £30m raised by the miracle of Istanbul, Benitez has spent around £25m net in his two and a half years in charge. That's small change for Chelsea, a significant yet manageable sum for United to invest on a single player.

 

Benitez spends around £5m on a player when he needs to invest £15m. That means a calculated gamble on unproven talent, or on the strength of character of men with a chequered past.

 

To emphasise the point, he waited until the 89th minute to introduce Craig Bellamy, currently on trial for assault. Interesting, that, on a day when Liverpool officials wore white ribbons to mark the UN Day for elimination of violence against women.

 

The mood was muted. No one would have felt that sense of emptiness more than Gerrard.

 

He's Liverpool's prisoner of conscience, trapped by the strength of his emotional commitment to his hometown club.

 

The Kop excused Michael Owen when he chose to walk alone. But Stevie G is one of their own.

 

In another life, he'd probably be one of the scallies who scam their way through match days by "minding" cars in the surrounding streets.

 

He's regarded untouchable, especially by billionaires bearing gifts. Losing him is something the local pond life do not wish to contemplate. Let's not forget that, when Chelsea's clumsy courtship ritual was revealed, Gerrard and his girlfriend were threatened.

 

He has appeared voiceless, distracted. But at least yesterday he had the compensation of playing in his favoured central midfield role.

 

His decisive goal carried all his hallmarks. He surged on to the ball and took two purposeful strides before unleashing a low drive. Technique perfect, the strike clean. Game over.

 

He can quite easily snuggle over the comfort blanket of being a local hero for the rest of his career. But he's only human.

 

I wonder whether as he sits in front of his plasma screen TV this afternoon he will watch the duel at the top and wonder what might have been.

 

Sunday Manc

Edited November 26, 2006 by floyd

[Andy @ Allerton]

Patric Barclay this morning, his dislike of us was shining through, like the glare of the studio lights of his Meekon head.

Paul McCarthy, Martin Samuel and all the other to55ers who are now on tele and think their as popular as the players.

f*** off back into the pub, were all good reporters should spend their time.

 

Take a look at another example of Fleet Streets finest, and their devotion to putting us down. Fvckin southern cvnts, the lot of them.

26 November 2006

FORMER GIANTS LIVING ON BORROWED TIME

Coca Cola CHAMPIONSHIP CALVIN'S COMMENT THE SLOW DECLINE OF LIVERPOOL

Michael Calvin

 

LIVERPOOL are not used to scuffling on the undercard like a nightclub bouncer moonlighting as a six-round boxer.

 

Yet with the main event, the title fight, being staged down the M62 today, they are having to live with being little more than a makeweight.

 

An unsatisfactory victory, courtesy of the inevitable Steven Gerrard, failed to dispel a nagging sense of irrelevance.

 

Anfield is an old fashioned arena, a world apart from the corporate theme parks springing up around the Premiership. The anthems celebrate cherished traditions, legends forged in European combat.

 

This all disguised one unpalatable fact. As far as the Premiership is concerned, Manchester United and Chelsea are the only game in town. Liverpool are falling behind. Slowly, subtly, but surely.

 

The search for a sugar daddy has switched from Asia to North America, but it's still no nearer to producing hard cash.

 

Advertisement

 

Liverpool are hardly paupers. You won't find Rafa Benitez busking at Lime Street Station for a few coppers. But in the lunatic domestic environment in which they compete, they're being forced to settle for being the best of the rest.

 

Bearing in mind the £30m raised by the miracle of Istanbul, Benitez has spent around £25m net in his two and a half years in charge. That's small change for Chelsea, a significant yet manageable sum for United to invest on a single player.

 

Benitez spends around £5m on a player when he needs to invest £15m. That means a calculated gamble on unproven talent, or on the strength of character of men with a chequered past.

 

To emphasise the point, he waited until the 89th minute to introduce Craig Bellamy, currently on trial for assault. Interesting, that, on a day when Liverpool officials wore white ribbons to mark the UN Day for elimination of violence against women.

 

The mood was muted. No one would have felt that sense of emptiness more than Gerrard.

 

He's Liverpool's prisoner of conscience, trapped by the strength of his emotional commitment to his hometown club.

 

The Kop excused Michael Owen when he chose to walk alone. But Stevie G is one of their own.

 

In another life, he'd probably be one of the scallies who scam their way through match days by "minding" cars in the surrounding streets.

 

He's regarded untouchable, especially by billionaires bearing gifts. Losing him is something the local pond life do not wish to contemplate. Let's not forget that, when Chelsea's clumsy courtship ritual was revealed, Gerrard and his girlfriend were threatened.

 

He has appeared voiceless, distracted. But at least yesterday he had the compensation of playing in his favoured central midfield role.

 

His decisive goal carried all his hallmarks. He surged on to the ball and took two purposeful strides before unleashing a low drive. Technique perfect, the strike clean. Game over.

 

He can quite easily snuggle over the comfort blanket of being a local hero for the rest of his career. But he's only human.

 

I wonder whether as he sits in front of his plasma screen TV this afternoon he will watch the duel at the top and wonder what might have been.

 

Sunday Manc

 

That article is proving to be the biggest Romario of forum history!

 

[Kahnee]

If these people are supposedly the best the media world has to offer

 

Who says they are?

[Andy @ Allerton]

Who says they are?

 

Well, they are on a Sky thing about Football, you'd think that they'd go for respected journalists rather than some trampy looking bloke they dragged out of a pu.. oh.

[McBain]

Who says they are?

 

Still waiting for that invite?

[Kahnee]

Still waiting for that invite?

 

I keep turning them down