do your talking on the pitch says fat boy

[liverbird04]

lampard hating thread got to have one.

 

 

IT SAYS much about Liverpool?s emergence as the biggest threat to Chelsea that there is a growing amount of bad blood between the teams. Their Barclays Premiership meeting at Stamford Bridge tomorrow will bristle with bile.

When such an affable individual as Frank Lampard feels put out, it is clear that things have got out of hand. The midfield player is still annoyed by the taunts that preceded the corresponding fixture at Anfield in last October, with Jamie Carragher, his England team-mate, labelling Chelsea as a long-ball team, and he believes such criticisms were out of order. On that occasion Chelsea silenced a baying crowd with a stunning 4-1 victory and Lampard has told tomorrow?s opponents to do their talking on the pitch.

 

 

 

?I wouldn?t say they got under our skin, but there were things that were said before the last game,? he said. ?We felt we had been talked about in a bad way and we put it right in that game, which is the main place to do your talking. Put things right there.

 

?The only thing that surprises is when players talk badly about other teams. I understand the right for fans and press to say things critical, but I don?t think players should criticise teams who have been successful and who are doing things the right way.?

 

Lampard seems to forget that, in playground parlance, José Mourinho started it, by criticising Liverpool?s football and almost refusing to recognise their Champions League triumph, but nevertheless Rafael Benítez seems to share the view that he and his players said a little too much in the build-up to their last meeting. The Liverpool manager made the uncharacteristic error of claiming that Chelsea were ?afraid? of his team; this time he has retreated behind familiar platitudes while discouraging his players from discussing the opposition.

 

Perhaps they have realised that there is nothing to be gained in trying to rile Chelsea, who as well as having a world-class squad, are developing a siege mentality under Mourinho. The Portuguese appears to thrive on confrontation, even squabbling with the likeable Benítez after their two Champions League encounters earlier this season, but his players also buy in to the us-against-the world psychology

 

 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,428-2024167,00.html

 

 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,428-2024053,00.html

 

the times comparsion of gerrard and lampard .

Edited February 4, 2006 by liverbird04

[realtarragona]

I thought we talked a little too much before the last game so can't argue with him there.

[liverbird04]

I thought we talked a little too much before the last game so can't argue with him there.

 

 

maybe a lot by our standards but certainly not more than chelsea normally do ,but becos it was a bit out of character it seemed to get latched onto .

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

, José Mourinho started it, by criticising Liverpool?s football and almost refusing to recognise their Champions League triumph

 

come have a look at our trophy room..

[Earl Hafler]

"..bristle with bile "

 

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

 

Exlax putting on the pressure:

 

If it [throwing away a seemingly unassailable lead] can happen to a great club like Manchester United then it can happen to a lesser great club like Chelsea...

 

c*** & funny man in one sentence