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Yeah his laying down the law, perform or p1ss off....
Good too see, no point having slackers when everyone else is putting in the effort.
Harsha: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/s...ool-set-to-offer-new-contract-to-suso?cc=3436
Great to see so many young players in the team
Harsha: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/s...ool-set-to-offer-new-contract-to-suso?cc=3436
Great to see so many young players in the team
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This liverpool team makes me sick
but I'm not too pleased with letting in two goals
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Do you think this is a send off offence, i know its not the last man etc, but for me when a player committs a foul like this it has to be a send off..
http://www.socceramerica.com/article/48614/pinzis-wild-tackle-at-liverpool-is-must-see-tv.html
http://www.socceramerica.com/article/48614/pinzis-wild-tackle-at-liverpool-is-must-see-tv.html
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Good Article
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/sport-news/liverpool-fc/2012/10/09/55578-31994723/
I COULDN’T believe what I was hearing when Tony Pulis called for Luis Suarez to be banned following his dive at Anfield on Sunday.
This is the same Stoke manager who only a few weeks ago was praising Peter Crouch for getting away with a blatant handball in the penalty area before scoring against Manchester City.
Listening to Pulis trying to take the moral high ground on the day when his defender Robert Huth had just got away with stamping on Suarez’s chest was unbelievable.
It’s ridiculous how managers are so quick to criticise opponents when something happens against them but then condone similar behaviour when it’s their own players in the spotlight.
Don’t get me wrong, what Suarez did on Sunday when he threw himself to the ground late in the second half was wrong. I hate seeing diving and something needs to be done about it.
Suarez was cheating to try to gain an advantage in the same way as Crouch did recently.
There was another crazy dive by Gareth Bale in Spurs’ game against Aston Villa on Sunday. Players of this quality shouldn’t be lowering themselves to this.
It’s time the FA dealt with the issue and I’d like to see a system put in place where if you have a player punished for diving then the manager gets fined £100,000. It might be the only way to eradicate it because if it was hitting managers in the pocket they would no longer turn a blind eye to what’s going on.
I want Suarez to stop it because when referees see him do things like that it just reinforces the reputation he’s got for going to ground too easily and it costs him decisions.
I did have some sympathy for him on Sunday because he had lumps kicked out of him by Stoke and got very little protection.
Huth was very lucky to get away with trampling on Suarez and even luckier that he won’t face any retrospective punishment.
Referee Lee Mason should have held his hands up and admitted he got it wrong. As it was Suarez didn’t even get a free-kick and Mason laughing off his appeals just added insult to injury. Having tried to stay on his feet and got nothing out of Mason, in the end Suarez went back to his old ways.
We seem to be talking about referees every week and we certainly haven’t got the rub of the green so far this season. In general the standard of refereeing has been very poor.
I was chatting to some Everton fans and they agreed there hasn’t been one match where you’ve turned up and thought ‘I’m glad he’s doing our game today’. It’s more a case of ‘not him again!’
Stoke are awful to watch and difficult to play against with so many bodies behind the ball. I can see why they have drawn five games out of seven. They used their physical strength to try to bully the likes of Suso, Sterling and Sahin. There were so many cynical fouls and they got away with it until Mason finally started dishing out some cards.
We knocked the ball about really well and created chances but didn’t get any luck in front of goal. It wasn’t as fluent as the performance at Norwich but that was down to the way Stoke set themselves up.
The one big positive was a first league clean sheet of the season for Pepe Reina. Defensively, we were very solid and coped with everything Stoke threw at us.
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/sport-news/liverpool-fc/2012/10/09/55578-31994723/
I COULDN’T believe what I was hearing when Tony Pulis called for Luis Suarez to be banned following his dive at Anfield on Sunday.
This is the same Stoke manager who only a few weeks ago was praising Peter Crouch for getting away with a blatant handball in the penalty area before scoring against Manchester City.
Listening to Pulis trying to take the moral high ground on the day when his defender Robert Huth had just got away with stamping on Suarez’s chest was unbelievable.
It’s ridiculous how managers are so quick to criticise opponents when something happens against them but then condone similar behaviour when it’s their own players in the spotlight.
Don’t get me wrong, what Suarez did on Sunday when he threw himself to the ground late in the second half was wrong. I hate seeing diving and something needs to be done about it.
Suarez was cheating to try to gain an advantage in the same way as Crouch did recently.
There was another crazy dive by Gareth Bale in Spurs’ game against Aston Villa on Sunday. Players of this quality shouldn’t be lowering themselves to this.
It’s time the FA dealt with the issue and I’d like to see a system put in place where if you have a player punished for diving then the manager gets fined £100,000. It might be the only way to eradicate it because if it was hitting managers in the pocket they would no longer turn a blind eye to what’s going on.
I want Suarez to stop it because when referees see him do things like that it just reinforces the reputation he’s got for going to ground too easily and it costs him decisions.
I did have some sympathy for him on Sunday because he had lumps kicked out of him by Stoke and got very little protection.
Huth was very lucky to get away with trampling on Suarez and even luckier that he won’t face any retrospective punishment.
Referee Lee Mason should have held his hands up and admitted he got it wrong. As it was Suarez didn’t even get a free-kick and Mason laughing off his appeals just added insult to injury. Having tried to stay on his feet and got nothing out of Mason, in the end Suarez went back to his old ways.
We seem to be talking about referees every week and we certainly haven’t got the rub of the green so far this season. In general the standard of refereeing has been very poor.
I was chatting to some Everton fans and they agreed there hasn’t been one match where you’ve turned up and thought ‘I’m glad he’s doing our game today’. It’s more a case of ‘not him again!’
Stoke are awful to watch and difficult to play against with so many bodies behind the ball. I can see why they have drawn five games out of seven. They used their physical strength to try to bully the likes of Suso, Sterling and Sahin. There were so many cynical fouls and they got away with it until Mason finally started dishing out some cards.
We knocked the ball about really well and created chances but didn’t get any luck in front of goal. It wasn’t as fluent as the performance at Norwich but that was down to the way Stoke set themselves up.
The one big positive was a first league clean sheet of the season for Pepe Reina. Defensively, we were very solid and coped with everything Stoke threw at us.
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When The Kop Cheered For United
Unbelievable as it may seem today, Manchester United scored a goal at Anfield and the home fans cheered and sang.
The date was Friday 20th August 1971. The two teams playing that day were Manchester United and Arsenal. The FA had ordered United to play their first two home matches of the 1971-72 season at neutral venues after hooligans threw knives into the away section at a match at the end of the previous season.
During those days United were continually dogged by a hooligan element resulting in bans and fines. In 1977 they were ordered to play a home match at Plymouth Argyle’s ground, Home Park, in the European Cup-Winners’ Cup. United fans had gone on the rampage in France in the first leg and initially the club was thrown out of the competition, but then reinstated on appeal. UEFA ordered them to play at least 200km away from Manchester and one of the grounds with the largest capacity was Home Park.
This game in 1971 was also a first for a new manager. Frank O’Farrell had been chosen from Leicester City to take over from Matt Busby. Busby was a tough act to follow having been in charge for over 25 years, winning 5 League Championships, 2 FA Cups and 1 European Cup. Busby had been moved upstairs to General Manager and the experiment of appointing Wilf McGuinness as his successor had been a disappointment. Busby was in caretaker charge until O’Farrell was given the Manager’s role in June 1971. This would be O’Farrell’s first ‘home’ game for his new club after United had drawn 2-2 at Derby and then beaten Chelsea, 3-2 at Stamford Bridge. Arsenal had beaten Chelsea, 3-0, and Huddersfield, 1-0, and were the defending League Champions. They won the ‘double’ for the first time in their history, the previous season.
Speaking years later, O’Farrell would recall how many other clubs were really supportive towards United. But he singled out Bill Shankly and Liverpool saying “they were really supportive and it wasn’t a case of hum and haw, they were definite in saying they’d like us to play the Arsenal game at Anfield. , Peter Robinson, Liverpool’s chief executive, had approached the club and offered the use of Anfield for one of the matches. “We offeredâ€, said Robinson, “and they said they would cheerfully have done the same for us had the roles been reversed. United were going to have a bigger following than Arsenal so it was decided to give them the Kopâ€.
To attempt to deter further crowd trouble, as well as avoid affecting Everton’s gate that weekend, the game was scheduled for a Friday night but was attended by fewer than 28,000. There were disturbances at the start when fans invaded the pitch as some of the players were warming up, but that soon subsided.
Arsenal took an early lead when Frank McLintock opened the scoring after just 4 minutes, and his goal still separated the two sides at half-time. But in the second half United’s talisman, George Best started to make an impact. He was involved in United’s equaliser when Alan Gowling chipped Bob Wilson in the Arsenal goal. That was the moment the United fans on the Kop celebrated a goal from their side. It was also the first goal Arsenal had conceded in the League for 4 games
George Armstrong then went close for the visitors when United’s keeper, Alex Stepney tipped his shot onto the bar. Bobby Charlton then curled a free-kick into the left-hand corner of the net to give United the lead. Brian Kidd, now at Manchester City, finished things off with a goal late in the game to give United a 3-1 win.
Arsenal, who had lost just once in their previous 15 league matches stretching back to the end of February, now went on a 3-game losing streak starting with this game.
Liverpool received 15% of the gate receipts and United were instructed to pay Arsenal compensation as the gate was below the 48,000 who had attended the previous fixture at Old Trafford. Even Another part of the negotiations to get the game arranged, Everton were promised compensation if their gate was below 46,000 for their match against Sheffield United, the next day.
Apparently, not all the locals were best pleased with United turning up at Anfield as if it were their ground as a report in The Guardian the next day stated “about 100 fans were ejected from Anfield. Windows of some houses were smashed and 600 skinheads were said to have been kept in check by police after throwing bricks at the United supporters as they were frogmarched back to Lime Street station and onto trains back to Manchesterâ€.
Back then the rivalry between Liverpool and United was not as intense as it is now, but it still surprises many when they realise what happened.
For the record, United’s other ‘home’ game was played at Stoke City’s Victoria Ground where United again won 3-1, this time against West Brom. They also won their first game at Old Trafford that season too, when they beat Ipswich 1-0. They won their first 6 home games that season to lead the table at Christmas, but tailed off badly in the second half to finish 8th as Brian Clough masterminded Derby County’s first League Championship.
MATCH FACTS
MANCHESTER UNITED 3 (Gowling, Charlton, Kidd)
ARSENAL 1 (McLintock)
MANCHESTER UNITED: Stepney; O’Neill, James, Sadler, Dunne; Morgan, Charlton, Gowling; Kidd, Law, Best
ARSENAL: Wilson; Rice, Simpson, McNab, McLintock; Armstrong, Storey, Graham, Kelly; Radford, Kennedy
Attendance: 27,649
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Unbelievable as it may seem today, Manchester United scored a goal at Anfield and the home fans cheered and sang.
The date was Friday 20th August 1971. The two teams playing that day were Manchester United and Arsenal. The FA had ordered United to play their first two home matches of the 1971-72 season at neutral venues after hooligans threw knives into the away section at a match at the end of the previous season.
During those days United were continually dogged by a hooligan element resulting in bans and fines. In 1977 they were ordered to play a home match at Plymouth Argyle’s ground, Home Park, in the European Cup-Winners’ Cup. United fans had gone on the rampage in France in the first leg and initially the club was thrown out of the competition, but then reinstated on appeal. UEFA ordered them to play at least 200km away from Manchester and one of the grounds with the largest capacity was Home Park.
This game in 1971 was also a first for a new manager. Frank O’Farrell had been chosen from Leicester City to take over from Matt Busby. Busby was a tough act to follow having been in charge for over 25 years, winning 5 League Championships, 2 FA Cups and 1 European Cup. Busby had been moved upstairs to General Manager and the experiment of appointing Wilf McGuinness as his successor had been a disappointment. Busby was in caretaker charge until O’Farrell was given the Manager’s role in June 1971. This would be O’Farrell’s first ‘home’ game for his new club after United had drawn 2-2 at Derby and then beaten Chelsea, 3-2 at Stamford Bridge. Arsenal had beaten Chelsea, 3-0, and Huddersfield, 1-0, and were the defending League Champions. They won the ‘double’ for the first time in their history, the previous season.
Speaking years later, O’Farrell would recall how many other clubs were really supportive towards United. But he singled out Bill Shankly and Liverpool saying “they were really supportive and it wasn’t a case of hum and haw, they were definite in saying they’d like us to play the Arsenal game at Anfield. , Peter Robinson, Liverpool’s chief executive, had approached the club and offered the use of Anfield for one of the matches. “We offeredâ€, said Robinson, “and they said they would cheerfully have done the same for us had the roles been reversed. United were going to have a bigger following than Arsenal so it was decided to give them the Kopâ€.
To attempt to deter further crowd trouble, as well as avoid affecting Everton’s gate that weekend, the game was scheduled for a Friday night but was attended by fewer than 28,000. There were disturbances at the start when fans invaded the pitch as some of the players were warming up, but that soon subsided.
Arsenal took an early lead when Frank McLintock opened the scoring after just 4 minutes, and his goal still separated the two sides at half-time. But in the second half United’s talisman, George Best started to make an impact. He was involved in United’s equaliser when Alan Gowling chipped Bob Wilson in the Arsenal goal. That was the moment the United fans on the Kop celebrated a goal from their side. It was also the first goal Arsenal had conceded in the League for 4 games
George Armstrong then went close for the visitors when United’s keeper, Alex Stepney tipped his shot onto the bar. Bobby Charlton then curled a free-kick into the left-hand corner of the net to give United the lead. Brian Kidd, now at Manchester City, finished things off with a goal late in the game to give United a 3-1 win.
Arsenal, who had lost just once in their previous 15 league matches stretching back to the end of February, now went on a 3-game losing streak starting with this game.
Liverpool received 15% of the gate receipts and United were instructed to pay Arsenal compensation as the gate was below the 48,000 who had attended the previous fixture at Old Trafford. Even Another part of the negotiations to get the game arranged, Everton were promised compensation if their gate was below 46,000 for their match against Sheffield United, the next day.
Apparently, not all the locals were best pleased with United turning up at Anfield as if it were their ground as a report in The Guardian the next day stated “about 100 fans were ejected from Anfield. Windows of some houses were smashed and 600 skinheads were said to have been kept in check by police after throwing bricks at the United supporters as they were frogmarched back to Lime Street station and onto trains back to Manchesterâ€.
Back then the rivalry between Liverpool and United was not as intense as it is now, but it still surprises many when they realise what happened.
For the record, United’s other ‘home’ game was played at Stoke City’s Victoria Ground where United again won 3-1, this time against West Brom. They also won their first game at Old Trafford that season too, when they beat Ipswich 1-0. They won their first 6 home games that season to lead the table at Christmas, but tailed off badly in the second half to finish 8th as Brian Clough masterminded Derby County’s first League Championship.
MATCH FACTS
MANCHESTER UNITED 3 (Gowling, Charlton, Kidd)
ARSENAL 1 (McLintock)
MANCHESTER UNITED: Stepney; O’Neill, James, Sadler, Dunne; Morgan, Charlton, Gowling; Kidd, Law, Best
ARSENAL: Wilson; Rice, Simpson, McNab, McLintock; Armstrong, Storey, Graham, Kelly; Radford, Kennedy
Attendance: 27,649
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One HD are currently showing a series on LFC's 100 most exciting Premier League games.
Upcoming schedule:
Tuesday 1/1/13 @ 6.30am-9.30am EDST
Game 55-41
Thursday 3/1/13 @ 11.30am-2.30pm EDST
Game 40-26
Saturday 5/1/13 @ 3.30am-6.30am EDST
Game 25-11
and then!!! 6.30am-9.30am EDST
Game 10-6
Will check the guide later in the week for games 5-1 but would bet leftie that the 4-3 vs Newcastle games would both be included. "Collymore closing iiiiiiiiiiiiin!"
Upcoming schedule:
Tuesday 1/1/13 @ 6.30am-9.30am EDST
Game 55-41
Thursday 3/1/13 @ 11.30am-2.30pm EDST
Game 40-26
Saturday 5/1/13 @ 3.30am-6.30am EDST
Game 25-11
and then!!! 6.30am-9.30am EDST
Game 10-6
Will check the guide later in the week for games 5-1 but would bet leftie that the 4-3 vs Newcastle games would both be included. "Collymore closing iiiiiiiiiiiiin!"
sgt_pepper
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/\/\ theyll be #1 & 2. unless theyve decided to put in the UEFA cup final vs alaves?
Jaames
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It's only prem games.
sgt_pepper
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/\/\ missed that. my predictions then:
1. vs NUF (collymore winner)
2. vs NUF
3. vs everton @ goodison 2001
4. vs arsenal (arshavins 4 goal haul)
5. cant think of any other entertaining liverpool matches
. i remember a 3-3 vs the mighty hammers a while back. i'll go with that...
1. vs NUF (collymore winner)
2. vs NUF
3. vs everton @ goodison 2001
4. vs arsenal (arshavins 4 goal haul)
5. cant think of any other entertaining liverpool matches
. i remember a 3-3 vs the mighty hammers a while back. i'll go with that...
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English Premier League giant Liverpool has confirmed it will travel to Australia to face A-League side Melbourne Victory at the MCG on 24 July.
The visit will be the club's first to Australia and form an important part of pre-season preparations for the 2013-2014 EPL season.
Liverpool will travel with a full-strength squad that could include the likes of Uruguay striker Luis Suarez, England star Steven Gerrard and Australia goalkeeper Brad Jones.
"We are delighted to be playing against Melbourne Victory, one of the most successful clubs in the A-League," Liverpool FC managing director Ian Ayre told the club's website.
"We know we have a large fan base in Australia and New Zealand and this visit shows our commitment to bringing the club closer to our fans all over the globe, no matter how far away from Anfield they may live.
"We are very much looking forward to playing in Melbourne and giving our supporters a chance to see the team up close."
The match will be played just four days after fellow Premier League heavyweight Manchester United faces an A-League All Stars side at Sydney's ANZ Stadium.
That match sold out within minutes and organisers are expecting another huge crowd for the Liverpool match.
Football Federation Australia chief executive David Gallop said the game would provide another opportunity to showcase 'all that's good about the A-League after the best-ever season for the standard of play, big crowds and record TV ratings'.
Liverpool will also visit Thailand as part of its pre-season tour.
English Premier League giant Liverpool has confirmed it will travel to Australia to face A-League side Melbourne Victory at the MCG on 24 July.
The visit will be the club's first to Australia and form an important part of pre-season preparations for the 2013-2014 EPL season.
Liverpool will travel with a full-strength squad that could include the likes of Uruguay striker Luis Suarez, England star Steven Gerrard and Australia goalkeeper Brad Jones.
"We are delighted to be playing against Melbourne Victory, one of the most successful clubs in the A-League," Liverpool FC managing director Ian Ayre told the club's website.
"We know we have a large fan base in Australia and New Zealand and this visit shows our commitment to bringing the club closer to our fans all over the globe, no matter how far away from Anfield they may live.
"We are very much looking forward to playing in Melbourne and giving our supporters a chance to see the team up close."
The match will be played just four days after fellow Premier League heavyweight Manchester United faces an A-League All Stars side at Sydney's ANZ Stadium.
That match sold out within minutes and organisers are expecting another huge crowd for the Liverpool match.
Football Federation Australia chief executive David Gallop said the game would provide another opportunity to showcase 'all that's good about the A-League after the best-ever season for the standard of play, big crowds and record TV ratings'.
Liverpool will also visit Thailand as part of its pre-season tour.
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