Matty Taylor for England & GOAL of the season

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Matty Taylor scored a 40 yards volleyed left-footed screamer against Everton dipped over Tim Howard whilst he was standing like a yank dummy on the 6 yard line. Goal of the season according to Sam Matterface on the quay 107.4

just in.. already on youtube [poor quality images]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNaVLdg81LE

i can't resist:

10 Reasons why Mat Taylor should be in England squad

1. ex England U21 with International experience

2. Can play Left Back, Left Wing Back, Left Midfield

3. Gives a 100 % and is a winner

4. Even McClaren has noticed him: re Last Sunday on Sky

5. scores penaltys under pressure - something that few England players can do

6. can score goals from distance

7. ashley cole is suspended for england

8. it's about time that a Pompey player represented England - the last time a current pompey player represented England was Mark Hateley just before his 1 Million tranfer to AC Milan

9. South Coast bragging rights - to annoy the scummers [southampton] that Pompey have a player in the England squad

10. and finally.. just to annoy the anti-pompey faction on ile

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

also Livetable:

http://www.sportinglife.com/football/live/tables/premiership.html

Pompey third in the premiership - are you watching....are you watching ... Steve McClaren

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just waiting for Matt DC to DCend and reduce me to further DCpair with a DCultory account of Spurs' DCimation and DCtruction of my poor, hapless Addicks, to the DCpicable tune of 5-1.

DCgraceful. :-(

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

sky match ratings

Mat Taylor = 9 rating
http://home.skysports.com/matchratings.aspx?fxid=298547

9 = Excellent - Top-class display, probably the matchwinner.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

WEL DUN MAT TAILER HAV A COKIE

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

Sky Match report

http://home.skysports.com/matchreport.aspx?fxid=298547&cpid=8

However, just 12 minutes earlier Taylor had thumped home an outlandish 45 yard volley that will live long in the memory and surely claim the goal of the season award.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Paul Merson reckons Goal of the Season

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

We've not had half the season yet!

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Louis it's called a Benchmark - setting the standard

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

lol it's a miracle Taylor can play at all with Martian so far up him.

― sede vacante (blueski), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

Well, maybe. I've been wracking my brains trying to think of a better one and tbh I can't.

NO WAIT, what about Van Persie against, erm *gulps* Charlton?

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

last season:

Taylor vs Sunderland 40 Yarder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlvXm_PxssI

today's goal was further from the goal

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

Dear DJ Martian:

Matty Taylor is a good player, but you suck for the "yank dummy" line. From now on, consider us ENEMIES.

Sincerely,

Me.

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Matt Cibula try "Yank Plank Dummy" instead and keep that retro trad band "The Hold Steady" on your side of the Atlantic.

Thanks

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

OH IT'S ON NOW

http://www.thatsweird.net/Pictures/prince_charles.jpg

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Pix/gallery/2002/09/20/heskers4.jpg

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.bradmj.demon.co.uk/status-quo/images/quo01.jpg

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

who are those American AOR tossers?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

cbilula, you didn't change your login name, then! :P

brad friedel, the other yank dummy, last seen in the newcastle penalty area as martins scored the Toon's third

brian mcbride goalless as his team lose 4-0 at anfield

marcus hahnemann the only non-dummy yank by the looks of things

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h65/batman_sy/carr-jimmy.jpg

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.newint.org/issue309/Images/talvin.JPG

SAFEHANDS SINGH WHEN YOU'RE WINNING

― sede vacante (blueski), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

tim howard - i am a goalkeeper dummy to the tune of kraftwerk showroom dummies

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

oh good one you almost got me there
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Pix/gallery/2004/03/10/fitmithund.jpg

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

stan collymore is a dogger and English - i'm neither

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.rykodisc.com/rykointernal/databasesupport/album_covers_full/708.gif

john & yoko's tribute album to jagger and martian

― hb262 (hb262), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.democraticsocialist.org.uk/ns15LiamGallagher.jpg

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

american aor tossers = STATUS QUO, FULE!!!

― CarsmileSteve (Carsmile Steve), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

I hate Oasis and Beatles had split before i was born

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

its not a beatles album. its called two virgins

― jason deming (hb262), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

i know CarsmileSteve - they look like a mid 70s dodgy AOR/classic American rock band

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

Real answer: Tim Howard has been a very good goalkeeper in the past, and pretty good this year; if he was really bad and was standing there like a dummy, then your boy's goal isn't such a great accomplishment after all. Also, if Howard and Friedel are so bad, then how come they haven't been replaced by Britishers who are better? BECAUSE THERE AREN'T ANY PERHAPS. Or is it a Brit conspiracy against your own people horrors.

Also nice easy target Louis but I don't see any UK people in any of our leagues.

I love you guys but seriously is this how you think of American footballers? Hahaha that is hilarious.

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Although I admit UK football is better than US soccer blah blah blah etc.

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

DJ Martian you're not English?

― sede vacante (blueski), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

by the way Alan Knight goalkeeper coached FC Dallas last season

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

Poor Emre's terrific match-winning goal in midweek will be forgotten a bit more now.

― sede vacante (blueski), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

claudio reyna doesn't even make 45 minutes as city crash in local derby

damarcus beasley utterly ineffectual in same game

matt, i'm only winding you up! howard has been goalkeeper of the season so far...

although there are lots of English women footballers on your leagues!

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

yeah and by the way we tied world champion italy this summer

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

*in your leagues

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

and obv they'll have beckham at softdrink fc by next season...

― CarsmileSteve (Carsmile Steve), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

correct: NOT English - I'm British

born and grew up in

"Little England beyond Wales"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_England_beyond_Wales

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

LJ: that's true! Those two out of "Bend It Like Beckham" did really well for University of Whatever too!

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, you got a draw with Italy, in one of the most violent, farcical international matches I've ever seen. If there wasn't mafia involvement in that one I'd be amazed... ;-)

Bend It Like Beckham, what a brilliant documentary that was...

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

oh and your match against Portugal was a high-water mark in international football, okay junior

(no hate for Britishers or for any of you, just separate your issues dammit; I admire the films of Powell/Pressburger, I totally rock out to Super Furry Animals, and I am on record as preferring Rachel Weisz to US pizza)

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

...meanwhile, Jonathan Spector's West Ham go into half-time trailing 1-0 to Bolton Wanderers. Will the Yank dummy shame ever end?

A Matter Of Life And Death/Stairway To Heaven (as you guys call it) was actually commissioned by the respective governments to promote goodwill between the US and Great Britain, so there!

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

i'd also appreciate it if you wouldn't ever refer to that portugal match EVER AGAIN. :-D

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

xpost WELL IT IS A GOOD THING I ADMIRE THEIR FILMS THEN LOUIS, DO THEY NOT HAVE READING COMPREHENSION ACROSS THE POND

and yes, our national team has a lot of problems, we aren't all that good, i have never said otherwise. we have very good players though. we need a) a coach and b) a winning tradition to build on and c) to learn how to dive like European players

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

and you know what it'd be GREAT if matty taylor was in the England squad, I'm all for guys named Matty!

― Matty Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: nono, I was simply emphasising your point! My thrust was simply that you liked their films at least partially because their films were so pro-friendship between the two nations! The 'so there' was a slightly more emphatic exclamation mark, it wasn't a yelp of contention.

Bruce Arena is hilarious. After you beat portugal 3-1, he came up with the gem "And that's why we're the greatest country in the world!"

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

we have very good players though. we need a) a coach and b) a winning tradition to build on and c) to learn how to dive like European players

exactly like England, except 'we' have already made great strides in (c)

― sede vacante (blueski), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://base58.com/ilx/campbruce.jpg

"hiiiiiii!"

― sede vacante (blueski), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

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I think Les Reed is about to become the shortest-serving manager in
Premiership history.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

He does look like Harold Bishop, though! Somebody at least agree with me on that one!

I'm sure there have been shorter-serving full-time managers in the Premiership, surely?

And can we please now grab a proper manager (hint: PARDEW)?

― I am the best lyrocost since Dylan (Scourage), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

i don't remember the last time drogba got a penalty

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

This means more to me than the three points would've done.

Nah, not really.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still kind of in awe of the thread title's capitalising of GOAL, and nothing else.

― Michael Annoyman (Michael Annoyman), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Bung inquiry recommends bung inquiry: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/6192665.stm

Someone's making a living off the people making a living.

― Onimo has his finger in the stink (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

Matt Taylor wasn't the first, anyway. I remember this one from way back when (and have now found it on youtube!), and the similarities are uncanny; a swerving, unstoppable first-time running shot from a promising young left-back (as Harley was at the time) over the goalkeeper from about 45 yards. Except this one's been caught even sweeter, and has an even lower trajectory. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70SHYg6_6dI

― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Saturday, 23 December 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

in no relation to anything discussed above really, but funny!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of77aw-rgK8&NR

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 24 December 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Jamie - that was a great couple of hours to be a Chelsea fan on Sunday

...and Boxing Day was pretty damn fine for me. For the first time I actually feel United are slight favourites for the league now. I've only just started to appreciate that Chelsea have sold loads of players and their squad isn't quite able to cope with the current mini-crisis.

Which (former) pariah for player of the season: Ronaldo or Drogba?

― Teh HoBBx (HoBB), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

Right now? Ronaldo. He's scarily good at the moment.

Amazing how fragile and unbalanced Chelsea suddenly look, isn't it? They miss Terry badly, especially as having spunked £7m on Boulharouz in the summer they're now opting for Paulo Ferreira at centreback instead of him. If Drogba gets injured now they're fucked. Also where was Makelele against Reading?

Still, I fully expect Chelsea to spend like madmen in the transfer window and just throw a huge amount of money around, so who knows?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

JM should have pulled Drogba for SWP instead of Shevchenko.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going tonight, either to see our relegation confirmed or our hope (faintly) renewed. Come on the Addicks!

Just tell yourselves that Fulham really aren't very good. They're not.

― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

I felt sorry for Pardew. I thought he was sacked prematurely and I'm glad to see he's got another job so quickly, but I don't fancy his chances. Charlton have been looking *really* shit. I had been hoping Charlton went down to teach them a lesson for sacking Dowie prematurely (who I also feel sorry for), now I'm not sure.

― Teh HoBBx (HoBB), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

...and Boxing Day was pretty damn fine for me.

me too, but that's because i got to see liverpool v. rovers at ewood down in the visitor's section. liverpool lost, but the game was nice (first match i've been to) and the atmosphere was good.

pissed (off) scousers are hilarious.

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

The whole situation at Charlton shows the board clearly didn't have a clue what to do once Curbishley left, like they'd almost been banking on him continuing to add stability year on year. Since he left its been panic all the way.

I reckon Pardew has got it okay at Charlton right now - he won't be blamed if they go down (which they will), especially as the board has been upfront about there being no money for new players. The real pressure will be on him to take them swiftly back up (which he could well do).

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

poor charlton

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

FUCKING COMEDY MIDGET LINO, that was the worst decision, like, ever

if we'd played like that all season we wouldn't be in this mess. JAMMY FULHAM JIZZBALLERS

― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Thursday, 28 December 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

Uh, you have played like that all season and are now in a position where you can seemingly do little but scream at the sky for not being able to face teams as bumbling and inept as Fulham each week. That second half was some of the most wretched football I can remember watching and I think I actually banged my head on the pub table at one point during it

― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 28 December 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

Speak for your own team...and the fact that you barely had the ball in our half during the second period (until the last ten minutes, where the pressure was soaked up without a problem until the visually-impaired leprechaun decided to intervene).

― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Thursday, 28 December 2006 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

I don't support Fulham! It was just a completely rotten game of football

― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 28 December 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

both teams were shit, hence the draw.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 28 December 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, is it Kick Charlton day, or is this an ILE meme in the making?

I thought it was quite exciting, myself. Both teams were eager to score, both put players forward, and you got four goals, controversy, and an exquisite drag-back from El-Karkouri for your money's worth. What's not to love?

― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Thursday, 28 December 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

goals only amount to a small fraction of the 90 minutes of a football match - in between, it's nice to see play that flows - neat passing moves, and people taking the ball comfortably and fluidly into their stride. Last night, i saw very little of this. It was sloppy, frustrating football - the performance of rommedahl summed this up, i thought; he is one of the most infuriating players in the prem, imo.

― weasel diesel (kilian), Thursday, 28 December 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

i think it was more the case that last night both teams were eager to let the other team score.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 28 December 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Charlton and Fulham not exactly disgracing themselves today, however! Apparently, not only were we well worth the win (over an admittedly desperate Villa), but Fulham have arguably dominated their Stamford Bridge derby. Manchester United are six points clear, Phil Neville's scored a blinder, and all's well in the world!

(I accept that the weather, and the pitch may have played a part in the Chelsea match.)

Oh look, Reading have scored. And now they have a corner. I wonder what happens? Oh, it's cleared. Sorry, panic over.

― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Saturday, 30 December 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

p.s. KUDOS to Sam Sodje for the greatest substitute appearance of all-time...

― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Saturday, 30 December 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

WAAAHAAAAAAAARRGGH!!!!!

― Teh HoBBx (HoBB), Saturday, 30 December 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

Mourinho sounded pissed in the post-match interview. As in drunk. On and on he morosely rambled. It sounded like Chelsea should have had a penalty at some point near the end, which he made no effort to mention, which probably tells you something

― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 30 December 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

mourinho picks and chooses whom to be graceful towards. i have noticed in the past that he likes chris coleman, so his lack of vitriol today doesn't surprise me in the slightest. last week after the reading draw he was similarly graceful. other times he can be an unreasonable bastard. there is also a possibility that his pr men have told him to try and make himself seem more sympathetic, as the media appear to be cottoning onto his deliberate acts of provocation.

― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Saturday, 30 December 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

I think he is a Dada performance artist.

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Saturday, 30 December 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

also, witness the power of KARMA:

1) Chelsea score two last-10-minute winners in as many games
2) Chelsea concede two last-ten-minute equalisers in as many games

1) Charlton concede a heartbreaking last-minute equaliser, robbing them of two points
2) Charlton score an uplifting last-minute winner, gaining back those two lost points

― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Saturday, 30 December 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

I think Mourinho wrote out a list of managers he liked and managers he didn't when he came to the Premiership and he's pretty much stuck to it. Both Coleman and Ferguson are firmly in his Friends List, but watch him lay into Wenger if there's a cock-up involving Arsenal.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 30 December 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

...speaking of which, Arsenal have just struck a death-blow to Charlton's survival hopes. Watch as they compound this by beating us on Tuesday. :-(

― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Saturday, 30 December 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

Reading 6 West Ham 0 - what a hammering

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 1 January 2007 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

And a well-deserved lot of points for my Fantasy Football frontline of Lita and Doyle :-)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 1 January 2007 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Alan Curbishley, where are you now?

Yeah, still a couple of points ahead of us, but hey...at least we've crumbled with a shred of dignity intact!

Crouch was superb today for Liverpool, who themselves were as brilliant as Bolton were diabolical.

― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Monday, 1 January 2007 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

Oof. The title's impossible to predict this season. Even worse than the dropped points at Newcastle is the fact I forgot to change my fantasy football team yesterday, so two-goal Scholes is wasting away on the bench.

― Teh HoBBx (HoBB), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

...speaking of which, Arsenal have just struck a death-blow to Charlton's survival hopes. Watch as they compound this by beating us on Tuesday. :-(

-- Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (papiermachealamphibia...), December 30th, 2006.

qft

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

... and Chelsea fail to close the gap. After Chelsea (and before them Arsenal) dominating the league completely, I've almost forgotten what it's like to have a proper title race. Now they should both drop points and let Liverpool catch up.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

we agreed to drop darren bent and pretend he had an injury, let thierry henry and van persie have our own master surgeon for a week, tell sankofa to concede a penalty and a red card within the first half hour, and order the team to play particularly poorly,

but we reckoned without justin hoyte :-/

― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

Dearie me, we look poor at the moment, but I still think United will drop more points than us in the second half of the season, and both will drop enough to drag Liverpool back into it IF they remember how to beat the big teams. We really miss Joe Cole and Cech.

Mourinho gets on with just about every manager (Coleman, Jol, O'Neill, Fergie, Moyes, Warnock and Jewell especially) except Wenger (who doesn't get on with anybody), Rijkaard (who takes it all too seriously) and Benitez (which is bizarre, given that he doesn't have a personality to speak of).

I watched the Fulham game from the executive SUITE next to Roman A. We didn't have prawn sangers but we did have champagne, deep-fried oysters and a blanket to cover ourselves with if it get a bit parky. It was all wrong, but everybody in there was an actual fan and most went to a lot more games than I did, so it just goes to show, eh.

― Pete W (petew), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

...decent chance i'll have seats at Anfield for the Arsenal game on Saturday. My cousin reckons they're still in it, especially given United and Chelsea's meh performances these last few days.

― giboyojimbo (gbx), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone who thinks Liverpool can pick up 15 more points than Utd in 16 games is on crack.

― Onimo drank ALL the wine! (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, he's nuts, but he's still holding out hope as long as its still a mathematical possibility.

Guy is bonkers for Liverpool, though. Will be making the trip over to Nou Camp in a bit here, etc.

― giboyojimbo (gbx), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

My cousin reckons they're still in it, especially given United and Chelsea's meh performances these last few days.

It's definitely a lot more exciting and unpredictable this season, but I don't see BOTH teams dropping enough points to let Liverpool through. (Also I don't really see how United's 'meh performance' of a draw at Newcastle is worse than Liverpool's defeat at Blackburn).

After Chelsea (and before them Arsenal) dominating the league completely, I've almost forgotten what it's like to have a proper title race. Now they should both drop points and let Liverpool catch up.

I agree, it feels like there hasn't been a race for ages, but to be fair to Arsenal they never actually dominated like Chelsea did. Last season nobody else had a chance: Chelsea were 11 points clear by the end of October, and 16 points clear by this time last year. At this stage of Arsenal's 'invincible' season they weren't even top of the table - they were a point behind United and Chelsea were only three behind them. In the end Arsenal walked it, but there was a race for a while.

― Teh HoBBx (HoBB), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think Liverpool will win it, but they'll give themselves a sniff. We go there at the end of the month and if they win (and they should be favourites on current form), they'll be within striking distance of second. United have to go to Anfield, Emirates, Fratton and the Bridge, while Chelsea's April is horrible. There are a lot of points to be dropped.

― Pete W (petew), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

I bet my brother (a Liverpool fan) FIVE ENGLISH POUNDS on Boxing Day that Liverpool wouldn't finish in the top two, never mind win the league. They are looking very strong now, but I would be astonished if they could overhaul United. Mind you, I've been astonished lots of times already this season, I've got no idea what's going to happen next. Chelsea are the conundrum: I keep expecting them to click back into gear and go top, but if they carry on like they are at the moment Liverpool will catch them sooner or later.

― Teh HoBBx (HoBB), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

Keeping a clean sheet last night will have restored a lot of confidence, but we're so reliant on Drogba up front it's horrible. Robben back soon, which is key, but Shev (Matt's going to win that bet), Kalou and SWP all misfiring (SWP is shocking).

I still think that, despite everything, if Cech was in goal we'd be top. The FEAR has spread from back-to-front and knocked us all asunder. But we'll right ourselves soon enough.

― Petew (petew), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

the blackburn game was a bit disappointing, especially for my first LIVE PREMIERSHIP MATCH, but the atmosphere was great and my cousin is adamant that the reds will at least, as petew said, get within sniffing distance.

― giboyojimbo (gbx), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

Liverpool will finish 4th. Which is effectively last.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

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