itt liverpool not winning things; sandbox i love football

Schalke won 2-1 at Hertha Berlin tonight. Pukki with a sweet strike for the winner. Huntelaar got the opener, that's 14 goals in 15 league games for him. Hertha had a mini break in the last minute when lasogga stormed through the middle, rode a challenge and was about to enter the box when he was tripped, buuuuut the ref had dropped his whistle and was looking on the ground for it instead of watching play so missed the foul.

Does that make Huntelaar top scorer in Germany?

level with gomez

or i guess that gives him one more? not sure.

buuuuut the ref had dropped his whistle and was looking on the ground for it instead of watching play so missed the foul.

I will remember this ploy the next time I need to bribe a ref

will be tough on steve bruce having to pay 7m for evans when he no longer even runs a football team

Second mortgage?

The ex-Spain, Barcelona and Middlesbrough ace was once the most expensive footballer in the world, costing Italian giants Lazio a whopping £29m.

Mendieta became a firm favourite with Boro fans, starring in a famous 4-1 victory over Manchester United, and to this day lives in Yarm on Teesside.

Chelsea have confirmed that André Villas-Boas has asked his players to involve him in goal celebrations.

The Portuguese manager made the request at a recent team meeting and a Chelsea spokesman told the Sun: "The manager has asked the players to look across and recognise him and his staff on the bench after a goal.

"He believes that by celebrating together it shows we are all in it together. That's the players, the manager, the subs, the staff, the medical people – everyone working and celebrating together."

think he's had a bit too much booze in his trifle the last few days

SOCCER!!!!!

Villas-Boas suggested his team's start to the season – they have taken 28 points from 14 games – had been made to look inadequate by the leaders' excellence. In support of his argument, he produced a laminated chart that compared his side's points tally with those achieved in the past few years.

"Chelsea, at the moment, have the same points as the champions last year and the same points as the champions three years ago," he said. "And they have two points less than the champions four years ago."

2pts a game is good enough for top 4, not good enough to win the league. AVB should stop frontin'. Also WTF with manager's press conferences turning into powerpoint presentations, first Dalglish with his 'poor lil luiz' dvd, now this. Have some fucking dignity.

Shut up, he has a laminated chart

i stand corrected

He's been picking on Gary Neville too. Where's Roy Keane when you need him?

i stand corrected

i remember the old days when all a manager needed to do was reel off a list of 'facts', no laminating necessary (wipes tear from eye)*sniff*
xp

there is a hint of Rafa about the whole thing. I miss that guy

AVB should be grateful he only has to deal with G Nev, he could be dealing with Andy Gray and his 'last fucking word', a whole other level of idiocy.

'laminated' is a beautiful detail here, it looks so much crazier (I laminate things with sellotape, sometimes)

definitely has a rafa vibe about it all.

try telling that to sir alex ferguson tho! the manchester united boss will be DELIGHTED!!!1!111!

Noted Johnny Evans fan darraghmac will be pleased to know the much maligned Northern Irishman is starting today

there's a defender in there somewhere apparently. I'm guessing it's Evra, he's eaten him and left a poor copy in his place.

happy 125th birthday y'all

Am on my way in time to miss the celebrations

Sam Sheringham reports: "The Specials were at number one in the pop charts the last time Wolves beat Manchester United at Old Trafford in February 1980. Mick McCarthy's men certainly need a special performance to get something today against the wounded Reds.

yeah if only we had beaten Man U more recently than 1980 ;_;

Stop your messing around,
Better think of your future.
Time you straighten right out,
Creating problems in town.
Rooney, a message to you Rooney.

not that i'm expecting much from this afternoon, especially with Fergie in a savage mood following the CL exit. given Utd's defensive issues i'd say the best thing wd be to go out and have a go, it's not like we've been defending anyway. so i assume mick will field some kind of 6-4-0 set-up with 9 Karl Henry clones he's had made specially.

mick mccarthy is a fucking clueless cunt btw, thought i'd get the message out there

wait

is tonight EL CLASICO?

iirc

and it is at fucking 9pm. i will only see like 35 minutes of it ;_;

Do you have to go to bed that early?

Marcus to win.

start work at 10

;_;

I thought Szczesny was injured?

sam :(

do u want us to liveblog in it in true bbc fashion for u

Rio looks HYPED

"The beast that can be Messi hurls a belter at Casillas."

no carroll

quel surp, henry returns for stephen hunt. just fucking die mick, please.

is taraabt dead? haven't heard about him for months

aaand suarez misses his first really good chance, 3 or 4 to go before the days out i would guess

Can Manchester United score?

now suarez tries to score from the byline instead of pulling it back for dirk.
typically we leave carroll on the bench and downing and johnson proceed to murder qpr down the right flank and work loads of crossing opportunities.

is the beeb's live text feed down?

chance number 3 missed by suarez - can he get to double figures?
we're playing great tbh, insanely high tempo, crisp passing, interchanging positions

yeah xp