itt liverpool not winning things; sandbox i love football

Was it last year or the year before that carrick played CB, away to Fulham possibly?

Think it was around Dec or Jan of the 09/10 season. IIRC United had a catastrophic defence injury crisis (eight defenders out?) with only Evra being fit. Ferguson chose to play 3-5-2 with Evra in midfield and United got humped.

that 'pass' from carroll just now..i can't even...

Absolute-best probably Suarez or still Lucas. Reina as well, you just get used to him though.

Playing-to-potential best is what the question really means though, right? Johnson's a good shout, maybe Enrique too. Adam's been much better than I'd expected too.

Lucas was laughably good. That run of Chelsea, City, Chelsea were the 3 of the best individual performances I've ever seen. Other than him, Johnson, Skrtel and Enrique have all been consistently terrific this season.

Thinking though, the CBs must've been rocks, but I can't say I've really noticed.

not sure that's offside there. Bugger.

Sensational move, what a pity! Enrique being all Gerson(?) in 1970.

did you see gary nev's analysis of Lucas' performance against City Chris?

If Adam hadn't peppered his first few games with daft shots from the halfway line and ridiculous passes then he'd be in with a shout.

luckily blackburn had crap quality on the cross cos LFC napping at that corner.

Every game's like this now.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

we will wait until the last game of the season before deciding to take a proper share of our chances leading to a 7-0 win and optimism for next season.

Connor Sammon sent off for an arm in Carrick's face. Weird.

this has the stench of 'last game on MOTD' about it.

Chelsea game was pretty dire, there's still something to play for lads.

Berbatov makes it two. Gonna be very tough for Wigan now

Charlie Sheringham – Teddy's son – opens the scoring for Bournemouth at Brentford

I know Teddy's an old man, bit still

I'm going to stick my neck right out and say United have every chance of getting a result today

Dude's not even a teenager. 23!
xp

Thinking though, the CBs must've been rocks, but I can't say I've really noticed.
They have been, they compliment each other so well. Skrtel looks a lot more comfortable alongside Agger than Carra. Beast in the air, defends on the front foot, goal threat from set pieces and not afraid to venture forward like Agger. Lots of question marks over him but he's been great this season, and also very under-rated last season too.

did you see gary nev's analysis of Lucas' performance against City Chris?
I did. Was already aware of how good he'd been, but to see it from that aerial POV just focussed on him was a real treat. Thing is he wasn't just snuffing out attacks, and he wasn't just doing that last season. There was some serious Xabi Alonso-esque control going on, not even joking. Those last 3 games were breath-taking.

My 4-0 prediction for today isn't looking too promising.

Argh!

Ha ha ha ha. FFS

og ffs

4-0 to who Chris?

Adam finds his range.

xp. Well, Liverpool. Suppose Blackburn could get another 3 though!

Never mind.

Managerwatch: I've mentioned before that my mate's dad was a coach/kind-of-mentor to Steve Kean when he was at boys' club level. He (the dad) was round at ours a few days ago and I took the chance to grill him, but he had nothing but good words for our hapless hero conqueror of Anfield. Lovely lad, hard worker, good listener, always did what he was told, no ego, no complaints.

The sad thing is that SK always enjoyed taking his wife and young son along to watch the team, but he can't even do that anymore because the abuse has got so vicious and personal that the little lad gets too upset.

can i just say i think i was right about liverpool this season

hm think you also claimed bolton in no danger of relegation...so.

the nature of the abuse levelled at Kean is sort of out of order but can i say i'm fed up of cunts who presumably don't pay for a Blackburn ticket week in week out telling those who do what they should think?

and the LMA can go fuck itself too

hm think you also claimed bolton in no danger of relegation...so.

― pandemic, Monday, December 26, 2011 3:56 PM (8 minutes ago)

nah, i would never say that about any team worse than say liverpool

i still sort of rate owen coyle tho

maxi you beautiful bastard

citeh are looking really rather listless, they need a 'moment of magic from one of their special players'

that's a pretty bad miss from suarez imo

also, after being chided for slowness by the guardian a few weeks ago, kolo touré shows he can still run quite fast over a long distance

nasri was shit, a sort of anti-silva who flits about in futile hope of combining

berba gets a run in the team and he'll finish top scorer again

nicky shorey, premiership footballer

what's spurs news my internet is for shit tbh

Still no score in the non-existent Spurs match

berba gets a run in the team and he'll finish top scorer again

He's been ok against the ten men of Wigan. tbf games like this are how he ended up being top scorer last season

Chief football writer Phil McNulty at Anfield: "Anfield is now wide awake after the post-Christmas slumber following Maxi's equaliser. Blackburn manager Steve Kean not so happy and has been in deep discussion with the fourth official Martin Atkinson."

ah yeah tomorrow night norwich sright

Steve Kean not so happy and has been in deep discussion with the fourth official Martin Atkinson."

asking if there's a quiet exit

there have been LFC home performances this season that have been frustratingly wasteful, but this is just shit.

here comes Stevie to save the day.

5 secs - first mention of 'talisman'

this is probably the worst citeh have played in the epl this season

oy vey

Should've scored that.