itt liverpool not winning things; sandbox i love football

Carroll's been good too. Hoping this doesn't peter out now like every other home game this season.

Has he? I honestly haven't noticed him

I had a brief vision of a universe where the foreign invasion, EPL boom, etc. never happened. In that world, this sort of game decides titles.

He's done nothing since I wrote that of course xp. But things were sticking to him early on and he was linking things up well.

I was sort of falling asleep anyway

Newcastle are having the most ridiculous amount of possession without threatening. LFC are bound to nick this.

Uhhh. I take back everything.

The big man doing what he does best.

Big Simpson?

What, missing the ball?

Getting in the way, basically. Think it counts as an assist.

Hey, if it works.

Fuck me - how did he keep that out?

Sheesh, that Ba/Skrtl thing was beautiful all round.

ok that is one of the best goal line clearances i've seen in years

helluva clearance off the line there.

brilliant finish by ba, but what a clearance

ARGH

wow that is a hell of a cut Bellamy has

Yeah, time to turn it off now.

Nice

Nice shot by Johnson.

a hoy hoy, are you still working through the bible? i just came across this amazing passage that seems in the spirit of your reading:

2 Kings 2:23-24
King James Version (KJV)
23And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.

24And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.

(this is the ilf general chat thread, right?)

― m. yeux, Friday, 30 December 2011 19:52 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink

it is and i am. gonna wait for proper ilx though to go back over my crude highlighting, because having two threads, one which will be lost in sand, wld be a shame.

No doubt now who are the sixth-best team in the league.

Nice to see Spearing's learnt his lesson from that Fulham sending off.

Fully deserved MOTM for Gerrard there. Seem to remember he got one in the game against Utd "just cause it's nice to have him back" (Wilkins tbf)

Just seen a clip of McCarthy's presentation on tackling. Wow.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/57618000/jpg/_57618063_stireland.jpg

What a massive cunt, should fuck off back to his fairy castle Barbie home.

McLeish said: "You don't want to be bringing attention to yourself. It is not something I want to be discussing."

He added: "Was it a shisha pipe [Arabic smoking pipe] or something? I don't know what is in that stuff. For all I know he could have been blowing bubbles into it or something.

The big rumour is a loan for Carlos Tevez, although his wages would surely be a problem and they already have Emmanuel Adebayor on loan from Manchester City; the rules permit no more than one loan from the same club (http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/dec/29/transfer-window-club-guide-premier-league)

wha, why is this even a rumour when it's apparently impossible?

this is going to be a bloodbath.

Penalty to Blackburn....

1-0

pffft cheers for ruining it - wait, nothing could ruin that score/

Only 75 mins to hold out

Yakubu is still in his 20s... I don't know how I feel about that.

Blackburn, defending, look like a third division team. Utd need to just work 1% harder and this is still 6-1.

that was one of the worst attempted shots i've ever seen

Crap game, flat atmosphere so far

you know what i fucking hate? 1. saying that the ref would have to be brave to give another penalty 2. having that be your statement when a foul has been committed in the area; not 'he should give blackburn a penalty' 3. the resigned use to not only imply the ref is weak and cannot do his job properly, but also that to be too weak to call it is natural and fine at OT.

I could never call a game where Venkys's Blackburn are beating Utd at home crap. It is making a mockery of 'best league in the world' tho

Half-time approaching, there's been one shot on target so far and that was the penalty (which was pretty soft anyway as they were both pulling each other)

yeah but venkys are winning at old trafford

i can't make out united's formation. carrick at rb?

Carrick centre-back, Valencia right-back, Rafael centre midfield, I think.

jones is kinda floating somewhere

kean 4 lyfe (if the game ended now)

Rrro-wahs!

I have zero faith in this continuing obviously. Is Rooney on the bench? It's irritatingly poised for him to come on and turn the game like the world class player he is, same as Gerrard last night.

berbatov playing like the stereotype of players like berbatov

Substitutes

34 Lindegaard,
51 Fryers,
08 Anderson,
42 Pogba,
52 Cole,
32 Diouf,
48 Keane

huh welbeck is on the teamsheet? he must be giving a performance worthy of arshavin.