Re: Even More Football Chat : Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:16 pm  

Oh, and Liverpool's spine has never been a problem before.....now. Of that spine, Gerrard has had no form all season, Torres hasn't played enough games, Carragher looks alot older now and only Reina and Mascherano have looked anything like. If Gerrard and Torres can get their form back and Agger can get a number of games together, it should be rectified. Even in losing efforts last year you could always rely on the spine of the team to do well but even that is struggling currently.

The less said about the likes of Kuyt, Insua, Maxi and Riera the better. Babel finally looks to have a found a bit of form and gets on for 10 minutes at the end last night while Dirk Benitez gets a full 85/90minutes every week cos he works hard. Yossi gets hooked after 70 minutes despite being our only threat last might and anonymous Maxi gets the full game despite losing the ball 90% of the time.

As alluded to by RR before, I'llstill support Benitez but his decisions are getting more baffling by the week. If he can't risk Aquilani in a game against Wigan then we may as well ship him out and cut our losses.

Re: Even More Football Chat : Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:33 pm  

Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:

http://www.hof.org.uk/showthread.php?t=2403

Millwall fan with a season ticket tries to buy his own seat and can't work out why Millwall are saying it's already been sold.

Absolute top class entertainment.

Re: Even More Football Chat : Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:01 pm  

Brilliant first fixture of the season to attend last night.

Re: Even More Football Chat : Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:06 pm  

Sthelens RLFC wrote:

You do realise Torres has been out injured for half of the season don't you?

I do, but if you're claiming that someone is part of a side's spine, and that their spine is the strongest, it helps if they can actually get on the pitch.

Aquilani has barely played as well. And I don't even think he's done very much for you to have faith in him, but you're claiming him as part of the most talented spine in the league???

You also realise that, despite having it pointed out before, the number of goals a goalkeeper lets in isn't the greatest indication of how good he is? Or are you saying that Hilario is a better keeper than Cech, cos he has let in less goals after all.

But Cech has consistently let in less than Reina, even when Liverpool actually had a title challenge rather than a challenge for 4th place.

Hilario's let in less goals because he's hardly ever played. But when he has played he's let in more goals per game than Cech has.

Re: Even More Football Chat : Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:21 pm  

Sthelens RLFC wrote:

I'd rather see him getting animated for getting booked for a good challenge than accept it. If that involves giving the ref the v's or sticking the nut on him, I'm all for it.

I've seen the photo of him with two fingers up in front of the ref, but from that picture it looks to me like he's just indicating 2 rather than giving him the v's.

What happened?

The ref surely can't say he didn't see it. He was stood 6 feet in front of him and looking straight at him.

Re: Even More Football Chat : Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:50 pm  

Anyone watch Spain beat France last week? WTF did David Villa have on his legs? Like a blue strip on each? What's that about?

Re: Even More Football Chat : Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:25 pm  

Glad Mark Halsey is back refereeing

Re: Even More Football Chat : Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:05 pm  

Javier Mascherano wrote:

i was on top form last night singing my heart out with the rest of the travelling kop

You must have been the only one.

Re: Even More Football Chat : Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:12 pm  

Javier Mascherano wrote:

i'll give you essien but cech is so good that he is being shipped out in the summer because of his very poor form this season, terry is a serial shagger, drogba better than torres and the less said about fat fwank the better.

think you need to take your liverpool specs off mate

drogba is miles ahead of torres this season
gerrard has been poor as has mascherano

Re: Even More Football Chat : Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:46 pm  

Javier Mascherano wrote:

reina, agger, mascherano, aquillani, torres.........find me any better in this league!!!

That is hillarious.

Reina - Fine, world class
Agger - Everton have two better centre halves than him at least, let alone the CL clubs
Mascherano - Enormously overrated midfielder who doesn't compliment Gerrard at all. Why is he named and not Gerrard?
Aquillani - A player who has done absolutely nothing in the Premier League and who has written the season off. Big question marks over his career IMO. Stupid decision to sign him when they did.
Torres - Fine, world class. But he didn't do to well against Wigan

In reality Liverpool have Reina, Gerrard and Torres who are sensational players and a very average squad to go with them.