― the pinefox, Monday, 9 September 2002 08:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― the pinefox, Monday, 9 September 2002 08:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― the pinefox, Monday, 9 September 2002 08:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― chris (chris), Monday, 9 September 2002 08:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
It's up for grabs now!
― the pinefox, Monday, 25 November 2002 17:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
Why haven't you been so keen on the greatest football club in the world since May 1989 then?
― Venga, Monday, 25 November 2002 19:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
The league has improved quite a lot over the last two years though. I'm impressed.
Some people say that this is the last year before Celtic will need a major overhaul; this team is on its way out. I say that the team is over-staying by one year and that the re-jig should have occurred before 2002-3. In the summer lull. Thomson out, he's as much a chimera as Craig Burley (the Celtic edition), Sylla out (another example of * above), so many other people. Leaving the backbone: Larsson, Sutton, Hartson, Hedman, Mjallby, Lambert/Lennon axis. Build around that, with an eye to getting rid of one of the 2Ls.
- dwh.
― dwh (dwh), Monday, 25 November 2002 19:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'm loving this little run, obv - but I expect it to end at Newcastle. I do genuinely expect us to be ahead of the red filth by the time The Golden Child signs that contract though. Of course, we'll start to slide in the spring - of course, we'll be mediocre again when the injuries come. But this is a far more impressive core EFC team than the one Royle took to Wembley and the top six in the mid-90s, or the free-scoring Campbell/Jeffers-led side that fancied a stab at a UEFA place for two-thirds of 99-00. Things have changed. Out of the Dark Ages at last.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 25 November 2002 23:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
CHRIS KIRKLAND. HAHA!
― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 10:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
Ooh, he might even get a game for his club now Jerzy Nolongerclassicek is flailing a bit.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 15:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 16:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
False dawn!
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 19:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 16 December 2002 03:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
Losing to Sunderland though, sheesh.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 16 December 2002 07:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 16 December 2002 09:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
I don't know quite what to make of the Liverpool slump - previous winter blips have always carried an air of inevitability about them, as if LFC were riding their luck a little to be where they were, and a rough patch balanced things up. This season, Liverpool could (and should) have won their opening 12 league games and yet now seem utterly bereft of ideas - the swing seems more extreme than before. Alan Green is not a man to be trusted, but he was scathing about both teams on R5 yesterday.
So, on the one hand, Liverpool seem ripe for the picking by an organised, fluent Everton side full of confidence. On the other, they're, erm, spawny gets who might not lose again until March.
I dunno. I plan to go on a long walk next Sunday.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 16 December 2002 12:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 12:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
Final whistle goes at Anfield in a match described by the BBC as "tedious". Of course, I was a great big knotty bundle of scrunched-up bags of entangled nerves, so no trip to a Sky-sporting pub or earphones blaring R5 for me... contented myself with housework, a couple of Sea and Cake LPs and the 'live text' updates on the Beeb's website.
Seemed like LFC edged it, Rooney hit the bar and there were a flurry of nasty tackles and yellow cards at the end.
Thank God that's over. Merry Xmas everybody.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 22 December 2002 18:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 22 December 2002 18:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
Blackburn beat United 1-0, with a first-half Flitcroft goal. Some ex-international who's been knocking around the MUFC reserves came on for the last half-hour, to no great effect.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 22 December 2002 19:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Sunday, 22 December 2002 23:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
It was specifically Jim O'Rourke's "I Took The Opportunity To Antique My End Table" remix off Two Gentlemen that got me through the last seven minutes, if anyone's interested. It could work with, say, Brum-Villa too.
Any thoughts on just what Stevie G was trying to do with that 'tackle'? Apart from end Naysmith's career, that is.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 23 December 2002 11:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
For what it's worth I agree with Radio 5, neither team deserved to win it, but as the Guardian said this morning, Moyes bringing on Roonaldo just as the uintroductyion of Heskey and Smicer (who would ever have thought I'd write that sentence?) was a tactical masterstroke.
― chris (chris), Monday, 23 December 2002 11:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 23 December 2002 11:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 23 December 2002 11:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 23:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
Let's hope they survive.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
Still never mind, they'll be able to concentrate on the league... must practice saying that for when Chris gets in....
― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 22:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 22:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Fantastic. They'll be dancing on Westow Hill tonight.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 22:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 22:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 22:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 22:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 6 February 2003 10:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 6 February 2003 10:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 6 February 2003 10:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― zemko (bob), Thursday, 6 February 2003 11:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 6 February 2003 11:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
Word is that Reebok are sponsoring Liverpool to the tune of 100 million and that iit's going to be spent on players (hmmm, and not the new Anfield), but if we ain't in the hampions league, we ain't gong to get the best.
― chris (chris), Thursday, 6 February 2003 11:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
Maybe it depends who's choosing them. Houllier spent 43 million on the following outfield ten:
Heggem, Xavier, Traore, Vignal; Cheyrou, Diomede, Biscan, Smicer; Diouf, Heskey.
What a team, eh? To be fair, in a few cases, they helped win LFC those three cups. But a few more were intended to take LFC to the next level. Next level down, I guess. Houllier does seem to be becoming increasingly paranoid and delusional though (not necessarily about the shots-on-goal thing - they do waste a lot of chances, think of the 0-0 home draw with Sunderland).
Or is this a False Dusk?
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 6 February 2003 13:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
Out of those ten, I would keep Vignal (will be good in the future and was pretty cheap, he was flying before he got injured), Diouf (apparently had his best 45 minutes for Liverpool in the first half last night) and of course Heskey, who is a god to me (but I haven't seen *that* miss yet).
Smicer though? the sooner we're rid of him the better, he's rubbish. And I ain't too sure about Cheyrou either.
― chris (chris), Thursday, 6 February 2003 13:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 6 February 2003 14:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 6 February 2003 14:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 6 February 2003 14:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 6 February 2003 14:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― chris (chris), Thursday, 6 February 2003 14:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
diouf is sadly maligned but i don't think he'll ever be the ticket. squeezing a bit of value out of him by playing him on the wing won't fool anyone
i love cheyrou!! don't u think he looks really good in possession
― zemko (bob), Thursday, 6 February 2003 16:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 6 February 2003 16:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
Big result for Everton yesterday.
― the pinefox, Monday, 4 March 2019 10:35 (five years ago) link
But, miserably, there is no end in sight to the derby drought. 1971-78 was the defining barren spell of my childhood and why Andy King's winner was celebrated so deliriously. This doesn't just surpass that, it's the longest winless run by either team in the history of the fixture. Almost makes one pine for the 1990s.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 4 March 2019 12:30 (five years ago) link
https://youtu.be/4MJwi0Zwbk4
― the pinefox, Friday, 27 September 2019 09:29 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/dec/17/carlo-ancelotti-agrees-deal-with-everton-to-take-over-as-manager
I have a curious feeling that this will actually work.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
So long Big Dunc
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 15:19 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/dec/17/carlo-ancelotti-agrees-deal-with-everton-to-take-over-as-managerI have a curious feeling that this will actually work.― the pinefox, Tuesday, December 17, 2019
― the pinefox, Tuesday, December 17, 2019
― the pinefox, Sunday, 29 May 2022 08:21 (two years ago) link