Taking Sides: Liverpool vs Everton

Deft from Mooro also.

Blues' first points of the season!

Meanwhile, "The Strachan View" has been replaced by the equally insightful "The Hansen Hindsight" on MOTD.

HOORAY! LFC WIN THE SUPER CUP!

(But I'm left wondering why we ever bought Zenden, how Didi forgot how to pass, and why we don't sell Morientes rather than Cissé.)

I don't even think I want Owen back if it means Cissé is going.

There's too much quick fix hysteria about Liverpool this season, they did look woeful before Cissé came on but it's not a striker they need necessarily, not half as much as a good creative midfielder, I mean every team we play against, even CSKA Sofia, I think when one of their players beats two of ours and looks good on the ball, I think "even HE would be good for Liverpool", there's no flair at the moment. McManaman in his peak would make this Liverpool team so so so much more effective. Figo would have been good, even Stelios.

Somebody though, a good Cristiano Ronaldo type midfielder is vital.

Or what about trying Zenden through the middle? He was superb there for Boro last year, after being turned into a left back at Barca and failing as a winger at Chelsea. We've bought a class central midfielder and made him play somewhere he's been proven to be average.

I wish the transfer window would close!

We only have one striker fit anyway!

I see on the internet that England are close to winning The Ashes, in cricket. I turned on the radio to listen. Unfortunately I still do not know what the rules are, so I don't really understand the meaning of what the commentators say. It is a pity as I like big inspiring events, like Live8 and England winning at sport.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40806000/jpg/_40806890_weir_martyn203.jpg

love,
someone else who has seen their team lose five goals away to a shitey bunch of European no-hopers in Europe xx

We're used to thinking of the teams that bounce in and out of the premiership (Palace, Sunderland, Bolton until recently) as the yo-yo teams, but Everton seem to have been experimenting with an intra-premiership yo-yo over the last few seasons.

It's like we're Sissy Spacek in Carrie, invited to the prom, made queen, and then humiliated in front of the masses. Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge, none of the Everton squad are telekinetic. They're barely kinetic.

Thanks for the commiserations, Ailsa. I'd settle for that 4-0 home leg too.

Actually,that's not completely true. Really, I feel bad for Jonesy. Sorry Jonesy.

Nevertheless "They're barely kinetic" made me laugh.

Oh good, I've got Freeview. I will enjoy it either way, I'm a Red! Hope they storm through actually, as long as they don't end up winning the thing. In any case, they have to go for it so there'll be goals aplenty I'm sure.

LOL I always felt the spelling out of the number on the Videprinter rubbed it in somewhat for the team that just got their asses whupped.

Considering how dreary the Premiership has been so far this season (how many 0-0s?), it's probably about time yr faithful Sky subscribers got a goalfest. Monday might be it. We should put Richard Wright in, help the cause.

It was hardly a thrill-a-minute last season

I suppose excitement is relative though e.g. Exeter fans will be finding the Conference v exciting at the mo.

Also nil-nil draws are very often fascinating, you philistines.

Also fizz it up long to the big lad ect ect.

xpost (I'm sure some of the Prem 0-0s have been good value [Spurs-Lpool f'instance] but I suspect that there's a fairly high level of tedium in The Best League In The WorldTM at the mo'. Football should've ended in 1970 anyway).

The good thing about the Conference is that any team has the capacity to have a very bad off day and blow it horribly against apparent no-hopers. This is still no reason to buy The Bad Paper though, Mike. They still hate us, btw.

No, he's made it a one-horse 'race'.

The last Premiership game I went to was a 0-0 and it pissed down with rain, so maybe I'm still just bitter about that (and paying £40 for the privilege). But still the most exciting league in the universe!

Just my perception - I'm not very engaged by things in the top flight of Engish football at the mo' (= I can't be bothered watching MOTD) because (a) my team is doing badly, (b) we all know who's going to win the thing, (c) there aren't many goals about.

Maybe this is the best season yet cos the defences are all playing like gods, I dunno.

The idea that the Premiership is the best in the world though is fucking laughable. Really is. On every level, apart from misplaced nationalistic fervour and myopia, it's bobbins. For every world class player, there's 3 donkeys getting the best gig in their lives.

Dada OTM - It's now a 1.5 horse race, when it was two. Left to its own devices, it'd now be a 3.5 horse race, but that's gone out the window. The stadiums are designed with little vision or sense of history, the prices are obscene, the wages equally so. Ant it doesn't know what it's for. It has no sense of itself except as a blob like entity who must keep on taking, taking taking lest, like a fish that stops moving, it sinks to the bottom. It's entire raison d'rtre is like aan amoeba - it reproduces year-on-year.

I was at a reception last night for the Racial Equality Standard, where 5 premiership club s were awarded this kite mark which showed how they were actively working toi improve the diversity of their non-playing staff. But in the midst of the rather obscene backslapping, no-one dared point out the rather obvious point that the biggest barrier to participation in the lives of clubs is the ticket barrier, which is the biggest problem young ethnic kids and families in inner cities have. But lets not talk about common or garden economics. That's so old labour isn't it?