Taking Sides: Liverpool vs Everton

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/l/liverpool/4613695.stm

Will UEFA harsh Cabbage's buzz?

I'm looking forward to a Liverpool-Everton final next year, to be played in Wrexham as a special treat.

May as well do the sensible thing and stick them in the group stage. Fenerbahce, as we've established, would only be demoted to where they 'should' be according to the coeff table. If it somehow hurts Liverpool financially to make them play three rounds of qualifying instead of some juicy preseason friendlies, then that might be funny. Presumably UEFA have some cunning plan in place for the rearrangement of the Super Cup final in that case. Like cancelling it altogether because who cares about the Super Cup?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/liverpool/4613695.stm

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are you thinking what I'm thinking?

I am not particularly aware of the Liverpool shine. Does that make me a holocaust denial person?

There is a bloke in my Lenny Henry programme called Everton.

It'll be interesting to see how many of The Greatest Fans In The World Ever turn out for a tie with NK Široki Brijeg (to pick a random side from this year's first qualifying round).

OI!

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why should Liverpool have been given any TV revenue at all? being in the Champs League is already plenty of reward, especially seeing as they didn't qualify. Everton really could have done without being forced to donate £5m to which they are fully entitled to Liverpool.

Hooray for Liverpool, I suppose.

I believe this to be the 1000th post on this thread. Well done, Peter - it couldn't happen to a nicer fella.

There is no prize.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00081MWWA/ref=pd_nfy_hp_ts/026-0841495-4651641

I have been recommended this by Amazon. I thought it was only right to pass it on.

I am glad I was thousandth.

I imagine the FA Cup may be glossed over a little though.

I wish I worked in DVD authoring - I could hack it so it played Lee Carsley's goal in a loop behind the unskippable anti-piracy warning at the start.

Maybe this is the one for JtN. Or maybe it's a bit of rush job with faked Alan Parry commentary.

"We won the big one but it is important we forget about that and move on and try to do better in the Premiership."

Forget about winning the European Cup and concentrate on finishing 4th instead of 5th in the league?

Steven Gerrard is a twat.

I think Gerrard's approach is quite sensible, judging by that brief out of context quotation.

"Backfire" for me obviously means them winning it again in 2006.

I have mixed feelings about this. The overwhelming one is "What a greedy blighter".

Meanwhile, Everton release Stubbs (the alternative was probably a gagging order on his speaking to the press) and are once again linked with Bellamy. Thanks but no thanks.

I don't think I understand or credit the notion, the claim, that LFC are freezing him out.

Dumbest line of the week: "if they sell him, they can afford to buy Owen Hargreaves!"

marcus bent wants to face liverpool in the CL. are everton, really bent's EIGHTH club? i wonder if purchases in the immediate future, will send him on the way to his ninth

What do footballers say now that they achieve financial security for life for themselves and their family in a week?

I really dislike Real Madrid, but I would go there for such a huge pay rise, I have to admit. Makes Chelsea look like a bunch of cheapskates.

The thing with Make Poverty History was it should have been Make Greed History all along. But that is a different story.

I don't like Bellamy.

He'll finish his career at Everton, the occasional sub's appearance as an injury-ravaged and slightly overweight 33-y-o, a man finally at peace as the Bullens Road hurl good-natured obscenities his way.

"How can I think of leaving Liverpool after a night like this?"

Turned out not to be too hard after all.

I don't think money is the issue for Gerrard. It is just a strange situation to be in, to find yourself having achieved something incredible, something you aspire to repeating, but somewhere else, presumably somewhere where there is more chance of that success happening repeatedly. I wonder how these things trouble someone in such a position as his - such responsibility now.

I quite like him. and he really is a great player.

I did not know he was a Toffee Boy.

I think he lacks the Dunkirk spirit.

I hope he does go and join the other Persil-touting morons at Madrid for a life of bench-warming and not being allowed out of the hotel punctuated with long-distance moaning.

Thank you, Sociah. I am secretly quite proud of it, and thinking of having it copyrighted so I can make a few quid from it.

That's exactly how I feel right now TENFOLD (decency? hah, I'm doubting it now)

if he's got any decency, he'll go to Barca and not be a Real fascist

Poor Chris. Mind you, some of us never got a snog at all.

I have sympathy for everyone involved and affected by this curious situation, including Rich Stephen.

I would translate that into your snog metaphor but I fear the words might alert our IT department.

I think Gerrard is a good player, but most players can be made world class by a selective series of edited highlights; He's been mainly rubbish for England, nowhere near as good for Liverpool week-in week -out as the London media would have people believe. Most shots and Hollywood passes aren't anywhere near as good as the one that make the compilations.

I now hope Liverpool win the European Cup and the League and Gerrard joins lil' Michael Owen in the 'what have I done?' stakes. Oh, and he's a greedy fucker. Obscene.

I agree with Dave in that he is too inconsistent, perhaps this flatters the two big occasions where he delivered for the club last season - though those deliveries were utterly divine.

I still enjoy reminiscing about his performance for England v Germany in Sep 2001.

Is it about money - I'm reminded of the saying that millionaires become millionaires and stay millionaires by being tight-arsed money obsessed fuckers, whilst most of us see money as symbolic (we convert money into things in pursuit of what we want to do). I wonder whether this is another instance; the fact is, in sheer 'things to do with money if I had it' terms, another 500K a year is neither here nor there. Hence it's all about the money.

There's possibly the issue that he knows that in truth, Liverpool were 'lucky'* to win and wants to play somewhere where the ludic aspect will be less. He fails to understand that winning medals in a team such as Chelsea is incomparable to beikng a scouse legend. No sense of history, these young people.

* - lucky as in the true ludic nature of all the best sports