Taking Sides: Liverpool vs Everton

Not sure the psychological block extends to league games with other teams though? Not saying they won't choke, but they probably only need to win one more game.

There's nothing actually at stake, too

game at home to Newcastle is winnable

could easily lose to Swansea

makes just as much sense if you invert it.

i suppose the logical argument is that they're ahead of ye with much of the season gone, better form and no cup final to allow for.

guys it's pretty obvious he's talking about the arbitrary win/losability of those 2 fixtures

ya we all are

It's only arbitrary if you ignore the actual results, Everton have done a much better job lately of beating teams above them in the league, especially at home, than Liverpool have of beating teams below them recently.

So, that happened then.

As Moyes said yesterday, 7th is nothing to celebrate, it's about where most ppl would've put us before the season. So, if we're celebrating anything, it's only as a result of Liverpool's dismal form since January (5-3-11 second half of the season = double that and you've got Bolton's season but with better GD). Which is small-minded and bitter and nothing to do with us.

On the other hand, yay.

Arbitrary my arse.

yeah because the scores were right your sentence now is perfect.

i love the way football works like that.

because his predictions were right your shaky attempts to ridicule his right to make them where you could read them have been vindicated?

srsly veering into self-parody whenever lfc comes up at this stage tbh- not that i don't, but i mean

predictions being right doesn't mean predictions were made with any insight.

Chelsea will probably smash them though.

oh look a wrong prediction, i win

we were envisaging a scenario where everton finished above lfc, if these random thoughts had come up on any other subject or wrt any other clubs i'd not imagine you'd be slinging logical mud with such vigour!

doesn't mean i wouldn't think it was stupid, just means i'd be less likely to pay attention to it. and i think you're wrong above, i'm hardly arguing in favour of lfc as a footballing force or something, i've done nothing but criticise them this year.

I think I am a bit too ignorant of EFC to have put them 7th. I thought they were a bit too mid-table for that. So from my POV, 7th for EFC *is* a good achievement. 8th for LFC is not. It is like where Tottenham were not that long ago (10 years ago?), or for most of my life supporting them.

Congratulations to Everton and their supporter.

Local Garda I hope for the sake of even-handedness you adopt this same stringency the next time I predict a run of dispiriting Spurs defeats, as happened on a near weekly basis this year.

I predict a run of dispiriting Spurs defeats. Next time Spurs play.

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magnificent picture

Yes that is lovely. I can imagine Xabi helming a small fishing vessel around the Bay of Biscay.

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:'( at the xabi pic

come back xabi

He seems a great character as well as one of the greatest LFC players of recent years.

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aka xabi alonso is not a footballer

Lana Del Real.

like it

Gatsby Alonso!

http://s3.amazonaws.com/imgly_production/3763902/large.jpg

he read the great gatsby, and for a decent portion of his time at lfc he could indeed handle it on a wet night at stoke, ignoring his first and penultimate seasons, and any bad results v stoke.

Xabi Alonso ‏@XabiAlonso

Test de Lars Von Trier. Muy diplomatico. http://pic.twitter.com/wqu3qug2

I love the way he takes pictures of newspapers and print publications

in fact his photos remind me of my own

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9107386@N06/4576205714/

never could remember how that worked

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he used to hold movie nights when at liverpool, i remember reading.

Describes Freamon from The Wire as 'boss'.
https://twitter.com/#!/XabiAlonso/statuses/25920290562

You're boss Xabi lad.

played gaelic football to a high underage level while on school swap cultural programme in meath iirc.

I can imagine Xabi helming a small fishing vessel around the Bay of Biscay.

The accompanying tweet even reads 'With the skipper'. Uncanny.

he was great at shooting from impossibly long range!

xabi has never been, nor would ever set foot, in meath

an adolescent david villa once delighted a pub in cavan with his rendition of 'ra classics

Carlos Puyol won the National Ploughing Championships in 1993

is there something patronizing about celebrating atypical football players like xabi? like to not only refrain from beating up call girls, but to actually read books and drink coffee

hes clearly an intelligent, relatively thoughtful 30 yr old man, it shouldn't be so unexpected

Which footballer was it who attempted to read Ulysses again? Something in my mind is telling me Kevin Kilbane but I'm sure that must be wrong.

Everton FC are going to have a new manager for the first time since before ilx started.

Austere technicians of School of Science.

I think ILX predates David Moyes, it was created in the Walter Smith era.

Liverpool have had five managers in that time. Spurs have had eight.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22483636

tony conte clearly angling for the plum goodison role

The Internet's origins are pretty foggy afaict, but Utd are definitely about to get their first new manager since before The Web started.