Taking Sides: Liverpool vs Everton

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.

http://img.ly/fNa6

:'( at the xabi pic

come back xabi

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

http://img.ly/bRGS

http://img.ly/hZod

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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

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

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9107386@N06/4575573345/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9107386@N06/5046536063/in/set-72157624911426689

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.

Not so. Use the search function:

Another shocking display from United tonight - I think Big Ron's days in the job are numbered. And I suspect that one day in the distant future he'll accidentally broadcast some racist abuse.
- Ned Raggett, 4 November 1986 21:42 (26 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's excellent.

I can't believe I was daft enough to say Moyes at EFC predated ilx -- he's been there for 11 years, I forgot that ilx was over 12 years old.

I think Kendall will struggle at Bilbao; Colin Harvey is the tactical brain in that partnership. I have no such fears for EFC - the squad is strong and with the impending addition of Barnes and Beardsley (where else would they go?) I can't really see anyone challenging us for the next few years. I think we may match LFC's 16 titles by the late-'90s!
- Michael Jones, 18 June 1987 17:55 (25 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Everton 2-0 West Ham United

a fine first Toffee goal here: all passed along the ground, 'your Brazilian blend' (John Helm)

Fulham 1-3 Liverpool

Liverpool look increasingly dangerous -- seems they will do better next season.

i am watching the highlights of the liverpool game, they don't look any great shakes in this one. but they have looked better lately (easy to play when their season has been over since whenever, though?)

I revive this thread to mark the high point of Liverpool FC's history since the European Cup victory in 2005.

Happily it is also a high point for Everton FC who I hope will finish in fourth place.

"Merseyside's rocking again" -- Martin Keown, this season

Both sides are better than they've been in recent memory, and it's largely down to Swansea.

http://toffeeweb.com/season/09-10/comment/fan/RedBlueGreenOrange.pdf

on the catholic protestant aspect

Fascinating. From a line of Tory-hating Catholics, I had to be Evertonian, I guess.

Everton broke their club record scoreline in a pre-season friendly yesterday: 0-22 at ATV Irdning of Austria, in new manager Marco Silva's first match.

You can even watch the goals here!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44835279

There's a point around goal 11 where you just see something break inside the goalkeeper and he's only halfway through the ordeal. Goal number 19 is the really insulting one though, the point where he realises he just can't be bothered any more.