Taking Sides: Liverpool vs Everton

But yes.

then i might pop along and pull faces through the window...

football will almost certainly be on the projector in The Salutation about 5 minutes down King Street if you do manage to escape. and if history is anything to go by i will be (held captive) there for the first half. (brummy houseguest, food etc)

Plus the entire Girls' Dept will get tiddly!

I would vote for you to be senior management as long as you still get your tea round in.

"Phil Neal
Then: Liverpool captain, 34
Now: Merseyside Radio commentator

PN: I'd rather forget that night. It was an ordeal. But,
Jamie, why should I help you out? I'm helping you pay your
mortgage [by talking to you about Heysel]. When people ask me
for my view, they usually have to pay for it. You're asking
for my help for nothing. To pay your mortgage, Jamie. I mean,
what do you want from me?

OSM: I just thought that as the captain of Liverpool football
club on that night at Heysel it would be good to hear your
view?

PN: Yes but what do you want from me? If I talk to you for a
few minutes, then I'm helping you pay your mortgage and what
am I getting in return? Do you know what I mean?

OSM: Well, I have been to Italy and talked with some of the
families of the victims and they say that the trophy should
be given back by Juventus to commemorate what happened.

PN: About Juventus? Why are you asking me? Why are you asking
someone on the Liverpool side? Juventus made amends very
soon. Ask them ... Jamie I'm helping you pay your mortgage.
People who want my views pay.

OSM: I'm sorry, but everyone else I have spoken to has ...

PN: Great. So you've spoken to people, you've got your views.
You've got your Liverpool view, but if you want mine for free, well people pay for them.

MAGNIFICENT!

Can you see this one, Michael?

I did not know our friend with the dreadlocks had played for Atletico Madrid.

I did not know our friend without the dreadlocks was a product of FC Barcelona.

PESSIMISM OF THE INTELLECT, POPTIMISM OF THE WILL.

The notion that Vaughan is the new Rooney is laughable but he may be the new...Owen. Much more keen on Arteta being Gravesen without the menaces. Stubbs possibly out for the season - so it's the earthy Weir and the mercurial Yobo in a Venusian central defence. It's so crazy it could work. Four points is nothing, mind.

Having watched Comedy Connections last night, I'm worried Ronnie Corbett might come up on the dumb waiter in The Sun.

Besides, you only want to go there so you can kick that Chelsea bloke's head in.

The person who should really go is CABBAGE.

2005
Wales win the Grand Slam in Rugby
The Pope Dies
Liverpool lose in the League Cup final to the eventual League Champions that year (Chelsea)
Tiger Woods wins his ninth major by winning the US Masters
Champions League ????

Prince Charles got married
Ken and Deirdre got married
A new Doctor Who was appointed
Norwich and Crystal Palace were relegated from D1
Liverpool won the European Cup

A general election.
Steve Winwood's "Valerie" had been a hit only a year earlier.
A man from Bolton is very popular (Tony Knowles).
Scott Walker has reputedly finished a new LP.
Liverpool go out of the European Cup in the quarterfinals.

Brighton relegated
Tories win election

(JtN: I may text you later if I'm up for watching this in town - depends how late I work...)

The usual thing if a team or its fans muck about to the extent that a game can't be played to its conclusion is to award the match by the score of 3-0 to the innocent party. I expect this to be the outcome of the Inter-AC debacle. I dunno what would happen if a side aiming to recover a 1-5 first leg deficit went 2-0 up with 20min left and then the opposition all trooped off the pitch in some spurious protest.

One of my colleagues here, who glories in the name of M@x 0rlando, is Italian and a Juve supporter. I think I'll resist asking him to join me.

(* - in a loose sense)

(actually I was listening to Behind Closed Doors just a couple of hours ago, as it happens)