[Archived] Premier League Happenings

[Damien]

Liverpool have done their best to finish below Utd which is a shame!

[Al]

Scott Dann was by a country mile the best defender at the club, once he'd recovered from injury. He spent most of his time here covering Hanleys terrible positional sense and we should never have let him go.

Now he's on the brink of an England call up also.

Agreed GAV. He fell foul of some on this forum but was our best defender. Wish we could still afford him.

[Audax]

I didn't know Hull City has had all of these injuries and also one of their players, Jake Livermore, being tested positive for cocaine.

Otherwise, with Newcastle's form, really, Hull should have stayed up. A decent club should have had a fair chance at a point versus the Spurs.

Also, it's happened in the past before as well; a number of players for a club could be using cocaine or other substances and that is why they are playing poorly.

[DE.]

Why do Arsenal always bottle it against United?

[Robin]

Agreed GAV. He fell foul of some on this forum but was our best defender. Wish we could still afford him.

He did start to show some stability in his last season with us but before that he was quite bad in my opinion.

If we would have had a better management than that the clowns we had then he might have turned out good for us but at that time there was a lot of underachievers in our squad because of them.

[chris_h]

A couple of things irked me about Gerrard's farewell on Saturday. The Scouser's remarkable appetite for mawkishness was one, the other was Gerrard's kids on the pitch whilst Dad took the applause. This modern phenomenon really grinds my gears and was started, I think, by that little Cockney get Denis Wise. The sight of him in the royal box at Wembley lifting the FA Cup with his bewildered kid was a slap in the face for tradition and now has reached epidemic status. You see league 2 toiler's doing their end of season lap of honour with the bloody wife and kids in tow now! Why would a supporter be interested in that?

If I leave my current employment I wonder how it would go down if I brought a surly 17 year old in with me on my last day?

[Mattyblue]

The Scouser's remarkable appetite for mawkishness was one

They seem to be getting worse, a quick glance of their forums makes me feel queasy.

Saying that, Everton fans seem a lot more normal.

[chris_h]

They seem to be getting worse, a quick glance of their forums makes me feel queasy.

Saying that, Everton fans seem a lot more normal.

You have a stronger stomach than I if you've ventured onto LFC forums. I'm beginning to dislike them as much as the Stretford Rags.

On reflection I might have been a bit harsh with my remarks about Gerrard's girls. He has been at the club since he was 8 and, to be fair, I was at my Dad's retirement do!

I stick by point about players bringing their kids along to laps of honour or victory parades though. It seems to be something that has taken root in recent years and it's unecessary. I read that Rooney's little lad was on the pitch at Old Trafford recently. Why? I like Rooney but hasn't he complained about intrusion into his private life in the past?

[DE.]

They seem to be getting worse, a quick glance of their forums makes me feel queasy.

Saying that, Everton fans seem a lot more normal.

Every year without the PL trophy has driven them further into madness. Gerrard's hilarious slip last season probably broke what was left.

I find forums like RAWK quite funny. It's like reading a parody, except in this instance the parody has become reality.

[K-Hod]

RAWK is hilarious after a defeat. The levels of delusion amongst Liverpool fans is quality.

There's a twitter account 'RAWK Meltdown' which publishes tweets from there- it's a delight for anyone on Twitter.

[gumboots]

Can I just say how delighted I was that Liverpool lost SGs last match at Anfield. I don't desperately dislike gerrard but I do dislike this adulation of gerrard by the media. He was a long time servant to the club and had led them to a lot of things and deserved a send off from his club, just as Dunn did for us. No problem with his kids on the pitch with him. It was the sheer sentimentality of it and the assumption that everyone in the country wanted Liverpool to win for him, just as we were supposed to want them to win the FA cup for him that irked me. We are not, and never will be, supporters of Liverpool and the more you tell me I should want nice things for SG the less I find myself wanting them.

[Roberto Policano]

Pedro Obiang has agreed contract to join West Ham(4 year 45K a week) Now up to clubs to try and sort out a fee.

[chris_h]

Pedro Obiang has agreed contract to join West Ham(4 year 45K a week) Now up to clubs to try and sort out a fee.

An Allardyce or Benitez signing?

[davulsukur]

RAWK is hilarious after a defeat. The levels of delusion amongst Liverpool fans is quality.

There's a twitter account 'RAWK Meltdown' which publishes tweets from there- it's a delight for anyone on Twitter.

ALMOST makes me want to join twitter...........

[K-Hod]

ALMOST makes me want to join twitter...........

Oh yeah, I don't bother with that myself, but my mate showed it me!

[Stuart]

Pedro Obiang has agreed contract to join West Ham(4 year 45K a week) Now up to clubs to try and sort out a fee.

Roberto, do you get to hear of any Rovers potential signings these days. Or even Championship level?

[RevidgeBlue]

Can I just say how delighted I was that Liverpool lost SGs last match at Anfield. I don't desperately dislike gerrard but I do dislike this adulation of gerrard by the media. He was a long time servant to the club and had led them to a lot of things and deserved a send off from his club, just as Dunn did for us. No problem with his kids on the pitch with him. It was the sheer sentimentality of it and the assumption that everyone in the country wanted Liverpool to win for him, just as we were supposed to want them to win the FA cup for him that irked me. We are not, and never will be, supporters of Liverpool and the more you tell me I should want nice things for SG the less I find myself wanting them.

Top post gumboots. The thing that struck me over the last week with the sickening sentimentality and sycophancy from the media was the fact that it appeared to have been conveniently brushed under the carpet and forgotten that he was desperate to leave Liverpool to join Chelsea at one point, but was prevented from doing so by external forces.

I don't blame him for that one bit in the circumstances, but let's have it right with all this loyalty and one club servant, never wanted to play for anyone else than his beloved Liverpool claptrap. He wanted to join a better team which offered him a far better chance of winning things and understandably so, most players like Shearer and Le Tissier are criticised for showing a lack of ambition if they fail to do that. Yet St. Steven is lauded for this same supposed brand of loyalty even though that's not what happened at all! It makes you want to throw up and I actually have always quite liked Gerrard over the course of his career.

As for Liverpool the Club, I think it was summed up on the 25th anniversary of their last League title when a commentator said that since that day they've spent around £770m on 190 odd different players! Even we've won more Premiership titles than they have and I can't see that changing anytime soon. They're a bit like Newcastle for me, big Club, not a great team even though for some reason their fans and most of the National media still seem to think think they're Barcelona or Real Madrid based on sepia tinted memories of the exploits of the likes of Shanks and Bob Paisley and Rush and King Kenny a lifetime ago.

[Gav]

Every bloody channels covering that greedy little sod Sterling and his transfer request, is this major news? A part from on Merseyside?

I’m sick of hearing about it, he’s a greedy little sod and typical of modern day footballers, move on, nothing new here.

Liverpool should buy Adam Henley for when he comes back with Arsenal, Henley had him in his pocket for the 2 cup games.

[K-Hod]

He properly thinks he's something Sterling. He's nowhere near as good as he thinks he is.

[Mattyblue]

RAWK is hilarious after a defeat. The levels of delusion amongst Liverpool fans is quality.

There's a twitter account 'RAWK Meltdown' which publishes tweets from there- it's a delight for anyone on Twitter.

I noticed that their fans had aquired a sort of collective madness around the time they had Xabi Alonso and a few other Spanish players.

'We are a Latin club',

'A Socialist club'

Banners like 'El Conquistadors', 'El Capitan' (pardon the Spanish)

Bizarre stuff.

[gumboots]

He properly thinks he's something Sterling. He's nowhere near as good as he thinks he is.

Exactly what I said. If he couldn't get past Henley who'd hardly played this season and was seriously lacking in confidence in previous games he played in, what makes he can run rings round champions league defences? And who cares anyway. His ego at the moment is bigger than his achievements and could well turn out tobe bigger than his talent

[Gav]

I noticed that their fans had aquired a sort of collective madness around the time they had Xabi Alonso and a few other Spanish players.

'We are a Latin club',

'A Socialist club'

Banners like 'El Conquistadors', 'El Capitan' (pardon the Spanish)

Bizarre stuff.

Playing the victims over the Suarez biting stuff showed the club and majority of fans in the real light.

They're obsessed with beating Utd at all costs, the Suarez stuff showed them at their worse, win at all costs.

[DE.]

When the Suarez stuff started, suddenly everybody on RAWK had a distant Uruguayan relative or acquaintance ready to confirm that Suarez was innocent and we just couldn't understand the complex nuances of Uruguayan culture.

[LDRover]

Blimey they're deluded.

I've a LFC supporting friend who insists that Markovic is world class.

[skous18]

Is your friend from Serbia?