Just recently I have been listening to "Cornology" the best of The Bonzo Dog Band. A punk stopped me in the street He said "Have you got a light Mac?" I said "No, but I've got a dark brown overcoat."

Aaah, ain't that sweet. But true

Well done vyeo, Another in a long line of exellent previews.

Our problems lie with the attack. For all his running and pestering, Paul Dickov is useless at playing alone up front and his continual whimpering is getting on everyones' nerves. MH should stop playing him alone up front and sacrifice someone from midfield so that he has a striking partner. Just out of interest, all those who are having a go at NEJ & Neill...these are the two who have contributed (since 27th November (I know, I know!)) to letting in just 12 goals in 22 games. We need a striker and we need one baaaaaad. Can one of our London posters go round to Thierry's house and tell him about the advantages of living in Blackburn?

Well said that man. Absolutely spot on. May I also suggest that the reason the Saturday KO is at mid-day is so that both Rovers & Arsenal fans will have disappeared from Cardiff before the two sets of United fans appear over the horizon. Gits. (that's the FA rather than the two sets of United fans) In this instance

Good preview Bellamy. I wish there were a few rubbish ones, it makes doing another one more and more difficult. Still, I suppose that's the price we pay for mingling with the Rovers intelligentsia

Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes" Nick Hornby's "How To Be Good" The former is a laugh & cry & cringe with horror about growing up in Limerick in the 1930/40s and if you are not affected by it then you are emotionally dead. The latter....I've only got half way through it, but I already know that as soon as I finish it I'll start it again. I can't wait to finish it off. Really funny and hits a few targets. There's a character in there called David. If you read it, he'll remind you of one or two posters on here.

If Barry can stop grinding his teeth tomorrow I'll try and do a post match commentary.

I've got to say that Cardiff as a venue for the semis really gets on my nipples. Nothing wrong with the place but the travelling just doesn't make sense. For Newcastle Manchester and Rovers there are choices such as Anfield, Elland Road, COMS, & Hillsborough. Villa Park would be OK for whoever plays Arsenal. Whatever happened to the days when these stadia were chosen as a logical, & geographically sensible location. I know that the usual league games will be played somewhere, but surely it can't be beyond the wit of someone at the FA to come up with an alternative top sending us all down to Cardiff. So now we'll all be burning up the petrol, clogging the motorways, and taking hours getting to and from the game. Grump grump

AESF must have a Leicester-supporting twin! I'll second that

Lord Taylor's Report Scroll down to The Taylor Report. Seating wasn't introduced as a one-off issue, it was a part of a far wider-ranging paradigm surrounding football. Ranging from the way that the police & clubs treated fans like scum, to the likelihood of you finishing the game stood in a puddle of urine because 5,000 people couldn't get to a three-man urinal at half time, to .....................Hillsborough. I very much doubt that seating/standing section will be stripped out of progress made since The Taylor Report, and reversed.

No problem, Either the geese or the swans will see them off double quick time. They be scuttling off back to their lairs on Darren Moor before you can say "Bob's your uncle."

Ah ha! Our secret weapon. Get Phillip to heap praise on the opposition and watch them crumble. Ipswich Town 6 - 0 Nottingham Forest

Here's your chance to read it. say "thank you Colin" the report

Eh? Didn't read it but...

Blimey, You are obviously not a Rovers' supporter. We would still be bearing a grudge big time. You should ask about Derek Dougan and the 1960 Cup Final if you want to know about us and grudges. 45 years old and still going strong. Anyway, all the best for Sunday. Hope you have a nightmare.

There have been some interesting games played against Liverpool over the past few years. Just creeping in under the ten-year bar was a certain game played at Anfield on 14th May 1995 when something or other happened. Can't remember what exactly, but it certainly made Anfield happy as they all stayed to applaude long after the final whistle. For which we salute them. From the sublime to the ridiculous: Stan Collymore's infamous "bobble" shot at Ewood which completely bamboozled Tim Flowers; John Barnes amazing overhead kick and goal, also at Ewood. Amazing, because it was a super goal but also it was executed by Barnes who, by then, had started showing signs of severe pie-abuse. Going back into the mists of time was the FA Cup game on 5th January 1991 when Liverpool came to Ewood in their heyday. This was before Uncle Jack's time and we were languishing near the bottom of the old second division and churning out results such as a 0-1 home loss to Notts County a mere 10 days before. Simon Garner scored a goal just after the start of the second half (when I was still in the damp & smelly ######-hole brick ruin, laughingly known as the "Gents Toilets" in the Blackburn End. Thanks Simon.) This was followed 44 minutes later by a ball-girl quickly chucking the ball back to a Liverpool player. The resultant cross ended up with Super Atko turning the ball into his own net followed by years of abuse for the poor sod. Naturally we lost the replay. The ever-lovable Jimmy Hill subsequently blamed the ball-girl for *not* time-wasting and then had to humbly apologise to her for being a cynical git. We all know too well what Jimmy Hill is doing nowadays. I wonder what became of that ball-girl? Perhaps she's a housewife in Haslingden or a physicist at the Cern,the world's largest particle physics laboratory. I guess we'll never know. Possibly the greatest* match against Liverpool was on 10th January 2000 at Anfield. Still wallowing about in the middle of the old second division, but thankfully two months after Kidd was booted out and twelve days away from being thumped 5-1 at Oakwell, Rovers arrived with such luminaries as Grayson, Peacock, Dailly & Davidson. Combined value? Possibly a half-eaten pie left on the doorstep of 53 Nuttall Street. Eight minutes from time with the score at 0-0 "Blackburn broke down the right of midfield. Per Frandsen (stop giggling at the back) spotted Blake (I won't tell you again!)in a yawning chasm where Liverpool's centre halves should have been and the Welsh striker swept home an instinctive right foot volley high beyond "electric" Sander Westervelt." (The Guardian) Just to add to the general surrealism of that match, me & Mrs Colin gave a lift back to Manchester to a German Liverpool supporter who I happened to be working with. We dropped him off at Victoria Station in Manchester, counted to five, and then started laughing. *only joking More recently there has been a series of serious injuries to Liverpool players. Carragher broke a leg thanks to Lucas Neil and in the same game Milan Baros broke an ankle. This year Cisse suffered a severe break at Ewood. The Liverpool squad must be planning their excuses Anyway, onto the Q & A with Barry who works in the same god-forsaken organisation as me. Let's get this out of the way and the rest of this will be a downhill cruise with the wind behind your back. Tuesday 18th January. Turf Moor, FA Cup: Burnley 1 - 0 Liverpool. You must be cringing at the memory. Not as much as Djimi 'Bambi on ice' Traore. In fairness Benitez got alot of criticism after this but the kids had got us through a couple of rounds of the Carling Cup beating Spurs and Boro and nobody complained then. The trouble with this was that it was obvious a few of the more senior players just didn't fancy it, and it doesn't matter who you are playing, if your not up for it particularly in the cup your going to get beaten. Got any grudges against us? Lucas Neill on Jamie Carragher could be counted as a bad one, but Baros & Cisse were accidents. Yeah, Neill can expect a 'warm' welcome from the kop particularly as he didn't play in the return match at Anfield last season although he did get sent off in the Carling Cup which amused the large travelling support. Baros was crocked by one of our own, Markus Babbel, although it was a complete accident it could only happen to Liverpool. I think we will need to take extra insurance cover out for the trip to Ewood next season - providing your still in the Premiership that is, only joking! Obviously your current manager is not the most popular person at Anfield being an ex Manc/bluenose and a thorough pain in the **** whenever he played against Liverpool. Also wish your man with the drum at Ewood Park would stick it were the sun doesn't shine - not Burnley! I hope he doesn't read this! We've both had Graeme Souness as manager. With us he was great for a couple of years, got rid of some dead wood, promotion, & Cardiff. Then he lost the plot. How was he at Anfield? Souness the player is still a legend at Anfield probably the best midfielder of his generation and along with Dalglish, Hansen and co. part of the best Liverpool team I have ever seen - if Stevie G becomes half the player Souness was he would be worth all the current media hype. Unfortunately for many younger reds they can only remember Souness the manager. I remember when Souness was appointed I thought he was the right man to take over from Kenny who was clearly not a well man towards the end of his time at Liverpool. Unfortunately, Souness broke up a team too quickly that although was ageing had still won the league the year before and was 2nd in the league and in an FA Cup quarter final when Kenny left. Although Souness won the cup in 1992 he was having his heart problems - and what finally did for him with Liverpool supporters was alongside a poor set of results, he sold his story to the s*n which post Hillsborough was the worst thing he could have done. To this day he is still referred to as Suness by many reds and he did appear to have a real problem with Liverpool when he was your manager - nobody liked his reaction and comments following the Carragher-Neill incident. 14th May 1995, a happy day for both sets of fans. Was there ever a feeling that Liverpool might not just play as well as they could, just to deny the Unmentionables the title? The good thing about that day, apart from the obvious, was that the Mancs couldn't point any accusing fingers at Liverpool. I do remember though when Jamie Redknapp smashed in the free kick I didn't know whether to celebrate or cry. There was some debate among the fans beforehand about what the reds should do but none of us should really have worried thanks to Andy 'barndoor' Cole having one of his finest matches in a Manc shirt - his heart must have been with Blackburn even then. Apart from J-A Riise who always plays well against us, who should Rovers be afraid of? Morientes is class and once he gets used to the Premiership and has a proper pre-season will score lots of goals for Liverpool. Another of our Spaniards - Luis Garcia, although infuriating at times, has tended to save his best performances for home games, has some nice touches and can score goals. Riise is having his best season since joining Liverpool so your right to be worried about him. Lucas Neill had better watch for Jamie Carragher! ...and is there a donkey in your squad? Not really - Traore is injured at the moment! That's a bit unfair. Liverpool have got a number of players that are not good enough if we are to bridge the gap back to the so-called big 3. However, most of our squad would still walk into most other Premiership teams. I don't think there is any special love or hate between the two clubs, so what's the general feeling of Liverpool towards Rovers as a club? Not sure that Rovers evoke any great feelings among Liverpool supporters - I hope that doesn't sound too disrespectful. Certainly not in our top 3 or 4 of clubs we hate. I think there was a bit of rivalry there due to some of the comments Souness made when your Manager, and obviously I'm always happy to see an ex-Manc having a hard time - although I think Mark Hughes is doing a good job at the moment. Are there any players at Rovers who have attracted your attention over the last year or so? I would have liked Liverpool to have signed Barry Ferguson before he went to Blackburn but obviously he was no great shakes while at Ewood. Jon Stead caught the eye when he first arrived last season - and I'm glad he found his goal scoring touch at the pit last week - I think he will come good again although hopefully not next Wednesday! Finally: What's the score going to be? I never like to predict Liverpool scores. However, if we are going to catch our blue cousins in fourth place we need to win all of our remaining home games and a least a couple away. I hope you play like you did last season at Anfield which is one of the worst performances by an away team at Anfield I've seen. And don’t forget to say “Thank you” for 6th March Thank you. And thank you Barry. A pleasure doing business with you.

Apparantly not, more the pity. But a £40 fine and a £200 recovery fee for him would have been the equivalent to him of 10p for you and me. If I see him doing it again it'll be tyres down and sugar in the petrol tank, no doubt about that. Harrrrrummmpphh.

The spat started when one of them didn't pass to the other (don't know which one) in a match. They had a "ooooh you selfish bitch" moment and thereon after never spoke to each other again whilst they were at Scumchester. Hard to beleive that RFW allowed this to go on, given his tendancy to ship out those who would not bow to the master's will.

(51) Brown paper packages not tied up with string.

reasonable report here

Just to add a bit more spice to the thread. El Hadji Diouf was featured in The Manchester Evening News tonight after parking his over-sized vehicle* in a disabled parking space outside Kendals on Deansgate and going shopping for an hour. Several complaints from people who couldn't park their cars and who had disabled badges. * one of those big "F off things, built to carry a gallon of phlegm and a diving board

Above Fulham & Portsmouth.

Nearly there, no nails left.......... 3 points!

Confident liitle so and so. Mind you, looking at the table s/he's got every right to be.