madras

even when it had been hanging on for ages, like when your caser had a tumor (the bladder sticking out where the stitching had came away)

because the little gits that want to play otuside ours are crap with none of the basics of ball control. they don't want to pass to each other or have a lamp post as a goal. they just want to kick the ball as high and hard and long as possible.

anyone play headers ? two goals pretty close to each other , throw the ball in the air and try to score with a header. there was a kid down our way used to pull the ball back onto his forehead and head butt it. he'd win cos of the power he'd get behind it but he also got a red patch on his head and must've done some damage.

we had to use a large marble a couple of times (a bolliker) and yes i tried a header from a throw in.

it's how o learned to cross a ball, to get some height on it.

loved it, what were your rules- if the keeper caught you you went in goal? we played if you shot wide or over the keeper got a point, we'd also have a mark on the deck (the box) only headers could be scored inside there.

My mate always used to scream "JAAAN MOLBY, THEY'VE GIVEN HIM TOO MUCH ROOM!!" every time he was on the attack i once got told off by a friend of the family, said they'd tell my parents if they heard me do it again, my crime..."CANNELL!"

I'd go in goal a lot, we just had an agreement I'd disallow any goal-hanging goals. Respect. didn't you read, MOOCHER, not goal hanger. i'd rather be labelled a puff (sic) or mackem than a moocher, the greatest insult known to man. those werew the same people who had to be told to bunky off the bay when playing 21 buzz off.

and throughout all these games you had to commentate.

spot was just about a foorball game, kingo was basically tuggy with a tennis ball. we had amate with such a throwing arm on him you couldn't deny getting hit with the ball as you'd yelp with pain and limp away. Spot was class for improving accuracy, especially with a 10/5 second rule. Kingo destroyed me like. Most of my bruises in life are as a result of playing kingo. The only game I hated was singles, it was just a mess, no one ever scored. is that world cup singles ? I am the current european beach world cup singles champion (well if they can have world championship wellie throwing and nettle eating and similar narrow terms) aswell as being half of the euro beach knee based head tennis world champion aswell (never beaten in 4yrs with my mate claus)

spot was just about a foorball game, kingo was basically tuggy with a tennis ball. we had amate with such a throwing arm on him you couldn't deny getting hit with the ball as you'd yelp with pain and limp away.

Jersey, the Isle of Man, the Isle of Wight. wearside for us.

it's the mirror, think of the audience he's writing to.

nah, liverpool had much better chances than swansea had. foster had a blinder whereas krul had little to do bar stopping weak 30yarders that were straight at him.

do you think the players ever have a game of 'garages'* between themselves in that big barn thing where they train ? *garages, a game of football where everyone had their own goal and played against everyone else, usually with a 3 touch rule, not working as a team, own goals and headers count double.

i beg to differ, ginola came deep all the time looking for the ball, he just happened to p*ss off when defending needed doing. ben arfa is prepared to put some work in defensivly much to his credit and something you have to do if playing in midfield. He also received the ball a lot more often than Ben Arfa has been seeing this season in dangerous areas in the opposition half. Hopefully with our new players Pardew will allow him to express himself more as we certainly need his creativity. could be many reasons for that, lack of movement of others, ben arfa not taking up good positions etc. fwiw i've always had it down to us being far too rigid, i'd like to see a 3 from sissoko, ben arfa, marveaux, gouffran, playing off cisse and them moving so much there are arguments in pubs later as to who was left,right or central.

i beg to differ, ginola came deep all the time looking for the ball, he just happened to piss off when defending needed doing. ben arfa is prepared to put some work in defensivly much to his credit and something you have to do if playing in midfield.

Or perhaps he'd get the best out of him and utilise him correctly like his proven track record of doing so with Newcastle players. He certainly wouldn't have deployed him so defensively like Pardew has this season that's for sure. eh ? he played ginola exactly as pardew has ben arfa, wide in a midfield 4 except ben arfa puts more work in, more down to the player than the manager.

you have to look at that flexibility in context. it's much easier to be flexible when you are paying that extra million for a player who is still worth 5 or 6 times more than you are paying as opposed to paying an extra million which may mean paying more than you think he's worth. even in january we still only really paid market value for one player (debuchy) and even that may have been skewed by his desire to come here fora long time. as for not investing last summer, do you think they really said "we're strong enough so we have no intention of investing in this (summer) window" or was it that the deals they wanted just wouldn't come off (debuchy, de jong, douglas). I know it seems picky but some, if not many, think we just had no intention whatsoever and that's not how i saw it.

was that booing ?

tee bastard hee

it could be the lack of black arm bands.

get in, costing me money but get in.

justice done

liverpool now at just over evens. over 20mins left. thats worth it.