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Thought Torres was still on paternal leave If he decides to show up, a nimble/nippy Torres vs Campbell could be painful watching - you just know he'll be eager to dedicate a hat-trick to his new kid. Still think we'll win though. Just less confident

I don't know who's just whooshed who there... but someone has been.

What chants will there be, I wonder? Pardew out? Ashley out? Hughton is a Geordie? Stuart Baggs in?

Pretty much identical.

Defeat at the Hawthorns optimistic? I'm as disgusted at the Hughton/Pardew saga as anyone else, but while the squad is what it is - there isn't too much room for any material difference as to how our season will go to January. Team picks itself, the players will be fired up and this is a seriously ordinary Liverpool side. Hopefully Barton & Nolan will be back.

As do I - got the last few pre-match predictions right

I'm guessing everyone just won money?

Same old Chelsea, losing again..

It's a foul in the box. Nothing horrific, but a foul nonetheless. IMO.

Michael Ashley, pudding and pie Screwed the gaffe and made us sigh, Decent managers - there are a few but Ashley hired his mate Pardew To the theme of Georgie Porgie [Georgie Porgie, Puddin' and Pie, Kissed the girls and made them cry, When the boys came out to play Georgie Porgie ran away.]

Commentators burrowing deep into Nasri's buttcheeks

Bizarro world, twilight zone &c.

Sadly enough, apart from initial and very fleeting anger/shock/sadness at the cretinism of our beloved club, I've become rather insensate to it all... ...and the straw that broke that camel's back was the Sporting Lisbon loss. Something about the way we sabotaged ourselves when I thought we were as fully sabotaged as we could be with Souness at the helm - the naivety of youth, I suppose. I don't think we've ever had a better chance of getting a trophy in recent memory and I don't think we will again in the foreseeable future.

Ashley is already our owner man. Tobias Funke Fuck you, man. Funke would be the best manager in the league pacing up and down the touchline in his cut-offs. He's the world's first analrapist, FFS.

Barca resting Xavi, Alves and Villa.

David Pleat Andy Townsend Mark Lawrenson

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Yup, tempted to have a much-needed winter break like La Liga, Serie A &c....

FFS > Ashley

3-4

There's money to be made betting on the next manager.

Hope Ashley catches hell if the fat fuck turns up.

Totally, he was just building a team I was proud to be a fan of again, even if they weren't world beaters. The idea we're going back to a circus run by Mike Ashley and whatever mercenary hasbeen he can get is deeply depressing. Mm, haven't been proud of a NUFC team in a long time or really had time for a manager. About another 3 or 4 managers from te next vaguely likable one by recent past trends.

As am I. Chris is a legend and a great bloke by all accounts. Hope he goes on to have a very successful manager without a tight, round, fat-headed pigshit afterbirth for a boss.