Ashley17

Aye that's right, less pressure on him to score in half an hour in front of 48,000 people most of whom need no further reason to hate him. More pressure in front of 2 or 3 thousand of our lot in Italy in a game we probably go into as underdogs tbh.

Harper Taylor Moore Bramble Ramage Solano Emre Butt N'Zogbia Sibierski Milner If Emre, Butt and Sibi all make it. Roeder will pull out all the stops to make sure Luque doesn't start, Olly Bernard will probably play left midfield with Zog moving inside etc. just to make sure Luque isn't needed.

We're taking FIVE goalkeepers!? Obviously Pav can't play and Shay won't but still, Rossi can't play either and he's travelled and Emre, Butt, Taylor and Sibierski are doubtful according to .com so basically some of the kids will play. Is that good or bad?

Fuckin hell forgot all about this, see I've gone out the cup with a measly 17 points and languishing down in 133rd

To be fair to us, we're usually quite good at that in Europe. Even under Souness we never exactly shipped goals, and we haven't done that bad in Europe thus far. Much better opposition yes but I'm a lot less worried about our defence at European pace than Premiership pace.

Nearly as infuriating as Duff being unable to stay onside

Well Villa have got 1 back. Happy days eh

Dangerously reminiscent of Wigan away at same stage last season.

I hate weekends when we don't play, especially as now Chelsea have no reason to rest anybody for midweek Champions League. Still, we'd lose whenever it was played and at least Frankfurt will get all of our attention.

I reckon we tried to sgin Danny Mills as a full back option but picked the wrong guy out of the identity parade

No fucking wonder we were in pole position, it must have been the most one sided race in history

I would say it was obvious he was dropped so he's not cup-tied if sold.

Robinson, Toure, Gallas, Carragher, S Taylor, Gerrard, Lennon, Parker, Tonge, Henry (captain), Ashton Subs: Ashdown, J Fortune, Ambrose, Lua-Lua

Who's that handsome chap at the top? Even forgot to predict on Saturday too...