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And can probably fix watches, to boot.

Germany 1, England 5. I was gobsmacked. England 4, Holland 1 in '96 was another. The real Ronaldo practically embodies the word breathtaking. Electric. He's that good, his YouTube compilations have decent soundtracks.

Sssssh... Don't say that on here mate, you'll get lynched for having the audacity to recognise that Gary Neville is actually a very good player... I think most with an ounce of sense will realise he's been one of the most consistent and best full-backs in the world over the past decade. Only through tightly-gritted teeth. Can't stand the man, but he's a very good full-back and I admire his love for his club and hatred of us. If only there were more players like that around these days.

They'd be soft to sell him. They don't need the money, and they certainly don't need to rebuild their squad. I'd rather have Kaka, but he plays where Rooney plays... You can still only pick 11 men, so who would you rather have than C. Ronaldo? God I hope they accept.

The best you can say about the job Parry has done is that he didn't gamble with the club's existence like Ridsdale (and apparently Fat Freddie) and he never said anything particularly offensive. Very mediocre. That's not to say I'd rather have one of Hicks' gobshites running the show. He'd be soft in the head to resign, too. He must be due a pay-off. I have to say i disagree, Liverpool have had just as many pannings and back page spreads as we have this season, with DIC, Hicks & Gillette, Benitez, Parry and everything else going on. I mean this isn't even a Liverpool site and there is a massive ongoing thread about them! Definitely. Every time there's been a peep out of any of the above the press have got all hysterical about it. Some weeks there's a bigger mountain to be made out of the molehill at St. James', other weeks at Anfield. We have Newcastle threads on our forums, too

Danny Agger's just turned 23 and he did fine for us last season at 21/22. I agree that it's unusual, though. I don't rate Senderos at all. He makes a LOT of mistakes and doesn't have any pace at all to recover from them. He got left for dead by Sami Hyypia for God's sake who has the pace of a stoned zombie.

I actually think they had better players than they have now, bar Torres. whaT rubbish Well Finnan was fit, and playing. Hyypia was better 3 years ago than he is now. Carragher was playing in his favoured position. Riise was on form, Gerrard and Alonso were still in the team (Gerrard being on fire that year) and Luis Garcia is one player I feel you've missed this season. The team which beat Arsenal last night, without Torres, would have lost to the 2005 team IMO What you say about the individual players is not wrong, but let's not forget that side contained Traore. Babel is a much better winger than Riise, too. We miss Garcia, though.

Because you're not a 'proper' Muslim, if you know what I mean. If your behaviour doesn't differ from the norm in a way that can be directly attributable to (or is characteristic of) your religion/race etc., you aren't considered to be a proper Muslim/Jew/Johnny Foreigner in the common, if not accurate, sense of the word. I don't mean to be offensive; it's just something I've noticed living in a foreign country: there are foreigners, and there are foreigners. What the general populace understands by a word is often much more specific that what it really means.

Funny how all these Muslims working in and owning restaurants have no problem serving or selling alcohol. Crap idea. Like it or lump it. That's unfair. I know quite a few Muslims who drink and I know others who won't touch the stuff. They're no different to Christians or football fans (hey, we have strong beliefs, too) in that they range from fundamentalist (women must be covered/no sex before marriage/go to every away game) to nominal believers (don't eat pork/go to church at Easter/watch the game if it's on telly and I'm not busy). A lot of it is cultural, I think. India, Bangladesh, Pakistan are cricketing countries and there's relatively little interest in footie. Like Hull or Wigan, I suppose. It can be seen as pandering to a minority. First step on a slippery slope, give 'em an inch, they'll take a mile etc. etc. If it were any group but Muslims, I doubt anyone would have batted an eyelid.

Newcaslte is voted one of the world's top 10 party cities Everyone has told me it's an absolute scream in Newcastle. Certainly, I'd rather go out there than in London, but I'm a bitter-loving piss-artist from Hull, not a Samba-loving, Caipirinha-drinking ponce from Brazil. That would suit him down to the ground. If he went to one of Europe's biggest clubs, he'd be expected to train hard. At a club that desperately needed him, he'd get away with murder.

Apparently, Henry is having an utterly miserable time in Spain on a personal level (missing his daughter). Impossible to say how much that has affected his game, but I think it's fair to say it's affected it a bit. So, on the one hand, he might love to come back to England to be with his kid, but he's repeatedly said he wouldn't play for another English side after Arsenal.

Not a chance in hell of a party animal like him moving to Newcastle. Not the club, the city. If he came to England, it'd be London or nowhere.

Do you not think it might then be more than just luck?

I voted for you as well, on account of your relegation form. That's based on a rock-hard run of games, though. Much more winnable games in the run-in.

An epistemological debate over football managers, what next. Hopefully, some animated gifs of breasts.

How come when we played at the San Siro, we had piss and flares thrown at our fans, and Liverpool - of all supporters - get showered with affection? Inter fans really like Liverpool because of what we did to AC Milan in 2005. There were tribute sites to Dudek from Inter fans, forum threads with hundreds of pages of thanks, and a group of Inter fans invited some Liverpool fans they met over to Italy, making them T-shirts and everything. The only team that I really don't want to play in the CL is Man Utd. I don't want Chelsea either, because the games are so boring, but only Man Utd worries me. Still, I'd prefer to avoid the other English sides if possible, but I'm sure Platini will be chilling those balls on Friday to make sure the English sides get pitted against each other. Frankly, I don't understand why the bookies have Barcelona and the other English sides ahead of Liverpool. Since Rafa arrived, we've been the best team in the CL after, arguably, AC Milan, and I don't see why we're not the team to beat. In the last 5 CL games, we've scored 19 goals and conceded 1. Over 2 legs in Europe, we can beat anyone.

Rafa will almost certainly rest players for Tuesday, and I dare say they'll be thinking about the Inter game, too. I still think we'll boss the game, whichever side he picks, but Torres' playing will be the difference between us putting 3 or 4 past you and us scraping a win or you a draw. Owen will score. The next goal against LFC will be the 600th in the Premiership. It's bound to be Owen.

Wenger.

Just because Owen is shite now hardly makes it an entirely different situation. He sorted our crappy defence with Henchoz and Hyypia, brought in McAllister and Hamann, who won us a lot of silverware. Admittedly, they're just a few inspired signings amongst five times as many shite ones. Nevertheless, he took us from more or less where you were when SBR left to an historic, if second-rate, treble and a second place finish in the league. He's not the World's Greatest Manager, but he'd be a better man for this particular job than Keegan.

NUFC were up there with Liverpool and Chelsea, but not Man Utd. Then Shepherd hired Souness. This was posted on an LFC board: I think he's probably right. People forget how far forwards Houllier brought us before he lost the plot a bit. I'm not convinced by Ashley and Mort, either. Keegan and Wise are both huge gambles, and that's not really what the club needed, even if Ashley's put things on an even keel financially.

Hopefully there was some sneaky wording in the contract and he's really signed up for 16 years.

They haven't got the balls, self-awareness or humility to run a club steeped in tradition like Liverpool. Quicker they fuck off the better. I'm loving the hypocrisy from LFC fans and their double standards. They themselves sold their souls to the devil because in the Yanks they thought they had landed a pair of money men who would pump money into their club, they didn't care where it come from or who was writing the cheques they just wanted their money. Yet when they wake up to the fact (DURH!) that the Yanks want the very same thing, their and their club's money, they go apeshit. Why is it OK for them to take take take, yet the Yanks can't do the same? They deserve each other as they are both the same. Don't forget Moores was hawking the club around for years before the Americans swooped in at the last second and pressed a few more quid into his hands than anyone else had offered. We didn't chase off Moores because he wasn't investing his own cash in the club, he said years ago himself he was looking to sell to someone who could and would make major investment. It was his plan, not ours. No doubt, you'd all be having a pop at Ashley if he were busy piling his own debts onto your club instead of paying it off.

He's a superb player but with that comes the fact that without him Liverpool are a far weaker side. I don't think the rest of Liverpool's strikeforce are anywhere close to his level and serious strength in depth up front is something Arsenal, Chelsea and especially Man Utd have got over Liverpool. That's the point, isn't it? We haven't had that kind of quality up front for 7 years. A step in the right direction. As you say, our weakness is having a pile of shite up front and on the wings.

Someone was always going to do well with McFadden. He was flying for Scotland. Torres has been worth every penny and then some (if you compare Cisse + Diouf = Torres). The first top-of-the-line striker we've signed since, what, Collymore? He's been sensationally good. The kind of danger we haven't had up front since Owen in his pomp (though Owen 2001 still has the edge there), and he has everything. If we'd signed him a season earlier, we'd have slaughtered Barcelona and beaten Milan.

Believe you me, if you were making anything like the money Owen is on and your performance at work dropped, you'd be out on your arse quicker than you can say past it. There's no way Owen deserves anything like that much unless he remains injury free for the rest of his contract, and scores every second game.