themanupstairs

The Fenham brotherhood start together!!!  

So wish I had flown over ffs. And Bruges is the only city in Belgium worth visiting.

imagine if him and cisse forged a world class partnership

Xisse

He is an ex-Mathieu Debuchy - if he hadn't been a nailed on signing last summer he would be pushing up the daisys etc....

totally

They kicked out their coach, Georges Leekens.

Shame. He was the Belgian Giggs.

The Liverpool fans I know naturally love Suarez to bits, but even they admit that his constant diving about like a fairy, and whining about every decision actually plays into the hands of their opponents and riles up the opposition fans and referees alike - ultimately to their disadvantage. We'd be saying the same if he was ours.

He's as much of a hinderance to his team as he is an absolute genius of a footballer.

Hopefully he gets a start on Thursday.

Pretty sure he will

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Still can't get over suarez's reaction to the colo incident. There is such minimal contact but he throws himself on the floor like he's just broken his leg.

Not only that, but also have a look at his reaction to the excellent tackle on him by Taylor straight after the red card. Taylor slid in and kicked the ball out for a throw, and Suarez went sliding over the touchline with his arms wide open having not even been touched. w*****.

Starting the game at RB helped him when he moved into midfield imo. Had he started in the middle, he might have got overwhelmed those first 10-15 minutes when they had a real go at us. The fact that he "warmed up" for the game playing fullback then switching to midfield - rather than coming on as a sub as well - allowed him to keep his composure for the rest of it.

There was a small glimpse that we CAN play a bit of football and it came at the time we scored. Those last 10 minutes of the half were the best I've seen us move the ball this season. One of those moments where you just want the half to go on. If we had more time we would have scored again and buried the red rabble.

Makes you tear your hair out when you know we can play that way, and we spend the other 80 odd minutes half asleep, then defending for our lives.

Liverpool are a one man team, and we allowed him all the room and all the space within which to work. Having said that, I can't fault our defending as much as I do our attacking. We were just not dangerous enough, and with players like Cisse, Ba, Ben Arfa and Cabaye that is just unacceptable.

So happy to get a point finally at the klan rally (copyright Bontempi), but I can't help knowing we should have taken all 3. Quite comfortably as well.

One of those shitty facebook NUFC pages has just posted an article with quotes from Pards saying he'll consider an appeal. Hope so.

At least an appeal to reduce the 3 match ban seeing as there was no contact? Does this shit ever happen?

And to think De Jong got nothing for breaking HBA. The standard of officiating in the Premier League is just wonderful.

Am I the only one who thought he was actually brilliant overall last night? Nothing he could have done about the goal, and one-on-one Suarez can do even the best defender in the world. The fact that we kept giving Suarez the space to operate and run at our center is what exposed Coloccini, but I wouldn't say he was taken to the cleaners etc..

His leadership was spot on as usual, as were some of his interceptions and reading of the play. How I wish he would have scored or set up a goal when running the entire length of the pitch after making a beautiful interception.

Was not a red card in a million years.

Very good point which most of us would have taken prior to kick off. I thought the goal we conceded was horrible, the way we surrendered possession in the middle was amateurish Liverpoolish.

I'd actually swap the point gained for no red card or injuries because I think the impact on the next three games could be more than on points worth.

source?

Is there a difference between intent to hurt someone, and intent to foul them? Did Colo intend to hurt Suarez or did he intend to stop him continuing his run? If it's the latter, it's no more than a yellow card, especially as it was near the touchline surrounded by other players. Which it was imo.

It was a definite red card for me. It was disappointing to see him lunge in like that, sure there was hardly any contact and there was no intent but you can't be doing things like that, it forces the referee's hand more often than not.

You might as well be talking about Sterling's challenge on Cisse. People are asking for consistency.

I'd not label Pardew a "coward" at all. He's certainly afraid of something at the moment. Perhaps he sees in training that our top players aren't in top form, and has prioritized defence. This strategy is what set the ground work for the 5th place finish last season. Having said that, without having the balls to unleash the 433 in the 2nd half of last season, we would have finished nowhere near 5th. Maybe he's trying to replicate last season by getting us to a safe distance from the bottom by the end of the Jan transfer window, then giving it a go?

Sometimes it's difficult to remember that managers do actually have to manage the entire season and not just game by game, especially with a squad as thin as ours.

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Quality, not quantity man. So fucking what if they can't make it count?

Sorry but it is never a red card. Do you really believe that Coloccini has tried to do him and missed by accident? Give over.

Pardew shouldn't have commented on it post match. Should have watched the 1000 different angles that captured the challenge before making a comment, in case we had a case to appeal.

If you think Coloccini went in with intent you can fuck off tbh. Imo if he meant it, he wouldn't have missed. Need to see the replay from different angles, but it looked like he thought Suarez was going to turn with the ball to his right and tried to pre-empt the turn with a block.

Sky's coverage was, for want of a better word, partisan. You couldn't have got more bias had they allowed LFC TV to broadcast the game.

Yup. Even in the build up. About 3 words from Pardew and about 347 from Bodgers.

600th murd...appearance wankfest, etc..etc...

They are a p*ss poor side and gerrard is spent.

 

 

 

I disagree. They are a better footballing side than us. Suarez is world class and virtually unplayable at times. Sterling is already a top winger in this league. Allen dictates their tempo very well and both there centre-halves are excellent. There is a spine of a good side there.

Didn't even see Joe Allen today.

To be fair he was their best player in the first half. Did what he's told to do quite well, which is just about nothing 

Few thoughts from my (admittedly not exactly neutral perspective):

 

Thought bar the first 10 minutes, Liverpool were fairly s**** first half. You looked happy to contain them and of course the massive bonus came with the first real piece of quality from Cabaye and it's job done at half time.

 

You however did what we tend to do, and especially at Anfield; And that's drop deep, give them too much respect and just allow momentum to build up.

 

I thought there was also a very noticeable difference when Cabaye went off. IIRC it was just after they scored and what you needed was someone like him to keep the passing going but it just didn't happen, offering even more impetus to Liverpool. The goal was, begrudgingly, great play from Suarez but what I would be left thinking from that is the godawful pass (Anita?) just before which gave the ball back to them.

 

Wasn't a red, but equally not sure why Coloccini had his boot raised like that. Seemed daft, and not at all in line with 99% of his play.

 

Ben Arfa looked dangerous and I was impressed with Ameobi when he came on.

 

The impression I get is a few would have taken a point before the game but it really did remind me a lot of us. Get in front but instead of trying to build on it, sit back and allow them to come onto you. I really don't like this mentality of assuming because you have more players back it guarantees a better chance of not conceding. Quite often it'll work the other way because you're not necessarily as organised, players aren't sure who to be marking, and things become increasingly frantic and desperate. Moyes has a habit of doing it and I was reminded of us while watching the 2nd half.

 

Also, what a cheat Sterling is. Shame, as he looks a talent but he's been diving just as much as anyone. And for him not to get anything for his tackle and Coloccini to get sent off? Give me a break. Any semblance of refereeing consistency which remained is fast going out the window.

Top top post. I'm seething less now having read it. Always balanced, always knowledgable