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I can't see Sturridge and Suarez working well together, so bring it on! Before the season, I would have said cashing in on Suarez wouldn't have been a bad move, but he looks worth the trouble now he's scoring goals.

I'm surprised by the positions of the crosses on that graphic. It seemed to me that Simpson was hitting many from deeper positions. With a crowded box, that makes them the hoof of the cross world. Some positive signs today, especially compared to the Southampton debacle, but Fulham are poor and the game was there to be won. We conceded the second far too easily. No-one's mentioned it but fantastic save by Krul when Berb was clean through on about twenty minutes otherwise it would have been game over there and then.

I like him, but level-headed articulate managers tend to be likable. I'd wait till he gets them to finish higher than Jewell or Bruce did before throwing out the superlatives though. I can't believe the likes of Antonio Valencia were found by such managers, so like us they must have a good scout or two.

Five, and tempted to press six the longer this match goes on.

Thanks Nut. We've started the season with harder fixtures this time, so the yellow line is not as bad as it looks. An issue will be can we kick on this year as the fixtures get easier given that such games are coming when injuries, suspensions, Thurs-Sun Europa League tiredness, etc., are starting to mount. West Ham being only two points ahead of Wolves is a curious one. It means they can only have done well in fixtures Wolves did well in. West Brom too have not improved on a fixture by fixture basis. Liverpool cruising towards mid table mehness then. Maybe Rodgers should start giving it the "twenty million off the wage bill" one before the pressure really does build.

Yeah, an impact player no longer having any impact whatsoever.

Collins and Tomkins both doubts Collins is very poor. I wouldn't imagine is replacement is up to much either.

not an imposter. me, you and 99% of anyone that watched saw him for what he was. He was anonymous in the derbies. Never a good sign for the player he's supposed to be.

If it had been Tiote.... I didn't see Sky's coverage, but in the HT analysis I saw, there were ridiculous comments about Colo giving away a definite penalty for some minor contact AFTER HE HAD CLEARED THE BALL. Is that bias or just braindead punditry? Joe Allen gave the ball away in Danny-Simpson-on-a-bad-day style at least three times. After ten games, he has no assists and no goals. Even the pricey Mackem managed some last year.

Not bad, but a shame to concede a goal like that to a hoof. A bigger shame that Colo couldn't forget it either.

He did against us earlier on in the season the tit. Van Persie did a naughty elbow to the face in the game at SJP too. Oh, and that's offside.

MOTM. Welcome back Colo.

Did Demba give them their only effort on target?

Aye, it's not as if they handballed one off the line or anything.

Is this Santon's debut for us at RB?

I cannot stand Liverpool but that's not a red card

A question for the older lads on here, but isn't this "historical rivalry between Liverpool and Manchester United" hype simply rewriting history? I'm 43 and I don't remember any great rivalry between them in the late 1970s and 1980s before Ferguson. At that time, Manchester United were simply not a competitive club. Liverpool's rivals were teams like Forest, Ipswich, Everton, Arsenal, and Villa. Conversely, in the Sky/Premiership era, Liverpool have barely been competitive and have watched on as Manchester United have domestically surpassed their historical achievements. So hyping the rivalry helps Man U forget they were massive underachievers and were even relegated when Liverpool were coming to be the main force in English football and helps Liverpool forget they have been mainly also-rans for the last twenty years. If Man U have rivals, they are Arsenal, Chelsea and now Citeh. Liverpool are just a team that raises their game against them.

I agree entirely with Brummie. It could have been any football fans. And that Boris Johnson quote, ferk me. A big one in the eye to anyone who says he's just a harmless upper-class twit.

I live overseas and have hardly been to the match for twenty years, so for me personally, that era is a stronger impression of "what its like at the match" than what its actually like now. I used to hate the monkey chants etc. but I must admit to being surprised when I read that someone had been banned for "yids" comments/songs at a game against Spurs, because pretty much the whole Gallowgate used to do it. This isn't nostalgia by the way, just a statement of what it feels like when a seemingly accepted norm changes on you. Obviously you have to live with the times and it's a change for the better. You can have plenty of terrace humour without bringing discrimination into it. The other one no-one has mentioned is that every woman walking past the crowd would get "Get your tits out for the lads". Every single one. fwiw, when the Suarez thing happened, it came out that Stuart Pearce had been caught repeatedly racially abusing Paul Ince on the pitch, but got away with writing a letter of apology. Suffice to say that that was deemed a suitable punishment based on the norm at the time. If I may add a comment, it would be that Stuart Pearce must have more friends in football than Ron Atkinson, because the latter would never get the U21 job.

I normally hate them, but this international break is welcome. We look unfit and disorganized.

Goal of the Season!

Three games in, Liverpool haven't scored from open play and have conceded 7. They had the third best defence last year.

Aye, many a home team would get a pen there. Shades of us vs. Swansea away last season. Lots of (eye-catching to the easily impressed) passing and possession from Rodgers team that inevitably breaks down at the opponent's eighteen yard line without a chance being created. Their opponents hit them with class on the break and they're lucky its not two they've conceded.

Podolski - Carzola - Podolski there. Great break!

7th. If our strikers get injured, maybe 10th. With AVB and di Matteo coming in and the Song/RVP exodus, I think the chance was there to put pressure on the other Top 4 sides.