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by **The Manhattan Project** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:20 pm

Manhattan has a plan.

He's going to write to the FA asking them to replace the Premiership trophy with the European Cup.

So when Rafa sees the new Premiership trophy, he'll see ANOTHER EUROPEAN CUP!!!

That will inspire him to league success to match his European supremacy.

by **account deleted by request** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:28 pm

god_bless_john_houlding wrote:Anybody know when the draw is, because we play after everyone else in the second leg, so will we know who we'll get or is the draw after our match?

The draw is on the 7th of March mate so unless they change the date of the draw we will know in advance.

by **Kharhaz** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:30 pm

woof woof ! wrote:
Sabre wrote:Torres was a bit in latin mode against the Italians, sneaked a yellow, dived another time... you could blame him for that, but at the end the Italians will do it to you if they can aswell

Spot on Sabre, I have to admit I felt a bit uncomfortable with Torres' diving , not really the English way , but wha't the f'uck, as you say , the Italians do it all the time , so i'm not gonna complain if one of of our lads gives them a taste of their own medicine.

When in rome !

I laughed at Torres' diving. It was pretty bad but the referee was so inept he bought it !

by **bigmick** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:37 pm

KennyisGod....still wrote:Be interestin if Rafa left that team alone to play Boro the weekend. Same starters, Crouchie poised for a second half barrage if reqd. If what he's said is true about playin on merit, then they deserve that I feel. Imagine Kuyt scorin 3 in 3........ mind blowin for the guy!!

Well they never quite managed to squeeze in the news about Rafa's team talk and "playing players on merit" over here (I think it's the power boating World Championships and the Annual North American snowski trickshot jamboree thing so we're a bit overblown on those at the moment). Does anybody have a link to the story/interview?

If it's true that he's going to start picking the team on some kind of more traditional methods (ie an unchanged team for the next game sonsidering we've just beaten Inter Milan) then feck me anythings possible for this bunch of players.

by **god_bless_john_houlding** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:40 pm

s@int wrote:
god_bless_john_houlding wrote:Anybody know when the draw is, because we play after everyone else in the second leg, so will we know who we'll get or is the draw after our match?

The draw is on the 7th of March mate so unless they change the date of the draw we will know in advance.

Cheers saint.

Think that will add any fear into the lads. I mean it's a bit different knowing you've got Celtic to knowing you've got Barcelona. Not that I fear anybody, but the players might be a little worried about the next round and cause complacancy.

Little extra note, LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB WERE THE ONLY BRITISH SIDE TO WIN THEIR FIRST LEG, AND NOT ONE :censored:

IN THE BRITISH :censored:

MEDIA HAS GIVEN US ANY :censored:

CREDIT. Well they'll have to when we win it for a SIXTH time in Moscow.

by **Kharhaz** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:43 pm

If it's true that he's going to start picking the team on some kind of more traditional methods (ie an unchanged team for the next game sonsidering we've just beaten Inter Milan) then feck me anythings possible for this bunch of players.

Theres no reason why he shouldnt now is there? The race is on for fourth place and its 3 weeks before the return leg against inter so logic says play a consistent team resting players towards the end of matches if we are in a comfortable lead.

by **The Manhattan Project** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:54 pm

god_bless_john_houlding wrote:
s@int wrote:
god_bless_john_houlding wrote:Anybody know when the draw is, because we play after everyone else in the second leg, so will we know who we'll get or is the draw after our match?

The draw is on the 7th of March mate so unless they change the date of the draw we will know in advance.

Cheers saint.

Think that will add any fear into the lads. I mean it's a bit different knowing you've got Celtic to knowing you've got Barcelona. Not that I fear anybody, but the players might be a little worried about the next round and cause complacancy.

Little extra note, LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB WERE THE ONLY BRITISH SIDE TO WIN THEIR FIRST LEG, AND NOT ONE IN THE BRITISH MEDIA HAS GIVEN US ANY CREDIT. Well they'll have to when we win it for a SIXTH time in Moscow.

I noticed that the reports of the LFC/Inter game all came with the exact same additional line.

"Mattarazzi's sending off.....ooohh that was a little harsh"

I swear.

The BBC, ITV, Sky News, Sky Sports News.

ALL said the same thing.

"ooooh that was a little harsh"

by **Kharhaz** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 12:03 am

I noticed that the reports of the LFC/Inter game all came with the exact same additional line.

"Mattarazzi's sending off.....ooohh that was a little harsh"

I swear.

The BBC, ITV, Sky News, Sky Sports News.

ALL said the same thing.

"ooooh that was a little harsh"

Replace "Harsh" with "Funny"

by **The Manhattan Project** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 12:22 am

LFC dominated the game.

For the first half hour Inter had 11 men and did absolutely nothing.

The fact that LFC show such dominance and determination only frustrates deeper when we lose or draw matches that we should be winning.

by **god_bless_john_houlding** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 12:46 am

No worries the champions league is ours.

2004/05 Carra made our record games in the premiership with his 241st game.
2007/08 Carra makes another record, reaching 500 games.

The omens are already starting, old big ears is coming back home to Anfield.

by **big al** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 2:11 am

how nice would it have been if, When rafa was asked at the end "what was the best bit of the game" he answered 'seeing that cheating :censored:

Mattarazzi being sent off' Rafa had the chance to get the key to every city in France and he missed it. Once in the life time opprtunity gone.

by **god_bless_john_houlding** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 2:58 am

Right, we've got to forget about this game and concentrate on Saturday. This is now in the past and we can't excuse a poor performance on Saturday by this great result.

by **The Manhattan Project** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:11 am

Over two legs I think we can beat anyone.

In the final, we will rise to the occasion and win.

We lost the last final by a slim margin.

Kaka did nothing for the whole game. Inzaghi's first goal came off his face.

by **LFC2007** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:12 am

I can't really be fecked to analyse the performance too much, because we won, and our inconsistencies are such that it probably wouldn't be indicative of anything.

I'll just say;

1) Mascherano was outstanding, people have talked about desire to win. This guy is perhaps the most driven player we have, absolutely ravenous. He demonstrated a wider range of passing too.

2) Our crossing was very poor first half - Aurelio was particularly sh!te I thought. Gerrard was guilty of a few poor deliveries too. (FFS! you're professional footballers, you should be able to provide a decent cross nine times out of ten).

3) Our support play was excellent in the second half, even Carra was up there supporting Finnan, who in turn supported Pennant and occasionally trying to overlap Maxwell. Gerrard was always probing and searching for the ball. This was the most notable change in the second half, we pinned them back and absolutely dominated largely because of it. Their pressing was really poor though - against EPL teams we wouldn't usually be afforded the time and space they gave us.

4) I saw the replays of Kuyt's goal today (yesterday), Reina's celebration was class - LEGEND. He's another who has massive desire to win.

We can now go to the San Siro with a solid defense/counter-attacking masterplan ala Juve 2005. Our primary objective must be defensive solidity, we need to press intelligently and work very hard to achieve this, our secondary objective; try to nick a goal on the counter with the pace of Gerrard and Torres.

There is simply no room for complacency in this competition.

by **Toffeehater** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:53 am

dawson99 wrote:i thought stevie was a lil static tho. not moving as freely as usual. and just did not look happy. masherano was my man of the match by far.

maybe not static, he wasnt running with the ball half as much as usual tho

Not runnign with the ball? statitic? HE was everywhere , he was supposed to be on the right but i saw him on the left , centre , right , up front and back at times , he was working hard and covered every blade of grass on the field

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