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by **Reg** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:22 pm

Feck off you spiv.

by **Toffeehater** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:30 pm

cpc4eva wrote:we must play Hypia from the start
we must play crouch from the start
Rise musnt play
1st sub must be little chief masch and bring on pennant to take kyuts spot out wide and for kyuts to come into the middle and take masch's spot
Benny musnt play

if the reverse happens and we win ill stop posting for a month....

That won't be a problem cos u rarely post

by **Toffeehater** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:37 pm

Torres targets payback double

FERNANDO TORRES has vowed to score twice against Chelsea — to pay back John Terry and Ricardo Carvalho for the kicking they have given him.

The Liverpool hotshot wants to get his revenge on the Blues defenders by putting the boot in himself — to their dream of making the Champions League final in Moscow.

Torres has been a revelation in his debut season since signing from Atletico Madrid for a club-record £21.5million.

But tomorrow he faces his toughest task of all — helping Liverpool dump Chelsea from the Champions League semi-finals for a third time.

And the 24 year old would love nothing better than to blast Rafa Benitez’ men to the final after last week’s 1-1 first-leg Anfield draw.

Torres admitted: “English football is physical and reasonably honest in contrast to La Liga, where it’s more vicious with studs-first challenges and elbowing off the ball.

“But all defenders in England are tough. It must be written in their contracts!

“Now I’ve taken that on board I’ve got to go out and earn my money. I’m not scared of a scrap.

“I’ve wanted to play against guys like Terry and Carvalho for a long time, and they do me an honour by giving me a tough time. Now I’m going to try to respond by getting a couple of goals against Chelsea.

“Everybody dreams of playing in the Champions League and in just a few months I have gone from watching it on television to having plenty of memories.

“My goal at the San Siro when we beat Inter Milan 1-0, the 4-0 win over Marseille and my goal in the 4-2 win over Arsenal — now it is the turn of Chelsea.”

El Nino has taken his game to new heights at Anfield and puts it all down to boss Benitez’s obsession for detail.

He revealed: “He calculates everything, including runs and flights of the ball. If he tells you to stand five feet from the penalty spot, it’s not in your best interests to be six feet from it!

“He’ll show you that the extra distance makes the difference between a goal and a missed chance — and it’s worked for me.

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“The proof for me is I had never scored a club hat-trick in my life before joining Liverpool — but I’ve since got three.

“Rafa explained it all to me before I signed. He even gave me a work schedule in advance.

“He has great powers of seduction and makes crazy demands on us. At the end of training, when we are all tired, he can still make us repeat routines 20 or 30 times.

“Nobody is sure of his first-team place. Rafa is merciless and anyone who wants to play has to earn the right in training.

“It is different to Spain, where only an earthquake can change the pecking order at a club.

“You soon learn the Liverpool way of doing things. If you train like an amateur you end up dropped for the next game.”

Yet there is one thing about life at Anfield which does not quite measure up to his days in Madrid - the dressing room.

He said: “I found it old and very small but the senior players say it’s like a listed building.”

Peter Crouch has also vowed to blast Liverpool all the way to Moscow - if he gets the chance.

The Reds striker took his tally to 11 in just 25 starts in the 2-2 draw at Birmingham on Saturday.

Crouch, likely to be a sub, said: “Whenever I play, I always feel confident I’ll get a goal.”

by **Judge** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:43 pm

Bad Bob wrote:
Judge wrote:dont be surprised that rafa plays stevie gerrard in the hole behind torres.

the focus would be on gerrard by chelsea to stem the supply, thus allowing torres the space to be utilised for his fast pace and skill to knock the ball in the back of the onion bag. Better still that stevie would be able to pass freely to our wide men to provide simple crosses along the box behind their defence.

this formation would allow us to step up and also catch chelsea offside. a bit risky some may say, but technically brilliant for attacking football. Chelsea do suffer when the pressure is on. thats what i think anyway

so 4-4-1-1 would be my ideal formation against chelsea

Judge, mate, Gerrard's been playing in the hole behind Torres since mid-February, when we switched to this 4-2-3-1 system.

but on a serious note you are a genuine footballing genius though, imo

really, well the heck has he been roving from left side to right side since then

what i said was, dont be surprised........

but my formation would be 4-4-1-1, not 4-2-3-1

by **andy_g** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:48 pm

hopefully terry's yellow card is going to make him think twice about being such a dirty c*nt and will allow torres to get the payback he wants. if he's not able to put the boot in and kick opposing attackers enough that they can't get their game going he's really not anywhere like the brilliant defender so many people make him out to be.

trouble is though, i have a terrible feeling of an impending yellow for stevie la

by **Reg** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 5:32 pm

Can you imagine being banned for the final....... unthinkable..... no wonder gazza cried ffs.

by **Toffeehater** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:00 pm

I think if we do go to the final without stevie we would lose and i think tomorrow stevie will hold back , not go rushing into reckless tackles and the same will go probably for carragher

by **nobybob** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:40 pm

mancs in thre final lads

by **NANNY RED** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:42 pm

sad

by **Scott M** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:44 pm

Hope you stuff those :censored:

tomorrow and blow Man Utd away in the final - there are no teams I hate more in world football than Chelsea and Man Utd :angry:

by **NANNY RED** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:45 pm

Scott M wrote:Hope you stuff those tomorrow and blow Man Utd away in the final - there are no teams I hate more in world football than Chelsea and Man Utd

Which team do you support Scott

by **NansPanofScouse** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:48 pm

I gotta admit im nervous about them being in the final...

by **NansPanofScouse** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:50 pm

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by **lakes10** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:55 pm

oh well, we know what we have to do and who we have to beat so lets just go and do it.

All English Final, should be good......................we could have a bet on how many English player start the Final lol

by **ruskiy playmaker** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:58 pm

Unbef*ckingleavable, do barca realize what they have just done. I honestly don't know how we're going to get to the final now. One thing I can say is, that the ref will give a lot of calls against us tomorrow.

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