Kop to Learn New Dance?
By: CSD |
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I was on the internet looking for new porn when I accidentally ran across this. With the deal for Barry on ice, it seems that Robbie Keane has been bumped to the top of the list and Liverpool appear to be closing in. I recall reading at the end of the season that Juande Ramos said he was going to have to sell his stars and it seems that it might be true. An influx of cash from the sale of Keane and Berbatov would greatly help the financially strapped club.
We’ve seen how the Kop and all Liverpool supporters have converted to honorary Spaniards with the proven quality of Torres. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one that saw Torres win it for Spain in the Euro and shout, “we won!” But is it possible that we will learn to dance the Irish jig?
I say forget about Barry. Give Xabi Alonso one more chance. If we can sign Keane and he can deliver even half as much as Torres did in his debut season, I’ll grab a bottle of Jameson and dance the night away.
2008-09 Liverpool schedule breakdown: How realistic are these previews?
By: JRW | 7 Comments
So I was talking to my partner in crime, CSD, two weeks ago when I brought up the topic of a potential story idea discussing the 2008-09 schedule in great detail. After throwing out the idea, I quickly realized that most people, while they wouldn’t mind a breakdown, would rather see how good we are at playing the role of the great prognosticator (at least I think so!). So with that in mind, I had us take some time to breakdown how we each think the season will go for our beloved Reds.
I’ll bring up this article at the end of the season to recap who had the better record, but for now this piece acts as public proof of how we think the club will do this season. How about the losing writer has to wear a Harry Kewell or Andriy Voronin kit to their local pub next season? Yep, those stakes sound about right! Without further ado, here is how we think Liverpool’s 2008-09 season will play out. Read the rest of this entry »
Category: Team NewsCaption this: What are Pepe and Villa talking about?
By: JRW | 10 Comments
Well I’ll admit the obvious today: I’m bored out of my mind. So instead of working hard on a Tuesday afternoon, I thought it would be in my/your best interest to go digging for some Liverpool truth and rumors on this glorious day. What I found would surely have to be a welcomed sight to anyone wishing and hoping for a certain Spanish striker who had at one point been linked with our club. Yes, the man you see on the right in that photo is our very own Pepe Reina taking a much needed break after winning the Euro championship. The other guy in the photo? Yep, that would be Valencia striker David Villa.
One can only hope Pepe is getting paid overtime talking up Villa about a potential move. Supposedly the two are very close. One can only hope our man was whispering sweet nothings in his ear about pairing with Torres next season.
But seriously, I wonder what Pepe and Villa were talking about. Was it a hot chick on the beach? A sea gull dropping a bomb on an unexpected beach goer? We want you to caption the photo and let us know what they were talking about. Leave your witty responses in the comment box.
Category: caption this‘Great Dane’ a welcomed sight in first friendly: Pre-season match a roaring success!
By: JRW | 3 Comments
Like most Liverpool supporters, I took the time out of my weekend to catch a first glimpse of the 2008-09 squad against Tranmere in the first pre-season friendly of the summer.
While most of the current names I saw on the pitch probably won’t grace the Anfield starting XI for the year, there were a particular player I was looking forward to watching. With 15 streams (yes, 15 streams!) on the internet covering a pre-season game, I had the chance to watch our very own Daniel Agger make his first start of the season in 10 months since a broken metatarsal all but killed his entire 07-08 season.
Agger made it through 77 minutes of football with no ill effects from the mended foot. After watching him struggle the entire year with the injury, I think I speak for most when I say that I was glad to just see him make it through one match. He looked really surprisingly good in what looked to be a 5-4-1 formation. Agger and the defensive backline held Tranmere in check for most of the match until about the 77th minute when he was substituted. It did look like it had been a while since Agger played a real match at game speed; however, regaining game speed will come as he puts a couple more friendlies under his belt.
If there was anything that shocked me a bit from the match, it would have to be Rafa’s tinkering with using three center backs during the match. I’m wondering if this could be a possible formation for the upcoming season. All in all, Liverpool’s first pre-season match of the summer got off without a hitch. The 1-0 win was nice, but seeing Agger out there was something that made me happier than anything else I saw on the day.
34 Days and Counting
By: CSD | 1 Comment
Instead of boo-hooing with steven. at bigfourblog.com about Peter Crouch leaving, I prefer to look forward to the next season. Here’s some fond memories of the last that should bring a giddy smile to anyone.
Category: Video HighlightsDrunken Olympic Rant
By: CSD | 8 Comments
If you’re like me, then you’re a sexy bitch. If you have the same thoughts as me, then you hate what the Olympics do to football. I guess I just don’t see the point. It would be one thing if I had been born with a natural ability in badminton(real sport, shit you not) and the Olympics were the only way to compete on a national level, but this is football!
It would be one thing if there wasn’t already a huge governing body for the sport, but there is in FIFA. We have this thing called the World Cup, which incidentally, occurs every four years. Why do we need the Olympics?
I know other clubs have been affected, but Liverpool alone will lose Mascherano and Lucas, and I still can’t find out whether or not Babel is going to be included or not, but that’s a possibility of three very important players that won’t be available until September. This sport is headed in the direction of youth. Spotting talent early on and developing it quickly is where titles are won. Pretty soon, women in Brazil and Argentina will have the afterbirth quickly wiped off of their sons and kitted up so that they can go take a penalty. This is thwarted, however, with redundant competitions that interrupt normal club fixtures.
Players have to have a way of making a living and that is with the club. Recently, we have seen how important one match is as Barclay’s Premier League, the Scottish Premier League, and Serie A, all came down to the last fixture when deciding the league title. I guess what really pisses me off is that these kids could decline and stay with their clubs, but they have to feel the pressure of, “Well, if I turn them down now, they may never call me up again.”
I say get rid of football in the Olympics. FIFA has all the international competitions covered. We really don’t need a second governing body jacking with our league titles. But the more important thing is, what do you think? Feel free to express your views and vote in the poll.
How do you feel about football in the Olympics?
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Wenger Says Something I Agree With. World Ends in 3..2..
By: CSD | 5 Comments
Normally, I take every chance I get to poke fun at Arsene Wenger. This is mostly because of his whiny, surrender monkey attitude, but I’ll admit he can spot and develop talent better than the majority of managers in football. So when Wenger speaks, I listen. After all, I can’t make fun of him if I’m not up-to-date.
In a recent interview, Wenger said, “”If I had the power to change anything basic in football, it would be the transfer system which makes mercenaries of players . . . If they are bad ones, they stay and, if they are good, they think only of leaving.”
I couldn’t agree more. This is an age in the sport, and many other sports for that matter, where the loyalty to clubs has been replaced by loyalty to paychecks. People who support rich clubs are happy and excited when their team nabs a big signing, but this practice continues to degrade the quality and development of players. If the richest clubs buy up all the talent, it not only hurts the majority of the clubs because they do not have those players, but takes away the influence that they would have on their teammates.
Torres has hailed Benitez and Gerrard for inspiring and pressuring him to be a better player. This begs the question, if Gerrard had accepted an offer from Inter Milan or Chelsea, would Torres be the striker he is today? Now, I’m sure that some would say that the likes of Gareth Barry are doing the same, but I charge you to understand the difference of motivation. It is one thing to be motivated by new challenges and quite another to be motivated by money because money does not actually encourage results so much as reward past performance.
Motivation from money does not make a player show up and push harder than he did the day before. Wenger nailed it when he called these players mercenaries. They bring along with them discontentment and prima donna egos that disrupt when they should be uniting. This is fine though, because it will eventually come to a head. Egos will run wild and the money will run out and that’s when XI lads from Liverpool will prevail.
We got the boy from sunny Spain, give him the ball he’ll score again…Fernando Torres, Liverpool’s No. 9!
By: JRW | 7 Comments
He might be our No. 9, but yesterday Fernando Torres truly was Spain’s No.9.
Dressed to impress in those fashionable Red kit’s, Torres again proved why he’s one of the best (if not the best) striker on the planet right now with one of the most amazing goals I’ve seen in a long time. I’m pretty sure everyone has seen the goal, but I thought I’d link to it for those that need another look.
Torres’ ability to fight off the defender (who was attached to his hip) — and the keeper who was charging hard — and still manage to chip the ball into the bottom left corner of the net was nothing short of pure magic. Read the rest of this entry »
In Rafa We Trust
By: CSD | 4 Comments
Image courtesy of NeverOffside whether he knows it or not.
I wanted to take a minute to talk a little bit about Rafa Benitez. Such a great manager and inspiration he has been for this club. He’s delivered the Champions League, the FA Cup, but now faces another challenge, the league. For many clubs, his performance would be iconic, but not for a club like Liverpool.
The big four are held to a higher standard and that standard is that you must win trophies, maybe not every season, but often. Even the fans understand that a team can have a bad year, but when the year turns into years, they’ll get a little impatient. Rafa knows this. After not delivering any silverware and having to deal with a divided boardroom that tends to leak information to the press, why on earth would this manager who could be anywhere stay at Liverpool? I think it’s because he believes in what he’s doing. I think he believes in his players and knows that glory is only a short step away.
Rafa continues to build the current squad and sign young players to develop. That’s what many clubs are missing. The youth system is shoddy at best in England. Only a few clubs like Arsenal and Man Utd seem to do it consistently and have had success because of it. Rafa seems to be trying to push this ideal through Liverpool and I for one am a big fan of it. Let’s teach the youngsters how to play our way instead of signing someone from Spain or Italy and then having to wait for them to adapt to our system and the pace of the Premier League.
But the fact remains, that even after all the good that Rafa has done and continues to do, he must deliver something this season. The ultimate goal of course is the league. If we don’t get it, we’ll probably get close. There’s no other team in the league who has more motivation to capture it than Liverpool. You might say that Arsenal will be hungry for it after being so close and having it slip away in the final weeks, but I just don’t see them having the leadership to seal the deal.
To go from being one of the big four to being a champion, you need leaders on and off the field. You need players that thrive on the sound of fans screaming “You’ll Never Walk Alone” at the tops of the their lungs, drowning out the home crowd at an away game, but above all, you need Rafa.
Liverpool sign 17-year-old Danish striker: Rafa keeps reeling ‘em in!
By: JRW | 4 Comments
Let me be the first of many Liverpool supporters to admit the obvious: I know nothing about new Liverpool striker Nikola Saric other than the fact that he’s very highly-rated. (Some say he’s the top youth player on the Danish NT)
What I do know is that we did beat Tottenham and Barcelona to get his signature, so he must have some type of skill; I also found out that Rafa was beating down the door down at his local club, Herfolge, to make sure we were first in line. Rafa liked him so much that he apparently made the offer himself to Herfolge sports director Per Rud. Here’s how it went down…. Read the rest of this entry »
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