Riot in The Park; Red Army held responsible

By: Kai | December 29th, 2008

And so with Chel$ki held to a 2-2 draw at Craven Cottage, we are 3 points clear heading into 2009!! I’m strangely starting to believe we might just nick it this year.
Eat this, bi*ch!

Running riot in St James’ Park, Stevie G bagged a couple and created a couple more to turn in an exemplary performance by the 71st minute. Final score: Newcastle 1, Liverpool 5

In the starting line-up, Bolton match heroes Keane & Riera were rested. Skrtel was given a run-out in place of Kuyt in the 79th minute, Hyypia & DAgger in center of defence and Carra in right-back.

The opening exchange was fast and furious with Given making a few fine saves. If not for him, we’d be 20 up by half time, I reckon. His opposite number, Pepe “Butterfingers” Reina, fumbled a couple and nearly caused the pub’s sleek LCD TV to be smashed by my beer glass.

Old-man Hyypia was threatening in a few of our corners and was unlucky not to grab a goal in the 16th minute. Lucas had a good run and had at least 2 great chances on goal. Given saving the Toon arse as usual.

We finally broke through at the half-hour mark and never looked back. Anyone noticed Babel’s goal celebration? He seemed like he ran half the pitch, dribbling past 2 defenders, sidestepped past another 2, flicked the ball up over the ‘keeper and finished off with a 360-degree, double-flip bicycle kick. Lucas has to be kicking himself for having all his nice efforts saved and then up comes Babel with a goal-mouth melee, I-just-happened-to-be-there goal.

I must give special mention to Lucas for his sweet pass that led to Stevie G’s second. That was world-class! Also for an outstanding match all-round. Kudos to Benayoun for being a total pest to Newcastle down our right. Very nice cut-back for Stevie’s 1st goal of the match.

Going into 2009, here’s a message from Nadia & myself:
WE’RE STILL NUMBER 1, BITCHES!!!!



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  • Li|z |  December 29th, 2008 at 12:37 am

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    we are rock and rollin’ !!

    had rafa not substituted gerrard he might have just scored himself a hat trick :) me thinks.

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  • Kai |  December 29th, 2008 at 12:43 am

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    Hey Li|z! Stevie could have gotten a hat trick easy! He was on fire yesterday. Come to think of it, most of the team was on fire!

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  • R.C |  December 29th, 2008 at 1:47 am

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    Had we not drawn that many games at home, we might have won it by now! Having said that, I’m now full of hope that we’ll win our 19th title this year!

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  • Kai |  December 29th, 2008 at 2:57 am

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    Hi R.C, as much as I want to feel full of hope, Liverpool has never failed to self-destruct at the most critical of times over the past seasons. So much so that I’m afraid to get my hopes up too high!
    Perhaps the appropriate description for me would be “cautiously optimistic”.

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  • Rob |  December 29th, 2008 at 8:44 am

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    Rioting is something Gerrard was full of yesterday it would seem.

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  • Drew |  December 29th, 2008 at 10:42 am

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    couldn’t have said it better rob, it would appear that if Stevie G. did in fact beat the shite outta that guy, and faces charges for it, the self destruct sequence has been initiated.

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  • steven. |  December 29th, 2008 at 5:27 pm

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    nothing concrete on the Gerrard “riot” yesterday .. i’d keep my finger off the button until then ..

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  • Kai |  December 29th, 2008 at 6:36 pm

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    Looks like the button will not be pressed after all!
    In a somewhat related article,
    http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/a-life-less-ordinary-ndash-gerrards-battle-to-breathe-in-a-claustrophobic-city-1216275.html

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  • Kai |  December 29th, 2008 at 6:38 pm

  • Kai |  December 29th, 2008 at 6:49 pm

  • Andy |  December 29th, 2008 at 9:48 pm

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    Hey did you guys hear that Stevie G got arrested?
    http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=605890&sec=england&cc=5901

    I found this article about an hour ago. I also heard that he wasn’t involved at all and should be released.

    And do you think that since Lucas has been playing so much recently that they are showing him off in an effort to sell during the window?

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  • Andy |  December 29th, 2008 at 9:50 pm

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    Oh my apologies you guys already knew about the brawl :p

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  • steven. |  December 29th, 2008 at 10:26 pm

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    what a bunch of twunts the british press are .. only they would write (and publish!) a 2,000 word piece written solely on hearsay & conjecture ..

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