Liverpool 4 - 1 Cheating Bastards

“If we play to our best, then we will make Liverpool fans cry at Anfield. They will weep with despair.

“We know that a win, or even a draw, will put us into the next round. We should have beaten them in the first game at our stadium, but they were lucky to get a draw."

“I am tired about the rumours that link me with the big English clubs. I do not need to demonstrate my quality in these matches. Quaresma is always Quaresma.”


Take that
A thrashing. Nice meeting you and we hope to see you again.

CHELSEA SECRET PLAN REVEALED

1) Sack Mourinho and get an unqualified coach to take over his place.
2) Keep Mourinho on the payroll and devise tactics in the background for the Chelsea team
3) Spread rumors on Liverpool (Tiger and Wolf tactics)
4) Rafa sacked
5) Get Mourinho to offer himself for the job for 50 pence per week.
6) Chelsea gets past Liverpool for the CL semi finals at last.

Back

Back from a rest.
Not that it matters much.

Behaviour of the England Captain

Shame on you John Terry

Liverpool 0 - 0 Birmingham

Sacking of Rafa cries
Yes, but he cannot beat Portsmouth and Birmingham - so sack him! This doesn't make cow sense.

Before he came we were struggle to beat the likes of Celtic, Basel and Galatasaray. Now we are beating the likes of Juventus, Milan and Barcelona, year in year out. If you ask me, I'll rather keep a manager who has already proven to find a successful formula in one area, and wait for him to find the other successful formulas like in youth grooming and of course winning the local league.

Currently we have a mini crisis. Some say our dip in form is due to Pako's departure. Some relate it to Gerrard's bad form. Some attributed it to Rafa's tactical ignorance.

No EPL title this season
We might not be able to win the EPL this season, judging by what we saw. Against Portsmouth it was telling. The players did not look half arse to lose the top spot in the league. The mentality of being champions is still not there yet, a problem which plague Liverpool for many years now. They are still contented being pretenders.

What is the root of the problem?
Rafa's man management?
Rafa's tactical awareness?
Gerrard being sub-standard captain?
Players' mentality?
Quality of players?
Fate, gods' will?
The EPL is just one big rigged show like WWE?

Take your pick

Porto 1 - 1 Liverpool

Liverpool played ugly. Liverpool was beaten statistically and aesthetically. Liverpool was woeful.
Yes yes yes.

But which is the worse result, Chelsea drew 1-1 against Rosenborg at home or Liverpool snitching 1 point playing in a ground which no English team had won, by giving one of the worse performance under Rafa Benitez ever?

Ungracious fan? No way. There are plenty to cheer about.
Yes we played rubbish but we were denied a penalty and that could have gotten all 3 points.
We played almost an entire half with 10 men.
Our captain was almost non-existent in leadership and performance.
Yes we played rubbish in their ground but considering all of the above, they couldn't beat us.

Portsmouth 1 - 1 Liverpool

It was a draw game.
There was nothing to wow about the game except for the brilliance of Pepe Reina the God of Penalties, who upped his reputation yet again by saving a penalty kick. (well undeserved as usual of course, no less)

The highlights of the game however, belong to our hero, a local Liverpool 'fan' gave his profound views on:

Happiness
"..every team play their regular starting strong 11 but only liverpool resting key player... I hope the manager is happy now that Arsenal is top of table..."

Contradiction
"why can't he just play the strong 11 all the times? this aint derby or sunderland, i hate to say it but liverpool right now is a 1 man Gerrard team..."

Religion
"you know what ? why not you go worship him(Rafa Benitez)... I'm not gonna waste my time on you..."

History
".. its so hard for liverpool to win an away game under RB, the old liverpool under GH got no problem winning away matches and cups glory... "

The Manager
"Why not sell Gerrard & riise away too since they wasn't needed ??? I'm sick of this manager and I'm not having any of him..."

Statistics
"yes GH era there was alot of winning in away matches"

EQ
"hey you let your bulldog mouth overload that puppy dog mouth of yours ? yeah keep talking alright... "

Source

Look mum! No toes!

Gerrard playing for England carrying a toe injury

Gerrard has gotten too little criticism over this matter.
Fact: He is injured.

Hero, some say. Lack of professionalism, that's my take.
Whether or not his toe 'belong to Liverpool' like Jamo suggested the great Shankly would say, one thing for sure is that his toe belong to himself. For sure he is free to do what he choose to. But then every player is free to dose themselves in alcohol, party or have -beep- with prostitutes. It is not stated in their contract they can't. It's always a matter of whether he should. That's where self discipline comes along.

Even at a junior level during soccer training, my soccer coach told us if we don't take care of our bodies, we will never be able to enjoy the game properly in future - even at social level. How very true, I found out.

Gerrard is captain of Liverpool and vice captain of England. However, heroism is a thing for another day. At least with ten toes functioning correctly without drugs. In the army, the commander of his troops must always keep himself alive, to prevent the scenario which his soldiers are lost in the event of his death. Thus keeping himself fit to lead is what he should do, which he chose not to.

Gerrard the hero is a hero indeed. But sadly, a hero is not a leader. For a leader must be disciplined and responsible, not only for himself but for his men. I have to admit I do not give a hoot what happens to England. Although I am writing this in a very bias pro-Liverpool angle, it isn't really the point. If Gerrard is fit, I will applaud him for giving his best to England the same way he did for Liverpool. But now Gerrard is going to miss the game against Portsmouth, thats for sure.

Will anyone call Sissoko a hero if he chose to play in the Africa Nations Cup carrying an injury? I can hear a pin drop. Will Mascherano be skewered if he chose to play for his country and misses a Champions League tie for Liverpool? Should Gerrard be exempted from criticism just because he is captain?

Rafa is also at fault for not stamping his authority over this matter. Much as I hate to mention, Alex Ferguson would have showed his middle finger at M.Claren and withdraw his injured player (sometimes even w/o injury, notoriously known) w/o hesitation to protect his player. These uncompromising acts had played a big part in winning them the titles. So much for being Mr Nice Guy.

Gerrard IS injured. It is not a doubtful injury or a pulled muscle. I'm disappointed at Rafa for not doing the necessary this time.

But the willful captain should have known better. Exposed his lack of maturity yet again. Maybe the fitting captain in our team might really be some bottler really..

Changing of the tide ?

When Chelsea robbed a point at Anfield earlier this season, the Chelsea players were all smiles after the game.

Would they have reacted the same way 2 years ago? Maybe not. Anything less than 3 points were probably not good enough for them back then. This season, they know. Deep down they knew we can mount a (really) serious challenge to Man United this season.

And they'll just be some corroding flashy accessories.

Ugly dog

This dog belongs to one of our players. Who is he? (the player, not the dog)