I think Ferguson would be nuts to take that job. Portsmouth would be nuts to offer it to him.

He's only been a manager for two years. He's done really, really well to win two promotions and in many ways has been treated harshly by being sacked after doing that. But the fact is that Peterborough got rid because they didn't think he'd be able to keep them in the Championship. Why would Portsmouth think that he'd be able to keep them in the PL?

Utd did not deserve to lose and played some good stuff at times. Obertan did well for most fo the game and there is definately more to come from him. Park was excellent especially in the first half and it will be good to have him back.

i think that Obertan is going to be a top player, he looks good already some good skills.

maybe a run in the first team i think he is ready to play more regular.

also saw the premier league scores, congrats to Hull on a good win, although i do think that there just dleying the inevitable, i just cant see the quality in there squad to stay up.

Just Watched the start of the cricket, Aus v WI. i notice even cricket now has a challenge system in where challening the umpires decision is allowed a certain amount of times.

so Tennis, Cricket use this system why cant it be introduced into Football. i understand that it can slow games down if you let them challenge every decision but in tennis your allowed 3 challenges and its a system that works well.

Isn't that the one where if the player wins the challenge, then he doesn't lose one of his/her 3 challenges? With most managers having monitors near the dug out, this could lead to unlimited challenges as they would look at the replay and decide whether to challenge or not, an would probably only challenge if they knew they would get the decision. One way round it could be they get a certain amount of challenges per game and they "lose" (for want of a better word) a challenge whether the decision was correct or not.

Haven't monitors been banned from dugouts ever since Mourinho?

I just found your bandwagoners comment amusing and ironic, do you get to Anfield often?

Good thing or bad thing?

I'm all for the idea of the '4th offical' having access to a monitor then be able to inform the referee of any doubts there may be. But only over goals and penalty decisions.


Only problem I foresee is every goal being scored there being several players running to the referee asking them to 'go to the screen'.

Not as often as I would like. Struggle to get tickets when for games that I want to go see and cant afford to go too often anyhow. I find it amusing how you presume I am a bandwagoner when I've supported the team since I was a young 'un in the mid 90s and were struggling as much as we are now.

Good in ways, bad in others. After what Mourinho done with the monitors when he was dragging it out for the ref to look at, I can see why they banned them, but, it was a poor call IIRC so, if they were to bring in a referral system of some sort, surely it would be a bit easier if the coaching staff can watch on the sideline before they refer it, or would it be an on-field decision only?

As for players running to the ref, are you accusing them of being dishonest and trying to con the referee?

I think that may depend on who would decide whether to challenge or not. If it was left to the players who would be near the action, then have no monitors. If it was down to managers/coaching staff to make the decision, then it would probably be beneficial to have monitors just for that as they won't be able to see every thing clearly from the sidelines.

Struggling? When was the last time Liverpool didn't make the top 4?
When was the last time Liverpool didn't qualify for Europe?
Now if you'd have been a Latics, Leeds Utd, Burnley or York City supporter you could have said struggle and nobody would have disagreed.

We have struggled to make a huge impact on the League, we should be matching the likes of Chelsea and Man Utd by winning the league, this is the department we've struggled in since winning the old Division one in 1989/1990.
The last time we failed to make the top 4 was 2002/2003.

We are struggling to make that final push and this season has been one of our worst. We should be a top four club but we will be lucky to get that at the minute.

I'll be the first to admit that the teams you've mentioned have struggled, Leeds mainly, but in prospective of what we're expected to have achieved by now, we have struggled too.

04/05 was the last time we finished outside of the top 4.

Noooooo



They'd never do that.

I think its a case of the refs discretion of whether an incident should be looked at...maybe the captain can approach the official.

Another problem thought might be how far back can they go too look at an incident. The ball can stay in play for 3 or 4 mins maximum usually so if a team believed a player of theirs was fouled and no free-kick was given they could then in theory challenege that decision????

I'm all for Video Replays but wouldn't be as straight forward as it seems.

Why should you be matching Chelsea and Man Utd by winning the league? Your team isn't good enough, let alone your squad.

Ahh yes, the season we we wont the CL and didn't qualify for it next year.

Are we expected to match Chelsea & Man Utd = Yes
Should we match Chelsea & Man Utd = Yes
Are we matching Chelsea & Man Utd = No
Are we struggling = Yes

Sky sports email from a Pompey fan: "I'd have preferred a big name manager like Guus Hiddink or Alan Curbishley"



, quite the contradiction. I like Curbs but come off it, not in the same league as Guus.

Why

What?

We did qualify for it that year but we did finish outside of the top 4.

Ignore him, he's getting his facts and stats off Wikipedia probably.

One thing about LFC fans is they know their clubs history...they don't half go on about it

We won the CL in 2005.
We finished outside the CL qualifying places for the 2005/6 season.
Everton got the last CL qualifying place but we got in on the merit that we won the CL the season prior and had to defend it, We had to start in the 1st Qualifying Round IIRC

Bending the rules

I feel that we should be matching the likes of the top 2 (top 2 as i see it) We should be pushing for the title. End of story.