The first ten minutes I heard:

"Rafa Benitez has been causing a few arguments of late, first Big Sam and now Dave Whelan".

Then it was:

"There are loads of empty seats around Anfield tonight, mainly in the Anfield road away end, Portsmouth only brought 300 so the others were made available for Liverpool supporters, but they haven't bothered taking up the option".

Which was followed by:

"The atmosphere is like an England school boys game".


Right, everybody knows the atmosphere is dead at Anfield, every game we're on, he mentions the atmosphere being dead and tense. Everybody knows that Pompey won't have brought many and it's unlikely that, given our recent form and the game being on a Monday night, we'll sell out the game, especially with Pompey bringing so little.

You just have to listen to his commentary, he gets so excited when the opposition have a semi chance. Give him half a chance to have a pop at us and he'll grasp it with both hands, he's almost as bad as Burley.

O'Leary in at Hull City?

Jebus. The names coming to the fore are nothing short of underwhelming.

Thing is, seeing as it's probably a Red Adair-style appointment, we'll probably end up with someone mildly unpopular, who will keep us up, and then get the job permanently. Bugger.

Can't see Sparky wanting to manage in the Championship.

quite easy

Thats got to be a violent conduct charge for Gerrard there

Let's hope they're consistent and he gets nothing. We've seen Ronaldo kick out regularly, we've seen Benayoun studded in his spine and we've seen Chris Morgan fracture a player's skull. A simple shove out of the way with his elbow should warrant nothing more than a say sorry to him.

He should be treat like Vieira was

What happened to Vieira?


Good to see Aquilani get the start tonight. He's shown glimpses of what he's capable of, he's such a good player, I'm just upset it's taken this long for him to get some kind of form, he could have played much earlier.

He elbowed Michael Brown.

If anything, Gerrard should get a fooking medal.

Achilles tendon rupture is a partial or complete break in the tendon.
HTH

It's a tear rather than a break

Achilles tendon rupture is a partial or complete break in the tendon.
HTH

Quote ="The Joker®"Achilles tendon rupture is a partial or complete break in the tendon. HTH'" It's a pretty pointless argument, but it's a tear mate. hcd2.bupa.co.uk/fact_sheets/html ... pture.html The Achilles tendon is very strong. It's found at the back of your ankle and connects your calf muscle to the bone in the heel of your foot. When an Achilles tendon rupture happens you may partially or completely tear the tendon. So pretty much like you break bones as opposed to tear them, you tear tendons as oppose to break them

Quote ="The Joker®"Achilles tendon rupture is a partial or complete break in the tendon. HTH'" It's a pretty pointless argument, but it's a tear mate. hcd2.bupa.co.uk/fact_sheets/html ... pture.html The Achilles tendon is very strong. It's found at the back of your ankle and connects your calf muscle to the bone in the heel of your foot. When an Achilles tendon rupture happens you may partially or completely tear the tendon. So pretty much like you break bones as opposed to tear them, you tear tendons as oppose to break them

i tore mine playing rugby

its a killer had taken 6 weeks to repair

A more accurate comparison would be with Adebayor's recent red card against Stoke. Although it appeared that Gerrard's actions were more deliberate than Adebayor's.

get's nothing? What like Rio?

perhaps rafa now knows what the fans have known for some time, lucas is shi'te and aqua should start every game with masch, also babel and torres look a very good partnership up front. but when sunday comes it'll be bak to the tried and tested flops rafa has shown faith in this season.

you forgot about kyrgiakis getting sent off for being stamped on by fellaini........

I never saw the Rio incident.

Lucas isn't as bad as people make out. He was originally a Stevie G type of player but he has had to resort to a more defensive approach. He is good when our game plan is to shut down the opposition early.

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Bags of potential, but 9 times out of 10 comes away with nothing. Head is constantly down, not looking for a pass but just to run at defenders!

babel was outstanding last night, his movement was superb and he was the perfect foil for el ninho, but the entral midfield was the outstanding area, aquilani was at times sublime and his partnership with masch was certainly a throw back to last season when xabi controlled the game. another massive plus from last night was maxi, he was brilliant and is just what we have been wanting for a long time, a skillful wide player who will take on the oppsition full back.

Babel frustrates me when he has his head down, he needs to be looking up aswell as skinning defenders. Look how often Torres has his head down when making a break. Very rarely.

Aquilani was superb, controlled the game, picked out some neat passes and looked almost worth 3/4s of what we paid for him.

Problem area for us: We [uneed[/u a corner taker. 99% of Stevie's crosses didn't beat the front post!

Seriously? What's happened to his pin point crosses?