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Gemmill used to live in the USA and in the end had to come home because he was looking down his nose so much he had literally gone cross-eyed.

Coming from you. Tell this forum about your complete implosion the other day on twitter with me. He loves George Galloway's crack big Gene Clark Gene Clark He's a terrorist supporter big Gene Clark Gene Clark He's a heedcase with his mental crack But he pipes right down on his prozac Big Gene Clark is a total heed the baal nananannanannaaaaa I think he's outed himself pretty comprehensively as an oddball on here now tbh. I made a joke about dialling his phone a few months back and for some reason it seems to have festered with him like fuck. Just went off on one the other day with no reference to it whatsoever. It's these ones you have to watch; nee perspective at all combined with an over developed memory for utter triviality (taking up capacity in the brain where his social skills should ordinarily have evolved no doubt). To be shunned and avoided at all costs basically.

Zero credibility left here like.

Me neither, try and put it up again. It's a touch of class, mind.

Holding up a sign saying: "I cost £10 million" and telling HF to "go and stick his stats up his arse. Sideways"

Fair play, sounds like it was said in full knowledge of the transaction rather than just as a throwaway comment.

Great work from whoever passed him that to hold up.

Aye Hear his crack about The Beatles 2? Ugliest set of musician's kids I've ever seen. That's a superb crop of his face for your ava btw. Looks like the front of a Thomas the Tank Engine locomotive.

Absolutely superb business at £8 million if that's right.

:lol: NAILED!

He was on North West news the other night. Never mind his music, (which was shit enough), what about his hair ffs? Or his personality?

Especially when you are a not a centre back Aye, well put. You can switch a CB to full back all day and you really shouldn't have any cause for concern if theyre half way competent, but switching the other way is only to be contemplated in the most desperate of circumstances. Full back is by far and away the most limited position on the park so CB represents a massive step up.

It was a hugely low key performance but I still thought he was the most likely to do something when he picked the ball up and looked for the pass through the middle. Bellamy was anonymous after the opening 15 (happily). At the end of the day it's one of the reasons I've no time for CT's 'end product' rant about Jonas. Yes ideally he'd be sticking the ball on the attackers head with every cross, chalk on his boots at the time, but how many goals realistically get scored like that anyway? Not many. Far more effective is stuff coming straight through the middle. It can go out wide as an option and to spread the play, but for all we're wanking over Ben Arfa, we're doing that principally because he cuts inside with such devastating effect. If all he was doing was knocking balls across from the flank we'd be wondering what all the fuss was about. If Gerrard didnt want to play RM under Benitez (or ever) I can understand why. I thought Bellamy had the beating of Jonas every time they attacked down our left but that faded as the half progressed.....not sure whether that was anything to do with Bellamy or more to do with us controlling the match more as the half wore on. At the moment it doesn't look like we'll play with wingers as such so he seems determined to shoe horn Jonas in at LB......not sure what makes him better than Santon in this position. As the match wore on I thought we'd see Gerrard rampaging up the middle and arriving late in the box to plunder a goal. At 2-1 they would have been right back in it. As it happened (happily) he sat deep and i don't recall him looking threatening on our goal all match.....he's their talisman but looked flat...and the rest of them lacked any kind of urgency or passion Aye, absolutely. Very reminiscent of how they looked last time they were up in fact (Pardew's first/Hodgson's last), save for the fact they'd lavished tens of millions on the team in the meantime and had plenty of new faces. I still give the credit to our lot first and foremost mind because I think after the opening 15 we created and took our chances, while doing it in a very controlling way. They've seen Dalglish moan, whinge and feel sorry for himself too much for me. Plus make them look a dick over Suarez's racism. I think that comes across at the end of the day...if he wants his players responding with guts on the pitch then he cant have the image of his slapped-arse-interview-absconding face running through their minds all the time. He blatantly feels sorry for himself and so thats how they will feel too. They'll still win the FA Cup mind, but that'll be down to their heritage and demands of the club/media rather than Dalglish for me. It's just what Liverpool do.

It was a hugely low key performance but I still thought he was the most likely to do something when he picked the ball up and looked for the pass through the middle. Bellamy was anonymous after the opening 15 (happily). At the end of the day it's one of the reasons I've no time for CT's 'end product' rant about Jonas. Yes ideally he'd be sticking the ball on the attackers head with every cross, chalk on his boots at the time, but how many goals realistically get scored like that anyway? Not many. Far more effective is stuff coming straight through the middle. It can go out wide as an option and to spread the play, but for all we're wanking over Ben Arfa, we're doing that principally because he cuts inside with such devastating effect. If all he was doing was knocking balls across from the flank we'd be wondering what all the fuss was about. If Gerrard didnt want to play RM under Benitez (or ever) I can understand why.

He scored the first, made the second, and made the third. He was tremendous and that wouldn't even begin to describe his exploits en route to the final. The Olympiakos game he should've been drug tested he was that good. That and the respective qualities of the two teams. Milan were almost embarrassingly better. The first half showed the actual natural gulf in class between them (that's genuinely how much better one team was to the other), the second half showed what sheer guts and determination can do in order for a woefully inferior team to stem that gap. It needs someone absolutely superhuman driving it though and thats exactly what he was. Sadly.

Nah, if you look at his contribution in Europe he's worth a CL to them on his tod. Two finals ffs! It almost defies belief.

In a nutshell. The goal line clearances have been massive for us this season but thats where your full back is typically deployed (on corners at least). He's definitively a last ditch tackler though overall due to backing off etc. Your better defenders judge the intervention a lot earlier. We've had a brilliant season out of him by his standards though and still a very good one by the average standard of the Prem. Ideally he's back up in any improved back four next season, but a CB is a bigger priority if it comes to push and shove.

Gerrard has basically won a Champions League single handed iyam so I don't think his commitment needs to be questioned now at this stage of his career. Seriously, how LFC's name is on the modern version of the trophy is bordering on the absurd and ultimately down to him alone. It's in decline now as he's had his day, but not his fault. Very unlikable person much as many Scousers are, but a phenomenal performer for his club over 15 years.

A fortnight is just a bit too long for me in Skem. 10 days is ideal for me. It's great to get away on holiday but isn't it great to get back again at the end of it? etc etc.

Could Chelsea actually win this this year?

Scouser on the Guardian comments forum is insistent that Commoli forced Carroll onto Dalglish, who didn't want him at all. They'll say anything to spare THE KING'S blushes. The very fucking notion that Dalglish would have a player-any player thrust on him under suffrance. The same arrogant bellend who walks off in front of TV interviewers every week and who defied the FA (who basically made every effort to find a middle way to allow Suarez and Liverpool to come through the Evra episode as unaffected as possible) for weeks on end as he made his club look like the biggest bunch of cunts on the planet. Which they are. The same bloke who's ringpiece they had to stretch around a cooling tower to blow the amount of smoke up his arse that they did. Fuck off.

Think that sums up where we are superbly Stevie. In terms of the football, the business, the personalities and the emotion. The conflict between various elements of each (both past and ongoing) and what we dare hope for for the future. The key point you touched on for me is that the team make you proud of them. I dont mean proud to be a fan of the club because that's just an intrinsic pride which never alters, whoevers names are on the team sheet, but a pride in those specific players pulling on the shirt for us. We're recruiting talent, and crucially theyre arriving here with the attitude that the football comes first. It's something this club has needed to get right for a long time...as you say, probably for a decade at least, because it's been getting it continually wrong on that score whatever amounts of money have been swilling about the place. I got slated for saying it at the time, and I'm not putting it forward now as proof conclusive that it was what did it, but I thought it was right for us that we went down when we did. It was a flabby organisation with a firmly entrenched gravy train attitude from top to bottom. It's absolutely right that we could have languished in the Championship and there was always that risk, but for me it needed that sort of clean slate and sharp shock to the system to refocus what NUFC as an employer demanded of it's servants. We're not the top of the money league anymore so we need our resources to go further. We probably got the least bang for our buck of all of the big spending clubs for about 70% of our Prem career prior to relegation imho. That's said with utter respect to the two great periods under Keegan and Robson because they are a massive part of the modern history of the club. But we do need to find a new way now because so much about English football has changed. This is the right start for me-you begin with the basic rudiments and that means finding players who want to play for their place in your team. Want it more than the opponents. It's only a start and its no guarantee of success, but it is the right start.

That is a superb post in all seriousness TS.

For me, Leazes makes too many posts about finances these days compared to only a very few about football. It's a strange one as he's usually wont to tell everyone how much he knows about football and how he's frequently asked by people who don't know very much about football, to tell them more about football. This is no doubt disappointing for those people who dont know very much about football as now is a time when we're actually progressing in a footballing sense, and so no doubt Leazes would have much good to say to them about the many ways in which the team has been strengthening.

Oh and by the way, last season LM's glib response to people's general enjoyment of the season overall was: 'lets see if we better that next season!' Well we have done. Now, conveniently it's: 'let's see how we do next year!' Well yes, funnily enough that is important to everyone, but at the same time it's right to acknowledge where we are now and reflect on the progress thats been made. Because that's how you plan your next steps. If that involves exposing Leazes for being utterly wrong in his predictions he shouldn't take it personally or get overly emotional about it as it's a small price to pay iyam.