So much for the special night at Anfield, more like lost without a trace. Got laugh at the ex-pool players who reckon they had a chance.

Lol at how quiet Anfield was. All these liverpool fans talking about how amazing their atmosphere is, when in fact the treated the game as if it was a league 2 match or something instead of the current European champions!

Total myth.

Think your doing league 2 a disservice there. Maybe my sons under 9 team on a Sunday morning, that was their atmosphere level.

Brendan Rodgers says defending is easy..................so why have they conceded 3 against Real Madrid already and continue to have their defensive line on the half was line?

Easy to say when he simply doesn't play any defense in his strategy. Willing to bet the Scouse turn on him and he is gone by March!

http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=317412.0

Love the idiots post about how well they are doing because they only let up 3 instead of 6 in the first half. Clown is actually boasting about it. Right in line with the idiot Gooner on goal.com (yes I know goal.com) saying how Arsenal dominated with 75% possession. Nevermind that the possession he/she speaks about are just passes in the neutral zone and that they deserved the win. News flash, possession means nothing if you don't score goals while the other club does.

Watching the Arse, Liverfool, and United all struggle in a plethora of ways brings so much joy.

 

 

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Re: General Chelsea Thread

« Reply #2205 on: Yesterday at 09:54:32 AM »

 

The reason people hate chelsea is because they epitomise everything that is wrong with modern football. They have shown that you can go from being a tiny nothing club going bankrupt with a small fan base in an area more known for fashion than football and use wealth to buy success, then spend more and more to buy more success. Attracting a fan base, creating a history. Showing the way for every billionaire would be owner of a small club trying to attract bandwagon jumpers making a name for himself while mixing it with the big boys. I dont think its necessarily a bad thing. If your a sad lifeless c*nt of a tw*t with nothing to do in life. Become a Chelsea fan and bathe in the success. All you need is a plastic flag and a story about how you were there in the second division when 5000 people turned up. 

 

Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.

Good grief !!

 

Familiarity can sometimes be a trick of the mind. Know something for long enough and it's capacity to surprise seems to disappear while never vanishing completely. The capacity to change for the better is always there and while the challenge to simply maintain becomes ever greater, let the rest of them be duped into underestimating again.

In emerging from nowhere they became larger than life. Expectations were exceeded in a way that went above what most would have ever dreamt of. No longer was the idea of a nineteenth title consigned to the shadows. Challenging for the title wasn't new for this team but it was new for this team. This is all part of a story that's been told over and over. An old story for a new generation.

So how do you reignite the fire for a conflict that everyone seems to known inside and out? For most it won't take much. Off the field there has already been a lot of work in trying to breathe new life into that which we think we already know while maintaining that which worked so well. With the right attention to detail, a vision can be made reality. Only then can you take the kind of heritage that comes with LFC and make it your own.

Some interpretations don't work at all. When you have an entity that is so ingrained into popular culture that it becomes very clearly defined – by those who like it and those who don't – then there are parameters to work within. Even in those circumstances it's possible to be unique while maintaining that which people know. In certain hands however, these marks can be missed so much so that the end result then becomes like a parody of that which it once stood for. Roy Hodgson did for Liverpool what Batman and Robin did for cinema. In this instance, Brendan Rodgers has a little more of the Christopher Nolan about him.

Legacies are defined by what's left behind, long after the aspects that established it are gone. If everything crumbles to dust the moment that it's architect is gone, then the foundations weren't quite strong enough in the first place. The truly great can stand the test of time. At Anfield, those foundations have been rocked to the core over the last decade. At last there appears to be something with which we can build greatness upon.

Tomorrow will see the start of a new chapter. The third part of Brendan Rodgers' tenure at the helm. Year one gave us an introduction to this new incarnation, then came the much lauded sequel. Does the closing chapter of this trilogy end with Steven Gerrard lifting the Premier League trophy? We'll are thirty eight games and another emotional roller-coaster ride away from finding out.

Early previews suggest that hope is lost. More will have to be found. The stakes are higher now. There's a storm coming. Isn't that always the way? A resurgent Manchester United and a buoyant Arsenal; coupled with Chelsea and Manchester City whom Liverpool fought so hard last year and suddenly the rogues gallery appears very full.

Also, this time the battle will be as much internal as it is external. History doesn't get rewritten all that often. Every miskick and every dropped point will summon forth his name. Speak of the devil and he shall appear. He was once was the bane of Premier League defenders up and down the country; this time he will be Liverpool's reckoning.

For those on the outside looking in, Luis Suarez's departure will cast a great shadow over the club. He was born in the darkness after all, we merely adopted him. With that also comes the idea that last year was a fluke. Steven Gerrard and Brendan Rodgers won't be wallowing in a pit of despair, looking on as all their hard work is destroyed. There are bigger challenges that inevitably await, that must be met head on.

“Why do we fall?” asks Michael Caine's Alfred, in a voice just the right side of parody. “So that we can learn to pick ourselves up” comes the self supplied answer. It's a theme that echoes not just on the screen but as we strive to come up against whatever problems there are in our daily lives. A nice sentiment definitely - but also massively incorrect.

Ultimately there has to be a reason behind that fall in the first place. Simply continuing to stand isn't enough. Avoiding mistakes is as advantageous as learning from them. As far as Liverpool are concerned, such sentiments serve a dual purpose. Standing up in the face of adversity is more than honorable enough but this time around it's more about not letting anyone push them to the ground in the first place.

Whatever story there is left to tell and whatever ending we have yet to arrive at, everything looks much different now than when it started. In football it's often said that it's the hope that kills you. On the screen it was said that “there can be no true despair without hope”. That might be the way it felt in the immediate aftermath of the Chelsea and Crystal Palace games, but certainly not what those on Matthew Street would have said at 2am after the Newcastle game.

Faith can be poisonous when it is blind and unwarranted. But placed in the right hands and it will be rewarded. This team has just given us a season that even without a defining piece of silverware is unlikely to fade into the memory. Continuing in the same manor and trophies will not be far behind. There were not only incredible victories but the sheer scale and method of them, the likes of which we'll be looking forward to seeing again this year.

Maybe we've seen it all. Maybe we just think we have. Maybe the best is yet to come. Maybe they've given us everything. Well, not everything. Not yet.

http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=315714.0

I don't even...

 

 

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Re: General Chelsea Thread

« Reply #2231 on: Yesterday at 03:55:59 PM »

 

Quote from: LionheartCFC on Yesterday at 03:48:46 PM

Telegraph seem to think this woman will continue her rise. Karen Brady eat your heart out!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/11180282/Marina-Granovskaias-ascent-to-most-powerful-woman-in-world-football-continues-as-Ron-Gourlay-leaves-Chelsea.html

Must be tough spending a billionaires money. Takes real business acumen to work at chelsea. They have always been financially prudent and built themselves up from within. It amazes me how they compete with Man City and PSG and other teams who try to buy success. A story of pure hard work and effort is Chelsea. Something we should all be proud of. 

They can f*ck right off. The minute Roman is bored they ll go back to being a small club in Fulham.

 

These Pool fans really are good for a laugh!

guddy69, it's amazing how they all just love it up too haha! Thanks for sharing that thread, I love the responses!

 

 

 

 

By day he manages the most storied football team in the English league.

 

lol 

 

even with all their history, that they love so much, I wouldn't call them "the most storied football team in the English league."

Edited October 23, 201411 yr by Butterhampton FC

Getting a Madrid shirt was as good as it's going to get For Mario playing for the pool, no surprise he went for it.  

Did he just wake up this morning and think to himself...."Hmmm how can I make an entirely pointless argument about another team's owner?"

"Think" is such a strong word here. You give that sh*t far too much credit for having a brain.

The amount of "so proud of my team"  comments on that forum....

 

If they were Wigan I would understand, but the giants that are Liverpool FC getting swatted like a bug at 'Fortress' Anfield?

 

If Mourinho was in charge, he would of got a result. I'm positive.

If your mothers family reunion is at the same time and place as your fathers family reunion, you might be a LFC fan.

If your mothers family reunion is at the same time and place as your fathers family reunion, you might be a LFC fan.

 

I'm starting to understand it all. Liverpudlians, especially Reds supporters, are the equivalent of redneck, Confederate southerners. Makes much more sense now.

 

 

 

If Mourinho was in charge, he would of got a result. I'm positive.

 

Couldn't be more right. I'm also sure that he would have Balotelli playing pretty well also. It's so incredible to see all the flack that he is receiving! He plays no worse than the others, and to think that Mignolet, Skrtel and Lovren never get any blame!!

Mignolet is f**king awful. 

 

How they deemed him better than Reina is mystifying.

Sounness knows

https://vine.co/v/OhWIreX39vr

lol

They are a strange bunch. Racially abuse someone and get a massive ban, back him all the way. Bite someone and get a ban, back him. Swap a shirt at half time, he's a disgrace, nor fit to wear the shirt, sell him now.

Liverpool fans make me laugh going on about glory supporters and such. Most of their fans are from the 70s and 80s when they were winning things.

The history thing is just funny, they talk about it like it gives them the right. Do they not realise that everytime we win a trophy we add more to our so called history? Purely a group of hypocritical idiots.

Its just desperation and jealousy. They have no other card to play, nothing else to say.

Liverpool, The biggest club in England, The team who couldn't attract Falcao and Cavani despite having Champions League football, Despite having £100 million to spend, The club who instead bought a leftover from a club who live on buying leftovers, AC Milan, That's Liverpool, The biggest club in England.

Will be interesting to see how Liverpool and City get on at the weekend.

City having to travel to Russia and blowing a lead while Liverpool spending so much energy chasing shadows and getting a thumping at home.

Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.

 

Re: General Chelsea Thread

« Reply #2205 on: Yesterday at 09:54:32 AM »

 

The reason people hate chelsea is because they epitomise everything that is wrong with modern football. They have shown that you can go from being a tiny nothing club going bankrupt with a small fan base in an area more known for fashion than football and use wealth to buy success, then spend more and more to buy more success. Attracting a fan base, creating a history. Showing the way for every billionaire would be owner of a small club trying to attract bandwagon jumpers making a name for himself while mixing it with the big boys. I dont think its necessarily a bad thing. If your a sad lifeless c*nt of a tw*t with nothing to do in life. Become a Chelsea fan and bathe in the success. All you need is a plastic flag and a story about how you were there in the second division when 5000 people turned up

Translated into English, what that means is that we win things and they... don't.

 

That's the reason Scousers hate us, they're seething with bitterness and jealousy, and have been spouting exactly the same brand of verbal diarrhoea since the day Abraomovich walked into the club. With every trophy we win they hate us that much more.

 

In short it proves that we as a club are getting it right (ok, ok, even Gourlay wasn't that bad, Benitez appointment aside), while they continue to wallow in the glories of their increasingly distant past.

Carragher thinks Liverpool will sell Balotelli before next season. I still can't believe some wanted him here.

Imagine if Ludogorets or Basel finish ahead of them in the group 

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Congratulations to all the Liverpool supporters who impeccably observed the 70 minutes silence at Anfield last night - I don't know who died since last week but he must have been one hell of a guy!

 

 

Taken from the comments here....http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29734854

Imagine if Ludogorets or Basel finish ahead of them in the group 

Indeed. Would be even better if both finished ahead of Liverpool. Would mean that would miss out on the latter stages of the Europa League.