Football

Oh Shitty, Shitty, Shitty.
It was all looking so good. 1-0 up, I went upstairs for a shit, came back down and look what's happened.

Is this what $2000000000000 buys you nowadays? I'd want a refund if I was bloke in charge

Fuck me, 0-5!?!?!

Ramires did so well to get to that...

That must've been one hell of a dump, Mike. It's almost an hour since they were 1-nil up.

Outstanding, it's been a very long time since I've seen a Chelsea performance like that... 10/10

lol the voice of doom

Well in citeh!

No one cares about Chelsea Joe other than you and Clive

It was a great display of football, Mike...

You wouldn't appreciate that tho', L0L!!!

Oh Shitty, Shitty, Shitty.
It was all looking so good. 1-0 up, I went upstairs for a shit, came back down and look what's happened.

Is this what $2000000000000 buys you nowadays? I'd want a refund if I was bloke in charge>

Vintage Mike

Ha!

Chelsea result not even on the Guardian's landing page... Citeh? Check... Porto, Roma and Barca? Check...

Hehehe... Kopite meeja dickheads...

My point was definitely not about Liverpool.
If we can actually have a defining point of the season being 12 games and closest to 30 points, then maybe we can get closer to the sid Lowe described phenomenon of previous la liga seasons where the whole season could be settled in one match.
#stopfootball

In seriousness, I'm sure it might also be interesting to compare those 12 matches and determine the relative strengths of the teams played.

@cliveo unfortunately I was only just alive in 75. I don't think I was aware of my existence. My earliest memory is of desperately trying to open the gate of our house in Belfast before I shat myself.

Yep, @mikec reverse hexing creates a city win, totes amazeballs.

I still can't believe Brenda's hubris wrt that Southampton quote... Incredible...

Shows he hasn't got a fucking clue... Did he really think Liverpool's fortunes wouldn't suffer without Suarez in the squad?>

that is small fries compared to his comment towards Spurs spend about a year ago...I'll see if I can find it...

'Look at Tottenham. If you spend more than £100million, you expect to be challenging for the league.' - Brentnan Rogers

No I'm talking about improving the defense through different training rather than sacking the manager that is actually quite good considering the club.

I know I'm probably in the minority here but for me Rodgers is a decent manager & has done a good job considering the mess Liverpool were in but he's never been particularly defensively minded. The lack of goals (due to being without the two best strikers from last season) wouldn't be as much of a problem if the defense weren't shipping soft goals every game.

Should we lose the improved attacking football by sacking the manager & getting someone more defensive in? No, we should keep the good forward play & get someone in to help with the back-line. They're not bad players, they're just making the wrong decisions or plain old mistakes - different training for when the team doesn't have the ball would help Liverpool.>

The club is a bit of a mess....a 20+ year mess. Even when we had LS and DS we were terrible defensively- Darren Fletcher could hold it better than we could. Exactly what has changed? Round pegs in square holes up front. All the while we've been chasing players for glamour positions- Konoplyenka anyone? Ian Ayre spent a week in some siberian salt mine for that signature and failed, despite having the likes of Ibe, Suso, João Teixeira, what was the point in £20M on Lazar? What preps were being made for defending? We know for sure BR chased and signed Lovren:

2014-15
"They don't have to sell. (Southampton) have a choice. Maybe Southampton's objectives have changed. They were looking to be a Champions League club, I believe." - BR

What has improved? They look totally clueless as ever. How much did we spend on Sakho? £20M? Why has he been dropped so badly? Yet he plays really well for France. Whose decision was it to buy him, BR or the 'committee'? Wisdom and Illori. What happening there? We had enough players to spunk the £100M on just 2 or 3 top drawer players.

Why isn't Lucas (whom I think is terribly slow but reads the game light years ahead of SG) getting a look in esp after his Madrid performance? Can, too? Players (new and old) are getting mismanaged badly in terms of fitness/game time.

Brendan is in danger of doing a Wenger: doing the same thing and hoping something else will happen. We've signed two forwards that are the antithesis of lasts years batch yet we haven't changed our game plan to suit their strengths...It's November now...

in reply to Lw.

Are you championing Hodgson? Interesting choice. A little run of wins will put Liverpool back where they should be (bordering between champions league & europa league spots).

I do agree about Gerrard though - about time he was sent to the glue factory.>

When opposition fans start asking for the current man to stay for many years....

clintsmoker

Cited are mediocre at best. A failure to lure any if the worlds best players over the last five years leaves them trying to get back into again with nasri and Milner.>

They're a one man team. Fact.

Chelsea result not even on the Guardian's landing page... Citeh? Check... Porto, Roma and Barca? Check...

Hehehe... Kopite meeja dickheads...>

I thought you were sticking to the realigning properties of copper? The aluminium foil is clearly fuckin with your joints.

As I said, no one gives a shit other than a few plastics and cabbies

He really is Ricky Gervais isn't he.

We are going to get battered tonight. I think it will be an embarrassment

#stillhighfromthelast4months

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shg7EB8_b6M

is di matteo still on the chelsea books ?

5-0 ... just saying

My point was definitely not about Liverpool. If we can actually have a
defining point of the season being 12 games and closest to 30 points,
then maybe we can get closer to the sid Lowe described phenomenon of
previous la liga seasons where the whole season could be settled in
one match.
#stopfootball

In seriousness, I'm sure it might also be interesting to compare those
12 matches and determine the relative strengths of the teams played.

@cliveo unfortunately I was only just alive in 75. I don't think I was
aware of my existence. My earliest memory is of desperately trying to
open the gate of our house in Belfast before I shat myself.

The reason for choosing 12 games is not because this is a season defining moment. In truth, 38 games is the only real measure of a season because at that stage everything evens out and everyone has played the same teams home and away. It was because 12 games is precisely the number of games that have been played so far this season. The same table could be run after 13, 14 and probably most reliably 19 games and give a better indication of how things are going.

As to the strengths of the teams played, it is true that we have not yet played Tottenham and Southampton. We haven't played Newcastle and Sunderland. Hull and Stoke are yet to come. Let's also not forget West Ham.

We have, however, played Man U, Man City and Liverpool all away and Arsenal at home. Our first half of the season is tougher than our second half.

The other point to be made is that, until last weekend, Chelsea have not been playing as well as they might. The first 25 minutes of the WBA game showed what they could do. Yesterday's match showed that it could be sustained for 90 minutes.

I am looking forward to the challenge that is Derby.

How curious that your first memory should be scatological.