The Official Liverpool Thread, Volume 3

[essexplumber]

You know what happened last time a scouser got this excited over one leg? Paul Mcartney married Heather Mills.

[Uhura fighter]

2seas said:

kenny got this one spot on in my opinion and deserves some plaudits.

Agreed, already posted their stats for home games in the league and people shouldn't forget what a free scoring side this is. (3-0 against us, 5-1 against Spurs, 6-1 Against United, 5-0 Norwich, 3-0 Bayern Munich, Stopped Arsenal from scoring twice winning both matches - played 10 won 10 @ home)

City are top for a reason and tonight was a great result.

[mickk]

Blib said:

mickk said:

Blib said:

I did say that you'd get at least a draw.

However, I've been out. Did Carroll score the winner?

Have a guess

I'm pleased for the lad that he's back on scoring form.








What.....?

You had a 50/50 chance, and you failed.

[mickk]

essexplumber said:

You know what happened last time a scouser got this excited over one leg? Paul Mcartney married Heather Mills.

Brave

[im]

Good result tonight ladies, I had a felling you'd get something. All you need to do now is guard against complacency, City will test you more in the 2nd leg I suspect but at this pont Wembley beckons.

Now if you can just ensure you nick 4th place in front of the Arse and Chelsea....

[Eddw86]

Raja said:

Did I say that? I was responding to Glen's banter You can take your idiot name calling somewhere else.

I thought city were there for the taking. I didn't like how we went super defensive and I don't think Dalglish will be in any way judged on his performance in this competition.

Raja, despite your negativity I'm glad you're back in the thread however I think Kenny was tactically good tonight.

It reminded me of Rafa in the champs league 2005 - backs against the wall type stuff.

Last time we played Man City they took the lead, let us have the ball, we tried to play & when they got the ball we couldn't touch them due to their movement & frankly the quality of their players who have the ability to take & make a chance v quickly.
As a result we got stuffed 3-0.

Tonight we took the lead, second half we restrict their options & drown them rather than expose ourself. Terrible to watch but effective.

My thoughts anyway.

Plus Man City at home, it's a great result.

[Blib]

mickk said:

Blib said:

mickk said:

Blib said:

I did say that you'd get at least a draw.

However, I've been out. Did Carroll score the winner?

Have a guess

I'm pleased for the lad that he's back on scoring form.

What.....?

You had a 50/50 chance, and you failed.

It was never 50/50 now, was it?

[hornetrider]

Seen Kenny's post-match interview?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16405943....

Interviewer: Mancini isn't happy with Glen Johnson's tackle near the end there - did you see it - what's your view?
KK: (Shrugs) I don't think he'll be too happy with many things will he?

[CharlieHotel]

Looks like a few decisions could have went our way which didn't.

[Audi 525i]

GLENRED said:

Arthur Jackson said:

The FA have now told referees that any player who passes to Andy Carroll should be booked for time wasting.

Take it back to the spuds thread, it wasn't funny on there

Au contraire, mon petite amie, it was most amusing on the Spuds thread.

Funny that

[hornetrider]

mickk said:

You had a 50/50 chance, and you failed.

I think you'll find it was a 1/11 chance my pedigree chum. Perhaps you should seek some probability/fractions advice from the resident Spud genius, im...

... oh.

[im]

hornetrider said:

I think you'll find it was a 1/11 chance my pedigree chum. Perhaps you should seek some probability/fractions advice from the resident Spud genius, im...

... oh.

Well that truce didn't last long did it

I knew you wouldn't be able to control yourself for too long...but just a few hours...jeez

Normal service is resumed.

[hornetrider]

Oy, I posted some good stuff about your shower last night. The entente cordiale lives!

[im]

So you attempted to cuddle whilst violating...

whoop-de-do, can we choose rings now?

[anonymous-user]

Quick question for you chaps

If Dalglish shouted at Liverpool to push pineapples and shake a tree, what the fk would Agger do?

[Dan_1981]

Humour? Jokes?

Good naturedness?

Where's the Liverpool thread gone?

[DaveR]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Dunno. Shelvey ask him?

[anonymous-user]

DaveR said:

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Dunno. Shelvey ask him?

nice

[hornetrider]

DaveR said:

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Dunno. Shelvey ask him?

No need to skrtel the issue. I dunno, whenever it reinas it pours.

[2seas]

inkiboo said:

Both Kompany and Johnson's tackles were red card offences. Quite simply anyone who doesn't think that is not aware of the current referee guidance.

The bigger issue, as always, is lack of consistency.

If you're being anally retentive and going by the book/official rules then I would agree – both were red card offences.

However, the fact is there is no way you can write a rule book that explicitly covers all the various offences that can be committed and all the various scenarios which need to be taken into consideration. The best you can do it try to makes rules general enough that they cover as much as possible. Either way, there is still going to be a need for common sense and judgement to be used – and this is always going to be subjective to the referee. So you will never have a utopia where all decisions are consistent – because there are just too many scenarios for the refs to agree on how each one would be handled.

For example; a two footed challenge is by the rules a red card. However, I’ve seen more 1 footed challenges than I can count (please refrain from saying that’s probably less than 10…) which were equally dangerous and went unpunished. The point being that just because it’s one footed doesn’t mean it can’t be as dangerous as a two footed challenge if not more. Yet there’s no way you could try to write a rule that covers all the scenarios.

So on the flip side, yes there’s a rule that all two footed challenges are a red. But I would argue that not all two footed challenges are dangerous and the context needs to be taken into account. Personally, (as with yesterday) I’m glad that a bit of common sense is still being used by the refs – as in glens case. None of the City players complained about the challenge, and it was a clean win of the ball.