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  Liverpool Rob: Usually I steer well clear of Brett’s advances around this peculiarity in the football calendar. If he gets hold of me he asks me out on a date to watch the match, because, well, we’re friends and it doesn’t matter who wins (or loses). This year I’m happy to put that theory […]

All hail: Young Ashley’s goal; Patrice’s goal; Fletch getting more minutes and promising he’s all better; Rooney being out and giving Danny a chance; the result. I’ve run out of things to hail. Bored now. Potentially a nice little run of fixtures over the next couple of weeks. Who’d bet against us being in the […]

I was thinking: why don’t we try something crazEE this week, hey?! Go with me here guys … Why don’t we play Kags, right, Kags, yeah … in the hole, and I don’t know, try and WIN a game. As opposed to not playing Kags in the hole and losing a game. Just an idea. […]

I was thinking about an adage that I like: “the problem with going on holiday in order to ‘get away from it all’, is that you take yourself with you.” This is pertinent when we think about football, as football is something we mostly like to think of as an ‘escape’. I was thinking about […]

And without Danny. Arsenal should really consider themselves very very very very very very lucky. Phil ‘Jonesy’ Jones takes a lot of credit from this game, and rightly so – he was really strong, in both midfield and defence (I’m really luke-warming to the idea of him in midfield). Evans too. But also crucial, I […]

Where to start?   .                                . Here will do … let’s get some stuff said: I’ve skipped second-base with Fellaini and am already at third – he might be the answer y’know. Him and Carrick in midfield, P-A-S-S-I-N-G. Chris Smalling looked on it, and some, at right back – which was possibly a knock on […]

. Rob (our Liverpool fan contributor): My ‘Pool wish list for last season: A winning mentality. Tick. A determination to improve. Tick. To defeat Utd.  Negative. Wish list for this season: To compete for a Champions League place. To be exciting to watch. To defeat Utd.  I have watched two Utd friendlies plus the opening Premier […]

Our internet friends are always welcome to share their ‘pre’ and ‘post match’ thoughts with us: if you want to share, get in touch! You can still enjoy our nonsensical, confusing, punctuation buffets, below their proper good ones… Tom (@Tom_McGhee):   Brett: Zup Zup and away! (copyright @BeautifullyRed) There will never come a time, when […]

How would it feel if City were to catch us? Can you picture that in your mind’s eye? It’s nigh on ridiculous to entertain it, even for a second, but this game is so much more important than a glance down the fixture list a couple of weeks ago would have presented it as. Stoke […]

We’re inviting our Twitter friends, and now resident thought sharer Iwan Lehnert, to share some of their ‘Pre and Post Match’ thoughts with us from now on. If you want to share, get in touch! You can still enjoy my nonsensical, confusing, punctuation buffets below their proper good ones… Iwan (@IwanLehnert):  To be honest, I […]

We’re inviting our Twitter friends, and now resident thought sharer Iwan Lehnert, to share some of their ‘Pre and Post Match’ thoughts with us from now on. If you want to share, get in touch! You can still enjoy my nonsensical, confusing, punctuation buffets below their proper good ones… Iwan (@IwanLehnert):   Before I begin, […]