Premier League 8/9 November 2014

Saturday 8th November

Liverpool v Chelsea  12:45  BT Sport
Burnley v Hull   15:00  
Man Utd V Crystal Palace  15:00
Southampton v Leicester   15:00  
West Ham v Aston Villa   15:00  
QPR v Man City   17:30  SKY SPORTS


Sunday 9th November

Sunderland v Everton  13:30  
Tottenham v Stoke   13:30  
West Brom v Newcastle  13:30  SKY SPORTS
Swansea v Arsenal  16:00  SKY SPORTS

Allardyce wins Manager of the Month, and Sakho wins player of the month. Called it.

Well he's one of the best.


“There are two types of coaches. There’s coaches like me who weigh up the opposition and ask the team to adjust. Fergie was similar. Jose [Mourinho] is similar. Then there’s Arsène, who won’t adjust. There’s Brendan [Rodgers], who looks like he won’t adjust. There’s Manuel Pellegrini, who looks like he won’t adjust, even in the Champions League. He seems to favour what he’s got. City are quite open.

“Their [Wenger/Rodgers/Pellegrini’s] philosophy is different to ours. Ours is more about who are we playing against. Their philosophy is more, ‘We always play this way’, and they won’t change, they carry doing on the same thing. That’s why you can beat them. "

Sam Allardyce fact: The only human being on Earth who would compare Sam Allardyce to Jose Mourinho and Alex Ferguson is Sam Allardyce.

It's cute that Dickanio is being swept away in his team doing a classic- smaller -club -doing -really -well until -Christmas phase. Enjoy it while you can like Blackpool, Hull and Swansea fans before you.

In terms of us I'm expecting another abject display tomorrow where we offer little attacking threat and probably concede a few set pieces.

I'd rather see a similar team to the one that played midweek than the likes of Balotelli, Johnson and Gerrard starting but we all know that isn't going to happen.

Oh look, Johnson and Lovren come in for Manuillo and Toure despite the latter two being great in Madrid.

No Lallana again. Balotelli as a lone striker.

Only positive is that Can keeps his place.

You are cheer leading for Kolo Toure over Lovren these days Luis. Times must be bad 😄

Not looking forward to this one

Markovic can't even make our bench

Toure over Skrtel actually.

Decent performance but Chelsea are going to score again - not sure I can say the same for us. Lallana on for Henderson would be my change.

Lovren is one of the worst defenders we have ever had at the club

Rodgers is flapping here. Our two best players hauled off for Borini and Allen.

Fuck this - Rodgers what are you doing?

Balotelli trying to rival Crouch for not scoring a league goal for fucking ages.

Remember the olden days when Chelsea and Liverpool would play every other week, Rafa vs Jose, and they were the worst games you could imagine. Nostalgia.

Kimbo wrote:Remember the olden days when Chelsea and Liverpool would play every other week, Rafa vs Jose, and they were the worst games you could imagine. Nostalgia.

Great games

Two of the best teams in Europe at the time

Clear handball not given - you don't get them vs Mourinho.

Thank God Studga is back after this. Hope Balo is shipped back to Italy in January. We got that one wrong.

It was handball but I loved the attempt to justify the Pool handball in the 1st half "he was trying to make himself smaller and that's why it wasn't a penalty"

What player tries to make themself smaller when blocking a cross?

S4P wrote:It was handball but I loved the attempt to justify the Pool handball in the 1st half "he was trying to make himself smaller and that's why it wasn't a penalty"

What player tries to make themself smaller when blocking a cross?

That was shoulder quite clearly.

Cahill literally made a save like a goalkeeper but as I said you don't get that vs Mourinho.

Kimbo wrote:Remember the olden days when Chelsea and Liverpool would play every other week, Rafa vs Jose, and they were the worst games you could imagine. Nostalgia.

Liverp00l.

Rodgers really has done a great job destroying this team

All he needed was to spent on two proven stars and he bought a load of average to good players instead.

It has set us back years again

Murray wrote:

Kimbo wrote:Remember the olden days when Chelsea and Liverpool would play every other week, Rafa vs Jose, and they were the worst games you could imagine. Nostalgia.

Liverp00l.  

"Football is made up of subjective feeling, of suggestion - and, in that, Anfield is unbeatable. Put a shit hanging from a stick in the middle of this passionate, crazy stadium and there are people who will tell you it's a work of art(coater). It's not: it's a shit hanging from a stick."

Oof, they're turning on Rodgers. Bring back Rafa campaigns will probably start again soon.

Looks like Chinston's prediction isn't so crazy:

STAT ATTACK: Liverpool have lost more games, have conceded more goals and have less points at this stage than under Roy Hodgson in 2010.

I knew we'd lose when I saw Gerrard starting. Our early goal was down through the adrenaline and once it wore off Chelsea controlled the game and Rodgers of course helped with his appalling substitutions. Instead of fixing the mistake, instead of removing the trash in midfield he kept it the entire game. Rodgers out. It's been obvious he's lost the team.

The thing is Liverpool were shite as well last year, Suarez covered ul the cracks but tbh its awful since Kuyt left.

Puro wrote:I knew we'd lose when I saw Gerrard starting. Our early goal was down through the adrenaline and once it wore off Chelsea controlled the game and Rodgers of course helped with his appalling substitutions. Instead of fixing the mistake, instead of removing the trash in midfield he kept it the entire game. Rodgers out. It's been obvious he's lost the team.

Another factor could be Chelsea having better players in every other position aswell?

There's a common misconception amongst modern day football fans that questioning a manger's decisions means you want him out.

Kimmy wants Pardew out.
Chinster wants Wenger out.

There's a clear difference between their constant abusive comments towards those men and Liverpool fans questioning why Rodgers is still playing the likes of Gerrard, Johnson and Balotelli when they clearly aren't working.

Rodgers almost won the title for us last season with a poor squad - that wasn't a fluke.

This summer it looks like something went very badly wrong right now and the pressure on him is causing him to make some silly decisions both tactically and personnel wise.

But Rodgers out? No chance from me.

It wasnt a fluke Luis...it was lack of competition...Suarez scored a shitload that was a mirrage for the real problems ..shitty defense+ageing Gerrard.

Pards nearly qualified for the CL, still a shite manager. You can definitely fluke a season. Not that I think Rodgers is in Pardew's league of shitness.

200+ million invested..yet we are worse then last year...Its awful being a Man Utd fan.

With lack of competition from Manu and Pool..Southampton might get for a top4 finish maybe..

Fey wrote:200+ million invested..yet we are worse then last year...Its awful being a Man Utd fan.

With lack of competition from Manu and Pool..Southampton might get for a top4 finish maybe..

Man U have CG player syndrome, I mean what the fuck is Vermijl???

Rodgers promised us that Liverpool wouldnt "do a Spurs", because they had a strategy.

We finished 3points worse off the season after losing Bale. Currently, Liverpool have less points this season than they did at the same stage under Hodgson.

Ergo, Rodgers will be lucky to even "do a Spurs" this year, the silly bastard. Notice he mentioned us AGAIN today, as if their performance against us has any bearing on their current run of form. I have nothing against Liverpool, but Rodgers himself has proven to be an insufferable tool, would give me pleasure to see him get sacked.