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I hope City gets it. I cursed them because they were the danger to us and not Pool - before yesterday. But the fanfarony goes over the top.

Might have been a pen if Azpi's right leg pulled Antidore's left but this is n't the case.

Well we need a man who can move like turbo machine in the box, the way Demis Nikolaidis (Torres ex partner) used to and others like Didier Drogba of course. Eto'o is one such player, he did score the one goal but maybe something more is needed. Yet today's match was sold down the river by a Spurs like defensive performence. It's a huge anticlimax, losing the league because of West Ham-WBA-Villa-Palace-Sunderland and granted in the four out of five of those it was the absence of strikers to blame. In the transfer market some big money is needed, taking into account the ages of the current squad of players too. A big name won't suffice - if we talk in terms of premiership-champions league that is. In June some players of various nationalities will shine in Brazil and their managers are on the lookout for the big money spenders. It's an expensive year if we want to compete. I don't really believe we have reached the level of the 2008 team (Essien-Drogba-Lampard-Ballack). We performed some heroics and sprung back when people expected us to go down tamely to City, in that match we won 1-0. But we faded in the last furlong real bad.

Azpi's right leg hits the ground and never touches the Sunderland man.

Azpi's right leg hits the ground and never touches the Sunderland man.

The penalty was in the referees imagination of course - Foy number 2.

Such is life. I feel sick. This time it was the defense pure and simply who sold the match. The strikers did score one - and missed two or three.

That Sunderland goal was a comedy of errors. The one who took the first shot had 25 metres of football ground infront of him. Go figure now.

It is one for the anthology. I remember a few. In 1983 "Juve vai prendi la" (Corriere de la Sera). But Hamburg stole it. We invite him for fish dinner. Mersey must have some fish.

Sorry, Brian Mears was the old president - no Baines.

Fingers crossed. My best pre season bets: - 1998 FRANCE-BRAZIL finalist pairs - won - 2000 FRANCE-HOLLAND fianalist pairs - shopkeeper counted the shop's money twice and Reikardt kept shooting penalites wide - 2004 CZECHIA - PORTUGAL finalist pairs - Greece spoiled it. If you win you can send me some a carton of Dimples. The hotel in which the air stewardesses go between flights is just across the road from my house.

Beano stuff. In England you don't have club press. There are the fan zones now and the forums but in the old years you had no such newspapers. So there is no "Liverpool news" in the stands nor "Arsenal news". When first came to London I showed the fans some Greek newspapers with colour covers -like Sun more or less- and they said wow look at that. At around the same time Baines had sold Charlie Cook to Newcastle so I said "come here you, why London ain't burning yet ?" to which an elderly Chelsea supporter replied "listen here young man, Charlie Cooke played for us so why not play for Newcastle as well ?". Reminiscences ... But this one Liverpool guy foots the bill for the proverbial "Sid and Doris Bonkers" award. Terry will jump into the Mersey he fancies ...

I made undefeated run from September to March, then blew it. I was placing bets carelessly.

Early in the season I believed Chelsea, MU, City do well but no win, Liverpool maybe and Arsenal no way.

I did. Arsenal=jokers, UTD=Moyes, City=habitual losers. But Pool were doing poorly in December, January so they came to be unfancied. We blew it -insofar as it's not over yet- but I don't think they will be happy in the end.

... of some Chelsea interest. I had only a brief look before and I was surprised Barcelona were the bookies favourites. So I thought those were double finals, but I saw the terraces and they were not those of Nuevo Camp. 1-1 however now.

Barcelona 1-0 down to Real. Where is that match being held ? Does n't look like Nuevo Camp to me.

Wickham is their danger men. Scocco too - he can score like Rooney at West Ham.

Never mind - mission accomplished by Sunderland.

Trickled in.

Sunderland destroys City. Wickham scored both - Scocco playing well.

It's good Arsenal win cause we desperately need a motivated Everton against City. The LFC - Chelsea game is an away win from here to Madagascar.

You have notifications chases people around like mad referee with red card. We can see the bell.

Suarez handles to control the ball and then makes the pass to Skrtel.

L'pool - Man City 3-2: The 2-2 and the 3-2 were giveaways - micky mouse goals. Chance of handball in the making of Liverpool's first.