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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC"
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Seems to know his football as well...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...inning-penalty-against-Manchester-United.html
bizzaro
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BoysInBlue
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BoysInBlue
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bizzaro
LOVE GOT JUST THE WAY IT IS #ALWNV
http://www.independent.ie/sport/soc...gaal-may-come-back-to-haunt-him-30825643.html
Rodgers bought or, just as grievously, allowed to be bought without public protest, more than £100m worth of resolute mediocrity. On the touchline he looks progressively dismayed and bewildered, and in an example of truly savage fate, at Sunday lunchtime he has to take his pain and his confusion over poor league form and the Champions League exit to, of all places, Manchester United. There, not only the callous of nature will surely recall that it is still less than six months since Rodgers reacted to a summer tour defeat by United with a full-blown lecture to Louis van Gaal on the difficulties he would face in his first season in the Premier League.
The audacity of his warnings to a man who won La Liga and Bundesliga championships at his first attempts - and, along with a Champions League win for Ajax and a World Cup third place with an ill-considered Dutch team, could claim eight national titles in three separate countries - is only magnified by subsequent events.
At the time Rodgers was also talking up his chances of stepping beyond last season's closely run title challenge. It was in this buoyant mood that he declared: "I think what he (Van Gaal) will find is that the competition in this league will be different to any other he has worked in. "In a lot of the other leagues there are one or two teams and those are the ones who are expected to win. This is a league where the top team plays the bottom team and on any given day can lose. "You don't get that a lot in the other leagues. I think the competition will probably take him by surprise and that's from foreign managers I have spoken to over the years. I've worked closely with foreign players who have come in and that real competitive nature will be different to anywhere else he has worked before."
The inherent presumption of Rodgers while addressing a man of such proven achievement was stunning then and is bathed in an even harsher light by recent events.
Rodgers bought or, just as grievously, allowed to be bought without public protest, more than £100m worth of resolute mediocrity. On the touchline he looks progressively dismayed and bewildered, and in an example of truly savage fate, at Sunday lunchtime he has to take his pain and his confusion over poor league form and the Champions League exit to, of all places, Manchester United. There, not only the callous of nature will surely recall that it is still less than six months since Rodgers reacted to a summer tour defeat by United with a full-blown lecture to Louis van Gaal on the difficulties he would face in his first season in the Premier League.
The audacity of his warnings to a man who won La Liga and Bundesliga championships at his first attempts - and, along with a Champions League win for Ajax and a World Cup third place with an ill-considered Dutch team, could claim eight national titles in three separate countries - is only magnified by subsequent events.
At the time Rodgers was also talking up his chances of stepping beyond last season's closely run title challenge. It was in this buoyant mood that he declared: "I think what he (Van Gaal) will find is that the competition in this league will be different to any other he has worked in. "In a lot of the other leagues there are one or two teams and those are the ones who are expected to win. This is a league where the top team plays the bottom team and on any given day can lose. "You don't get that a lot in the other leagues. I think the competition will probably take him by surprise and that's from foreign managers I have spoken to over the years. I've worked closely with foreign players who have come in and that real competitive nature will be different to anywhere else he has worked before."
The inherent presumption of Rodgers while addressing a man of such proven achievement was stunning then and is bathed in an even harsher light by recent events.
Tbf to Rodgers LVG agrees with the truth of his comments. Just don't think he was particularly wise making them.
http://www.theguardian.com/football...-gaal-manchester-united-city-football-academy
Van Gaal did agree with Brendan Rodgers’ comments before the clubs’ meeting in August in a pre-season friendly that the Premier League would be a surprise to him because of its highly competitive nature. “Yeah I think he said at that moment the truth and I have experienced that way also,” Van Gaal said. “The big difference between the leagues and where I have worked before is the high rhythm of the game. I think also every club has a player who can decide the match and that’s not so like in Germany or in Spain.”
http://www.theguardian.com/football...-gaal-manchester-united-city-football-academy
Van Gaal did agree with Brendan Rodgers’ comments before the clubs’ meeting in August in a pre-season friendly that the Premier League would be a surprise to him because of its highly competitive nature. “Yeah I think he said at that moment the truth and I have experienced that way also,” Van Gaal said. “The big difference between the leagues and where I have worked before is the high rhythm of the game. I think also every club has a player who can decide the match and that’s not so like in Germany or in Spain.”
dailymail full of pictures RS laughing and holding each other....in high spirits.
I am guessing that is Balotelli on the left and for sure it is The Slipster and Brent inset.
But the five hugging?
I haven't a clue who they are though looking at it again I think that might be Kolo Toure in the middle of them.
deipnosophist
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Rodgers is into oxymoronic irony...he replaced Suarez with 120 million quid of outstanding mediocrity
deipnosophist
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Brendan, heed some sage advice:
'It is better to keep a still tongue and be thought a fool than to wag it - and remove all doubt"
ScouseBlueBoy
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In Hooton's defence, at least he isn't in 'victim mode'. He isn't looking at the incident from various angles, drawing up graphs, citing incidents from 50 years ago, referencing cultural differences etc.
Maybe at least one of our little boys is growing up...
Isn't l'enveloppe French slang for vagina? Seems appropriate.
ScouseBlueBoy
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http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/dec/12/brendan-rodgers-liverpool-manchester-united
Unsure if I am losing my basic comprehension skills, but a lot of what BR says here is, to me, gibberish...
Quote from Mark Lawrenson:
"The Europa League is a nuisance for Liverpool. But at least now it is knock-out and as a manager Rodgers can decide on a round-by-round basis on what he wants to do, and view the Europa League two days before he plays each tie.
"There is a Champions League place at the end of it. That is not a factor now but that changes the further you go in the Europa League and also if the top four becomes less likely in the Premier League."
Why is it a "nuisance" for Liverpool and not any of the other teams in it?
Arrogant Yewtree bumwipe.
Unsure if I am losing my basic comprehension skills, but a lot of what BR says here is, to me, gibberish...
Quote from Mark Lawrenson:
"The Europa League is a nuisance for Liverpool. But at least now it is knock-out and as a manager Rodgers can decide on a round-by-round basis on what he wants to do, and view the Europa League two days before he plays each tie.
"There is a Champions League place at the end of it. That is not a factor now but that changes the further you go in the Europa League and also if the top four becomes less likely in the Premier League."
Why is it a "nuisance" for Liverpool and not any of the other teams in it?
Arrogant Yewtree bumwipe.
bizzaro
LOVE GOT JUST THE WAY IT IS #ALWNV
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