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4th place — Liverpool please
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I’ve been thinking long and hard today mostly on the Aston Villa vs Liverpool game on what would be best for Everton. Its fair to say we lost our chance to crack the Top 4 after our lousy first half to the season and this could then leave open the possibility of either Spurs, Villa, or Man City breaking into the lucrative Top 4 places probably at the expense of Liverpool. But do we really want that to happen?
Whatever we fanciful might think, Liverpool are a top brand name worldwide and, even if they failed to reach the Top 4 place and hence the lucrative cash of Champions League, some rich Arab or Far East guy will come along and rescue them from the under-performing Yanks at some time in the future and give them the cash required to push on again.
Do we then want either of the other three to get on that ladder of cash riches, particularly Villa (as the poorest of the three) and we would be then be faced with another club to overhaul in our attempt to get to the CL. You might argue that City or Spurs have the cash to do it, but again I suspect that their respective owners will panic once again if they don’t do it this season – particularly City's new owners following their treatment of Mark Hughes. Both will suddenly change managers and players again and I think long term they will never have the solid foundation to crack the pot.
To summarise, if we can't crack the Top 4 then I don’t want anyone else to and I hope that Liverpool win tonight (God forbid me sating that, but!!) and go on to claim 4th place. Now I never thought I’d state that but can anyone else come up with another viewpoint? I’m open to offers.
As I finish writing this, Torres has just scored and Liverpool have won. God, I hate them... but thanks again.
Mike Oates, Posted 29/12/2009 at 18:57:03
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With every year passing since then I have hated everything they stand for. Derby matches with last minute disallowed goals, in cup and league, derby match with biased refereeing — you name it and somehow that horrible, horrible, arrogant shower of bastards come away with the decisions and results.
I wish not a Newcastle United on them, but a Leeds United tenfold.
If that shower were not to finish in the top 4 it would partially make up for our own disappointing season (so far). Hopefully it would start (continue?) a downward spiral and they would "do a Leeds" as Gerry says.
The only thing is, they might get rid of their classless manager, and we don’t want that to happen now ,do we?
I need to get a red straw doll and start sticking pins in it.
For years now, the richer clubs have been getting richer - particularly the ’Big 4.’ I think it’s no coincidence that we *have* a ’Big 4’ and also 4 champions league spots. I would hope that should any team break the monopoly held by Chelsea, Man Utd, Liverpool and Arsenal that the entire league can become more competitive again and allow us to compete with the very best once again.
If we were depending on a Liverpool win for a place in the Champions League i’d still want the bastards to get beat.
Hate them and as per a t-shirt I saw on holdiday once, "I support two teams, Everton and the team playing against Liverpool".
I hope they falter even more and end up in the bottom half of the table, the only down side is that they will have to get rid of the useless fat waiter and they may get someone decent in.
They lost £42 million last financial year, should be well over £50 million this year. If they don't get in the Chumpions League, they could be heading for a £100 million loss and the Yanks would have to sell. They could get an owner willing to splash come cash so I'd be careful of what some of you wish for!
Heaven forbid they get someone who knows what he’s doing in charge of the shite, they might actually win something and we can’t be having that.
For selling their souls to the devil, or whatever they did, because never has a team had so much luck for so many years.
For fucking Heysel... TWATS! (Wanted to say something else there bet you can guess...)
For all the misguided people who don't really follow football but want them to win cos it's for the city, it's in the name really.
For a million other reasons that I could go on about but would take me till 2011.
No, not them, not ever, anyone but them.
Just after half-time Reina decides his boots need changing, so what happens? The referee signals to the bench, and the new boots are fetched from the dressing room area, with the Villa crowd singing "What's going on" or words similar! The result: 4 extra minutes, just enough time for them to get the winner.
I am just wondering if anything will be said to the red side, as why he did not change them at HT? But I won't expect any answer.
Also, those who watched the game on Sky will know how Alan Parry & Andy Gray wished for the boys in red to succeed, and just gave biased views all the match.
I think the post is flawed. All ifs and buts and hopes.
Liverpool can go fuck themselves. If another or two of the other teams qualify it opens competition again and that will be healthy for us. And Liverpool will be screwed financially and that brand you talk about will dissapear as what Asian fans follow crap teams?
If Villa get in there it may only be for one season. If Man City get in there it would be a victory for money over everything else and if Spurs got in there they would probably capitalise on it financially.
So if it can’t be Everton, it has to be Villa.
If you want a return to a friendly deby you need those smnug reds taken down a peg or two to realise what football is really about. So it’s got to be a good thing if they miss out on the CL for the next 5 years and see the world from a whole new financially restricted, worldwide hangers on reduced, fat arrogant Spanish manager free perspective. We can hope anyway...
A slightly different point regarding the biased referees — at Anfield last season in the derby both teams came out and then the shite played YNWA over the tannoy — and we all had to wait, including the Everton team, for it to finish before the kick off! Where else does this happen, and where else does the referees allow it to happen?
We should all bare our arses next time they do it.
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