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Trouble comes in threes

I knew this wasn?t going to be a good night. I left the relative comfort of the pub to arrive early? ?might as well have a drink in the ground?? ha ha? no alcohol for Uefa games! Don?t remember being told that by the club. Bloody awful boring wait but at last it?s 5 minutes to kick off.

Then we have 30 minute delay because of yet more administrative incompetence. The club blame Royal Mail. OK, good prize offered for anyone who can tell me of another top club that has had to delay a European kick-off because they?ve made a fuck up of the ticketing.

Inevitably the third disaster of the night arrives and we deliver one of the most inept performances I can remember in over 40 years.

Three penalties from Johnson, no goals. Can you imagine the abuse that Beattie would have suffered if he had been the culprit? Sorry, there is no point in strikers who can?t score goals. Anichebe did more in his cameo appearance than his two ?seniors? achieved together and if he doesn?t start on Sunday then we have just another example of Moyes?s incompetence and intransigence.

Three players whose qualifications to pull on the blue shirt are very suspect:

Hibbert... How much longer do we have to put up with this guy? Can?t pass and falls asleep.
Neville... He is rubbish. Never mind the England thing. He got into ?the club? when playing for Man United and perhaps he looked good playing alongside quality players. He is crap. No other word is suitable. Negative and slow in his own game his failure to take command of the penalty number two situation and tell Johnson he wasn?t taking it makes his captaincy a joke.
Jagielka... Perhaps I?m being harsh here. But, hell, if he can?t displace Hibbert at right back does this sound like good value for £4 million?

Alan Burnham, Liverpool Posted 21/09/2007 at 00:08:46

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Paul Clays
1 Posted 21/09/2007 at 11:53:13

From my seat I could see that Baines actually wanted to take the 2nd (3rd) penalty but Neville shouted to let Johnson take it. I could see Johnson wasn’t up for it until Neville started telling him to take it! Fucking idiot!!!

Rich Jones
2 Posted 21/09/2007 at 08:17:29

Our directors and staff are frightening me now, when they cant organize sales of tickets for a football match, something they've been doing for 119 years, I really do despair.