Football Focus

[Ladygooner]

That must have been some comeback! I do miss my Sky football on Monday nights but too mean to pay for Setanta. Having seen the goals Robinson let in surely he is due a little rest soon?! Anyway, well done Jah - hope you didn't age too much last night!

[Jah Lush]

Yeah! great game for you neutrals but heart attack material for a die hard like me. Missed the game too but had my football daft niece constantly texting me with updates. When we went 4-1 down she phoned up laughing her head off saying we were useless. Thanks Deborah. Then later on of course she was saying we were great and what a brilliant match. Hmmm. Still, unbeaten in four games, ok I'm grasping at straws here but we've had a few injuries, we're still missing Ledley King badly and Martin Jol should never have been put under the sort of pressure he has been, he needs the backing of the board and we'll get through this and be stronger for it.

Come on you Spurs!!!

[Jah Lush]

You may be right about Paul Robinson needing a rest Ladygooner. Oh how we laughed when Lehman made his two errors at the beginning of the season but Robinson has made several blunders that has led to us leaking goals unnecessarily.

I saw the brief highlights on the ITV News last night and he made some pretty bad mistakes. He's a great keeper on his day but he's also a bit like Dracula. He hates crosses.

[Ladygooner]

Too true about Lehman - but we haven't seen him in goal for Arsenal since have we. Who is your second goalie?

[Jah Lush]

Radek Cerny, he's pretty good, but obviously doesn't get to play much.

[mockney piers]

Robert Green for England anyone?

If it hadn't been for him Arsenal might have got a bigger win. Of course if it wasn't for the dodgy linesman we may have dug out a draw. That's football I guess.

[Keef]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Robert Green for England anyone?

He's not really good enough, but no one is at the moment, so I guess it's the best of a not great bunch.

Carson will be the man in a couple of years time! 2 die hard Charlton fans I work with can't praise him enough, without him they would have been relegated a lot earlier last season. He's also had a bit of champs league experience with Liverpool, and really shouldn't have been blamed so much for the goal conceded to Juve a couple of years back.

Just hope he gets a permanent move to a good club (not Villa), as I can't see him getting a regular spot at Liverpool (which is a shame, but Reina is good).

[Annasfield]

"Reina is good" - Slight understatment, me thinks - Pepe is amazing!! We have not conceded a single goal from open play with him between the posts this season. He also saved one of the four pens that fired at him.

Unfortunately Carson would get splinters in his backside if he came back to Anfield. Same happended to Dudek and he lost his form. Will always be remembered for the "Grobelar" wobbly legs in Instanbul (ooh and the saves he made ;-))

[Jah Lush]

And just where is Chris Kirkland (another ex-Liverpool, former England hopeful) plying his trade now? Wigan Athletic isn't it? Poor bastard has had rotten luck with injuries and he seems to have slipped right down the pecking order as well.

[Keef]

That's just it though, he can't stay fit... If he could go a couple of seasons without injury, I think he'd be right back in the frame... He's still young enough.

[Jah Lush]

I'm rather keen to watch the Liverpool v Marseille game tonight and wondered where it would be showing in ED. I'd prefer the CPT but I hear the Chelski fans normally get there way in there when they are playing in Europe on the same night. Where to?

[SeanMacGabhann]

I've got room for 2 or 3 Liverpool fans if no pub is showing it

[Annasfield]

It will be on in my front room too! :)) Failing that, the Magdala usually have both games on.

(The game on Sunday isn't televised Jah - gutted)

[Jah Lush]

Sean, that's a very generous offer that I'm not sure I could take up. Gonna nip in the EDT first with my Liverpool daft niece around six, if I find out it's not on in there I'll try the Magdala.

Anna, not on the telly on Sunday! Oh well probably have to do a Bob & Terry and try to avoid the score until MOTD2. I just hope they rest Torres on Sunday eitherwise we're done for. Well, we probably are anyway, I think we've only won up there twice in the last 80 years.

[Keef]

Will probably stay home tonight, but if I head down ED way I shall give you a shout Jah!

[Keef]

Cisse and Zenden should both play against the pool tonight... Cisse is no Torres, but he is a good player in my book, and could cause us problems... He'll have a point to prove too!

[Annasfield]

Did you read his comments on the website?

Lord Frodsham

>:D<

[SimonM]

Would it be terribly bad form to cheer loudly and roll on the floor laughing when Valencia win tonight? >:D

[SeanMacGabhann]

Simon

Stop giving us Gooners a bad name!

[Keef]

Think that would be perfectly fair. As for Cisse, if was desperately unlucky with injuries whilst at Liverpool, and I wonder if we ever saw the best of him... He always looked very dangerous going at players, but his finishing just wasn't there. Strange for a striker with am amazing scoring record in France... Not as high a quality I know, but the goals are the same size.

[mockney piers]

Isn't Simon a Blades man?

[Jah Lush]

SimonM Wrote:

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> Would it be terribly bad form to cheer loudly and

> roll on the floor laughing when Valencia win

> tonight? >:D<

I think that's an exellent idea. I may even go to the CPT tonight to do just that to the Chelski fans in there. Ha ha. Top shout Simon.

[Keef]

Just heard from Fear n' Boozin, our man in the CPT, and he reports that they will in fact be playing Liverpool as they've had a few people ask for it.

I hope Mrs Keef is in the mood to give out beer passes this evening....

[Annasfield]

Owwwwh!! Are you all going to be in the pub?!?!

[SimonM]

>>Isn't Simon a Blades man?<<

Of course I am! But hating Chelski is a national sport, especially after Abramovich's recent Tsar-like excesses...

And I need cheering up the way our defence is playing just now....