This Weekend's Fixtures & Liverpool v West Ham (22/23/24 Feb).

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Saturday, 22nd February 2020
Chelsea v Tottenham Hotspur, 12:30 https://i.imgur.com/hISMgBT.jpg]
Burnley v Bournemouth, 15:00
Crystal Palace v Newcastle United, 15:00
Sheffield United v Brighton & Hove Albion, 15:00
Southampton v Aston Villa, 15:00
Leicester City v Manchester City, 17:30 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

Sunday, 23rd February 2020
Manchester United v Watford, 14:00
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Norwich City, 14:00
Arsenal v Everton, 16:30 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

Monday, 24th February 2020
Liverpool v West Ham United, 20:00 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

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As it stands:

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[Niall_Quinn]

So is the season back on now, or is it still the winter break? Why were there matches all through the break? I'm not fully understanding this. I liked it when there were 42 games all played on Saturdays except when we had to play Sheffield Wednesday fifteen times in a row. Why can't we go back to that? Make it happen Maccy.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

The season is back on.

And I fear the only way your request can happen is if Sky gets taken down. Given I still support them I'm probably one of the biggest reasons why it won't happen.

That and we play on Thursdays now.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Chelsea: Caballero, James, Azpilicueta, Rudiger, Christensen, Alonso, Jorginho, Kovacic, Barkley, Mount, Giroud.
Subs: Arrizabalaga, Abraham, Willian, Loftus-Cheek, Zouma, Emerson, Gilmour.

Spuds: Lloris, Tanganga, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Sanchez, Davies, Ndombele, Winks, Lo Celso, Bergwijn, Moura.
Subs: Gazzaniga, Lamela, Dier, Skipp, Alli, Aurier, Fernandes.

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Come on Bif!

[Thierrymon]

Tim Sherwood and Michel Owen as pundits :ilt:

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Christensen continues the Chelsea tradition of wearing a gimp mask.

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Lucas Moura shot, Willy blocks it.

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Mount goes near post, Lloris saves.

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Barkley hammers it, wide it goes.

[Thierrymon]

Giroud!

might be going to var.

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Chelsea 1-0 Spuds, BIF!!!

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It took Giroud having it saved by Lloris and Barkley hitting the post to set up that chance. :lol:

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Some strike from Alonso but just over it goes.

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Lucas Moura shot, Azpilicueta dives in to block and deflects over.

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Sanchez header, Willy tips it over.

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Tanganga does Willy's job for him.

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Vialli and Mancini are there.

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1-0 HT.

[Master Splinter]

If we retain some daft hope of getting near the CL places, a draw is surely the best result? Or even a Spuds win to make it all tighter.

Or does Mourinho just override all that?

[Globalgunner]

Mourinho can suck lemons for all I care. If City beat the foxes and we Everton then anything is possible. Hope we at least end up 5th

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Chelsea 2-0 Spuds, Alonso kills Spuds off.

Mourinho. :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

If we retain some daft hope of getting near the CL places, a draw is surely the best result? Or even a Spuds win to make it all tighter.

Or does Mourinho just override all that?

Definitely Mourinho overrides all that.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Red to come for Lo Celso?

Dirty cunt.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

How has Azpilicueta's leg stayed in one piece?

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No red card given. :haha:

WTF?!

[Thierrymon]

How has Lo Celso not been sent off? :wacko:

[Thierrymon]

Way worse than the tackle that got Auba sent off through VAR.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

The VAR in this one gets the Leicester v Citeh game later on too? :lol:

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Ndombele run but falls over in the box.

[Master Splinter]

The Xhaka rule and the Aubameyang rule only ever seem to have been enforced once.

Officiating in this country is by evey metric deplorable.

It's a nebulous technology's fault though! It's plastic monitors ruining the game!

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Ndombele off, Lamela on.

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Honestly it is absolutely ridiculous.

https://twitter.com/Arsenal24649333/status/1231212842721959937

[Globalgunner]

Don't worry chaps. Wenger will fix all things VAR related and overturn all those nebulous red cards unjustly awarded against the Arsenal over many seasons past

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Mark Chapman just tweeted:

We have asked why VAR did not give a red card for that Lo Celso incident. We have been told 'it wasn't a clear and obvious error because VAR didn't feel there was anywhere else for him to put his foot'. Give me strength.

:haha:

Fucking hell. Now they analyse where possible footprints can be found, funnily enough they didn't look at the one on Azpi's shin.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Honestly it is absolutely ridiculous.

https://twitter.com/Arsenal24649333/status/1231212842721959937Apparently it wasn't a red because there was nowhere else he could his foot :haha:

I read it about 2 inches above this post.

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Bif off, Tammy on.

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Apparently it wasn't a red because there was nowhere else he could his foot :haha:

I read it about 2 inches above this post.

You should have looked at the monitor.

[Globalgunner]

Next time any man gets accused of rape. He can plausibly claim there was nowhere else for him to put his dick.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

You should have looked at the monitor.

Not a clear and obvious error.

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Lo Celso is going for the hips now.

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Barkley off, Willian on.

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Bergwijn off, Dele Alli on.

Alderweireld off, Aurier on.

[Master Splinter]

Bif would have scored that.

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How has Tammy not scored? He was a yard out and now Tammy himself hammers the post.

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Lo Celso booked. :haha:

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Alonso smacks the bar, Kovacic overhead kick goes wide.

[Letters]

Next time any man gets accused of rape. He can plausibly claim there was nowhere else for him to put his dick.

I can think of several other places tbh

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Stockley Park now saying they made a mistake and it should have been a red.

So presumably a 3 match ban for Lo Celso anyway.

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What was the couldn't put his foot anywhere else defence about then?

:wacko:

Won't be a retrospective ban because they've seen it. I think.

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Chelsea 2-1 Spuds, Rudiger OG. :doh:

[Thierrymon]

2-1

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Willian could've finished it off but toepokes the finish.

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Four added minutes.

[Master Splinter]

Will they admit they were wrong about popular England squad member and Manchester United captain and honest English lad Harry "Slabhead" Maguire's attempt at severing someone's knob on Monday?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Chelsea 2-1 Spuds, FT.

Mourinho. :haha:

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Sheffield United: Henderson, Basham, Egan, O'Connell, Baldock, Berge, Norwood, Fleck, Stevens, McBurnie, Sharp.
Subs: Lundstram, Jagielka, McGoldrick, Verrips, Mousset, Osborn, Retsos.

Brighton: Ryan, Duffy, Dunk, Webster, Schelotto, Bissouma, Propper, Burn, Maupay, Murray, Mooy.
Subs: Trossard, Gross, Jahanbakhsh, March, Button, Bernardo, Connolly.

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Burnley: Pope, Bardsley, Tarkowski, Mee, Taylor, Hendrick, Westwood, Cork, McNeil, Vydra, Rodriguez
Subs: Hart, Gudmundsson, Brownhill, Brady, Pieters, Lennon, Long.

Bournemouth: Ramsdale, Smith, Francis, S Cook, Stacey, H Wilson, Gosling, Billing, Surman, King, C Wilson.
Subs: Boruc, Solanke, L Cook, Stanislas, Rico, Fraser, Simpson.

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Crystal Palace: Guaita, Ward, Dann, Cahill, Van Aanholt, Kouyate, McArthur, McCarthy, Zaha, Ayew, Benteke.
Subs: Hennessey, Kelly, Riedewald, Meyer, Townsend, Pierrick, Tosun.

Newcastle United: Dubravka, Schar, Lascelles, Fernandez, Lazaro, Bentaleb, S Longstaff, Rose, Almiron, Saint-Maximin, Joelinton.
Subs: Darlow, Lejeune, Yedlin, M Longstaff, Hayden, Ritchie, Gayle.

[Letters]

Stockley Park now saying they made a mistake and it should have been a red.

So presumably a 3 match ban for Lo Celso anyway.

I think VAR is the right thing to do in principle but they really are bolloxing it up horribly

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Southampton: McCarthy, Ward-Prowse, Stephens, Bednarek, Bertrand, Hojbjerg, Smallbone, Armstrong, Djenepo, Long, Ings.
Subs: Gunn, Verstergaard, Adams, Romeu, Boufal, Obafemi, Valery.

Aston Villa: Reina, Guilbert, Konsa, Mings, Hause, Targett, Luiz, Nakamba, Grealish, El Ghazi, Samatta.
Subs: Nyland, Drinkwater, Hourihane, Trezeguet, Baston, Engels, El Mohamady.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Southampton 1-0 Villa, Long.

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Burnley 0-1 Bournemouth, King!

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Ah VAR rules it out. :rose:

Hit a shoulder according to Le Tiss.

VAR. :haha:

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Sheffield United 1-0 Brighton, Stevens.

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Sheffield United 1-1 Brighton, Maupay!

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Palace 1-0 Newcastle, Van Aanholt hammers it in.

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Burnley 1-0 Bournemouth, Vydra.

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Pelanty to Burnley to possibly make it 2-0 after disallowed goal for Wilson.

:wacko:

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Burnley 2-0 Bournemouth, Rodriguez.

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Brighton appealing for a pelanty on handball but nothing given.

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Leicester City: Schmeichel, Pereira, Evans, Soyuncu, Fuchs, Chilwell, Praet, Tielemens, Maddison, Iheanacho, Vardy.
Subs: Ward, Justin, Morgan, Albrighton, Barnes, Perez, James.

Manchester City: Ederson, Walker, Fernandinho, Laporte, Mendy, Rodri, De Bruyne, Gundogan, Mahrez, B Silva, Aguero.
Subs: Bravo, Stones, Jesus, D Silva, Cancelo, Otamendi, Foden

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Lundstram goes in on Dunk's kneecap, no red.

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Burnley 3-0 Bournemouth, McNeil.

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Lazaro sent off for the Barcodes.

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Sheffield United 1-1 Brighton, FT. Good.

Burnley 3-0 Bournemouth, FT. Not good.

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Crystal Palace 1-0 Newcastle, FT.

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Southampton 2-0 Villa, Armstrong.

Reina caught charging up field trying to score a goal.

[Master Splinter]

Lazaro sent off for the Barcodes.

Saka has ruined him.

[Master Splinter]

Come on Citeh?

LOL @ Brentan imo.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Seems fair.

Citeh winning is great given they're essentially -1 behind the European places currently. :lol:

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Good defending from Iheanacho.

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Chillwell goes athlete balling, Fernandinho nudges him over.

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Vardy the goal repellent hits the post. :haha:

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Mahrez hammers it, Schmeichel saves.

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Scuffer from Gundogan, which Schmeichel saved.

Iheanacho wipes out Walker.

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De Bruyne shot, wide.

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Freekick to Leicester, edge of the D.

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Deflected freekick from Maddison, easy for Ederson.

[Master Splinter]

Pep's fraudulence rubbing off on De Bruyne.

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Maddison forces a proper save this time.

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Iheanacho header goes way wide, Ederson Schumachers him.

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Ederson has a tattoo of a smiley face?

:wacko:

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Ricardo shot, right at Ederson.

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Disallowed goal for Aguero.

Looked offside.

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Mahrez freekick. :haha:

Terrible.

0-0 HT.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

What's with City's drumstick lolly kit...

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Iheanacho off, Barnes on.

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Low cross from Barnes, Ederson cuts it out at source really.

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Schmeichel denies De Bruyne.

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Laporte off, Otamendi on.

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Gundogan shot, deflects behind.

Citeh appealing for a handball.

Great save from Praet.

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Pelanty given.

Of course the De Bruyne save in the first half wasn't given.

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Aguero hammers it straight down the middle really, Schmeichel saves! :haha:

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Schmeichel denies Aguero.

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Rob Hawthorne shouts out 'Vardy' and wakes up my cat.

Still 0-0.

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Aguero hauled off, Gabriel Jesus on.

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Jesus scuffer, Schmeichel saves again.

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Leicester 0-1 Citeh, Gabriel jesus!

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Get the magnifying glass out VAR.

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Goal stands.

Rodgers. :lol:

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Praet off, James on.

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Bernardo Silva, wide.

[Master Splinter]

Anyone here watch The Outsider?

Ederson has been infected just by watching it.

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Fuchs off, Perez on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Leicester 0-1 Citeh, FT.

Rodgers. :haha:

What a collapse.

[Master Splinter]

Brentan :haha:.

Leicester are probably title certs according to Ratface The Younger.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Wolves: Rui Patricio, Boly, Coady, Saiss, Doherty, Dendoncker, Neves, Joao Moutinho, Jonny, Jimenez, Jota.
Subs: Pedro Neto, Daniel Podence, Gibbs-White, Ruddy, Ruben Vinagre, Traore, Kilman.

Norwich :Krul, Aarons, Godfrey, Hanley, Lewis, Tettey, McLean, Rupp, Duda, Cantwell, Pukki.
Subs: Vrancic, Emi, Stiepermann, Trybull, Drmic, Fahrmann, Idah.


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Man Utd: De Gea, Lindelof, Maguire, Martial, Fred, Fernandes, James, Shaw, Greenwood, Wan-Bissaka, Matic.
Subs: Romero, Bailly, Mata, Ighalo, McTominay, Chong, Williams.


Watford: Foster, Dawson, Deulofeu, Deeney, Masina, Cathcart, Doucoure, Hughes, Kabasele, Capoue Pereyra.
Subs: Gomes, Mariappa, Cleverley, Welbeck, Chalobah, Gray, Sarr.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Wolves 1-0 Norwich, Diego Jota.

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Wolves 2-0 Norwich, Diego Jota with his second.

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Man Utd 1-0 Watford, Bruno Fernandes pelanty.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fernandes shoots wide.

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Wolves 3-0 Norwich, Jimenez.

Norwich. :doh:

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Man Utd 1-1 Watford, Deeney!

:haha:

Although VAR will be checking for handball.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Goal disallowed. 1-0 to Man Utd it remains.

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Man Utd 2-0 Watford, Martial.

[Globalgunner]

Goal disallowed. 1-0 to Man Utd it remains.

Utterly predictable. Watford are pummelling the muppets at home and they are ahead by a dive and pen.

Martial makes it 2-0.....Ok Lets keep Ole at the wheel for at least another season

[Niall_Quinn]

I think VAR's about to hit a new low in the Burnley game.

[Niall_Quinn]

It was 1-1 for a minute or so, now it's 2-0 to Burnley. Absolutely insane. BMouth got a good goal but it was hauled back for a pen at the other end.

[Niall_Quinn]

Oh, this match happened yesterday :doh:

Stupid Sky Player has LIVE on the screen.

Spoiled the anticipation a bit. Might not watch it any more.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Man Utd 3-0 Watford, Greenwood.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Deulofeu hits the bar.

[Niall_Quinn]

Man Utd 3-0 Watford, Greenwood.

Dull. At least none of the results are going our way so there's no chance of capitalising and gaining some ground. Which means we might not lose by default.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sheffield United didn't win.

Still odd typing that in the context of it being a good result for us.

Sky's programme is on now.

They acknowledge this is a big game for West Ham straight up. :faint:

Neville and Carragher are in the studio.

Fewer, SkyBot.

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Liverpool: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Robertson, Van Dijk, Gomez, Fabinho, Keita, Wijnaldum, Mane, Salah, Firmino.
Subs: Adrian, Lovren, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Minamino, Lallana, Origi, Matip.

West Ham: Fabianski, Cresswell, Ngakia, Diop, Ogbonna, Noble, Rice, Soucek, Snodgrass, Anderson, Antonio.
Subs: Randolph, Balbuena, Zabaleta, Lanzini, Bowen, Fornals, Haller.

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Antonio has the odd game where he goes mental at Anfield.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Good news, Carragher and Neville will give their verdict on Auba.

Finally we can determine if he is any good or not.

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Wow tbf, Neville was jizzing over him.

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Black balloons en masse in the 'Ammers end.

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Robertson hits it, over.

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WTF Fabianski?

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Liverpool 1-0 West Ham, Wijnaldum.

Fabianski chucks it in.

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Liverpool 1-1 West Ham, Diop!!!

Alisson chucks it in. :lol:

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Pub control from Salah.

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Gomez extremely fortunate, nearly played Antonio in.

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Mane completely shat on Snodgrass. :lol:

Diop blocks the shot.

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AA freekick, goes past everyone somehow.

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AA freekick deflects behind.

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Van Dijk header on to the bar!

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Fabianski goes flapping.

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1-1 HT.

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Firmino. :haha:

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Soucek off injured, Fornals on.

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Robertson cross, crap.

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Rice booked for kicking the ball away.

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Liverpool 1-2 West Ham, Fornals!!!!

[Letters]

Liverpool 1-2 West Ham, Fornals!!!!

:blink:

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Keita off, Ox on.

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Agent Ox hammers it, wide.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

:blink:

We've been a bit shit.

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Salah can't direct the header.

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Fabianski saves.

Tyler is getting confused.

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Pagan Min clears it.

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Anderson off, Haller on.

Moysie going on the offensive. :bow:

[Marc Overmars]

Come on West Ham!!!

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Time for Mane to roll about.

Learning it from Atleti.

Diop booked.

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Liverpool 2-2 West Ham, Salah.

Fabianski chucks it in.

FFS.

[GP]

:rolleyes:

[Marc Overmars]

FFS.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fabianski saves from Salah somehow.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

FLabi GTFO.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Van Dijk went for goal on the Hammers behalf according to Tyler.

Haller for the rest of us.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

What a ridiculous dive from Salah.

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Firmino missed from a yard out. :lol:

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Noble. What a tit.

Booked.

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Liverpool 3-2 West Ham, Mane.

All set up from a deflected pub by Gomez. Piss off.

[Letters]

:yawn:

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Snodgrass off, Bowen on.

[Marc Overmars]

:shrug:

Ridiculous team.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

4-2 Mane again.

Fabianski deserves sacking.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ah goal disallowed.

3-2 it stays.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bowen you berk!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

3-2 FT. Reign of terror goes on.

Fabianski clearly still hates us. Tit.

[Letters]

With 11 games to go Liverpool now have more points than we won the league with in 1998.

[dazthegooner]

Is this Liverpool side really this good or are the rest of us (Man City aside) just very poor?

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

A little from A, a little from B.

This is obviously a freakish season, only dropping 2 points so far, but we got 97 points last season and to two Champions League finals on the bounce, so we're clearly half decent by any standard.

[Letters]

Agree, it is a bit of both. City are a bit of a mess, Utd, Chelsea, Spurs and us are all pretty patchy. There's no-one to challenge Liverpool, but they are a very good side too.

[Marc Overmars]

The traditional top sides haven’t been great but then that is always levelled at teams who run away with the title. I suppose how great Liverpool are depends on what they do in the coming years but they’re already CL winners and dominating a league like no one ever has in the history of football.

I’m not sure you can sensibly level anything at them that isn’t reaching or being churlish for the sake of it. Sometimes you just have say fair fucks because it is beyond unprecedented.

I’ve accepted 49 is probably going to go. Just lose a fucking game though, Christ. :pray:

[Marc Overmars]

With 11 games to go Liverpool now have more points than we won the league with in 1998.

Same amount of wins as the Invincible's now. :lol:

:(

[Özim]

The traditional top sides haven’t been great but then that is always levelled at teams who run away with the title. I suppose how great Liverpool are depends on what they do in the coming years but they’re already CL winners and dominating a league like no one ever has in the history of football.

I’m not sure you can sensibly level anything at them that isn’t reaching or being churlish for the sake of it. Sometimes you just have say fair fucks because it is beyond unprecedented.

I’ve accepted 49 is probably going to go. Just lose a fucking game though, Christ. :pray:

Liverpool are an amazing size, two CL finals in the last 2 seasons and they won 1, a league title now after coming 2nd with 97 points last season, they're already one of the best sides ever, their record this season is phenomenal, they've only dropped 2 points!

They are already better than the invincibles as they have won the CL.

[Niall_Quinn]

In terms of statistics it looks like they're going to end up top of the heap, possibly with a couple of unassailable records in there too. And deserved because they are the closest I've seen in a long while to a proper football team that plays the game how it's supposed to be played. Or, the opposite of Barcelona and City, if you prefer.

But in overall footballing terms they're not close to Wenger's best teams. Or Ferguson's. Or Paisley's, IMO. Liverpool might seem invincible today, but you had to suffer Liverpool of the 80s to know genuine despair before a match kicked off. The record books say they lost a few, but I can never remember that actually happening. At least it seemed that way. Apart from that one day where it was up for grabs now, but they were on the downslope by then.

What's current gets glamorised. Teams from a couple of decades back, playing this Liverpool team by the rules that applied then, would destroy them (and every other modern day team). Can you see pimped up, handbag toting, lady boys like Sterling or Neymar last 5 minutes in a real football match? Anyone remember Alan Shearer? He wouldn't get a single goal under these rules because you aren't allowed to knock the defender stone cold on every challenge.

Football has changed, almost exclusively for the worse. Comparing a modern team to those of the past is like comparing that fat turd who won the other night to the real heavyweights of yesterday.

[Marc Overmars]

Yeah I don’t really like comparing teams from different generations. The game has moved on and evolved so much that you’re comparing apples and oranges.

However this Liverpool team have to be considered great by today’s standards that is for sure.