Liverpool Watch: Reading

Liverpool lost to Reading. Arsenal lost to Middlesborough. Shit happens.

Liverpool Watch: Bolton

Liverpool Watch: Newcastle

This sort of play should be the norm. Click here for previous LW posts.

Liverpool Watch: Fulham

Liverpool Watch: Blackburn

Can you see the passion in Crouchy's eyes? Look at him. He's a beast... failing miserably against Blackburns tight defense. Blackburn are title contenders- sorry, they were title contenders back in 1992-1995.

Here are the highlights from Saturday's match:



Here's proof that Liverpool have the ability to beat Blackburn using the scientific method of Fifa 2008 on my shiny PS3: Babel has time for some keepy up before an overhead flick and left foot smash.

Liverpool Watch: Somebody lost their pay slip

Full story on BBC News.

Liverpool Watch: Arsenal

Well, that was lucky. It could've been much worse. Then again, if Liverpool managed to keep their early lead, the Kop could currently be 3 points behind Arsenal.

Liverpool Watch: Everton

That was too close for comfort. Who knew Liverpool could come back from behind at that stage of the game? They may have been trying to outscore themselves but it was still a tight one.

It was another controversial game for Liverpool this season but at least we won this one. Unlike that shambolic Chelsea game... I still hate you Rob Styles. I know you read this blog. I hope you cry yourself to sleep.

Bonus Livepool video collection: 100 Players Who Shocked The Kop



It's the follow-up to the 100 Days That Shook The Kop feature I compiled a few weeks ago. A run-down of the list can be found on bill-shankly.blogspot.com.

Liverpool Watch: Tottenham FC

I honestly don't know what to say in regards to the Kop's recent form after a promising start. I'll leave it to Tottenham Hotspurs fan favourite Glenn Hoddle:

"75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction"

"With hindsight, it's easy to look at it with hindsight"

"Football's all about 90 minutes"

"Robert Lee was able to do some running on his groin for the first time"

"When a player gets to 30, so does his body"

"But he was a player that hasn't had to use his legs, even when he was 19, because his first two yards were in his head"

"International football is one clog further up the football ladder"

Liverpool Watch: Benayoun Versus Wigan

Well, what do you know- three full points. The match against Wigan could prove to be essential when Liverpool are fighting to beat Arsenal and newcomers Man Yoo to the top spot at the end of the season. I would bet, even money, on that.

Here are the highlights from the Reading versus Liverpool game in the Carling cup match from last Wednesday. That Freddy Torres, or whatever his name was, is alright I suppose but he's no Emile Heskey.

Liverpool Watch: Birmingham

Liverpool 0-0 Birmingham

To be fair, Birmingham are a world class team with such quality players as Rowan Vine and Stuart Parnaby. Hopefully, in their next match against Reading in the Carling Cup, Liverpool will make it four draws in a row. That'll show Chelsea who's boss.

Liverpool Watch: Portsmouth

Now, that's the Liverpool I remember! Win all the important matches and then barely manage a point against losers like Portsmouth. I mean, who are they? Nobodies, that's who. What have they ever achieved? Nothing. It happened in 2002 when they last topped the table and lost against Tottenham, who were low in morale and looking for a competent manager at that point. Anyways, here are the highlights from Saturday's match:



I'm in the process of purchasing a reissue of the 1989/1990 Adidas shirt as seen on the right. Adidas released this limited edition replica to celebrate their return to producing jerseys for the pool. You can buy the shirt here. I found a great top ten Kop jersey list on Being Sven.

100 days that shook the Kop

As long as I can remember, I've been a Liverpool fan. Maybe it's because my older brother forced me to, or that every Man-yoo supporter in my school class were arsewipes. Nobody in their right mind would be a Chelsea fan back then. I've always found that Liverpool are a team worth supporting.

On Liverpoolfc.tv, the offical site, fans were asked to name what they thought were the most important days in Liverpool history. The compilation had a weekly feature with downloads for each one. One of the Liverpool faithful recently uploaded almost every single one onto youtube. Some of them are download only.

1. The Hillsborough Disaster
2. Heysel Disaster
3. Shankly Resigns
4. The Glory That Was Rome
5. First F.A Cup Win
6. Treble Homecoming
7. Dalglish Resigns
8. Clinching the Double
9. Fairclough vs St. Etienne
10. The KOP's Last Stand
11. Shankly's Appointment
12. Inter Milan Sent Back To Italy
13. Thomas' Title Clinching Goal
14. UEFA Cup Final 2001 vs Alaves
15. European Final 1984
16. Liverpools First European Trophy
17. The Arrival of King Kenny
18. 2001 F.A Cup Final
19. Rushie's 4 vs Everton
20. Paisley's First Title
21. Stadium Move Announcement
22. Houllier Returns in Rome
23. Beating Spurs 7-0
24. 1974 European Cup Final
25. Retaining the European Cup
26. European Cup Final 1981
27. Classic 4-3 vs Newcastle United
28. Signing John Barnes
29. Macca's Derby Winner
30. Kenny's Title Clincher
31. Shankly's Last Title
32. Forest 5-0
33. Robbie Leaves the Reds
34. Battle of Britain '66
35. Auxerre 1991
36. 1976 - UEFA Cup Final
37. 1989 F.A Cup Final
38. Promotion After 8 Years
39. Howie Gayles Big Contribution
40. The Goal That Never Was
41. Chairman Mao Speech
42. Silencing the NouCamp
43. Humiliation at Worchester
44. Evans and Houllier Team Up
45. Record Breakers
46. Careless Hands
47. First Post War Champions
48. Heads the Reds Win
49. 3-goal Comeback vs Manchester United
50. Keegans Punch-up
51. First Wembley Cup Final
52. Record 11-0 Victory
53. Rocked by the Wombles
54. Robbie's Hattrick Record
55. 3-goal Derby Comeback
56. Worthington Cup Win
57. Rushie Returns
58. Sandy Brown's Own Goal
59. 1982 Championship
60. First All-Merseyside Cup Final
61. Heartache vs Inter Milan
62. 9-0 vs Crystal Palace
63. Advent of All Red
64. Houlliers AGM Speech
65. Signing Ron Yeats
66. League Cup 1982
67. Jack Balmer's Hat-tricks
68. Title Anguish at Highbury
69. Winning the Youth F.A Cup
70. Shankly's First Title
71. Signing Collymore
72. All Change at Watford
73. Fowler's Five at Fulham
74. Keegans Return in the Super Cup
75. Mandela and the Reds
76. Stubbins in the Snow
77. 1995 Coca Cola Cup Final
78. Owens Ballon D'Or
79. Roger Hunts Testimonial
80. Cream Suits at Wembley
81. Forest End Euro Reign
82. Last League Title
83. 1971 F.A Cup Final
84. Record 1-9 Defeat
85. Keegans Debut
86. First European Match
87. Relagation
88. Ajax vs Liverpool '66
89. Steve MacManaman's Bosman
90. King Kenny's 95 Title
91. Terry Mac's Derby Brawl
92. Owen's 100th Goal
93. The First European Final
94. Houllier Mosaic
95. 4-0 F.A Cup Win vs Everton
96. Qualifying for the Champions League 2000-2001
97. Hickson Crosses Stanley Park
98. First League Cup
99. Anfield Rap
100. Fowler Backs the Dockers

Here's most of it in playlist form:

Liverpool Watch: Derby

What a good time to be a Liverpool fan. Six fantastic goals (which should've been twelve) even with Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher on the bench. Top of the table for the first time since November 2002. I can't believe it's been that long.

Liverpool Watch: Sunderland

I found the extended highlights on DivShare because of the same problem as last week where Youtube clips are taken down by ninja-type lawyers. I'd only recommend playing the clip if you've got broadband.



I've also found a cool one-hour video called "Fowler's Hot 100" as seen here on Amazon. There are a lot of great goals there and they're during my favourite Liverpool era with the "Spice Boys" and all that starting up. McManaman says in the follwing video "I think he's jusy like um unbeliveably lucky in the box and every one of them have just bounced off his knee and gone in". I'm sure that's not totally true...



Tomorrow will be 13 years to the day since Fowler scored a hat-trick against Arsenal:

This deserves it's own weekly feature

I have reached a new level of hatred for Chelsea the cheaters. There was something incredibly fishy about the decisions made last Saturday by Rob Syles. The main issue is the penalty that never was. It was only given because of some pressuring from John Terry and the rest of the team. Second, a confusing decision to book John Terry from 15 yards away after he ran up to Essien appearing to give a second yellow card but then changing his mind. Throughout the game there were many occasions where Liverpool players were clearly fouled and almost Gerrard almost purposefully stamped upon by Mikel. I always thought that a match between two of the top teams in English football deserved at least a competent referee.

In an interview after the game, when asked about the decision and whether he saw Rob Styles being pressured to give a spot kick, Jose Mourinho said that his team wouldn't do that because the team were "naive and pure". Rafael Benitez heard this and said that if that was true then "I'm Little Red Riding Hood".

As a result of the poor refereeing decisions made, it was announced that Styles would be banned for one round of Premiership matches. He's since seen the video footage and now knows that he got it wrong and is deeply apologetic. It's also been revealed that Styles is on the board of the firm which paved the driveway of Chelsea's billionaire owner Roman Abramovich. So it's a conspiracy now? Interesting...

Anyways, I've embedded below the highlights of the entire match as hosted by Megavideos because of some silly legal issue on YouTube. If all you want to see are the goals then here is Torres' classy shot and Lampard's "penalty".


This kind of refereeing/ cheating really pisses me off so much so, that I need a fix of football comedy to cheer me up. That's why I like to turn to funny compilations such as this one on youtube. My favourite moment would be just before the 2 minute mark where a Ronaldihno wannabe has everyone highly confused, Ted.

This deserves it's own post

That shot could not be more perfect.