RAWK Goes Into Meltdown (2011/2012)

Mockney said:
That would be the '99 when the best team in Europe that season won it, along with their domestic league & premier cup, despite having their two best midfielders suspended for the final, after finishing top of a group with Bayern & Barcelona in it?

Rather than, say, I dunno, 2005. Where the team who finished 5th in their league won it, after getting to the final on a phantom goal that didn't cross the line, after scraping out of their group 2nd to Monaco, on goal difference above Olympiakos. Then making the most of an admirably good 20 minute spell to win it on pens?

The first ones the fluke, yeah?

Defo. Boss.
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That's my favourite. The ol' fluke of 99. Davids, Zidane, Inzaghi, Rivaldo - all such shite overrated dross!
 
Mockney said:
It's not so much that they reinvent history (although they do, yes) it's more that history doesn't really exist unless LFC do it, or have done it, or definitely will do it, which they inevitably will, next year.
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I am in favour of Chelsea taking the Champions League Trophy to Anfield next season to that effect.

I am also in favour of taking it to Tottenham so the Champions League can in fact come to White Hart Lane this coming season.
 
That'sHernandez said:
So what he's saying is, Rafa is going to come back and then get sacked again, which will make them lunatics completely turn on their owners once again? Because I've seen Gladiator and Maximus Decimus Meridius dies at the end, as well as Commodus.
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:lol:
 
Jesus fecking Christ! Did John Henry and Tom Werner sack every feckers sense of humour as well this week? I'm pretty sure Alan was making a joke about 4th place not being any good this season anyway, not much more. Light hearted. Remember in the time before this week when the expression in our eyes glimmered, the corners of our mouth upturned slightly, our noses wrinkled and we made hat "hur hur hur" noise from the back of our throats? But instead, all we get is people jumping on the this is serious business internet stuff, and the same old shite that you've all already posted about 150 times this week.

On one side we've got -

"Ramble, fecking ramble Champions League. Ramble, fecking ramble top players. Ramble, fecking ramble not even close to 4th spot. Ramble, fecking ramble wage structure and IBETDA or whatever the feck it is. Ramble, fecking ramble Kenny deserved to go. Ramble, fecking ramble FSG have got a plan in place for a fantastic future structure. Ramble, fecking ramble money is god. Ramble, fecking ramble in 5 years we'll win the league with the nex manager."


On the other side we've got -

"Ramble, fecking ramble Carling Cup. Ramble, fecking ramble top players are all mercenary twats. Ramble, fecking ramble nex year we'd have got 4th spot. Ramble, fecking ramble we shouldn't be bean counters. Ramble, fecking ramble Kenny deserved more time. Ramble, fecking ramble FSG haven't got a fecking clue. Ramble, fecking ramble Robbiey is god, not money. Ramble, fecking ramble in 5 years we'll more managers at this rate."


Seriously, how many times can you say the same old shite without getting sick of your own voices. There's posters on here whose fingers must be half an inch shorter after this week. And guess what, no matter how many times you type, the person who has typed the polar opposite IS NOT GOING TO feckING AGREE WITH YOU. Typing it once makes it an opinion. Typing it 150 times doesn't make it any more than opinion. It just echoes the same opinion like a fart in a cathedral. Here's an idea for you. Next time you go to post the same fecking view you've made a million times, step away from your keyboard and talk to a friend or loved one instead. I'm sure it will make you just a little bit happier. Or even next time you see a thread or new topic, just think to yourself "is this the same sort of topic I've seen before and posted my views in? Is it really such a good idea to post the same thing that you've posted in every other thread in it, even if means you're actually trying to alter the intentions of the original thread just to shoehorn the same shite into it? If the answer is no, switch the telly on, listen to some music, go for a walk, read a book, have a quick knockabou with he kids in the garden, kiss your missus or just have a wank. In fact do anything other than post the same old shite time after time after time after fecking time. Please.

Regardless of whatever else they can be accused of rightly or wrongly, it seems that FSG's decisions are sucking the souls and character out of you this week. The old saying has changed "if you don't laugh, you'd have to cry." Apparently not any more. This week it's changed to "If you don't laugh, you'd have to jump on the internet and type furiously, even if it is the same thing over and over again. For the love of God, stop being so fecking serious all the time..
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This guy speaks some sense
 
That would be the '99 when the best team in Europe that season won it, along with their domestic league & premier cup, despite having their two best midfielders suspended for the final, after finishing top of a group with Bayern & Barcelona in it?

Rather than, say, I dunno, 2005. Where the team who finished 5th in their league won it, after getting to the final on a phantom goal that didn't cross the line, after scraping out of their group 2nd to Monaco, on goal difference above Olympiakos. Then making the most of an admirably good 20 minute spell to win it on pens?

The first ones the fluke, yeah?

Defo. Boss.
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Don't forget, that team in 1999 went unbeaten through the competition. Away games at Bayern, Barcelona, Inter & Juventus thrown in there. Quite possibly the hardest route to a Champions League final ever? Lucky bastards eh?
 
Talking Vulture said:
Don't forget, that team in 1999 went unbeaten through the competition. Away games at Bayern, Barcelona, Inter & Juventus thrown in there. Quite possibly the hardest route to a Champions League final ever? Lucky bastards eh?
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We should've won at Bayern if not for Big Pete fecking it up in the last minute. Barca away, we were fantastic, but we ran into a really inspired Rivaldo.
 
Gentelmen. I have found the King of Delusions. He has usurped Andy.

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@sollyfeni: Next season, i believe Jordan Henderson will outclass Eden Hazard, AVB will play Hendo in his fav position where he's very good at CAM. 1/2

From twitter. Weird. Brilliant.
 
Not to mention on a plethora of random Spanish players going through the revolving door.
 
Pexbo said:
I'm pretty sure criminologists would use the term "sexual release" in giving the reason why they do it.
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I don't really think you have to be a criminologist to detect the sexual overtones. It's not like they're blushing violets about it either -- cf. the very enthusiastic Scouser quoted by Plan M --
Oh my god I have just cum. World domination
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I just love & love the fan fiction! :lol:
[Rafa--] Thrown out of the club and left in the wilderness where he has become a wild beast.
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One of the best RAWK quotes of all time.
 
Waltraute said:
I don't really think you have to be a criminologist to detect the sexual overtones. It's not like they're blushing violets about it either -- cf. the very enthusiastic Scouser quoted by Plan M --


I just love & love the fan fiction! :lol:

One of the best RAWK quotes of all time.
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He was really a beast there. Finishing 7th in the league is great, just imagine what could he have done if he wasn't thrown out of club.
 
Mockney said:
That would be the '99 when the best team in Europe that season won it, along with their domestic league & premier cup, despite having their two best midfielders suspended for the final, after finishing top of a group with Bayern & Barcelona in it?

Rather than, say, I dunno, 2005. Where the team who finished 5th in their league won it, after getting to the final on a phantom goal that didn't cross the line, after scraping out of their group 2nd to Monaco, on goal difference above Olympiakos. Then making the most of an admirably good 20 minute spell to win it on pens?

The first ones the fluke, yeah?

Defo. Boss.
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It's a small point, but we actually finished second in the group.
 
Pexbo said:
@sollyfeni: Next season, i believe Jordan Henderson will outclass Eden Hazard, AVB will play Hendo in his fav position where he's very good at CAM. 1/2

From twitter. Weird. Brilliant.
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EricaNo7 said:
A wildebeest perhaps ;)
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But wildebeests are rather scrawny, and dusty and pathetic...
We're talking Rafa here. The Predator. The Beast.

Cat- and kebab- and chip shop owners in the Wirral know they need to batten down the hatches. He takes the figurines out, he'll 'put them on the table', and then he's on the prrrrowwwlllll...
 
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/column...nners-that-draw,-hitting-the-woodwork?cc=5901

I would like to know exactly how many times Liverpool have hit the woodwork, and how many points they would have assuming all the shots go in instead in the league? Are you aware of any other team that have hit the woodwork more than Liverpool in history? Alvin Ding from Malaysia asked

Liverpool hit the woodwork 33 times in the Premier League, and 46 times in all competitions, this season. As far as I am aware - and the usual caveat, there are not all-time records in this field - that is the most. Had those efforts gone in, they would have brought Liverpool another 18 points and put them fourth - although, of course, that is assuming that opponents' shots that hit the Liverpool woodwork stayed out, not to mention the shots that hit post and bar which may have earned extra points for rivals like Arsenal, Tottenham, Newcastle, Chelsea and Everton.
 
I'd like to know how many times Keeper's made world class saves against us.
If they had have been sick that day and not played we would have won the league...

"A@A in the Drogba thread.." said:
http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=292347.msg10378660#msg10378660


Diving. Cheating. Whining. Sulking. Crying. Playacting knobhead.

Couldn't stand him when he was playing. Can't stand him now.

Detest cheats. And he's the worst**


** Except Ronaldo obviously. And Young obviously. And Rooney obviously. And Nistelrooy obviously.
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:lol:.. Suarez?
 
ghaliboy said:
I'd like to know how many times Keeper's made world class saves against us.
If they had have been sick that day and not played we would have won the league...



:lol:.. Suarez?
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It's ok when one of their own do it though, don'tchyaknow?

Besides, Suarez has been fouled every single time. And even when he hasn't been fouled (which is never) he's just trying to make up for all the other 'stonewallers' the League's bent refs won't give them.
 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ows-cash-king--Neil-Ashton.html#ixzz1vfC8SdkB

By the time Liverpool claimed £100,000 in prize money for lifting the Carling Cup in February, Chelsea had already earned a staggering £42m from the Champions League.
Cash, not domestic cups, is king.
For Kenny Dalglish the Carling Cup victory over Cardiff was the start of something special, a throwback to a time when Liverpool had English football licked.
His euphoria was understandable, evoking memories of the club’s first League Cup triumph in 1981 and convinced that Liverpool were on their way back.


In the Boston offices of Fenway Sports Group, the prize money barely registered. It does not even cover a week of Steven Gerrard’s salary.
Top tier, European football is all that matters for the financial speculators and closer examination of the solidarity payments for Chelsea’s triumph last Saturday explains why.
The moment Roman Abramovich’s team finished second in the Barclays Premier League in 2010/11 to qualify automatically for the group stages, the cash till instantly rang to the tune of £3.1m.
They were then drawn to play six group matches, in games against Bayer Leverkusen, Valencia and Genk. For that, they were paid £445,000 per game from UEFA’s TV and marketing pool.
For the three group wins, all of them at Stamford Bridge, they were paid a bonus from the £600m set aside each season. Each win in the group is worth £640,000.
Draws at Valencia and Genk earned them another bonus. This time, £323,000 a point.
By the turn of the year, Chelsea’s gate receipts, participation fees and the share of marketing revenues from the market pool in the Champions League was already touching £42m.
After winning the group, there was the promise of more to come from a second round clash against Napoli.

No money in it: Liverpool's Carling Cup victory was not financially rewarding
They earned £2.42m for overcoming the Italians, another £2.66m for beating Benfica and £3.3m for their remarkable win over Barcelona in last month’s semi-final.
In the final, UEFA paid out another £7.28m after they beat Bayern Munich in the penalty shootout.
Add the gate receipts from the six home games Chelsea staged during their run to the final and it represents another £2.4m in income for each game.
As Fenway sift through a depressingly shallow list of candidates to replace Dalglish as manager, Chelsea will be preparing to bank a cheque in excess of £50m from the Champions League alone.
There was a time when domestic silverware meant something in English football, but the UEFA Champions League has changed the rules.

Outdated: Kenny Dalglish
It’s top four or nothing now for English clubs indulging in double-digit transfer fees and super-sized salaries for the star turns.
The domestic trophy count is largely irrelevant for the modern-day investors, a day out at Wembley and some corporate hospitality courtesy of the sponsors the only perk.
Back in 1981, when Dalglish was King, Liverpool won the League Cup for the first time.
They beat West Ham (1981), Tottenham (1982), Manchester United (1983) and Everton (1984) and Dalglish was in every Liverpool since.
Since then they have added the League Cup another four times, but they are becoming lost in the financial fog of Fenway Sports Group.
By the time Dalglish returned as Liverpool manager to replace Roy Hodgson in January 2011, the face of English football had changed forever.
Dalglish needed to be dragged kicking and screaming in to the modern world, but he was obsessed with the idea of winning their first trophy for seven years.
The last was the European Cup triumph under Rafa Benitez, a run to Istanbul that earned Liverpool £24.27m.
Their last appearance in the Champions League was in 2010, when they finished third in Group E behind Fiorentina and Lyon.
As they will discover next season, when a new television and marketing deal kicks in, missing out on Champions League football means another £24.27m black hole at the bare minimum.
There will be 60 broadcasters around the world next season, a record number for a competition that continues to expand.

In the money: Roman Abramovich (right) finally won the trophy he craved
Audience figures for last Saturday’s final in the Allianz Arena are now bigger than the annual Super Bowl, one of the statistics that persuaded Fenway Sports Group that football is the future.
Liverpool’s owners, like every other club playing at the high end of the Premier League, would sacrifice domestic Cup success for a place in the Champions League.
The money means that much to the clubs, even in an off season.
Chelsea, beaten by Manchester United in the quarter-final last season, still earned a staggering £35.861m from the competition.
United’s television and marketing payments topped out at £43.039m for reaching last season’s final against Barcelona at Wembley, let alone ticket sales from their six home matches.
Next season the solidarity payments are on the increase again, but Liverpool are already lagging behind.
The fans want classic ties against Juventus, Milan, Barcelona and Real Madrid, a reminder of the days when they were kings of Europe.
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reelworld said:
Yorke - Cole goal :drool:
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seems just like yesterday and yet it was 13 years ago! How times flies.

I miss that team. Keane, Beckham, Cole and Yorke were all just outstanding that year.

I miss the Beckham - Yorke express the most. How many headers from a Beckham cross did Yorke convert during his tenure with us?! They always seemed to pop up as regularly as your local train to work.
 
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