Here are the all-important permutations ahead of the next round of matches:

Liverpool beat Debrecen and Fiorentina beat Lyon: Liverpool are out.

Liverpool beat Debrecen and Fiorentina draw with Lyon: Liverpool need to beat Fiorentina by three goals in their final game to go through.

Liverpool beat Debrecen and Fiorentina lose to Lyon: Any Liverpool victory over Fiorentina in their last game will take them through.

 

looks like i am sending my best wishes to lyon in 3 weeks time then

 

Yeah i know and to see it there in black and white is really scary. we are counting on other teams losing; its out of our hands, which makes me nervous.

 

on the other hand when it all comes out good in the end its all rather exciting sometimes the way we take it to the wire and pull through.

remember olympiakos in 2004/5! that was brilliant in the end. when Stevie G struck that pure mint shot and bust the net i nearly jumped out the window!

 

Haha yeah i do remember we always take it right to the edge. We seem to do much better when we have to fight for it. Look at last season a couple more games and that title would have been ours. United scum only just got it on some very dodgy late goals.

 

at the time i was furious about the refereeing in the manure spurs game and in retrospect the cheating that went on that day was the reason they won the league. they cant win fairly. there is so much money changing hands that we dont know about and they cant afford not to win it is what we are up against as well as playing the best football in the marathon that is the premiership league title.

spurs had them 2-0 at half time and would have gone on to win except the referee started making sure that every challenge was a manure free kick regardless of there being a foul or it being committed by manure. then there was the penalty and all the rest of it. 2-0 up and didnt stand a chance spurs were. possibly if they hadnt scored the 2nd before half time the referee wouldnt have bludgeoned fairplay to death so brutally in the second half thinking manure could nick something on their own at only 1-0 down.

no matter what anyone says they are cheats and so are the bribed and greedy referees. no honour anywhere to be found.

 

Completely agree.
Its like with added time, always seems to go over what is meant to be til they get their last minute goal....
Didnt work out when they played us, cos ngog took that opportunity and what a goal.

well fun speaking with a fellow red but bedtime here now
Thanks again for cheering me up
night night ^_^

 

yeah banter amongst true Reds is always good. thanks for the support here aswell. nite nite
YNWA

 

It's different living abroad!

For the first few years living in Amsterdam I retained the City vs Utd thing. Then my cousin moved over here and ended up marrying my girls best friend. My cousin is a red so we would find ourselves in bars watching City or Utd playing Liverpool or Everton so the old rivalries sort of died away especially once when he got into fisticuffs with some scousers, after all blood is thicker than water. I have watched football at City, Utd, Blackburn (my dads team), Burnley and Rochdale in the Northwest.
Other places I have lived are Brighton, Portsmouth, Cardiff, Lyon and Amsterdam and I have watched football in all those places. To be perfectly honest the football I enjoy watching the most is my son's team, he is nine and the only one in the team that can throw a slide (chip of the old block).

When he asked "Dad, who play the best football?" I thought I was giving as close to an objective answer that I could. At their best I still think Arsenal try to play the beautiful game. Although I did enjoy us doing them 4-2 earlier in the season.

The next step will be his first big game which will be Ajax although while I admire Dutch "keep ball" it is not as exciting to watch as English football. My first game was Burnely vs Chelsea I was 10 years old (1971) you can imagine what a babtism that was.

Take care

Thinskin

 

Everton vs Benfica

... in just a few moments !

 

... let´s see how my team does in england.

 

is that not still an hour away from this exact point in time?

 

??? Football thread, m8-eh. What are you referring to?

 

Hmmmm, strangely the league table NEVER really backs that assertion, does it?

 

A passing trend thats been dominating the EPL since its inception.
You should be singing:

Dream, dream dream dream, dream, dream dream dream
When I want you in my arms, when I want you and all your charms
Whenever I want you, all I have to do, is
Dream, dream dream dream

 

but all this does though JJD

 

And so it should.....You're outta there!!

 

i take it you dont think the top tier old 1st division was a proper league. please bear in mind that in the 1st division it took a lot to get a free kick on the edge of the box every 5 minutes as the defence would actually have to be pulling some serious challenges, and yes this did used to happen. but we are obviously the most decorated club and the hardest also. ok thats rather general but if you compare Liverpool and manure (compare, thats a joke!) then obviously you win the pansy league and we are crap at it!!!

i miss the good old days, even souness made the likes of keane look like a choir boy. hard man, yeah right you wouldnt know a real mans sport if it smacked you full on the chops. probably would notice if it tickled your chin with a feather though you funky man u supporter media glory hunters you

 

yeh yeh olympiakos thought that too and manure dont really have the capacity to think so there is nothing really there. how does it feel to win by cheating and knowing you cant do it on your own and its a struggle as it is without little ronaldo. strange that after all the slagging that liverpool get for apparently being a 2 man team that the 2 hardly featured in the win against manure and manure are such a pale version of last year the difference being one free kick stepover player????????

 

you are looking in to my world now Ng better hope you dont end up joining us