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I remember seeing on here a few years ago that someone praised the use of a particular song before a match that was by a musician from St Marys. I think might have died quite young, but I might be making that bit up. I remember that although it was a well known (dance?) track, it found a wider audience when sampled/rereleased in the 90s or 00s by someone like Chemical Brothers or Fat Boy Slim or Oxide & Nutrino. Anyone have any idea what it was? I've tried looking back through threads but no idea what to really search for.

I thought academy players had to come from within something like an hour's radius of the club, hence why we have the Bath academy as being on the coast limited this for us (although we do have 140,000 people in the IoW to the South).

He looks very awkward in those clips, reminds me of Jhon Viafara.

Cáceres still starting for Uruguay, thought he was considered past it when he joined us.

Think it's still possible to sell the club up to prospective players, we've had 1 poor season out of the last 4. Us having a slightly worse squad means that we give him a key, central role in the team rather than being a squad player. Led to believe that we've got a top training ground. Done well in cup competitions the past couple of years and have recently had Europa League football. Think we have much better infrastructure and heritage than Bournemouth and Huddersfield, so should in theory be a much better proposition. Looks like this one has gone down to him wanting to be near family in the end.

But we both start next season in the same position, with no points. Weren't we above Leicester when Puel joined them? For mid-table clubs like Saints and Leicester there's very little between relegation battle and Europa League, i.e. West Ham, and Everton who consistently think they should be top 8 but are actually bottom half clubs. I don't think there's much to choose between Saints and Leicester, they're similar sized cities with almost identical stadiums. It's up to Reed etc to sell the club to prospective players, i.e. training ground, ambition, heritage, 1st team opportunities, quality of squad, etc... Leicester's only bonus is that they can say 3 years ago they won the league which they've never looked close to repeating. We could argue that we've got the better training facilities. We could both argue that we'd get the best of the player and develop him further.

Shaqiri has spent much of his career warming the benches of top clubs, presumably he went to Stoke to get first team chances, which he's not going to get at Liverpool with the amount of options they have now in midfield.

Yes, players are role models, even though they might not appreciate that aspect of their position. They are in the public eye and as such thousands of young people idolise them and want to be in their position. But the same goes for other famous people, whether they're politicians or musicians. Their behaviour is absorbed by some of those who see it and deem it acceptable. The tattoo looks awful and its difficult to see quite how it being there honours his father, but then he's said it's not finished so judgement ought to be reserved for when it is. Think 90% of tattoos in general look pretty terrible, and seems strange for the media to be picking up on this particular one, there must be dozens of other poor taste tattoos on football players. Just a good for nothing tabloid getting attention for being controversial.

*Just realised those land about the same time as KO.

Seen plenty of articles such as this one suggesting it's a real nightmare for Liverpool fans to get out there, not enough planes, having to pay £1,000 for a flight etc. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-44241955 Had a quick look at skyscanner to see what all the fuss is about, and there's loads of return flights from Manchester to Kiev (with a layover), but still only 6hrs each way for £500. Obviously not all fans will be able to get a direct flight from Liverpool to Kiev, not really sure why such a drama's being made of it.

That wasn't an application to be a manager, it was (an albeit an inaccurate) observation on a football forum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum Just saying with the benefit of hindsight, he's had a decent season, we've struggled for goals and have a series of out of form strikers, would have made signing Carillo unnecessary. Obviously hindsight isn't something a manager has.

*edit - actually Austin's scored 7, although the combined total remains the same.

J Rod's winner against Man Utd yesterday was his 11th league goal of the season. In comparison, Austin, our top scorer has scored 8, all our strikers combined (Austin, Gabi, Long, Carillo) have scored... 13. In hindsight I think he could have been useful this season, was sad to see him go and at the time assumed that it was because we had someone better lined up to come. Maybe he needed the change of scenery, or maybe he just needed an injury free season and a run of games.

Thought Wilshere's foul was worse than Stephen's reaction, Stephen's had him clinging to his shirt for about 20 meters and left it in tatters. There's a shirt tug, and then there's that...

And for when he's 5 yards from goal to be able to hit the back of the net. He's been guilty of some horrendous misses early in the season that are costing us now.

Would swap out Wright and Euell for Arias and Tejera/Forren. Wight and Euell at least made some positive contributions.

A lot of quite hysterical posts in response to the result. We got a good result against WBA which left us unbeaten in 5 or so games and were never expecting to get anything against Liverpool because, well this season we're ****. We put in an excellent performance in the first half but managed to get to half time 2-0, and had a woeful second half but didn't concede any more. It's the next few games around the teams around us that matter, if the rest of the season gone is anything to go by we'll draw most of them. If the WBA game is anything to measure by then we might get 2 or 3 wins and move into mid table. We're 2 wins away from Bournemouth in 10th. In the next half a dozen games Carillo could start banging them in and Austin comes back from injury to add some goals. Lemina, Romeo and Hojberg do some extra jogging in training to build up their fitness so that they put in a performance in both the 1st and 2nd half. In order to rest players for their own relegation struggle WBA put out a weakened side in the FA Cup, we beat them and go in the QFs. Maybe.

This for me as well. We've dominated the match but Liverpool have had the better quality in the final third. Liverpool have such a great collection of attacking options compared to us, for Firminio, Salah, and Mane - we've got Carillo, Hojberg and Tadic.

Graeme Souness

Did a good job pulling Boufal away from taking the free kick (that JWP scored) and speaking to him to calm him down, defused the situation well and good to see we've got some players with leadership qualities.

Think if they were going to sack the manager it would have been done by now, certainly needed to be before or at the start of the transfer window. It's been a frustrating window but can't see him getting sacked now so not sure there's much point in staging empty stadium protests - will only be counter productive. If the manager's struggling to motivate the players then perhaps the crowds might. We're only a win or two away from mid table. We're only a handball or soft penalty away from winning games at the moment.

Today's story of Spartak Moscow not agreeing to sell due to not being able to find a replacement in time sounds like BS. As I understand it: - If as reported we've met his release clause - then they'd have little say in the matter, and would be obliged to sell and it's up to the player to agree terms. - I think a previous poster has already said that the Russian transfer window is open until 22nd February, so they'd have 3 weeks to find a replacement. If the deal's off, then several of the reported 'facts' are contradictory.

Like Austin & Gabbiadini? Think we could use some pace and someone who can create opportunities as well as score them.

Don't see why we wouldn't put a relegation clause in there, at the rate transfer prices are going up he'd be worth just as much in 6 months after being relegated. Either Saints were only interested in a loan, or Walcott fancied living in Liverpool rather than potentially spending 5 months here first (and then potentially moving there after relegation - if the interest were maintained). Or we've had a bid accepted that's not been reported and he's chosen Everton because of a better salary.

Do you have a similar list of Christian attacks to compare it, otherwise it's a pretty pointless exercise. Not sure how that website can claim to be non-partisan. They've clearly decided what their agenda is, as it 'examines the ideological threat that Islam poses to human dignity and freedom' and trying their best to portray this with statistics taken out of context.