Saturday, March 25, 2006

Roasted Toffee, anyone?



The old adage is as true today as it's ever been.

League: Decent effort by the Blues some may say, but only half as good as Liverpool.
18 - 1901, 1906, 1922, 1923, 1947, 1964, 1966, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990
9 - 1891, 1915, 1928, 1932, 1939, 1963, 1970, 1985, 1987

FA Cup: Close, but no cigar
6 - 1965, 1974, 1986, 1989, 1992, 2001
5 - 1906, 1933, 1966, 1984, 1995


League Cup: Where are ya, Blues?
7 - 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1995, 2001, 2003
0 (zero)

European Cup: This is where it gets really poor. It's all very well having less league titles. Only one team can be the best, after all. And 9 is a good effort from any city's second string. But no wins at all in the Big Cup is shockin'.
5 - 1977, 1978, 1981, 1984, 2005
0 (zero)
Yes that's right. Not many people outside the city realise that Liverpool have won it FIVE TIMES !!!

UEFA Cup, Cup Winners Cup: Beginning to see the pattern?
3 - 1973, 1976, 2001
1 - 1985

In addition,
3 European Super Cups, 14 Charity shields
9 Charity Shields

Head to Head: Oh, but the derby is a great equaliser! Oh, but form counts for nothing in the Derby! Oh, but Everton are always fired up and do well! Really? Is that what you think? How do you explain this then?
League: 64 wins; Prem: 10 wins
League: 55 wins; Prem: Everton 7 wins


Can Liverpool finish 2nd?

Predictions for Liverpool:

Liverpool v Everton, 2-0
West Brom v Liverpool, 0-2
Liverpool v Bolton,
1-0
Blackburn v Liverpool,
0-1
Liverpool v Aston Villa, 2-0
Portsmouth v Liverpool, 0-2
West Ham v Liverpool, 0-2

Predictions for Man Utd:

Man Utd v Birmingham, 3-0
Man Utd v West Ham, 1-0
Bolton v Man Utd, 1-1
Man Utd v Arsenal, 1-2
Man Utd v Sunderland, 3-0
Tottenham v Man Utd, 1-1
Man Utd v Middlesbrough, 3-0
Chelsea v Man Utd, 12:30 2-1
Man Utd v Charlton, 15:00 1-0

That would mean 21 points for Liverpool from their last 7 games and 15 points for Man utd from their last 9.

Final tally, Liverpool 82 points and Man Utd 78

Its gonna be very close methinks specially with the Man UTD Chelsea game right at the end. We've got relatively easier fixtures than Man Utd. we'll need a bit of luck, obviously, but i do think Man utd against the arse and Chelsea will be 2 games that we need to go our way. Spurs too can cause them problems.
if you look at them games, on paper, and do your predictions individually for every game, we should ease it to 2nd.
However, football doesn't work that way.
I can still see it being really close, come may.

7 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

blue shit cant even beat 10 men liverpool.great game.fast pace.gerrard looked like he wanted to get himself sent off...any1 else thougth so?

19:02  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

yeah i think so too.kinda sad he would do this to get his rest.he is the capt after all...alonso always steps up a gear in desperate times.

19:15  
Blogger Dirty Dan said...

actually.. .i dont know... its quite uncharacterstic of gerrard to do something like that just to get sent off. ITs a derby game and being a scouser this actually means much more to him than it would to lets say our spanish amigos. If he needed rest i'm sure he has a good enough relationship with Rafa to be able to tell him that he'd rather start on the bench or that he would miss out the next game.

loved when the crowd were singing we've only got ten men

great performance, i'm extremely satisfied. thats now 18 goals in the last 4!

will - thanks for that link mate, i'll include it in my next update.

19:19  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

u got a point there dan but i dunno...but we won which is the most important thing.lucky its brom away next.wont be easy but better than having chelsea next.

19:24  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It was a great game,very dominate 2nd half performance.Only criticism would be Cahills goal,as great as liverpool's defense is,set pieces are killing us.

"gerrard looked like he wanted to get himself sent off...any1 else thougth so?"

Hell No!! plain and simple,hard to believe Stevie would do that.Why was he wearing 08?,instead of the usual 8.Yo Dan I tried lookin in the archives for that pic of David Moyes and Smeigal(LOTR) transformation.I could'nt find it,could you point me in the right direction.

Mahalo:)
Elia

19:37  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

liverpool is the cultural city of 2008 or something like that so gerrard n bettie were both wearing 08.the jersey will be auctioned off for promo.

it was just plain dumb the way gerrard was sent off.i am a big fan of gerrard but it just seems like that to me after wacthing the replays so many times.

19:48  
Blogger Tim Robinson said...

I think Gerrard sliding in on Kilbane was just a simple matter of Stevie wanting to make up for his stupid actions in getting the first yellow.
Sliding tackles can sometimes be mis-timed, but they are needed (especially in derby's).
But to kick the ball away like a spoilt child is the yellow we should be talking about. Totally avoidable.

Agree with Dan though, our run home is very comfy compared with Man USA's ...

15:18  

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