And Maxi a woeful finish.

Poor game overall.

So I decide to watch a Prem game for the first time in god knows how many months or years because there is nothing else on the box. After 55 minutes of this one I am going to have to resort to Location, Location, Location

Torres taken off, what a rubbish game

Liverpool 1 up. I'll take that.

I wouldn't if I were you, they could end up above your lot

Well our lot are as close to you as Liverpool are to our lot - even after today's result. And we have a game in hand on the bindippers too.

Chelsea were absolute garbage - not even as good as that, but in fairness Liverpool played very well indeed without having one single player that stood out. Dalglish has clearly instilled a team spirit and ethic which should be enough to just fail to qualify for Europe (which is not an insult, as this would have seemed laughable even a few weeks ago).

???

We arent likely to be caught by Liverpool though meaning we are unlikely to finish outside the top 4, as for you Stratford boys

I did post a while back that Liverpool will be challenging for a place in Europe come the season end and i got laughed at by some. Great result by Liverpool  !!! Maybe King Kenny who i doubted may be the answer

Great win by Liverpool, wonderful debut by Torres

Champions League's asking a bit too much (barring a miracle), but a Europa League place is possible this season.

Should Birmingham win the Carling Cup, 7th place will not be good enough for a European place though.

Yep, Liverpool and Sunderland fighting it out for sixth place. We'll finish fifth - a miracle really, given we don't have a recognised striker.

You may not rate them highly enough, but I'm sure I recognise Defoe, Crouch & Pavlyuchenko as strikers

I've sorted that for you, Sunderland will be 7th or 8th and I will take that.

I know Merc's not going to agree (and it'd be a near-impossible task) but how funny would it be if Liverpool managed to nick 4th place and send Chavski & Torres into the Europa league for next season?

The way the chavs are playing at the moment they're going to send themselves into the Europa League next season.

I still reckon Citeh will contrive to find itself in a dogfight for 4th place, especially if Tevez gets injured.

The title is far from over yet after the weekend results.

Well, Allardyce has links to them and, in terms of doing the job of keeping teams in the top flight with limited resources, is actually damned good at what he does.

The trouble is, the pay-off is the playing style of his teams. Given WBA have a hard-won and much-admired reputation for playing football, I don't think Allardyce is the man.

I've completely changed my opinion of Hodgson's managerial abilities. I thought he was a good manager, and that he'd inherited a poor Liverpool squad. Since Dalglish has taken over, he's changed the formation & tactics to suit the existing players much better (even varying the style of play to neuter Chelsea, but still provide enough of an attacking focus to get the win). I've always pinned the blame for the start of Liverpool's decline on Dalglish's first reign, when he brought in substandard players to replace those retiring/leaving (leaving Souness with a total rebuilding task... at which he failed abysmally), but I've had a guarded change in opinion.

What it shows is that Hodgson doesn't have a suitably wide repetoir of managerial tactics and gameplans. His way worked at Fulham, but he couldn't adapt it sufficiently to make it work at Liverpool. Too safety-first and an inferior mentality. So again, I don't think he'd be the right bloke to take over West Brom

Just a massive pity Arsenal couldn't take full advantage

All fans of real football should get the Italy v Brazil 1982 DVD which I got last year- what a game that was. Puts today's football to shame IMO. At least players back then played for the love of the game, not for cash which is exactly the culture that prevails nowadays thanks primarily to Mr Murdoch and his merry men.

The title is far from over yet after the weekend results.

Originally Posted by: llamedos 

Just a massive pity Arsenal couldn't take full advantage

Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 

or even Man U

Originally Posted by: SEMerc 

I agree, out of the 2 manager SAF must be kicking himself , they knew a win would put big big daylight between Man U and the chasing pack, that said they are still very much in control

The title is far from over yet after the weekend results.

Originally Posted by: Gooner 

Just a massive pity Arsenal couldn't take full advantage

Originally Posted by: llamedos 

or even Man U

Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 

I agree, out of the 2 manager SAF must be kicking himself , they knew a win would put big big daylight between Man U and the chasing pack, that said they are still very much in control

Originally Posted by: SEMerc 

I'm not so sure Gooner, I think that THIS Man U could easily 2 or 3 games without a win, especially when Europe starts again. The one thing they have in their favour is that Chelsea may well be out of the title race but still in Europe by the time the 2 teams meet in the league (does anyone know when the postponed game is due to be played?)

The title is far from over yet after the weekend results.

Originally Posted by: wallaw 

Just a massive pity Arsenal couldn't take full advantage

Originally Posted by: Gooner 

or even Man U

Originally Posted by: llamedos 

I agree, out of the 2 manager SAF must be kicking himself , they knew a win would put big big daylight between Man U and the chasing pack, that said they are still very much in control

Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 

I'm not so sure Gooner, I think that THIS Man U could easily 2 or 3 games without a win, especially when Europe starts again. The one thing they have in their favour is that Chelsea may well be out of the title race but still in Europe by the time the 2 teams meet in the league (does anyone know when the postponed game is due to be played?)

Originally Posted by: SEMerc 

Last I heard it was March 1st

The title is far from over yet after the weekend results.

Originally Posted by: Snow Hoper 

Just a massive pity Arsenal couldn't take full advantage

Originally Posted by: wallaw 

or even Man U

Originally Posted by: Gooner 

I agree, out of the 2 manager SAF must be kicking himself , they knew a win would put big big daylight between Man U and the chasing pack, that said they are still very much in control

Originally Posted by: llamedos 

I'm not so sure Gooner, I think that THIS Man U could easily 2 or 3 games without a win, especially when Europe starts again. The one thing they have in their favour is that Chelsea may well be out of the title race but still in Europe by the time the 2 teams meet in the league (does anyone know when the postponed game is due to be played?)

Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 

Last I heard it was March 1st

Originally Posted by: SEMerc 

Which would be about the worst time for those chasing Man U IMHO. Chelsea still in Europe and might see the prem as a lost cause.

The title is far from over yet after the weekend results.

Originally Posted by: wallaw 

Just a massive pity Arsenal couldn't take full advantage

Originally Posted by: Gooner 

or even Man U

Originally Posted by: llamedos 

I agree, out of the 2 manager SAF must be kicking himself , they knew a win would put big big daylight between Man U and the chasing pack, that said they are still very much in control

Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 

I'm not so sure Gooner, I think that THIS Man U could easily 2 or 3 games without a win, especially when Europe starts again. The one thing they have in their favour is that Chelsea may well be out of the title race but still in Europe by the time the 2 teams meet in the league (does anyone know when the postponed game is due to be played?)

Originally Posted by: SEMerc 

I am , what you have to consider is that Arsenal are likely to get knocked out against Barca which will give them a less congested fixture list than Man U , you also have to consider even if Chelsea are out of the title race they wont want Man U winning the title, 2 wins against the Blues wont be a given.