UNITED LOSE THEIR LUCK RUNS OUT watch highlights

Maloney winner

United lose to Wigan and they deserved it . To me they have been shit all season . Lady luck has been defiantly on there side . WELL WHISKEY NOSE IT HAS FINALLY RUN OUT. United this season have been a average side . As their European run will prove that . So its come on City who have been a far more entertaining side this season . Who with out a doubt deserve the Prem crown a lot more

To watch highlights with joy click the link .YNWA  http://footyroom.com/wigan-athletic-1-0-manchester-united-2012-04/

Carroll saves the day watch highlights

Carrol after his winner at Blackburn

Andy Carroll went some way to justifying his 35 mill price tag by putting in a shift and a half.  Topping the cake by scoring the winner in the 90 minute . In a amazing match that saw Liverpool getting a goal keeper sent off for the second time in as many weeks . Also letting a 2 goal lead slip but unlike against QPR, Carroll popped up to score a excellent header to claim the 3 points . Lets hope this is the kick start he needs to move on to be a great Liverpool player . To prove all the doubters wrong especially !!BITTER BLUE NOSES   YNWA!!

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Hatem Ben Arfa TOP GOAL+Dempsey BAGS ANOTHER watch

Hatem Ben Arfa

Top goal what a find for Newcastle one of many, Come on Kenny get the scouts to pull their fingers out.

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http://footyroom.com/newcastle-united-2-0-bolton-wanderers-2012-04/

Dempsey bags another click to watch http://footyroom.com/fulham-1-1-chelsea-2012-04/
He would play good for John Henry MAYBE?

Has CARROLL missed the plane ?

It has been an event packed week for Andy Carroll who just a year ago was amongst England’s most valued assets. He was “A proper England number 9” who looked destined to form a fearsome international partnership with Wayne Rooney which would last a decade. This weekend however as he returned to Newcastle he threw himself to the ground instead of sliding the ball into an empty net. What has happened to England’s £35 million man?

The giant Geordie once had the world at his considerably large feet but Sunday represented an all-time low. Booed at his former stomping ground mercilessly he looked a shadow of the bustling bundle of terror which Kenny Dalglish paid £35 million for. Carroll had no choice in the move to Liverpool, the 35 million was a ridiculous over valuation and it is likely Mike Ashley and co accepted the money with a bemused look followed by a euphoric laugh. For Carroll to then have his every touch booed at the club he grew up supporting is harsh; he didn’t hand in a transfer request, sulk for a move or fly to Argentina and remain there for 6 months.

The Newcastle faithful should be grateful to Carroll. It was his sale after all that allowed Newcastle to enter a new phase of development and finance deals for some real gems. And for Dalglish to take off Carroll with the game lost and a hostile reception guaranteed was nothing short of disgraceful. Carroll obviously agreed and fired abuse at his manager.

For the PLANE at the moment Carroll is probably in the “maybe” pile, he has the rest of the season to stake his claim and let’s hope he manages it. Carroll can be a physically imposing specimen. When on form he holds the ball up as well as any striker in Europe and terrorises defenders in the air. A fit and firing Carroll of old would be a real asset at the Euro’s, and alongside Rooney would pose a devastating threat.

To elevate his chances from maybe to definite he needs to return to his bustling best, to run the channels and use his physicality. Unfortunately Liverpool’s style of play doesn’t suit the player who needs to be the focal point because he certainly isn’t a poacher in the form of Fowler or a complete world class striker like Torres was on Merseyside. He is a battering ram, a nuisance who creates chances rather than finishes them.

Carroll didn’t set his own asking price and he almost certainly regrets that whoever did set it, set it so high. Let him be what he is and play to his strengths.

Come the end of the season Carroll will hope to be boarding the plane and to do that he simply needs to go back to basics. To work as hard as he can for his team and to become a nightmare to mark. A few goals wouldn’t hurt his chances either.

“FRENCH FROGMEN GET LIFE GLASTONBURY BAN”

Jacques Cousteau (SOME FRENCH MAN STICK TO THE SEA)

After spending the 90s on the two main stages . Mean Fiddler took over the main stages so I moved to pastures new . In the form of the Markets the front line Babylon and all that , it was just what the doctor ordered . We got the meet and greet job at the bottom of muddy lane . Dealing with everyone not just markets . The job was to focus on people going to were they were supposed to go, as quickly as possible . Radio through so they were expected . So the party could get going as quick as possible. Before this was done people arrived roaming the site ether on a jolly or totally lost . The site would get snagged up in no time with traders de-livery’s artists staff lost all over the site . So with a team of 8 are aim was get every one to their Festival home ASAP . So when the party kicked off on time it was job done but it was 16-17 hour days .

You where working with everyone people made a bee line for you for what ever . There was many bizarre situations medical problems people freaking out over one thing or another . But in that first year was one of the strangest . For those who know Glastonbury festival site the bottom of muddy lane there is a large long drop toilet block . Long drops are huge pits with a iron frame over with a dozen separate toilet cubical s on either side . You do your business and it falls into the pit below a tanker comes 3 times a day to empty it . For me the long drops are the best toilets on site .

LONG DROPS (muddy lane)

While we were doing the meet and greet it was so busy they had just opened the gates for the people . A girl approached me panicking “I THINK SOME ONE HAS FELL INTO THE TOILET PIT”

I knew that was impossible, unless some one had smashed the plywood and he or she was thrown down. I was talking to one of the market managers at the time we dashed over she showed us the cubical she had been in .

Sure to her word in the corner waste deep in umshka (With Nail and I) . Was a wet suit clad male with video camera , We were not amused , What s more he sensed that . We cleared the toilets of the half a dozen people using them at the time . Security was called it took half hour to persuade him to let us pull him out . Not helping was the fact he was French and that a Scouser and a Cockney were leading the negotiation. He was finally dragged out dropping his camera down back into the pit it slowly sank never to be seen again . He was led away by security who were in disbelief . I never learned his fate . But the job of toilet Monitors was created , to put everyone at ease.

I would not mind U-tube did not exist then so what his bag was I can only guess. But from then on anyone in a frogman suit was viewed with suspicion . The fact that he was French did not surprise me having worked with the outfit Archos on the Pyramid stage a few years earlier. The stuff they would get up to .....

But hey that s an other story.........

More Glasto stories on the way soon     

"Toilet Humour with John Peel"

Festival season is fast approaching with no Glastonbury more memory’s of previous years flood back . Plucking out one of my many memory's I cast my mind back to 1993 . Crewing the then N.M.E stage it was a scorcher weather wise . The guy responsible for sorting out the water and sanitation on site had unfortunately died in Australia only weeks earlier . He had done this unglamorous job for years . So some one new was thrown into the breach . Not knowing all the unique tricks of the job . The water was late coming on with it being so hot it was under great demand.

The first water to come through the pipes had not been flushed through properly . I remember well jumping off my push bike on the way back to the stage . Rushing to a stand pipe in the hedge and taking my fill of water it was so hot . With it being so early there was hardly no bottle water on site .Many people who were working in that heat filled water bottles . Before the word went around that it had not been flushed through properly . One by one people started to fall ill including myself all the crew went down with the bug . Then it went air born with the lighting crew going down . Followed by the P. A crew, it was all hands to the toilets . It was the worst shits I have ever had feeling generally unwell with severe gut aches. Before the people where let in the water was flushed through properly . But for the people putting the show on it made hard work a lot harder .

John Peel was always there early setting up for his D.J sets on the the 2 main stages . He also went down with the shits . The toilets were getting a hammering , it was put a band on shit, put a band on shit, After nearly shitting my self twice . I locked the porta loo from the outside with screw driver hiding it outside under a piece of wood . That way I would have access to a toilet all the time . Coming out of the Toilet John was waiting about to drop at any second . I obviously was a huge fan of John having no hesitation showing him the screwdriver stash . He nodded his approval , So we shared the porta loo through out the festival taking turns , with nods across the stage .

It was a great ice breaker and it was not long before we started talking footie , more to the point Liverpool F.C . His knowledge of L.F.C was immense.

John's passion for Liverpool F.C was reflected in his childrens names,William Roberta Anfield,Alexandra Mary Anfield ,Thomas James Dalglish,and Florence Victoria Shankley.  After that John would take time out to talk to me at other events. Such as BBC Sound Citys in Liverpool, Bristol and Sheffield .

I would always get a buzz from talking to John he would always plug the bands I was working with at the time . The likes of The EFF WORD a trip hop cross over band from Bristol . I remember him getting on his high horse to me about the way players shield the ball to let it run out of play . He hated it saying . “the day Liverpool did that it would be a sad day . Well we do and when we do I instantly think of John and what he would of thought of the present Liverpool team.

John would have been in his 70s now his memory will never die. The John Peel stage at Glastonbury is a fitting legacy . He would of loved that, it gives me the biggest buzz at the festival these days and I am glad to say my kids as well.

JOHN PEEL 1939-2004 YNWA

More Glastonbury stories coming soon (the amazing tale of why Glastonbury banned French Frogmen)   

THE 5 SAD TRUTHS

Poor finishing

Liverpool have had a serious problem with scoring goals throughout their league season. With a paltry return of 36 goals from 30 games, that’s seven goals less than Steve Kean’s much maligned Blackburn Rovers. The Reds have struggled to kill teams off despite dominating the majority of the play. Despite frequently racking up large numbers of corners, only two goals have been scored from set pieces in the Premier League all season. Liverpool have also hit the woodwork more than any other team which could be perceived as bad luck but when it’s been going on for so long it has to be seen as abject finishing.

Failed Transfers

It is perhaps the most talked about point of the season. Despite spending lavishly in the summer, Liverpool’s transfers under Dalglish have almost all been failures.  Andy Carroll and Jordan Henderson’s pricetags are weighing heavily on them; they’ve made the two young North Easterner’s challenge to make it at Anfield that much harder. With every misplaced pass or scuffed shot their respective transfer fees are brought into question. Stewart Downing is another who has disappointed by failing to contribute a single league goal. Charlie Adam has tailed off dramatically after a promising start with his delivery from set pieces becoming increasingly worse leaving Dalglish’s master plan in tatters. In brutal honesty only Jose Enrique and Luis Suarez have been clear successes. Although there is still time for the likes of Henderson and Downing to change people’s perceptions the clock is ticking and another overhaul in the summer looks increasingly likely. Liverpool fans simply have to pray that the Anfield hierarchy spend their money more wisely come the summer.

Anfield Struggles

Although Liverpool have been unbeaten at home for most of the season a number of draws has haunted them all season leaving them with only five wins from their fifteen home games. With Arsenal and Wigan taking all three points from Anfield in March Liverpool’s home form has gone from poor to disastrous. An inability to hold onto leads is something not exclusively seen at Anfield (as QPR fans will joyfully be able to testify to) but has seen the Red’s squander points against some of the worst teams in the league. This is not something new as disappointing home draws against inferior teams cost Liverpool any chance of securing the title under Rafael Benitez in the 2008/09 season. However it has to change if Dalglish’s team are to stand any chance of reaching the top four next season.

Severely Lacking Lucas

The industrious Brazilian has been sorely missed since he was ruled out for most of the reason with a cruciate ligament injury. Although he was often criticised when he first joined the club, Lucas has become a key part of a Liverpool midfield which has lost world class performers Xabi Alonso and Javier Mascherano in recent years. Charlie Adam’s loss in form can certainly be linked to Lucas’ absence. Although Jay Spearing has enjoyed an extended spell in the first team, the reality is the tenacious academy product is not of the same quality. Steven Gerrard’s continued fight against injury has been a big blow but it is Lucas’ extended spell on the side-lines which has been more keenly felt on Merseyside.

The Luis Suarez Affair

Unquestionably Luis Suarez is a brilliant player but his antics on the pitch have not endeared him to the rest of the Premier League. His theatrics under the slightest of challenges have enraged many a defender but none of this matched the furore following his racist abuse of Patrice Evra. In the immediate aftermath of the incident Liverpool backed their man with a staunch defence against the then allegations. Even after Suarez was found guilty the Uruguayan was backed unanimously with the now infamous Suarez t-shirts at the DW Stadium. Liverpool’s form dipped as negative publicity swamped the club. The team missed a spark without Suarez as he completed his eight game ban, however the forward soon managed to ignite the whole of Old Trafford with his handshake snub to Evra. Yet again derision reigned upon the club when the incident should have been put in the past. Suarez was rightfully condemned for the debacle and now that he has hopefully learnt his lesson he can focus on improving his goal tally of seven league goals which for a man of his abilities isn’t really enough.

With the first trophy in six years already secured Liverpool can still turn this season into a very good one if they can triumph in the FA Cup. There have been promising signs in the cups but the league form has been similar to what it was under Roy Hodgson in what was a much more tumultuous time for the club. Dalglish has to learn from this season otherwise his fairytale return to Anfield may be a lot shorter than he planned.