HEARTS V LIVERPOOL

V

BEFORE

So will Rodgers pick a team / game plan based round the teams that he played in the States?.... Well they are certainly, the teams he has worked with the most since coming to the club..... So with the pick themselves players not making the trip . It is the true test for Rodgers, he must of had game plans with these players . After all they have been working close together for over 2 months now... Very close if you think tour.  Otherwise whats the use in tours other than money... So all the talking stops with this game .... This my red friends is where we are going. 

Lets hope he gets it right. This is a true indication of whether the people who are running our club have chosen wisely .  YNWA

AFTER

Result Hearts 0  Liverpool 1

So we pulled it off not over convinced with the display . But a win is a win . The back 4 scared me in the 1st half terrible gaping hole on the right side . A better side would of punished us . But Rogers addressed that in the 2nd half . As he said in his post match interview , but he stuck to his guns , his manner was good ,strong . a step forward . But what has been happening  with Liverpool over the last 2 seasons is 1 step forward 3 back . My red friends let hope we build on it .YNWA  

http://footyroom.com/hearts-0-1-liverpool-2012-08/  Highlights

FOOTBALL, NOT A FLASH IN THE PAN!!

LOOK!! IT HAS GONE 

Over the last couple of days there has been a beating brewing . TV and media polishing their knuckle dusters to give the football world a bit of thumping . Roy Hodgson leading the pack now he is the F.A and government puppet . Making comments like “I did not like the atmosphere at Villa Park for the Charity Shield compared to the feel good vibe of the Olympics” .
I enjoyed the Olympics I always do no matter which country it is held . But it is just over 2 weeks every 4 years run by strange old Swiss French people . With governments sucking up to them for a chance to make loads of money . Or in more cases than not lose loads of money . It remains to be seen if these islands win or lose , my guess would be the latter .
So the Olympics is a gamble, governments always think we will not make the same mistake as Athens or Sidney . Or probably every country that has held the Olympics . They all lose one way or the other . You wait it will be the investigative journalist holy grail over the next few years . With Panorama type specials coming out of the media’s ears .

So now it is Football all the way for the next 9 months . After the frenzy, tears on film, medals, new venues to show off, corporate shit ,posh people thinking they are right on, one of the gang . Well before the knuckle dusters come out THINK!!
It is not a question of will the new football season make money . It is how much will the new season make . For 9 mouths thousands and thousands of people will be travelling around the country spending money following their clubs . Take that out of the countries economy and it will nose dive . The money the country makes out of football is guaranteed, not a gamble . Roy Hodgson should know this, he has lined his nest with our money for long enough. A lot more so now he has got the yes man job .

DON'T BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU 

On the news this morning the presenter made a statement “we never get top footballers as guests on the show” Thank fuck it is not relevant . For me , I don’t care about seeing them on news programmes . It is about what they do when they cross that white line to fight for my club, is what counts.

So all the jolly hockey stick football haters flying the Olympic flag I would think again before having a go at football . The country would be in a lot more shit financially without our national game . Football is in our blood our culture . Its in the culture and blood  of a big chunk of the world, giving people common ground to come together . Far far bigger than the Olympic family , and unlike the cosmetic feel to the Olympics, the peoples game is organic . That takes place for most of the year . Long my it continue football brings the world together all year round ,every year . Not just a flash in the pan..........

Liverpool v Gomel Report and Highlights

Liverpool v Gomel

Borni opens the scoring with his first Liverpool goal 

1^st Half

Liverpool totally dominant the attack looked sharp with great link ups from Borni Suarez and Gerrard . Back four looked solid bit over casual towards the end of the half . Suarez was every where looked fit after the Olympics . Setting up Borini and Gerrard to score with his customary mazy runs into the box . Midfield looked professional with Lucas and Shelvey in the holding roll . Job made easier with Johnstone and Enrique pushing on . Giving Gerrard on the left Downing on the right space to attack the inner flanks

Half time Liverpool 2 Gomel 0

2^nd Half

Gomel got tighter on Suarez but left more room for the attacking full backs pushing on . Which led to the 3^rd goal sweetly stuck half volley from the edge of the box from Johnston cutting in from the right . Liverpool should have had a few more, but it was a full on performance with a lot more thrust than last season against lesser opposition. Jamie Carragher came on to a standing ovation with 15 left perfect end to a near perfect night . In front of an impressive nearly full house

Man of the match Suarez   Click link for highlights http://footyroom.com/liverpool-3-0-gomel-2012-08/

Final Liverpool 3Borini 21′Gerrard 41′Johnson 72′  Gomel 0Liverpool win 4.0 on  agg    

4 different scorers over the 2 leg nice to see

GAME ON SUAREZ STAYING

GREAT NEWS 

Since LFC have been associated with the Money ball thing our bargaining skills have been what I can only call shit . Liverpool were always good at getting the best deals possible in the past . But over the last 2 years it is if other teams have been so careful when dealing with us . Now that maybe because we are not the great team of the past . Players are not jumping at the chance to join the reds . Opting to go with clubs that have Champions League football .

But for me the news that Luis Suarez has committed his long term future to the club is the dogs bollocks .He could of gone any where in Europe he is of the highest quality . But his heart is with us to turn this frustrating piece of Liverpool FC history around . After all last season must have been so hard for him and his family. The shit he went through he has decided to stay with the club .

He knows he will still get stick from supporters from other clubs . But he is one you can bank on, to play in the shirt with pride . As I have said in previous blogs I have watched Suarez since his early days at Ajax.

I bombarded forums and social net work sites singing his praises . Having everything crossed that my club would win his signature . I had a feeling deep down that Liverpool would get him , it came to pass . The new contract was more of a worry to me with the Evra thing . So it is massive relief he has sighed . Now I can be more interested about new signings . It is game on now for the season . As for the bad press he is receiving over the Evra thing . He is accustom to that now the truth will come out. I have always smelt a rat on the Man U side of things .

ENOUGH SAID 

My message to the opposition supporters booing Suarez is

1. Boo if your scared of Suarez
2. He could not give a fuck
3. Or most important (Q) What is worse, Being on the wrong end of racal abuse.
   Or being called a racist by millions when your not …. Its a hard call

BRING ON THE SEASON YNWA ….....

CAULDRON IN FINAL POSITION

ANOTHER PASS TO THE COLLECTION  

My old mate Steve on his last job before retirement . Ending a amazing rock and roll trucking career spanning 40 years . He had retired a couple of months ago, but was asked to come back for the Olympics . Fitting end to his music industry C.V that includes . Nearly all the Rolling Stone major European tours . It is easier to name the bands he has not toured with, in every European country both old and new . Taking in every festival along the way here and abroad . So nice one mate, I am sure they will tempt you back again in near future. Thats Rock and Roll ....... 

Glastonbury Oasis at the Olympics

water on all sides 

On Wednesday a good mate of mine phoned me asking me if I could help him out . His problem was he had injured him self working last week at the Pleasure Gardens a stones throw from the Olympic Park in London . His van was still there ,but he needed to get it off before Friday , before Olympic lock down and road closures , He was still laid up with the injury , with me knowing London and one day to go he was hoping I could help . So sick of watching all the coverage in the media wanted to see myself  ,I said “no worries” so off I went .

Central London was HOT HOT HOT . Police every where very twitchy and to be honest there was not much smiling going on . People and police had worried hot and bothered looks on their faces . It was  frenzied  at least 5 notches up on what central London usally is . After the packed underground journey it was on to the DLR (dockland railway) . Brand new and no one on it , very strange . With great views of the Olympic Park, the train travelling under the cable car from the O2 very impressive . Getting off the train at Pontoon Dock so easy the Pleasure Gardens was just across the road . At the security cabin it was G4S they where good laid back . It took a time for some one to come and meet me . But as it turned out they where all on sun break it was so hot .

I was given directions to where the van was . So I had a chance to walk around . Loads of familiar faces from Glastonbury Shangri La fields . The site had that Glastonbury feeling about it with winding gravel paths taking you round . With pieces of art work and facards that you always see up on the railway track . With a the large Victorian Warehouse as the back drop and central attraction.

To be honest I did not want to leave to go back into that London mayhem . But time was against me having to travel back through central London in a 30 year old VW camper . But I am well up for going to the Pleasure Gardens on a jolly over the next 2 weeks it is in good hands .

entrance 

The journey back in VW was well, eventful I would need a week to write about it. 

Click link 

http://www.londonpleasuregardens.com/

Rogers sticking to his Guns Good or Bad ?

With Brendan Rogers sticking to his guns of passing possession football . Sounds good but is it handing the opposition the game plan before a ball is kicked . Liverpool’s inability of breaking down the so called lesser opposition last season was clear to all . Teams came to Anfield knowing what to expect . They were happy to let Liverpool have the ball throwing men behind the ball . 9 times out of 10 we were unable to break them down . The league final standing spoke for its self .

So with-in his plans does the word unpredictability enter into his tactics . My biggest fears is 75% possession playing great stuff only to draw 0.0 or as happened last season the defeat .

The talk of not playing without a striker is understandable . I can see a two tier midfield with Suarez and Borini fitting into that . With maybe Dempsey tucking in behind as extra teeth .

But Rogers inability to back Carroll with in his plans worry s me slightly . Carroll impressed me in the later part of last season . Dropping deep hassling laying balls off putting it about in the box . My thoughts were if he kept off the piss in the pre-season he would have a 35 million season this year . But Rodgers seems not to be keen . Will that in-danger are element of surprise , is his tactics too set in stone , making it easy for opposition managers to counter act , That is my fear , I am all for my team playing attractive football . But after the last decade I would take a season of grinding out 1.0 victory’s . Keep teams guessing keep the ball but players have got to be comfortable on the ball .

Spain’s victory in the Euros was amazing but they played 3 different ways in their 6 games . The passing Spanish/Barcelona way is great, but it is on the verge of being sussed hence Spain’s switch in tactics over the tournament. So I am hoping Rodgers has a few strings to his bow , and not just a one trick pony . YNWA