Suarez v Soulless hole (Old Trafford)

 Today when Suarez plays it will change Old Trafford . Here are a few things that are normal on match days.

*No atmosphere . (including when they play liverpool)

**void of any meaningfull or witty songs .

***There are no songs

****Lack of abillty to get behind the team. The song "YOU ONLY SING WHEN YOUR WINNING" had to of been created with Old Trafford in mind.

*****Strange Smell stays in the nostrals for days after .

*******To sum it up in one simple statment is


ITS A FUCKING SOUL-LESS HOLE (on a hiped up industrial estate

Today all attention will be on Suarez . He can change Old Trafford back to being to a Soul-less hole in one swift move . They will be more worried about that every time he gets the ball.I have watched Suarez play for three years now. He will relish that fact and nail them . The Mancs will be watching Suarez more than their own players he will love that . He will take it as a cup final bide his time and punish them.......


OLD TRAFFORD WILL NEVER BE THIS!!!!

Harry Redknapp or Arthur Daley

What are we going get with Harry Redknapp him or Arthur Daley . Or do we care. Well on the Arthur Daley front Harry is Arthur and we love him for it . We all know he is a lover able rogue the public and collegues take him under their protective wings. We seem to know his faults but love him for that. His wheeler dealer ways are legendary in the transfer merry go round . Making shrewd moves for players as if he was buying and selling cars. He bends the rules slightly but as with Arthur Daley every one around him takes that for granted . As for minders he has got everyone round him they will all naturally protect him from whatever . As the recent court case has just shown . So will it be good for England???

Yes when a team want to protect a manager you tend to get a fighting team . Harrys teams always show fight if any team needs that England do .


So what is against him taking the England job I should imagain he would take a lot of people with him . It is no secret that Harry likes a gang round him . Its most certain it will be jobs for the boys. He has already said in the past he might get bored without the day to day training. Interaction with the players and lack of competitive games .


But as with Arthur Daley the person who will have the final say will be

HER IN DOORS . Mrs Redknapp



Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1965–1972 West Ham United 149 (7)
1972–1976 Bournemouth 101 (5)
1976 Brentford 1 (0)
1976–1979 Seattle Sounders[2] 24 (0)
1982 Bournemouth 1 (0)
Total 276 (12)
Teams managed
1983–1992 Bournemouth
1994–2001 West Ham United
2002–2004 Portsmouth
2004–2005 Southampton
2005–2008 Portsmouth
2008– Tottenham Hotspur

footiestories + music tales: Street Footie Liverpool style

footiestories + music tales: Street Footie Liverpool style: Growing up in Liverpool playing football in the street . I would oftern wondered who invented the diffrent types of games we played. I remem...

Street Footie Liverpool style

Liverpool team training in the main stand car park 

Growing up in Liverpool playing football in the street . I would oftern wondered who invented the diffrent types of games we played. I remember being told by one of my older in the know mates that a lot of them stemed from Melwood . This has always stuck in my head so with Mellwood always being on the telly I have decided to investagate.

The one game that is most likley to have a conection to Mellwood that I can put my finger on is S.P.O.T . A one touch game you had to score in a chalk drawn goal on a wall . If you missed you were on S . The next player would have a easy penlty shot to start again .(Sort of football squash) When you reached SPOT you were out. I remember full stops commers and underlining comming into play for longer games.



At Melwood there was four large wooden walls that the players would use. So I can see that one having some wieght behind it. At Melwood Shankly introduced fitness training, including diet assessment, and skills training including using an artificial goal painted on a convenient wall, split into eight sections which he would demand the players hit each time.

Sixty Seconds was a another game (Headers and volleys and Goalkeeper training) The keeper counts to sixty when he concedes from a header or a full volley he starts from zero . But the strikers have to score twice and so on. When the keeper reaches sixty the strikers have only one chance when a strikers misses he goes in goal...It was rumored Keegan and Toshack would train this way a lot it makes sense

Who knows is that what Suarez and Surridge are up to at the moment. It would be great if they could get to the level that Keegan and Toshack did.

There was also a five a side game we would play called saddles were you would have to hit the goal posts instead of scoring goals.Double score if you hit the bar It was also two touch so the movement was the key to the game not a game for the unfit . So did this game have its origin on the fields of Melwood I don,t know . But if so we should stop using it now the number times we have hit the woodwork this season.


Then there was 3 and in (Wembley down south) The game that is know for the quicker you score the quicker you rest . The way games pan out rest is so important. (Its is a knackering game) I could not imagine what it would be like to play with top class professionals


So have these games got links with pro football training camps??? .

WHAT DO YOU THINK ????? DID YOU PLAY ANY OTHER STREET FOOTIE GAMES

Suarez now an other sting to our bow

SUAREZ IS NOW BACK

We have managed well without Suarez. But in the run up to ban although Suarez was his usual pain in the arse for opposition defenders . Our play was getting predictable every think was going through Suarez. He was getting noticeably frustrated with a huge risk of burn out possibly injury.

Now he has been rested having time to watch his team from the sidelines . We have changed tactics a few times in his absence whether we shut up shop or grinded teams down . With the exception of the Bolton game. (What the fuck happened there) We now have 3 or 4 different playing styles that will keep teams guessing . Instead of lets just feed Suarez all our opponents where getting happy with that . I am sure Suarez videos where top of the play lists in training grounds up and down the country . We were in danger of becoming a one trick pony .

Now if all goes to plan we will be anything but a one trick pony. Suarez is a very cleaver player as well as a amazing natural talent. He personally will have many new ideas to break defenses down . Having had eight games to study his team mates in detail. So what has his Uruguayan mind got in store for the opposition "who knows".

The great Liverpool sides of the past had one think in common they where always of top quality but most of all unpredictable . They would have a least five different ways they could play . Switching to whatever system was needed to win the game . VERY FEW TEAMS HAD THE CAPABILITY TO DEAL WITH THIS.


With the team using different systems over the past couple of months and getting results things are moving forward . With the return of Suarez things could rocket forward. In past 2 months the team has stayed tight and showed some teeth. Now with Suarez back in tow we will be now showing our fangs. I don't think other teams can handle that who ever they are . Leading me to the comment

"THE BIG RED WOLF IS BACK"

how far could it go

With the people of Egypt blaming the Government for the Port Said Football riot . It would not be the first time Governments have used football for BAD DEEDS

That first Soldier looks like Robbie Fowler

Salvadorian soldiers



Honduras and El Salvador's 1969 World Cup qualifiers sparked. The so called The Football war The fighting only lasted 100 hours before a outbreak of sanity brokered a truce. But killed somewhere between 2,000 and 6,000 people.

THE GOVERNMENTS WERE DEFIANTLY USING FOOTBALL TO INCITE


Before the first game, held in the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa on June 8 1969, the El Salvadorian side were kept up all night by riotous fans outside their hotel. They went on to lose 1-0. When the goal was scored – after about 10 minutes of injury time – one El Salvadorian lady back home reportedly shot herself through the heart. She was given a televised funeral, intended to whip up nationalist fervour before the return fixture a week later.


For the 2nd leg the El Salvadorians took the chance to repay Honduras’s inhospitality. As soon as the Hondurans arrived at the airport, Their star striker Enrique ‘The Rabbit’ Cardona,was the target with posters of him being sexually assaulted by a considerably larger rabbit. Other posters showed anyone vaguely black in the Honduran side with a bone through their nostrils.

quoted Cardona,

“I was used to that kind of stuff, but I could see my team-mates were upset,”
Then on the Friday before the game, the El Salvadorians killed two people outside our hotel. We went to stay in the Embassy instead.”

A 3-0 pummeling followed The team coach was quoted as saying. “We’re awfully lucky that we lost. Otherwise we wouldn’t be alive today.” The results left both countries’ hopes of becoming the first Central American side to qualify for the World Cup hinging on a deciding third match, to be played in Mexico City.

According to the El Salvadorian coach at the time, the Argentine Gregorio ‘Goyo’ Bundio, the whole team was called to the president’s house before the game. “He gave us some sweet bread and soft drinks and told me that – as a foreigner – I had to defend the national colours, because this match was for our national dignity”.

An estimated five thousand Salvadorians had travelled to the game, some doing the 770-mile journey on motorbike. El Salvador twice took the lead, but Honduras drew level, thanks to build-up from Cardona. In the second half, Bundio told his defenders to deal the striker in the only way they could.

Cardona. QUOTED

“They kicked me off the pitch!”

“I got a boot right in the chest. I’ve played in Spain, in England, in Ireland, and it’s never happened to me since.”

Honduras’s attacking threat was blunted, and right at the death Mon Rodríguez headed El Salvador’s winner.

SO THAT WAS THE EXCUSE THE GOVERNMENTS NEEDED


They triggered their people into war Ryszard Kapuscinki spent some of it with a Honduran soldier who was more interested in collecting dead men’s shoes for his family than obeying orders. “We soldiers didn’t have a clue,” says another Honduran veteran, Jose Luis Gutiérrez, who lost two relatives and a close friend in the war. “Only later did it come out that they’d be planning it all along. We went to war not knowing what we were fighting for or why. They just told us to defend the national sovereignty.”

El Salvador, with a better-prepared military, had dreamed of extending its tiny territory right across Honduras to the Atlantic. Nonetheless, six days after the invasion, its forces were bogged down a few kilometres from the border. So the two governments signed up to a truce, and limited their future disagreements to minor skirmishes and major court cases.



At most, the qualifiers were the straw that broke the camel’s back. “They abused football. They took advantage of us,” complains one surviving player about the politicians of the day. The countries’ real squabbles were very much off the pitch. Hundreds of thousands of El Salvadorians were living in Honduras illegally and, to the fury of El Salvadorian government.

SO FOOTBALL IS FOR THE PEOPLE!!! WHEN GOVERNMENTS GET INVOLVED THINGS GO BAD!!!

IT COULD OF BEEN US

The talk in the football last week was the riot in the Egypt city of Port Said . Which had now led to more riots and unrest in the capital Cairo.

The reason being that the Cairo club who had over 70 fans killed and where the victims of a government revenge plot . The Cairo club where heavy involved with the down fall of president Mubarak.

The Cairo clubs supporters claim the following incidents took place.

(1) The police turned a blind eye to the Port Said supporters bringing knives and clubs into the stadium (In other games they are always searched)

(2) The police lines where directly behind the goals on the pitch side of the running track Instead of directly in front of the crowd on the other side of the running track. To prevent any sign of a pitch invasion.

(3) After the pitch invasion the police did not do any think to stop the the Port Said supporters attacking players and Cairo Supporters .(Which T.V footage backs up their claims)

(4) Other more worrying claims that buses vans and car loads of individuals arrived at the stadium 15 minutes before the end of the game armed to the teeth with clubs and knives. They were allowed to enter the stadium at the Port Said end.

(5)The gates at the back of the Cairo supporters end had been locked cutting off their escape. (IT MUST OF BEEN HELL)


Many references have been made over the passed few day with Heysel stadium tragedy. I was at Heysel in my opinion It was what Heysel could of turned into.

(1) The ratio between Cairo supporters and Liverpool supporters was about the same outnumbered.

(2) The lack of action by the Belgium police to being under constant attack from Italian supporters going back to night before.

(3) The way things where going it would of been Liverpool supporters lying dead at the back of the crumbling terracing . STABBED CLUBBED OR SHOT THE ITALIANS HAD GUNS WHO TAKES A GUN TO A FOOTBALL GAME.

Was Heysel as politically motivated as Port Said looks like it was ?


(1) Why did the Italians have all the tickets ?

(a) A cash strapped group from a unemployed North West English City all be it the European Champions
(b)Or a group of free spending trendy so called cultural southern Europeans.
(WHO DO YOU THINK GOT ALL THE TICKETS)

(c) Corruption in Italian Government +Football was rife in the 80s (Brown envelops flying everywhere)


(2)After all it was round that time Liverpool where taking the Government on head on. With the likes of Derek Hatton (Blue Nose) and Liverpool city council on the verge of toppling Thatchers government.

(a)Thatcher was waiting for a chance to attack Liverpool

(3)Liverpool had been the victims of violent attacks the year before in Rome stabbings beatings A 13 year old Liverpool supporter left needing over 200 stitches the result of an attack by Roma supporters with a large knife. That stands out from many incidents over looked by what was a great victory to lift the cup for the 4th time . But after the game was hell they came at us down the grassy banks around the Olympic Stadium in Rome. How no Liverpool supporter were killed that night was miraculous I fought for my life that night.So around that time Italians had it in for Liverpool FC .




So that night at Heysel Stadium we are Scouses enough was enough we charged . We did not know a wall was going to fall crushing 39 people so so regrettable . But the way things where going that night it could of ended in Port Said situation. With Liverpool supporters in the Cairo clubs shoes . So think on MAN U supporters when you call us MURDERERS!!! . MAN U had trouble in Rome some years back when they where charging across the terracing to protect themselves did they think NO STOP!!!! A a wall is going to collapse.

DID THEY FUCK!!!! (GET REAL)


SO PORT SAID IS WHAT COULD OF HAPPENED AT HEYSEL!!!!!!


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