I've got quite a lot of those "big-head" figures that used to be available somewhere, I think my little cousins use them as bombs in the garden when they come round.





My great-grandma used to save me the tables from [iThe Mirror[/i and at the end of every season I used to sellotape over the top of them so that they would remain in position, then chuck them in the bin when the next season started.





I only ever completed two, the 97/98 season and the 99/00 season IIRC.



I can't remember reading that one TBH.



It's the Serbian Revolution. [iBelieve[/i.

In more depressing news, our season is over already after a 7-6 penalty shoot-out defeat to Bayern Munich in the Audi Cup.



Anderson is in the form of his life, with yet another goal. Two in two games now for the goal machine.



The lad just doesn't know how to miss penalties.

Heinze transferred from El Real to Mille

Cracking free-kick yesterday.

I taught him.










By him I mean the guy who made the foul.

I wouldn't have guessed.

That's the best one there has ever been for me, nothing has ever come close for entertainment and humour. I've still got a copy I found in my mums loft, I wish I'd kept more.

Madrid offer £28m for Alonso
Benitez wanting £30m

Wonder who'll crack first?

I think Benitez will break at £28m.
Real can easily pull out tomorrow and Rafa has to realise this instead of going for more.

Wow. He looked very ordinary to me in todays game vs the Ukraine. His free kicks where terrible (pointed out by the commentators) and he was outmuscled easily by the Ukranians.

Knowing Liverpool. Madrid will offer a take it or leave it offer at 15 million and we'd accept it!

We cant negotiate anything. Same old!

Serbia were never really in the game. But if you watched him when he got the ball, especially early on, when he was running at players, controlling the ball and shifting around the pitch, you could see the similarities.

It wasn't a sensational performance or anything, I didn't say that, just that when you watched how he played and his style, that's who I'd compare him to.

Despite his free kicks being bad, he did whip in a few good corners.

The ghost of Rick Parry still haunts the club



If Xabi goes for £30m, I'd be OK with it, I think he'll be missed and we will be weaker, but it's certainly nowhere near as bad as losing Gerrard or Torres.

Alberto Aquilani looks set to join Liverpool.

Cant comment on him really. Looked on Roma Forums and they call him a Jewell (the new Totti). However he as been unlucky with a few injuries, apparantly because Roma keep rushing him back.

Arsenal, Chelsea and Madrid have wanted him in the past.

Reina
Insua
Agger
Caragher
Johnson
Mascherano
Lucas
Riera
Kuyt
Gerrard
Torres

Subs

Skrtel
Benayouan
Aquilani
Ngog
Babel
Aurelio

Not good enough imo. Chelsea the team to beat!

news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 175000.stm Does this result show the poor quality of the SPL?

news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 175000.stm Does this result show the poor quality of the SPL?

United or Liverpool?

Corinthian Miniatures – I still have a fair few too. And their successors, the Microstars.



I've got a couple stashed somewhere: they published a couple of letters of mine over a period of time. I might even still have the shirt I got for a letter of the week once.

But it was a really good blend of the fanzine approach and the more 'glossy' approach, if you will. A meeting of [i4-4-2[/i and [iWhen Saturday Comes[/i. The cover headline after Germany won Euro '96 will stick in my mind for a long time: 'Jammy Kuntz'.

It was the best football magazine by a mile and, sadly, the rest of the footballing audience didn't catch on as it could be difficult to get hold of up here and, of course, went bump.

I think it was the subtle humour of the writers that did it more than anything. It was kind of groundbreaking in sports magazines at the time and was the first publication to cross the style of serious football magazines with the fanzine.

It's demise left a huge hole that has never been filled.

So we'll spend £15-£20 million Aquilani and bench him? Get a grip. Also, bear in mid that if we do sign Aquilani and sell Alonso we will still have £20 million to spend. When fit our starting XI could look like this:

Reina

Johnson
Agger
Carragher
Aurelio

Mascherano
Aquilani

Kuyt
Gerrard
Silva

Torres.

Bench:
Lucas
Benayoun
Babel
Reira
Skrtel
Insua
Cavalieri

Squad:
N'Gog
Pacheco
Spearing
Degen


Plenty good enough.

Have you seen the latest cover of [iWhen Saturday Comes[/i?

[url=http://www.wsc.co.uk/component/page,shop.browse/category_id,6/option,com_virtuemart/Itemid,67Click on the thumbnail.[/url

Obsessed

He doesn't have to realise anything Alonso has 3-4 years left on his contract the franco s can pay up or leave it and we will keep him.

Would you really want to keep a player that obviously doesn't want to be at the club? SAF saw that Ronaldos heart wasn't in it last season so we sold him to real (i think he'll comeback within the next 5 years though).

Remeber what Blatter said about keeping a player against his will should be classed as slavery?

Considering it's a World Cup year, I don't think it'd be in Alonso's best interest to sulk/play poorly/rot in the reserves if Liverpool were to refuse a transfer this summer. This is why I think Benitez should stand firm amidst all the speculation. He should tell Real to cough up the £35mill or Alonso stays.

I wouldn't mind being a slave if I was earning more in a mornings work than I'm currently earning in a year.