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"Mikey-Watch"

Another thread on Mikey, true. But I have to keep my hopes up. Losing my favourite 'Pool striker is a blow that can only be softened with the return of the only 'Pool player I have loved more than him. Mikey is on his way back - that's what The Times seems to think:

[URL]http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,428-1736832,00.html[/URL]

Read that in my paper this morning before my run, and then amused myself by thinking of Mikey while running (not in a gay way).

Stevie says he'll talk to him in the England training camp. No-one can turn down Stevie. No man, no woman.

I'd say I was a casual Liverpool fan as well.

'Sign on, sign on
with hope in your heart
coz you'll never get a job'

My favourite Liverpool song.

Stryke wrote:
> Rafael Benitez is an incredibly boring manager... etc

That is... frustrating.

Now you bring it up though, I tend to consider myself a Liverpool fan more so than of any other team, though I'm probably closest to being a neutral.

I have no real reason to, other than that Gerrard is probably my favourite player at the moment and, in my opinion, the best central-midfield player in the world.

Oh yeah, and I like the other players like Carragher, Riise, Alonso, etc, and the club songs, and the connection between the team and its supporters.

But yeah, you wouldn't call me a supporter. Just a very casual fan.

ßìgGíË Li††lÊ Jn® wrote:
> EDIT: note i am not considering baros (no i didn't forget him)
> because he is on his way out :)

Whilst mikey's still at Real, don't say that... I fear it may be too much for Stryke to take... A Liverpool strikeforce devoid of Baros or Owen and filled with a beanpole.

You underestimate Benitez Stryke...

that you do.

It'll be Crouch or Morientes. Cisse or Mikey would come on later.

I wouldn't be surprised to see him trying to convert Cisse to a right winger.

Or a defensive midfielder, that'd be more his type. Balls to this, thinking about Benitez at the moment makes me angry, I'm off to watch Scrubs.

If owen does sign for liverpool, who would be that lone striker for away matches? owen, morientes or cisse?? (because it won't be crouch or flo)

EDIT: note i am not considering baros (no i didn't forget him) because he is on his way out :)

Mav wrote:
> :-(
>
> I thought the 4-5-1 was temporary since Crouch was injured and Baros
> is leaving.
>
> Surely if Mikey comes back Rafa won't leave Cisse, Morientes and
> Crouch on the bench?

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Ohohoho, the innocence of not being a Liverpool fan... :)

Rafael Benitez is an incredibly boring manager. Since the disastorous away form of last season, he's decided the 4-5-1 is the way to go. But it's not just this season. He thought the best way to take the game to Chelsea in the Carling Cup Final was to play a 4-5-1 and leave our top scorer on the bench. He won the Champions League by fielding a 10 man defence against Chelsea and Juventus and only just getting away with it.

He'll field 4-4-2 against the minnows, and bring out the 4-5-1 when a good team comes to town and hope to get a lucky goal. He'll only go attacking when we're, say, 3-0 down with 45 minutes to go in the biggest match he'll ever manage.

I forgot about the Crouch. Ahahahahahha

Still makes me smile to think of him playing Champions league football.

'Juventus vs Liverpool, a wealth of talent and ability on display here... and Peter Crouch is playing as well'

Liverpool have got to play 2 strikers.