The 'goal'

A team of cheats need possibly the worst decision ever to help them cheat their way to victory. Their captain admits it hit him and didn’t cross the line - but kept his mouth shut during the incident. Unlike a section of his club’s fans who can’t even keep their mouths shut for a minutes silence to honour the dead. Hope that has made everyone associated with Chelsea proud. Even if I wasn’t a Kopite I hope Liverpool stuff them in the final. Do it for the 96.

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Liverpool 2 Everton 1

People may say he’s a waste of money and yes he’s not worth £35m but that goal, to knock Everton out, was worth that much. Two (late) goals in two games after he’s finally been given some service will do him the world of good. Let us just hope Kenny doesn’t drop him. Play him for every game left and watch him fly.

As for Everton well, personally, I think if they want to progress and become a force again (as they have so much potential to) then Moyes has to go. He had the chance today to literally destroy us, knock us out of the Cup, sack our manager and leave us next to dead. Instead he stood like a rabbit in the headlights and was solely at fault for how his team played after Carragher (who should never play again - and it kills me to say that) gifted them a goal. Everton should be a major team who at least compete for the Cups year after year but they won’t with Moyes any more.

Anyway… personally hoping Chelsea win tomorrow as wanna see that ponse’s face when we lift the FA Cup in front of him.

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Going back to Anfield South already. Would prefer Everton over Sunderland in the semi-final so fingers crossed they get through against the Mackems.

Going back to Anfield South already. Would prefer Everton over Sunderland in the semi-final so fingers crossed they get through against the Mackems.

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The most magical day in football

FA Cup 3rd Round Day, surely the best day in the year for any football fan. I smell at least a couple of upsets today before the entire nation gets to watch the scum kicked out of the cup by their “noisy neighbours”.

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The 216th Merseyside Derby

So only a few weeks into the season comes our second biggest away game, Everton at Goodison Park. And it’s even more poignant today as it’s the first time King Kenny Dalglish will lead us out there since 1991, his last game as our manager before stepping down just a few days later, the strain of Hillsborough finally taking it’s toll on him. The match itself was an epic, with us losing our lead several times in a 4-4 draw.

A Liverpool and an Everton fan side-by-side

Today will hopefully be our eighty-sixth win over our neighbours (they’ve won sixty-six, if you’re interested) and I have to say I am a lot more optimistic after seeing our team. Three up front - Dirk Kuyt, Andy Carroll and Luis Suárez - and quality on the bench - Steven Gerrard, Craig Bellamy, Maxi and Jordan Henderson - should see us win, as long as our defence (meaning you, Jamie Carragher) concentrates seeing as sodding Tim Cahill is back.

An Everton flag between the Liverpool ones

The days of us both competing at the top of English football may be gone but this match is still the greatest derby in the country (in the whole UK, in my opinion) and will be played at 100mph from the start. I can see at least one red card (more than likely for the Blue Noses), drama, controversy, a Dirk Kuyt brace and a goal for Andy Carroll in a 3-1 win. Fingers crossed.

Dirk Kuyt celebrating one of his five goals against the Blue Noses

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First of all this is not here just because I am a Liverpool supporter, its here because of a senseless and unnecessary loss of ninety-six lives and the government, twenty-two years on, still hiding the truth.

The Cabinet Office said on Wednesday (August 17th) it was appealing against the information commissioner’s ruling that the papers should be made available. This has lead many to question again just what the Tory government hid all those years ago and why they’re still hiding the truth. The governments pathetic excuse is that, “Such a move would pre-empt the Hillsborough inquiry.” Information commissioner Christopher Graham had ruled the release of the documents would be in the public interest, but the Cabinet Office said any information must be issued in line with the Hillsborough independent inquiry.

An e-petition (the link above) has been registered on the government’s website calls for “full government disclosure and publication of all documents, discussions and reports relating to the 1989 Hillsborough disaster”. The withheld files include reports presented to then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, correspondence between her office and the then-Home Secretary Douglas Hurd and minutes of meetings she attended.

Ninety-five Liverpool supporters were killed in a crush of fans at the Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield, where the club was playing an FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest. The 96th victim was left in a coma for three years and died in 1992.

Please, sign the petition, regardless of who you support or even if you despise Liverpool FC. It’s not a football matter, it’s about the truth.

Justice for the ninety-six. YNWA.

96 - you are always on our mind

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Celtic fans supporting the Justice For the Ninety-six campaign

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Premier League D-Day 2010/11

So… 282 days, 6768 hours, 406,080 minutes or 24,364,800 seconds since the start of this Premier League season and it all comes down to this. For, erm, some anyway. Top and bottom of the table may be done and dusted, but issues aplenty are yet to be decided for the sides in between.

Issue to be decided number one: RELEGATION - Five teams, one point between them, two relegation places to be decided. For Wigan, Blackpool, Birmingham, Wolves and Blackburn, ‘Squeaky-Bum Time’ barely does today any justice at all. Basically a loss for any of that quintet this afternoon and they’re left more nervy than a one-legged man at a backside-kicking contest. Monster. EDIT:Goodbye Blackpool, you’ll be missed. Goodbye Birmingham, enjoy your trips into Europe next season.

Issue to be decided number two: RACE FOR THIRD - Only a couple of months ago, Arsenal were challenging on four fronts and bag in the hunt for the Premier League title. Now, they need a slip up from Manchester City to even finish inside the top three. FA Cup winners City lead Arsenal by a point going into the last day, meaning Arsenal have to better the Eastlanders result at Bolton when they travel to Fulham if they are to snatch third and that all-important automatic Champions League qualifying place. Fourth spot, lest we forget, earns clubs only a place in the final qualifying. Tense. EDIT:Arsenal are going to have to face a qualifier to get into the Champions League proper.

Issue to be decided number three: RACE FOR FIFTH - Ah yes, the Europa League. Very much the ugly sister of European Cup competition. Still, though, better than a kick in the bollocks many would argue - and it has come down to Tottenham or Liverpool, the former in the prime seats having stolen a march on the Reds with victory at Anfield last week. As with Man City and Arsenal, if Tottenham match or better Liverpool’s result later, fifth and Europa League qualification is theirs. Who said ‘poisoned chalice’? EDIT:Although it’s tempting to blame Hodgson for us failing to get into Europe, the blame must go with the players who simply didn’t perform in the last two games (Spurs and Villa) once the King had got his contract.

Issue to be decided number four: THE FAIR PLAY LEAGUE - Not the most salubrious of issues, but a potentially crucial one for the likes of Fulham and Tottenham. Following the announcement from UEFA that England, Norway and Sweden have topped their Fair Play rankings, and that each country will therefore be awarded an extra Europa League spot, whoever ends today top of the rankings and has not already qualified for Europe slips in through the back door. That rules out Chelsea, currently top, but not necessarily Tottenham and Fulham, second and third. A warning though: whoever reaches Europe this way faces three two-leg qualifying rounds and a play-off even before the group stages. Ouch. EDIT:Fulham progress, good luck to them although I sadly doubt the heroics of two seasons ago will be repeated.

Issue to be decided number five: GOLDEN BOOT WINNER - Looks like a shoot-out between Dimitar Berbatov and Carlos Tévez, this one - both are currently on twenty goals, with Darren Bent (Aston Villa) and Robin van Persie (Arsenal) their nearest rivals who are both on seventeen. Hot-shots. EDIT:Good on you, Tevéz for not letting that lanky, lazy, overrated Bulgarian win it.

Good luck to all the teams today. Except Manchester United, obviously. And Tottenham (so we, LFC, can get fifth).

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