You didn't get the best part of the hype. 35,000 people tracked his plane in from Germany.
Pretend like I'm not one of them, they'll never know.
Sterling plays less than 10 games for City and promptly moves to Stoke for £9m
Benteke has a decent season for Liverpool, issues come get me plea to Real or Barca
Rooney refuses to play until he's given a new £400,000 p/w contract
Wenger buys 5 French 14 year olds, Arsenal fail to compete, Board refuses to do anything
Big Andy stays crippled most of the season, appearing only for his traditional butchering of Swansea
Chelsea player racially abuses opposition, is not charged due to being an ENGLISH LIONHEART!!
Steve tries to convince us he's a spurs fan by predicting Tactics Tim takes Spurs back into the EDL.
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You didn't get the best part of the hype. 35,000 people tracked his plane in from Germany.
Pretend like I'm not one of them, they'll never know.
I was aware of that because a bloke in work (there are more Liverpool fans in Cardiff than Cardiff fans #Fact) was doing the same thing. I was trying to find a link to it along with the LivEcho guy weeing himself with excitement over it but it was hidden away in some live updates page somewhere.
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Honestly, the hype is crazy but he could be the man for the job. I've loved watching his passion at Dortmund and if he brings that along with a good sense of humor, he'll be fine.
I expect a spike in stylish glasses and beards all over Anfield.
Like Paul said, him being here just makes Liverpool worth watching again and as a fan, that's all I really want. I trust him to be a little more honest and critical than Brendan usually was, especially post match.
The question is, what can he do with Rodger's spare parts? There are some good pieces but we have far too many players who seem to be the same, few of them really capable of being game-changers. That could be the first and hardest hurdle.
I think a Top 6 finish and a Cup Final run would be a good start.
Also, awesome show of support from Dortmund:
http://www.espnfc.us/blog/the-toe-po...bute-for-klopp
The fact that a former club is wishing him so well speaks volumes to the level of admiration and good will the man can bring with him to Liverpool.
All hail "The Normal One".
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Cyprus still have a shot at the Euro 2016 playoffs. Not bad going.
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Let's all take the time now to laugh at Scotland. You got your independence after all!
Even funnier considering the Scottish FA were one of the main parties who pushed for an expansion to 24 teams. And they still fail to make it!
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Everyone in mae wlad fy nhadau is of course freaking out about Gareth Bale AFC qualifying for Euro 2016 and bringing glory after 57 years of hurt etc but I can't help feeling it is a bit of an empty victory. People either forget or are unaware that the only reason we have qualified is because of UEFA's daft decision to increase the participant nations to 24. I mean finishing second in the group is still a great achievement after the last 20 years of guff but it would normally mean we would advance to a playoff against stronger opposition who we would more than likely lose to. I don't know about you guys but I've watched pretty much every minute of Wales' qualifying games and to say we are blunt up front would be an understatement of immense proportions. Bale can only offer so many moments of magic to bring us the 1-0 win.
That said, I don't think even the most deluded Wales fan honestly thinks we have a chance of getting anywhere in the tournament, we're just going to enjoy the experience. I'm still going to try and get hold of tickets, and have been brushing up on my 'mange tout's and 'bonnet de douche's in anticipation
there was a picture here
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I'm still going to try and get hold of tickets, and have been brushing up on my 'mange tout's and 'bonnet de douche's in anticipation
Empty victory? For god's sake, you just made the European Championships, just enjoy it. The expansion to 24 teams has actually made the qualifiers interesting for once.
Plus Albania have just qualified, that will make Scotland feel even better.
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I can understand Wales and Ireland laughing it up about Scotland falling short, but England have been knocked out of the Rugby World Cup at the group stage on their home turf while the rest of the home nations went through. Meanwhile, their national football team is the England national football team which I'm pretty sure most England fans concede is a joke in it's own right.
Haven't seen much on the news up here about Scotland missing out tbh. There's the clamour of "should he stay or should he go" for Strachan but the guys themselves are just shrugging and going "Oh well."
As for me, I keep looking at how NZ has to get through a South American team to get into WC 2018 and am preparing myself to say "Oh well." also.
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
England have won every single game in qualification (so far, they'll bugger it up tonight just to ruin my post!) which would only be the 6th time a team has ever done that. If that's a joke, where's the punchline? Whatever digs people want to aim at them for their record over the years, it's not a bad thing to be actually proud of the team when they do well and it's a good accomplishment.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying England are some awful side. It's the entirety of England international football that is the joke, and the punchline will come again and again. If it's not the team, it's the coach. If it's not the coach, it's the media. And of course, if it's not the media, it's the fans. Either way, they will get hyped up to win, lose and there will be some kind of inquiry into why England are not the best team in the world.
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
Exactly! 10-wins-out-of-10 and there is no other country in Europe to do it. This obviously means we're going to walk the Euros in the summer. I mean, who else can compete with a 100% record? Bring on the fodder!
You're living in the past. Sure, you have the odd nutter here and there who think Ing-ur-lund will do it but they're dwindling. Since 2012, coinciding with the Roy Hodgson years I guess, there's been vastly reduced expectation on England and compared to The Golden Generation™ years when the whole nation was convinced they'd win between 1996 and 2010, peaking in 04 and 06. England fans have changed from Liverpool fans (THIS YEAR IS OUR YEAR) to Aston Villa fans (yeah we're kind of trout and we know it. oh well) in that time.
Obviously the bitter Scottish perceptions of England haven't changed so I can see why you might think that...
2010 was definitely the moment where the narrative of 'England can do well this time, honest!' seemed to crumble. They had breezed qualifying, everyone saw Capello as a great antidote to McLaren's dismal reign, they had a relatively soft World Cup group, and then they were just so bad in the tournament (to the extent that nobody even complained that much about Lampard's over the line not given goal) it seemed to be the final straw. That sense of entitlement hasn't been there in 2012 and 2014, everyone's been too gloomy.
England tend to do well in qualifying anyway, the qualifying campaigns for the 1994 World Cup and Euro 2008 (where England failed) and Euro 2000 (England won three games, two of which were against Luxembourg and scraped through a playoff) tend to be the exceptions.
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