Liverpool out, back it up everyone, nothing to see here.

[Doc Sark]

How are Everton going to seriously compete in Europe without Gravesen? They will fall off the pace due to their tiny squad size. The fact that Liverpool are ABOVE middlesboro in the league and only 7 points away from an Everton team who has had its heart ripped out of it, suggests that anyone writing us off getting a champions league spot this year would be a fool.

Also, what's this crap about being not being a top three team. We have had two top three finishes in the last five seasons, more than any other team outside of the top three, therefore we are top three challengers. Had it not been for the plethora of injuries this season we may well have been closer to the top three. Don't make silly statements that you can't back out. Liverpool are very rarely outside of the top four challenging for third place at least. With the exception of Houllier's last two years in charge.

[NM]

There's no chance Everton can stay in forth place. Every year there's a suprise team in 4th place and they always end up 8th or there abouts come the end of the season.

Plus if Arsenal or Man Utd had, had the injury proplems Liverpoll have suffered they'ed be in the same position. Chelsea are the only team who could cope with the loss of that many quality players.

[Emily52]

If you did mean the Premiership, Chelsea are 1st, 10pts ahead of Assenhole aka Arsenal, who are a single point ahead of Man Utd.

Come on CHELSEA!!!!!!!

Chelsea stink.

NO THEY DON'T. *Offended*

The year 10's at my school call me Kezman (I know he's crap) because i wore the black chelsea away shirt to school once, and it has Kezman on the back!

[tomamar04]

Man United have had the injury problems Liverpool had;

Rooney was out for 3 months,
van Nistelrooy is out on a long-term injury,
Gary Neville was injured for several weeks over Christmas,
So was Ferdinand,
and Giggs,
Saha has been injured almost from the beginning of the season until a few weeks ago,
Ronaldo and Heinze (two of our most influential players) were at the Olympics and missed the beginning of the season.

I also believe Silvestre, Scholes and Keane have had niggling injuries.

In fact our only first-team outfield players that haven't been injured have been Fletcher and Smith.

[Doc Sark]

Heinze hadn't even played for United in the premiership so you couldn't say he was influential at the time of the olympics. Anyway that's different, its the players choice whether they play in that mickey mouse tournament, so the players fault they are out of action, unlike injuries. Ferdinand getting himself a ban also doesn't count because it's his own stupid fault. The odd game he has missed since haven't amounted to anything significant. Scholes has missed like 3 league games all season so has Keane. Boo hoo. And lets face it with strikers like Man U's, they should be doing better than they are in the league anyway. I can remember only one league game this season where Man Utd "HAD" to field a lone striker in Alan Smith because of the injuries to Ruud, Rooney and Saha. Man Utd have had about five or six major injuries this season and at the end of the day, Man Utd have got the money and the pulling power to sort these miniscule problems out, most other clubs in the Premiership don't have that kind of money. I'm beginning to think you are one of those people that doesn't think about what they are saying. It's easy to have your judgement clouded by the Man Utd - Liverpool rivalry but seriously, get your facts right.

Gerrard, Finnan, Josemi, Kirkland, Garcia, Nunez, Cisse, Baros, Hyppia, Kewell, Nunez, Smicer and Alonso have all had lengthy injuries that have kept them out for more than just one or two games. Hyppia (hip) is now injured, Kewell (groin) is still injured, Cisse (leg) is out for the season, Smicer (knee) has been out all season, as was Nunez up until just before xmas, Alonso (ankle) til april, Kirkland (back) til April plus an injury at the beginning of the year, Josemi (knee) still out, on top of all the current injuries we lost Gerrard for 2 months and Garcia and Baros for six weeks, all around the same time as losing Cisse. It's not enough to count up your injured players and go, "oh there you go we've had the same injury crisis." Rubbish, the only team that have had it as bad injury wise, probably worse in fact is Southampton. And look at them.....mweh and possibly Middlesbrough.

[tomamar04]

I'm not going to deny it, supporting United has turned me into a self-centred, arrogant guy (in football terms only), and with being self-centred and arrogant, I often don't like to admit I'm wrong. But I didn't realise how bad Liverpool's injury list has been.

But you've got to admit, United have had it worse than Chelsea and Arsenal.

Oh and I'm sorry that your injury poblems stopped you from winning against 18th in the table Southampton. I salute you Peter Crouch, you lanky legend! (god, I did have a good laugh Saturday, around 2.30)

[Doc Sark]

It's Liverpool tradition. Every season we have to lose to a team fighting for their lives...Ipswich, Bradford, Watford, Southampton, the list goes on.

I think it might have been the same sort of amusement the rest of the country got when Portsmouth just as easily beat United earlier this season. For the second season running. Yakubu you miniscule master. Oh i did have a good laugh that day.

[NM]

Let us not forget that United also lost to Wolves last season as well. So i'm sure there'll be a bad result left for Man U somwhere between now and May.

We will have our vengence in this season or the next. Or something like that.

[tomamar04]

They probably will pick up a bad result, but it's even more likely that Arsenal will, and as Chelsea has practically won the title, that is why I think Man United will finish 2nd.

Oh, and Charlton for the Champions League! (qualification, of course)

[Doc Sark]

Yeah. Because they weren't in a similar position this time last year and ended up finishing about 8th. Charlton. Please.

[Polaris]

If you did mean the Premiership, Chelsea are 1st, 10pts ahead of Assenhole aka Arsenal, who are a single point ahead of Man Utd.

I bet that Man Utd. will come to the 2nd place!

[Doc Sark]

Oh it just gets better and better.

Pongolle has torn his anterior cruciate ligament. Won't see him back this season. Bloody spindly legged freak. At least we're in the final of one competition.

[tomamar04]

Yeah, being runners-up in the Carling Cup can't be too bad...

They way Liverpool have been playing since he arrived, Morientes will be out of Liverpool before the 2005-2006 season starts.

[gokufusionss1]

yes more injuries at this rate they'll have to let me play for the team.

[Doc Sark]

Yeah, being runners-up in the Carling Cup can't be too bad...

They way Liverpool have been playing since he arrived, Morientes will be out of Liverpool before the 2005-2006 season starts.

What are you talking about?