It is now time to switch to a new Money AM football blog as the world cup is now over and we all look to the future.....World cup 2010 is over, Bravo Espana, and Forlan, once again and bring on the new season !.....I never expected the last thread to be such a success...thanks all.... so this new one might go on for years without the need to edit the title...we shall see...

Going for Derby County tonight.....do the opposite...probably be right knowing my luck....

Well its been six games since Ole left and 11 points which equates to 84 points and automatic promotion over a full season.

Five of the six games were against teams above us in the table when we played them and 2 wins were against previously undefeated teams and a draw away against the current leaders Derby.

One slip up was against bottom team Blackpool where a draw would have been a fair result.

If we beat Millwall Saturday then Russell Slade's gonna be in with a shout for manager of the month after only three games !

Onwards and upwards , bloooooobirds,

.... and I don't care what that gypo manager Monk thinks as far as I'm concerned and every other Cardiff fan , it was a definite penalty for Stoke on Sunday.

:-)

Raheem Sterling partied in London until 3am... just a day after Liverpool star was 'too tired' to play for England
Raheem Sterling was too tired to start for England against Estonia 
However, Liverpool star partied in London until 3am the day after the match
The winger was joined at a trendy London club by Arsenal pair Danny Welbeck and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain 
By DAN FRANCIS FOR THE DAILY MAIL

PUBLISHED: 00:48, 22 October 2014 | UPDATED: 14:02, 22 October 2014

Were is Stan ?

Perhaps he's in a nightclub with Sterling.

On the ftse comp thread he posted his thanks when he won at the end of Sept and said not much time to post anymore . Perhaps he has won the lottery. :-))

Stan, have you won the lottery or are you clubbing with Sterling?

Liverpool receiving a football lesson from Real Madrid 3-0.

Liverpool being taken apart right now.

Edit, snap Chris!

Embarrasing db :0)

Graeme Souness looks as if he is about to be sick!

Aye, Shanks will be turning in his grave.

As Shanks said, "It's not a matter of life and death, it's much more important than that".

By Paul Hayward, Chief Sports Writer Anfield
9:00AM BST 23 Oct 2014
Liverpool's £16m gamble on Mario Balotelli, which seemed reasonable at the time, has rebounded and Brendan Rodgers is left with a problem

The irresistible brilliance of Real Madrid’s front six was more than Liverpool’’s great European tradition could withstand. More than Mario Balotelli could be bothered to fight against. More than Brendan Rodgers’s team can cope with at this point in their redevelopment.

Ripped apart by three Real Madrid goals in 29 minutes after a boisterous start, Liverpool were in a lower solar system: one measured by individual match-winning talent and sheer weight of money. England’s most successful European Cup club are building, building, towards a future without Luis Suárez.

But resigned is the only way to describe the Anfield crowd as their heroes sought sanctuary in the dressing room and Balotelli chose the most inflammatory moment to swap shirts with Pepe.

The £16 million gamble on Balotelli, which seemed reasonable at the time, has now rebounded on a team in desperate need of Daniel Sturridge, who was missing again with injury. The less than Super Mario began his Liverpool career with an industrious performance at Spurs but that promise has fizzled out.


Against Queens Park Rangers and again here, he constructed his own private universe, away from toil, away from engagement with his colleagues, free of passion and intensity. Against Real Madrid (against QPR for that matter), a striker simply cannot afford to stand around like Mr Micawber, hoping something will turn up.

At half-time he was gone, with only a Pepe shirt as consolation. It sums up the perversity of Balotelli’s outlook, you might say, that he ended up with the jersey of Real’s least glamorous player. The result for Liverpool was that Raheem Sterling was pulled away from his best position – though the centre – to take up the No 9 position, with Adam Lallana in support.

By the interval, the chests of Liverpool’s players were heaving as they found respite at last from the side-to-side rhythms and knifing runs of Real’s attackers.


Madrid are not settling for their décima of European titles. They were not going to allow the 5-0 aggregate defeat of five years ago to pass unavenged. Ronaldo was not stopping on 69 Champions League goals. Europe’s champions were not content with seven straight victories and 32 goals.

Carlo Ancelotti’s team were not playing the PR game of two great institutions clashing in a cathedral. They came to wipe out Premier League opposition, however it dressed, however proud it was.

At the kick-off Ronaldo was already ahead of Liverpool’s whole team on goals scored this term. He led 19-17. Within 22 minutes he had moved one behind Raul’s all-time Champions League record haul of 71, with an exquisite lift past Simon Mignolet. It was a kind of velvet finish: soft cruelty, which told Ronaldo’s team-mates that the deluge was on.

Surely Liverpool had never faced such a stockpile of global talent. The term “front six” is chosen carefully. With Xabi Alonso now in Germany, Real felt sufficiently emboldened to jog out here without a specialist defensive midfielder. Many back fours would resent such an imbalance of creative players. This one can rest easy, at least against the Premier League’s fifth best team.

Even without the world’s most expensive footballer, Gareth Bale, Real could send out the world’s No 1 player, Ronaldo, in a terrifying six-man pack in front of the back four. Even Luka Modric, the most nominally ‘defensive’ of the bench, can thread and poke dangerous passes. Weaving patterns is how he made his name.

Alongside him in central midfield stood Toni Kroos, a World Cup winner with Germany and the best young player of his type. To the right roamed James Rodríguez, one of the sensations of Brazil 2014, Golden Boot winner and an €80 million (£63 million) purchase this summer. Not forgetting Benzema, who has 40 goals in 68 Champions League appearances and has reached his prime alongside Ronaldo.


Without Bale, Madrid were still able to whistle up Isco, a €30 million (£23.6  million) signing with amazingly adhesive and quick-working feet. Isco tackles like a super-powered crab. And his dribbling, not the quickest, is deceptively incisive. Of the big names in this Real side, only Rodríguez is still struggling to find his role: a product, inevitably, of finding himself in the court of the sun king, Ronaldo.

For Rodgers the Balotelli problem now sits at the top of his in-tray, as he admitted here. Lacking faith in Rickie Lambert at this level, Liverpool’s manager is bound to face dressing room unrest. No group of major players is willing to go carrying passengers.

As the first half hour wore on, resentment seemed to gnaw at Liverpool’s midfielders as Balotelli strolled back towards the action. Sterling, especially, seemed less than keen to involve him in the work the rest of the team were doing.

This is a big season for Rodgers: his Champions League graduation year. To his left stood one of only two coaches to win three European Cups: Ancelotti, one of six to have also won it as a player. The only other manager with three titles is well known in these parts: Bob Paisley, the reluctant genius, as he was known, who maintained a fine tradition of striking fear into Liverpool’s European visitors.

There was no fear in Real after 15 minutes. By the end we saw Ronaldo saved for this weekend’s Clásico, and a hush descend on Anfield. Real Madrid, who might have pressed for five or six, settled increasingly for three, except on intermittent counter-attacks, where Ronaldo seemed to enter the nervous 70s before being taken off.

The gulf in class was consistent with Liverpool’s current form and Real’s glittering array of artistry. And the ordeal has not passed. Liverpool must face them again, in the Bernabéu. Reality has another slap in the face to deliver.

Everton fans 'hit with tear gas' in Lille before Europa League game

That happened last night skinny. Everton fans were attacked outside (20) a pub by a French gang,riot police turned up and laid into the Everton fans typical. 7,000 Everton fans expected today. Let's see how brave the French Txxxs are then.. Kick off 6pm live on ITV4.

The French police don't mess around, it only takes one idiot to throw a bottle and it all goes haywire.

Is the match on Sky?

Just read your post Chris, ITV4.