English Football

Stepping down a few leagues. Goalkeeper sent off after 10 seconds. Good going son!!

haha!

i fancied spurs to get a draw and im glad they won in the end with loads of drama *cough* gattuso!

i reckon it'll be a 2-1 win for barca tonight tho :/

 You should have heard my house when Crouch scored. That match was amazing!!! The only bad things for me were that flamini and gattuso did not get sent off. although gattuso was funny. I still think Joe Jordan could have taken him though.

I always backed Spurs to win for some reason, I really want a Tottenham V Barcelona final.

Flamini should have been sent off, doesn't matter what league it is it's two footed and dangerous with his studs showing. Imbrahimovic's push was minimal but he had his hands on Dawson's back and there was no need for that.

The Arsenal game was good, although it was the worst game I've seen Messi play all year, Arsenal showed a great level of resillience and maturity but I still think Barcelona will come through after the second league.

Europa League is back waheey!

Manchester City already played their last 32 1st leg, 0-0 draw in Greece against Aris Thessalonika, with a strong team mind you. You would expect City to win at Eastlands though.

Sparta Prague V Liverpool – No Gerrard, Agger, Poulsen, Suarez or Carroll. I hope Raheem Sterling gets a game. He got 5 goals in a FA youth cup game on Monday and looks a really good prospect. Conor Coady, Jack Robinson, Tom Ince are all going aswell. Nice to see Kenny using young players.

Other British interest involves Rangers V Sporting Lisbon at Ibrox tonight. Tough tie for Rangers but I don't know enough about either team to make a call on this one.

Will also be keeping an eye on Lech Poznan V Braga because if Liverpool make it through to the Last 16, we will be playing the winners of that tie.

FA Cup is back at the weekend! I'll probably leave a big post regarding that for tomorrow.

The Europa League has been very disappointing this year, another soul-sucking 90 minutes last night. The team did seem to start attacking and we could've worked more openings only for a very poor showing from David Ngog. In the latter stages of the second half though Fabio Aurelio, in a central midfield position, picked up an adductor strain so Raul Meireles had to be pulled back and Joe Cole was brought on but didn't provide much spark.

The team formation was very defensive for Kenny anyways, I think he wanted the draw. He played 4-4-1-1. A flat back four of Glen Johnson, Jamie Carragher, Sotirios Kyrgiakos and Danny Wilson. Johnson and Wilson didn't get forward much which is unusual for Liverpool full backs under Dalglish

Dirk Kuyt and Maxi Rodriguez struggled on the wings all game and our shortage in central midfield was exposed with Lucas and Fabio Aurelio starting there. Raul Meireles started behind David Ngog.

Providing Sparta don't nick a goal at Anfield I am still quite adamant we'll go through. I think we'll revert back to a 3-4-2-1 formation, hopefully with Gerrard and Agger fit, Kuyt playing central forward and Kelly and Johnson marauding full backs.

As for Rangers, they conceded a very, very bad late away goal against Sporting Lisbon. You get the feeling they're going to have to score in Portugal.

FA CUP!!

Until Sunday I am officially a Crawley Town fan, they mix my two favourite things. They're serious underdogs and they're playing United. Despite anything though, you struggle to see them beating United at Old Trafford.

Chelsea and Manchester City are only playing their fourth round replays this weekend, I think the Chelsea V Everton game could be a very good game because although you wouldn't think it ever possible, David Moyes really needs a result. Arsenal should have no problems away to Leyton Orient.

Let's talk Summer transfers for a while.

As regards to Liverpool we need to strenghten pretty much everywhere. The two names constantly being linked already, I know it's only February but Napoli striker Ezzequiel Lavezzi, nicknamed 'El Pocho' and worth about 20 million euros.

The other name, and knoxie and any other toon fan wont want to hear it but it's Jose Enrique. A very good left back and worth around 12 million pounds I am led to believe.

I'd love to see either of those two join but we also need a left winger and Rennes winger Sylvain Marveaux has signed a pre-contract agreement and will join Liverpool on July 1st for free.

We need a central midfielder and I'd love to see Charlie Adam play for Liverpool but it is seeming more likely that Alberto Aquilani will be returning to Anfield. Juventus seem unwilling to pay the 20 million pound asking price to make his loan deal permanent at the end of the season. Especially with Andrea Pirlo going for free in the Summer.

Phew, that must have been my longest post yet.

i was dissapionted how Barca played on Wendesday nite expsecially how they let in the goals

I hope they do better at Camp Nou

Well Liverpool have needed a proper left back for a while, Jose Enrique would fit nicely into the system as he's useful going forward. I would rather Fabio Coentrao in a perfect world. I think loyal footballers are becoming more and more rare, 3 weeks before Torres left he said that he didn't want to leave etc, so I wouldn't be too surprised about any player leaving the club they 'love'.

There has been a lot of buzz about a possible move from Liverpool for Gervinho, but we'll let you have Gervinho and we can have Lavezzi. Karim Benzema has also been a name floating around Liverpool, if Real Madrid keep Adebayor at the end of the season and get Higuain back to the fitness they might let Benzema leave.

I saw the first bit of the Chelsea V Everton game and it was boring so I went to play FIFA, I was just about to turn it off and come back up to the game when knoxie wanted to play some games. When I eventually went to watch the game it was at Ashley Cole's penalty so I blame you Mr. Knoxie for me missing the good bit of the game, haha I wouldn't mind either but you beat me twice aswel.