Newcastle United v Liverpool - Official Build Up / Match Day Thread

The guy on the bottom left of this pic seemed to be starting a lot of chants.

 

Thanks wish Steve McManaman had seen it like that, he gave us no credit at all.

 

That's Steve McManaman for you.

 

Yep at least Owen Hargreaves and David Ginola gave us the credit we deserved.

 

As I say, strike while the irons hot (little bit of word play Alan being a former iron and currently flattening his critics )

 

I'm now back in the land of the living after a serious real ale fest in Wylam

Gotta say I'm really proud of the way:

1- Our team stood up to be counted
2- Our fans really got behind the lads

It was a fantastic game to witness and a couple of my friends (both neutrals) said we deserved to win hands down and also said there is no way in hell we are relegation fodder.

Let's hope this is a stepping stone towards a real push for mid table... and with a bit of strengthening in January.... oh there I go... getting carried away again....

 

How ironic is that.

 

Now now AB, we don't want a debate on irony. The mackems will get upset over misuse.

 

Infamy?

 

you will have to get your dictionary out again.

 

Dummett's goal...

[video=youtube;Lku-44DeRIY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lku-44DeRIY[/video]

 

Good game, would have probably won it had you not gone down to 10

The Gerrard sending off is way off the mark, never a first yellow so the ref didn't book him on the one that was more a yellow, was fair enough, he never deserved to go off. The ref made 1 or two mistakes but got the big decisions right.

And the Heysel comment Despicable.

Good luck for the rest of the season, if you lot play like that often you'll do well

 

Agree that Gerrard's first yellow was soft and probably wouldn't have been given in most matches, but that doesn't mean you let a genuine one go unpunished afterwards. But, I'm not surprised by it. Overall, I think the officials did well. It wasn't a dirty game and they kept it flowing fairly well. Good luck.

 

Wasn't a dirty game but he booked 5 and sent 1 off.

 

Not bad nowadays! Often have more. The pen was fair enough, but not malicious.

 

To be fair I've seen game this season where there is no bookings, so they book someone for a nothing foul in the last 5 minutes.

 

Maybe they're on commission.

 

Or match fixing.

 

The Liverpool fans didn't think it was a pen but they've been very complimentary about our performance and seemed to think we deserved to get something out of the game.