Man Utd vs Liverpool, Premier League KO:13:30. 13th January. Pre-Match Build-Up

Slur Alex is having a pop at every f**ker - Sturridge, Luis, Stevie and the gaffer whilst doing his best to influence the ref.

Prize c**t!

If we get beat I hope Shelvey kicks him hard right in the F***ing bollocks. In fact no matter what the result I hope Shelvey kicks him in the bollocks.

Team talk will be a doddle for Rodgers now and I'd hate to have to clean the toilets over at Castle Greyskull when this one has finished.

LETS f***in AV IT YOU MANC SCUMBAGS!!

I dreamed this night that Suarez scored a goal after picking up the ball out right on the midfield, making a diagonal run towards goal and shooting a thunderous strike with his left past their keeper's legs. We won the match, but I can't remember the result!

Here's hoping that actually happens!!

Oh and if things aren't going too well, snap  rvps legs and give the title to citeh!

Only if things aren't going too well? And can we get Ferdy too?

Only if things aren't going too well? And can we get Ferdy too?

I stand corrected, do it regardless. Thanks for reminding me about Vag lips, I just remembered when he and Evra tried to do Luis at the beginning of the last game at OT, but our clever boy saw it coming and gave ferdy a shove, c**t nearly broke his neck. F***ing hell I become really nasty when it's this lot!

I stand corrected, do it regardless. Thanks for reminding me about Vag lips, I just remembered when he and Evra tried to do Luis at the beginning of the last game at OT, but our clever boy saw it coming and gave ferdy a shove, c**t nearly broke his neck. F***ing hell I become really nasty when it's this lot!

We all do. These cu*ts bring it out in us. It's just a show of how detestable they truly are.

That f**ker Ferguson really has had alot to say this time hasn't he?

F***ing ram it back down his drunken throat redmen, I F***ing despise that old whiskey c**t, I really do F***ing hate him.

Don't care how we do it, just get it done, preferably Suarez diving for a pen, before it rebounds off the crossbar and he punches it into the net and celebrates right in front of that lying b***ard Evra.

I think we're guaranteed goals today no matter what, how many I have no idea. I have a sneaking suspicion a draw is on the cards, it just feels like that kind of day. Having said that, I'd much prefer a 0 - 6 drubbing please lads.

C'MON THE REDMEN, DO US PROUD! 


 

The basis for this interview is today's game so I thought I'd put it in here as its a good one and well worth a read. Got to love Carra's honesty and attitude. True legend.

24 Carra gold!:

Manchester United v Liverpool: Jamie Carragher takes the long view of Anfield destiny ahead of Old Trafford trip

By Jason Burt
10:00PM GMT 12 Jan 2013

Jamie Carragher captained Liverpool during last Sunday’s FA Cup tie away to Mansfield Town. This Sunday he expects to be back on the bench for the resonating Premier League trip to Manchester United.

It has, understandably, taken time for such a proud competitor to reconcile himself to the fact that he is no longer first choice. “If I was in this situation 10 years ago or even four or five years ago then I would have left, there’s no doubt about that,” Carragher admits.

“But now, I’m coming towards the latter part of my career and I don’t want to cause a problem for my club. I’ve never even spoken to the manager [Brendan Rodgers] about my situation or said I want to play. I wouldn’t want to do that.

“He doesn’t need me asking if I can play in certain games and, listen, Daniel Agger and Martin Skrtel are better than me now. They should be playing. In a one-off game my performances are still good enough to play for Liverpool, but not when it’s three games a week.

“I’ve had my go, the team wasn’t built around me but I was one of the main players. It’s their team now and I help — that’s the way I look at it and I wouldn’t want to cause anyone at the club a problem or finish at the end of the season or the next 18 months with a cloud over me.”

That will never happen — whether Carragher, 34, signs a new deal this year or not — and a conversation he had with Jamie Redknapp springs to mind. “Last season when I started to be sub a lot I was getting frustrated,” Carragher reveals. “He told me 'there’s nothing worse than a bitter sub’ and that stayed with me. And what he meant is you still have to prepare properly. If you watch me, I’m always warming up, I don’t just sit on the bench. I could be on any minute. I do my running after the game, my massage before, my ice bath.”

It is part of Carragher’s character and also, he goes on to explain, a key component of “the Liverpool way”. “I’m always thinking about football,” he says. “I’ve never taken anything for granted and always thought 'I might get dropped’. I always train and play as if it’s my last game. I’m always thinking 'how will the manager use me?’ When I was playing regularly, and we lost, that was me for days. I couldn’t sleep either. I never switch off and don’t do so now.” For too long, of course, Liverpool have been sleeping. A sleeping giant.

Too often managers — and players — have been chopped and changed and Carragher says, with Rodgers, it is time for that to stop.

“Liverpool are different from most clubs,” he explains. “And what has happened in the past few years with changing managers is not Liverpool Football Club. The thinking with Brendan Rodgers is that we want to build something for the future and get back to where we were.

“The manager has to get results, but you see other clubs changing managers and we’ve done that and it’s not the Liverpool way.”

The 'Liverpool way’ means a lot to Carragher; the last link to the club’s fabled “boot-room”. “Sometimes people think it’s an old-fashioned view – sometimes our supporters say it even – and I can understand that. They look and say 'why are you harking back to what Bill Shankly did or Bob Paisley?’ but those values still mean something today.

“The humility of the club, you never see players step out of line here or think they are bigger than the club. The manager is always the boss. I look at other clubs and think there’s a way of conducting yourself. To be honest, there have been times over the last few years at this club when I’ve thought 'that’s not the Liverpool way, should you really be getting involved in that’?

“Your onus as a player is: do your job, keep quiet, back the manager. That respect for the Liverpool way is something I’d like to keep up. It’s engrained in the club and it’s something I have to maintain and the players after me have to maintain. It’s about not being too big for your boots. I was brought up like that.” It is a characteristic of Liverpool as a club, the city also.

For Carragher, who grew up an Evertonian, the Merseyside derby will always be “the biggest” but he recognises that the clash along the East Lancs Road with United has “traditionally been the biggest” for the Premier League.

“At the moment people might sneer at that comment,” he adds, mindful of Liverpool’s decline. “I guess some fans at other clubs will say 'you are talking about a different era now’,” Carragher says.

“For now, also, the Manchester derby might be a bigger game in terms of winning trophies but history, fan-base, trophies still dictate this match.”

The rivalry remains sharp — and sharp-tongued. “I have great respect for Sir Alex Ferguson, Giggs, Scholes — the trophies they’ve won. But I don’t like seeing them win and I was glad that Man City won the league last year rather than Manchester United”.

Really? “Oh yeah,” Carragher says. “You look at what United have achieved and it’s fantastic and they have been the club over the last 15-20 years as Liverpool were before. And that’s what we’re been trying to get back to.”

The rivalry is also built on “respect” and Carragher echoes Ferguson in saying “I don’t think there’s been a problem between Man United and Liverpool”. He adds: “Obviously we had a situation with Suárez and Evra but that’s not something that happens all the time. There’s respect between the clubs and players. I’ve had a few words with Alex Ferguson in the tunnel but I’m sure we’ve both had that with a lot of people because we are passionate, because we want to win. You are fighting for your own team.”

What was said? “I was probably trying to stop him talking to the referee, that’s the usual one!” Carragher says. “And he was probably doing the same to me. I admire his will to win, his passion. That’s how I am as a player.

“There are also a lot of similarities between the clubs. Sir Alex Ferguson is to Man United what Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley were to Liverpool He’s there and we have to stop him and United and by doing so we will be better ourselves, and more successful. Maybe with a new manager here, a young manager, who was like Alex Ferguson when he took over at Man United — you can’t say he [Rodgers] will stay as long as Alex Ferguson because he’s a one-off – but hopefully he will be here a good, long time and set some foundations for the future.”

It may, Carragher accepts, take Ferguson to retire for United to be “knocked off their perch” (to borrow — and clean-up – the Scot’s own phrase) and Carragher said Liverpool must be there to take advantage. First, they have to get back into the top four and the Champions League, but he despairs at how some clubs see this as an end in itself.

“You can’t put fourth place on a mantelpiece,” Carragher says. “Listen, we’d be delighted with fourth but the way the game is now there are so many statistics, and managers talk about statistics – 'last season we got so many points, goals, we’ve not lost in 10 games’ – and I’m thinking 'great but at the end of your career what do you remember? You remember semi-finals, finals, away in Europe, how you got there, who you were with, how you got home! It’s about memories, not statistics and they come from winning trophies, not staying in the Premier League or getting fourth place.

“I always remember Leeds as a perfect example. It was always talked about that 'this team got to the semi-finals of the Champions League’. So what?

“What did they ever win? What did they actually do? OK, they got to the semi-final and got beat by Valencia. Big deal. I would rather have won the Carling Cup. You always want to win something.”

There is one glaring absence from Carragher’s own impressive collection: the Premier League title. “It’s been a disappointment,” and admits he does not think it will happen in his playing career. “But we’ve only really had two title challenges in 15 years and I can’t really say we threw it away.”

Carragher may have another role to play. He has spoken about going into coaching and management and is considering a career in the media. He would be a natural at both. “Maybe it’s something for later,” he says of management before, tellingly, adding: “It’s in the back of mind — and I do think about it every day.” The dream, clearly, would be to help restore Liverpool to the peak.

“It will happen one day,” Carragher maintains. “If we get things right, and I think the manager will do, and bring through players from the Academy and build a team – then we will challenge. Football goes in cycles. Liverpool will be back.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/9797318/Manchester-United-v-Liverpool-Jamie-Carragher-takes-the-long-view-of-Anfield-destiny-ahead-of-Old-Trafford-trip.html

Let's skull F**k them.

Lucas: Luis won't be bothered

Liverpool talisman Luis Suarez will use any hostility from the home support at Old Trafford on Sunday as extra motivation, according to teammate and friend Lucas Leiva.

The Uruguayan goes in search of his 20th goal of the season against Barclays Premier League leaders Manchester United, with the Reds' No.7 enjoying his finest goalscoring form since arriving at Anfield.
 
Aside from the pocket of travelling Liverpool fans, there'll be little crowd support for Suarez on Sunday - but Lucas has no concerns about how that will affect his colleague.
 
"I don't think it will bother him," the Brazilian midfielder explained to the Independent.
 
"He gets it at every stadium that he goes to, so this is just one more for him. I think he copes very well with that, and if people still criticise him for everything and he keeps on scoring goals I don't think he'll be worried about it.
 
"Of course it's not nice to see a player, a friend, get that amount of abuse but that's the way it is.
 
"He's a strong character and he's showing everyone the quality he has on the pitch. That's the most important thing at the moment.
 
"I'm very close to Luis. He's a family man, he loves his daughter and his wife and he's with them all of the time and looks after them and concentrates on his football career.
 
"He's very nice, very open, but I understand sometimes why he's not too open [with the media] because of the way he gets treated. I just think sometimes he tries to protect himself and that's the best way. I don't know if it hurts, I never ask him.
 
"That's the strong character that he has and maybe instead of it being a negative thing it could be a positive thing. A lot of players like the boos and it gives them that bit extra."
 
Lucas watched from the stands as the Reds were cruelly beaten by Sunday's opponents earlier in the season, but warned that growing momentum can reverse the result this time around.
 
The 26-year-old added: "We lost and had a few concerns about the game, we had Jonjo [Shelvey] sent off, which didn't help, then the penalty, and at the end of the day that was crucial for the result.
 
"But we had a lot of chances.
 
"It was at the start of a new season, with a new manager and a few players coming in and some leaving, but even against Manchester United and Manchester City we showed we're capable of competing against these big teams.
 
"Of course, the start was not ideal, but afterwards we improved and have good momentum now."

http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/latest-news/lucas-luis-won-t-be-bothered

Dont you just love Carra ,as for today just have a feeling if we turn up right ,we can do these, plenty have promised to do it already ,it may as well be us,come on redmen lets go and smash their back door in. As long as we keep our discipline  we can more than hold our own with these ,fck persil you can keep him quiet ,would have Luis in my team any day of the week ,just hope the lad has a stormer today.

If people remember, Van Persie had an absolute shocker against us at Anfield this season. All he done was step up to take the pen they were gifted and Reina almost saved it.

Suarez very rarely has an off day against any team. He never has an off day against these.

We need Agger and Skrtel to be at their best today

If people remember, Van Persie had an absolute shocker against us at Anfield this season. All he done was step up to take the pen they were gifted and Reina almost saved it.

Suarez very rarely has an off day against any team. He never has an off day against these.

Yes, but Van Persie is that kind of player. He can be quiet all game and still get 1, 2, 3 goals so we need to be alive to his danger.

This is the day I love most about LFC. The day we unite in love for our club and hatred for them. Hopefully get to see some of the first half in the airport but will miss the 2nd half as I'll be on a plane. Going to be hell not knowing what is going on. Come on Reds!

We should not focus too much on Van Persie, Hernandez is also prolific and a match winner.

Gutted I am missing this one. will be a work. Almost thought about resigning. Hope we get a fantastic win and Suarez scores the winner.

Hate this game. Can't bear to watch it in the pub so i'll be going the gym, sitting on an excercise bike and peddling my way through it with the headphones on.

If we're 3 nil up at half-time I m ight find my way to the pub though :-)

Supposed line up

Reina
Wisdom
Skrtel
Agger
Johnson

Lucas
Gerrard
Allen

Sterling
Suarez
Downing

Fort his game id love to have seen Stuuridge start but hes a great option for us from the bench, also would have gone with Henderson over Allen

Hope Andre is top form as utd will most likely pinpoint him as a weakness in our side 

Let's skull F**k them.

Wise words indeed. 

Jeez, I'm so pumped for this game.....got my 'Were not Racist, we only hate mancs T'shirt on' 

Come on you mighty REDMEN let's spank the mancs !!!

F***ing COME ON YOU REDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jeez, I'm so pumped for this game.....got my 'Were not Racist, we only hate mancs T'shirt on' 

Come on you mighty REDMEN let's spank the mancs !!!

Hope you have the curtains shut and the heating on Cas...

Just a tee shirt 

Wise words indeed. 

Indeed.. 

Not sure what it means like

I'll be honest, I'm' not expecting anything here today.

So to come away with a point would be pretty boss for me.