yes been a reds fan ever since i used to sit beside a bloke called clive in 2nd class and he had a red bag with all the trophys liverpool had won on it and i thought thats a great side, i'm going to support them. everything went well for a few years, the 80's were good, the 90's didn't pass by quick enough though! i know what you mean about foreign players but the pool are by no means unique, are there any of the top teams with > 50% english players, actually even greater than 50% british and irish players! i think that the only reason the lower teams have so many is because they can't afford the foreign ones. at least we didn't lose on sunday

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>By "we could have qualified properly" do I take it you're a Reds fan? Liverpool always start the season badly, then they usually have a bad mid-season, but, by the end of the season, they're usually doing badly.
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>It came as a shock that they won in Europe. You've got to remember that they're not exactly a Liverpool team - mainly a bunch of internationals all wearing red. Back in the day (when they won the E cup all the time) the team comprised mainly locals (and the usual mercenary Scots), and the ubiquitous Scottish manager, a time when no fewer than 7 Liverpool players were in the England team.
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>Do you think that should tell the powers-that-be something in English football? I must admit to feeling no great sense of MY HOME TOWN having succeeded in the great endeavour.
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>>ahh the mightiest team in europe, although by saturdays performance you wouldn't think so. i couldn't believe the stat i heard the other day, l'pool had the 4th worst away record in the p'ship and to of the teams with a worse record were relegated, but for a bit of away form we could have qualified properly
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>>>Yeah, well I'm from the capital of Ireland - Liverpool :-)
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>>>>and i thought that gobsh*te was an irish word, just heard him on the radio and i think he called the storm a weapon!
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>>>>>I was absolutely appalled when I read that. No mention of water (I guess that's locked and not loaded). Talk about kicking a man when he's down. OK there's violence and evry man for himself but a little care and some supplies might ease that, Jeez, I feel sick at this. My colleagues here are all fuming over the treatment and lack of help for these poor people (or "folks" as that gobsh*te keeps calling them).
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>>>>>The guardsmen are just cruising around in trucks, "...not even sweating", no shortage of food or water. They obviously come to deal out death to those not far from it. Oh yes they've learnt their trade on the mean streets of Iraq - no help to the "folks" there.
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>>>>>>Lt. Gen. Steven Blum of the National Guard said 7,000 National Guardsmen arriving in Louisiana on Friday would be dedicated to restoring order in New Orleans. He said half of them had just returned from assignments overseas and are "highly proficient in the use of lethal force." He pledged to "put down" the violence "in a quick and efficient manner."
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>>>>>>I like the words of the governer of Lousiana:
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>>>>>>Gov. Kathleen Blanco called the looters "hoodlums" and issued a warning to lawbreakers: Hundreds of National Guardsmen hardened on the battlefield in Iraq have landed in New Orleans.
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>>>>>>"They have M-16s and they're locked and loaded," she said. "These troops know how to shoot and kill, and they are more than willing to do so, and I expect they will."
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>>>>>>Now does anyone have a plan how to get these people out of harms way?
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>>>>>>Seems like the emphsis is on shooting, killing, lethal force and doing little or nothing. Never fear! This story is just what the media needs! It should keep them busy for months. I would like to see reporters from the media helping people instead of "broadcasting from the scene"!!!