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[Hector Grey]

Yeah, Suarez. Jeez. What can you do? Everyone who was shit in the last couple of games was better today. Norwich didn't play badly, really, but I still think the opposition can run at the defence far too easily. I worry for the City/Chelsea matrix. That could hurt.

 

[Unicron]

Yeah, Suarez. Jeez. What can you do? Everyone who was shit in the last couple of games was better today. Norwich didn't play badly, really, but I still think the opposition can run at the defence far too easily. I worry for the City/Chelsea matrix. That could hurt.

When I finally saw the first goal on MOTD last night I felt a little let down, twitter had talked it up too much.

The third though, was unbelievably good.

 

[Hector Grey]

When I finally saw the first goal on MOTD last night I felt a little let down, twitter had talked it up too much.

The third though, was unbelievably good.

We're that spoiled by the man, are we? 45 yard cracker...meh.

Have liverpool scored a direct free kick in the last 3 games? That must be a record.

 

[Unicron]

We're that spoiled by the man, are we? 45 yard cracker...meh.

It was a terrific goal, but it was talked about as a goal of the year contender. I've seen Simon Cox score goals like that.

 

[Hector Grey]

It was a terrific goal, but it was talked about as a goal of the year contender. I've seen Simon Cox score goals like that.

In terms of the symphony that was Suarez last night, that was some overture. If it was the only goal of the game, the cream would have been warranted. But then there's the third, as you say. All other goals must bow down to that one. ALL OF THEM. Except Stevie G's in the FA cup final of 2006. All other goals are subservient to those two. ALL.

I was thinking when the last player of that kind of calibre played for Liverpool. Then match of the day came on and there was God. He coulda done that.

 

[washingcattle]

The third one had shades of this about it

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Comparrison to Le Tiss that's as big a compliment as I pay.

3 of his goals combined amount to shots from 80 yards.

Surely he'd have to leave if Liverpool don't get into the CL though ?
He's too good for the Europa league.

It's a shame he's such a cunt.

Well you weren't expecting me to just sing his praises were you ?

 

[Jerry Twig]

I've seen Simon Cox score goals like that.

In the Championship. Once. Three years ago.

 

[Luther Blissett]

It was a terrific goal, but it was talked about as a goal of the year contender. I've seen Simon Cox score goals like that.

Buzz killer strikes again. ; )

 

[Unicron]

In the Championship. Once. Three years ago.

Yeah, and? I saw Le Tissier score a similar goal to the third in the PL about 18 years ago but I'm not talking that one down.

Suarez's first wasn't even the best goal he's scored against Norwich from 40 yards out.

 

[Jerry Twig]

Yeah, and?

You said goals - he scored one.To compare Suarez to Cox is ridiculous. You are indeed a buzzkill.

 

[Hector Grey]

You said goals - he scored one.To compare Suarez to Cox is ridiculous. You are indeed a buzzkill.

He's just glad his team dodged that bullet. Who'd want a Simon Cox wannabe?

 

[washingcattle]

He's just glad his team dodged that bullet. Who'd want a Simon Cox wannabe?

Cheating, racist, canibal, paedo, Simon Cox wannabe.

 

[Unicron]

You said goals - he scored one.To compare Suarez to Cox is ridiculous. You are indeed a buzzkill.

Oh c'mon, you knew exactly what I meant.

 

[Cormcolash]

I bet Suarez would love to eat Cox

 

[Jerry Twig]

Oh c'mon, you knew exactly what I meant.

Go away and watch old Southampton videos and Giroud tripping over himself and stop stinking up the air in here...

 

[Unicron]

Go away and watch old Southampton videos and Giroud tripping over himself and stop stinking up the air in here...

I don't think I'm the one causing a stink I'd be happier talking about the unbelievably good third rather than his prosaically brilliant first, but fine.

 

[Luther Blissett]

I don't think I'm the one causing a stink I'd be happier talking about the unbelievably good third rather than his prosaically brilliant first, but fine.

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[Unicron]

I don't think I'm the one causing a stink, but fine.

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Limmy is shit

 

[Con Artist]

@Con Artist (@Con_Artistes) presents:

The Anatomy of Liverpool: An Evening with Jonathan Wilson & Scott Murray and host John Keith.

The Sugar Club. 19.00. Sunday January 12th.

**Interest in this event is such that early purchase of tickets is strongly recommended. The perfect Christmas gift for Liverpool supporters.**

The Anatomy of Liverpool: An Evening with Jonathan... Tickets, Dublin - Eventbrite

After our previous two sold-out football evenings (The Blizzard; Sid Lowe: Fear And Loathing in La Liga) at The Sugar Club, Con Artist returns with a surgical dissection of ‘The Anatomy of Liverpool: A History in 10 Matches’ - the book by Jonathan Wilson & Scott Murray. This evening with Jonathan & Scott will be hosted by the inestimable John Keith author, broadcaster, journalist & Merseyside football historian. Following the talk, there will be an audience-voted screening of one of the 10 matches covered in the book with introduction by our panel.

The Anatomy of Liverpool: A History in 10 Matches

Wilson & Murray’s new book is a compellingly forensic analysis of ten key Liverpool matches that have shaped the club's fortunes for more than a century - from the long-lost triumphs of manager Tom Watson, who arrived in 1896, to the 1977 European Cup triumph over Borussia Mönchengladbach, to the astonishing Champions League Final comeback against AC Milan, 'The Miracle of Istanbul', in 2005. Legendary players and managers of the stature of Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley and Kenny Dalglish populate these pages, which highlight the genius and the flaws of individuals by examining them in practice.

Certain games lie on the fault-lines of history. Perhaps they mark the end of one era or the beginning of another. Perhaps they encapsulate a summation of a manager's reign. Or perhaps they mark a crossroads, moments at which football looked one way, and then went the other. But this is not a virtual history of Liverpool FC. the prime purpose is not to speculate on what might have been. Rather it will try to determine why what was, was. No game is won or lost, after all, in a single moment but by a million little things.

The Anatomy of Liverpool tells the story of a great club through a detailed examination of ten key matches looking, as a football history must, first and foremost at the football.

Jonathan Wilson

Jonathan Wilson (@jonawils) is founder & editor of The Blizzard. A sports journalist and renowned author who writes for a number of publications, including the Guardian, the Independent, the Daily Telegraph, FourFourTwo & Sports Illustrated. Wilson was football correspondent for the Financial Times from 2002 to 2006 and is a columnist for World Soccer, The Irish Examiner and bettingexpert amongst others whilst also being a regular participant on The Guardian football podcast, "Football Weekly". He is a Sunderland A.F.C. supporter.

Bibliography

• Behind the Curtain: Travels in Eastern European Football
  
  
• Sunderland: A Club Transformed
  
  
• Inverting the Pyramid: A History of Football Tactics [Winner 'Best Football Book' 2009 British Sports Book Awards. Shortlisted for the 2008 William Hill Sports Book of the Year.]
  
  
• The Anatomy of England: A History in Ten Matches
  
  
• Brian Clough: Nobody Ever Says Thank You
  
  
• The Outsider: A History of the Goalkeeper
  
  
• The Anatomy of Liverpool: A History in Ten Matches
  

Scott Murray

Scott Murray is a journalist and author. He is a regular contributor to the Guardian, whose sport website he used to edit; he now writes live minute-by-minute match reports, the Fiver, and the weekly historical Joy of Six column. He has also written for G2, the Guardian Guide, FourFourTwo, AOL Fanhouse, the Evening Standard, GQ, GQ Sport, Esquire, Arena, Spin cricket magazine, and Men’s Health. He wrote the English edition of Football for Dummier, is the co-author of football miscellany Day of the Match. co-author of Phantom of the Open, the preposterous but true story of bad golfer Maurice Flitcroft, the belligerent troublemaker who shot the worst round in 150 years of Open history. He was also a contributor to both volumes of Steve Lowe and Alan McArthur's Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit? and a co-writer of the E4 comedy Golf War. Scott is a Liverpool FC supporter.

John Keith

John Keith author, broadcaster and stage producer/performer, was a Daily Express staff sportswriter for more than 30 years and was one of seven media representatives summoned to Downing Street to meet British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher after the 1985 Heysel disaster.


John left the Express in 1996 to concentrate on broadcasting and writing books. He hosted BBC Radio Merseyside’s Saturday Football Phone-In for almost a decade and co-presented Team of the Century in which listeners voted for their best team of the 20th century drawn from Everton, Liverpool and Tranmere players. In 2008 John joined new station City Talk 105.9 to launch a Saturday evening show entitled Strictly John Keith, featuring studio guests from sport, showbiz and the media talking revealingly about their lives and careers.

John covers Everton and Liverpool home games as a match reporter for Ireland’s national radio service RTE and has featured in several television programmes including Granada’s hit series Reds in Europe, various BBC football documentaries and he appeared in the 13-hour History of Football.

He has written more than 30 books, ranging from children’s annuals in collaboration with Kenny Dalglish and Kevin Keegan, a comic strip book with Brookside and film actor Bill Dean, and acclaimed biographies of Dixie Dean, Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Colin Harvey, Billy Liddell and Ian Callaghan. The biography of Kevin Sheedy will be published in April 2014. His book, 2008 Reasons Why Merseyside Is The Capital Of Football, written jointly with Gavin Buckland, was published for Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture year 2008.

In September 2006 John wrote, produced and appeared in the first stage presentation of The Bill Shankly Story, a show which has played in four countries and stretches into its eighth year in 2014 featuring Anfield legends Ian St John, Ian Callaghan and Chris Lawler. It was the first British football stage show to be presented in Norway and in September 2008 it was selected as one of the United Kingdom events to launch the Cultural Olympiad, building to the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

John also wrote and appears in The Dixie Dean Story stage show which he co-produces. It premiered in May 2008 to celebrate the Everton and England legend’s record 60 League goals in 1927-28. In 2007,John narrated a short documentary film telling the story of John Brodie, the Liverpool-based inventor of goal nets.

 

[washingcattle]

@Con Artist (@Con_Artistes) presents:

The Anatomy of Liverpool: An Evening with Jonathan Wilson & Scott Murray and host John Keith.

The Sugar Club. 19.00. Sunday January 12th.

**Interest in this event is such that early purchase of tickets is strongly recommended. The perfect Christmas gift for Liverpool supporters.**

The Anatomy of Liverpool: An Evening with Jonathan... Tickets, Dublin - Eventbrite

After our previous two sold-out football evenings (The Blizzard; Sid Lowe: Fear And Loathing in La Liga) at The Sugar Club, Con Artist returns with a surgical dissection of ‘The Anatomy of Liverpool: A History in 10 Matches’ - the book by Jonathan Wilson & Scott Murray. This evening with Jonathan & Scott will be hosted by the inestimable John Keith author, broadcaster, journalist & Merseyside football historian. Following the talk, there will be an audience-voted screening of one of the 10 matches covered in the book with introduction by our panel.

The Anatomy of Liverpool: A History in 10 Matches

Wilson & Murray’s new book is a compellingly forensic analysis of ten key Liverpool matches that have shaped the club's fortunes for more than a century - from the long-lost triumphs of manager Tom Watson, who arrived in 1896, to the 1977 European Cup triumph over Borussia Mönchengladbach, to the astonishing Champions League Final comeback against AC Milan, 'The Miracle of Istanbul', in 2005. Legendary players and managers of the stature of Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley and Kenny Dalglish populate these pages, which highlight the genius and the flaws of individuals by examining them in practice.

Certain games lie on the fault-lines of history. Perhaps they mark the end of one era or the beginning of another. Perhaps they encapsulate a summation of a manager's reign. Or perhaps they mark a crossroads, moments at which football looked one way, and then went the other. But this is not a virtual history of Liverpool FC. the prime purpose is not to speculate on what might have been. Rather it will try to determine why what was, was. No game is won or lost, after all, in a single moment but by a million little things.

The Anatomy of Liverpool tells the story of a great club through a detailed examination of ten key matches looking, as a football history must, first and foremost at the football.

Jonathan Wilson

Jonathan Wilson (@jonawils) is founder & editor of The Blizzard. A sports journalist and renowned author who writes for a number of publications, including the Guardian, the Independent, the Daily Telegraph, FourFourTwo & Sports Illustrated. Wilson was football correspondent for the Financial Times from 2002 to 2006 and is a columnist for World Soccer, The Irish Examiner and bettingexpert amongst others whilst also being a regular participant on The Guardian football podcast, "Football Weekly". He is a Sunderland A.F.C. supporter.

Bibliography

• Behind the Curtain: Travels in Eastern European Football
  
  
• Sunderland: A Club Transformed
  
  
• Inverting the Pyramid: A History of Football Tactics [Winner 'Best Football Book' 2009 British Sports Book Awards. Shortlisted for the 2008 William Hill Sports Book of the Year.]
  
  
• The Anatomy of England: A History in Ten Matches
  
  
• Brian Clough: Nobody Ever Says Thank You
  
  
• The Outsider: A History of the Goalkeeper
  
  
• The Anatomy of Liverpool: A History in Ten Matches

Scott Murray

Scott Murray is a journalist and author. He is a regular contributor to the Guardian, whose sport website he used to edit; he now writes live minute-by-minute match reports, the Fiver, and the weekly historical Joy of Six column. He has also written for G2, the Guardian Guide, FourFourTwo, AOL Fanhouse, the Evening Standard, GQ, GQ Sport, Esquire, Arena, Spin cricket magazine, and Men’s Health. He wrote the English edition of Football for Dummier, is the co-author of football miscellany Day of the Match. co-author of Phantom of the Open, the preposterous but true story of bad golfer Maurice Flitcroft, the belligerent troublemaker who shot the worst round in 150 years of Open history. He was also a contributor to both volumes of Steve Lowe and Alan McArthur's Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit? and a co-writer of the E4 comedy Golf War. Scott is a Liverpool FC supporter.

John Keith

John Keith author, broadcaster and stage producer/performer, was a Daily Express staff sportswriter for more than 30 years and was one of seven media representatives summoned to Downing Street to meet British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher after the 1985 Heysel disaster.


John left the Express in 1996 to concentrate on broadcasting and writing books. He hosted BBC Radio Merseyside’s Saturday Football Phone-In for almost a decade and co-presented Team of the Century in which listeners voted for their best team of the 20th century drawn from Everton, Liverpool and Tranmere players. In 2008 John joined new station City Talk 105.9 to launch a Saturday evening show entitled Strictly John Keith, featuring studio guests from sport, showbiz and the media talking revealingly about their lives and careers.

John covers Everton and Liverpool home games as a match reporter for Ireland’s national radio service RTE and has featured in several television programmes including Granada’s hit series Reds in Europe, various BBC football documentaries and he appeared in the 13-hour History of Football.

He has written more than 30 books, ranging from children’s annuals in collaboration with Kenny Dalglish and Kevin Keegan, a comic strip book with Brookside and film actor Bill Dean, and acclaimed biographies of Dixie Dean, Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Colin Harvey, Billy Liddell and Ian Callaghan. The biography of Kevin Sheedy will be published in April 2014. His book, 2008 Reasons Why Merseyside Is The Capital Of Football, written jointly with Gavin Buckland, was published for Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture year 2008.

In September 2006 John wrote, produced and appeared in the first stage presentation of The Bill Shankly Story, a show which has played in four countries and stretches into its eighth year in 2014 featuring Anfield legends Ian St John, Ian Callaghan and Chris Lawler. It was the first British football stage show to be presented in Norway and in September 2008 it was selected as one of the United Kingdom events to launch the Cultural Olympiad, building to the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

John also wrote and appears in The Dixie Dean Story stage show which he co-produces. It premiered in May 2008 to celebrate the Everton and England legend’s record 60 League goals in 1927-28. In 2007,John narrated a short documentary film telling the story of John Brodie, the Liverpool-based inventor of goal nets.

That sounds pretty good actually, pity it's not about Liverpool, Everton and Tranmere.