damn...i miss Hamann

Markus Babbel is German as well.

How can you all forgot Sean 'Faster than Owen' Dundee. German as well though S.African bornt

let's not forget how popular was Christian Ziege last time, he did not contribute much when he was with us, but let's not take away his awesome left foot

Karl Heinz Riedle anyone?

German strikers in the Premier League? Rare, perhaps but with good reason. The German's haven't churned out too many quality forwards since the Klinsmann, Voeller era. Lukas Podolski plays well during World Cup tournaments but disappears at club level. The exceptions could be Miroslav Klose and possibly even Oliver Bierhoff but the likes of Carsten Jancker, Oliver Neuville, Fredi Bobic and Gerald Asamoah weren't exactly prolific. Mario Gomes is in form now but so was Kevin Kuranyi a few seasons back. Of all the top nations in the world (i.e. Italy, Brazil, France, Argentina, England, Spain), I think Germany has had the least amount of prolific forwards in the past 2 decades.

A lesser know German forward who I thought had some degree of success in Premier League was Uwe Rosler when he was at Man City. He averaged a goal every 3 games which is a pretty decent considering he wasn't a full blown international.

Actually like those German players. Its like they're programmed with winning mentality not to mention high pens conversion rate
But most of the talented Germans always end up in Bayern, seldom venture out of Bundesliga.
Case in point, Manuel Neuer, end up at club rival Bayern even though courted by most big guns.

totally agree with writer, kuyt shd be included in derby match, hopefully stevie g will take adam place to give us more balance.

aganist wolves adam always stay in attacking half & failed to track back when wolves are attacking, with stevie g, we have a great bomber from midfield and at least he will track back to defend.

I won't be around tomorrow and thought I'd post this today. Tomorrow will mark the 30th anniversary of Bill Shankly's death, a sad sad day for any Kopite. Here's an interview with Karen Gill, his granddaughter.

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/latest-news...ny-100-per-cent

Fields of Anfield Road
Outside the Shankly Gates
I heard a Kopite calling
Shankly they have taken you away
But you left a great eleven
Before you went to heaven
Now it's glory round the Fields of Anfield Road.

All round the Fields of Anfield Road
Where once we watched the King Kenny play (and he could play)
We had Heighway on the wing
We had dreams and songs to sing
Of the glory round the Fields of Anfield Road




Hope you guys carry on with more tributes and postings on Shankly tomorrow.

Copied from http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/latest-news...n-his-own-words

Shankly's quotes are brilliant and funny at the same time.

Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.'

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'If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.'

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'Liverpool was made for me and I was made for Liverpool.'

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'The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they don't know the game.'

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'Son, you'll do well here as long as you remember two things. Don't over-eat and don't lose your accent.' - to Ian St John when he signed for Liverpool.

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To a journalist who suggested Liverpool were struggling - 'Ay, here we are with problems at the top of the league.'

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Talking to a reporter about Roger Hunt - 'Yes Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.'

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Explaining to Kevin Keegan what's expected of him at Anfield - 'Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place son!'

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'I know this is a sad occasion, but I think that Dixie would be amazed to know that even in death he could draw a bigger crowd to Goodison than Everton on a Saturday afternoon.' - speaking at the funeral of Everton legend Dixie Dean

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'If Everton were playing at the bottom of the garden, I'd pull the curtains.'

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'Sickness would not have kept me away from this one. If I'd been dead, I would have had them bring the casket to the ground, prop it up in the stands, and cut a hole in the lid.' - after beating Everton in the 1971 FA Cup semi-final.

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Addressing the Liverpool fans who turned up in their thousands to welcome the team home despite losing to Arsenal in the 1971 FA Cup final - 'Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.'

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After signing Ron Yeats - 'With him in defence, we could play Arthur Askey in goal.'

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To Alan Ball after he'd signed for Everton - 'Never mind Alan, at least you'll be able to play next to a great team.'

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To Tommy Smith after he'd turned up for training with a bandaged knee - 'Take that poof bandage off, and what do you mean YOUR knee, it's LIVERPOOL'S knee!'

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To the players after failing to sign Lou Macari - 'I only wanted him for the reserves anyway.'

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To Ian St John - 'If you're not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we'll discuss your options afterwards.'

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'In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.'

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About the 'This is Anfield' plaque - 'This is to remind our lads who they're playing for, and to remind the opposition who they're playing against.'

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'Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday amd would I have got married during the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves.'

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Shankly to the Brussels hotel clerk who queried his signing 'Anfield' as his address on the hotel register - 'But that's where I live.'

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Shankly explaining rotation to a reporter - 'Laddie, I never drop players, I only make changes.'

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Comparing the Anfield pitch to other grounds - 'It's great grass at Anfield, professional grass!'

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'The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!'

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To a local barber, who in 1968 had asked 'Anything off the top? Shanks retorted - 'Aye, Everton!'

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On awaiting Everton's arrival for a derby game at Anfield, Shankly gave a box of toilet rolls to the doorman and said - 'Give them these when they arrive - they'll need them!'

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'I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up.'

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To Chris Lawler during a training session at Melwood - 'Was it a goal? Was I offside?' Lawler replied - 'You were boss.' Shanks then quipped - 'Christ, son, you've been here four years, hardly said a word and, when you do, it's a bloody lie!'

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To Tommy Smith during training - 'You son, could start a riot in a graveyard.'

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'There's Man. Utd and Man. City at the bottom of Division 1, and by God they'll take some shifting.'

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'It's a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes.'

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On a wartime Scotland v England match - 'We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.'

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After losing to Ajax in the 1967 European Cup - 'We cannae play these defensive continental sides!'
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Shanks and Tommy Docherty were at a game. There was a player every other club coveted on view. Docherty said to Shanks - '100,000 wouldn't buy him.' Shanks retorted - 'Yeah, and I'm one of the 100,000!'

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What Shanks disliked about football - 'The end of the season.'

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Radio Merseyside reporter to Shankly - 'Mr Shankly, why is it that your teams' unbeaten run has suddenly ended?' Shanks replied: 'Why don't you go and jump in the lake?'

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On hearing a rival manager was unwell - 'I know what's wrong - he's got a bad side!'

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To reporters after a 3-0 defeat - 'They're nothing but rubbish. Three breakaways, that's all they got.'

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Talking about Tommy Smith - 'If he isn't named Footballer of the Year, football should be stopped and the men who picked any other player should be sent to the Kremlin.'

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To a translator, when being surrounded by gesticulating Italian journalists - 'Just tell them I completely disagree with everything they say!'

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After winning the FA Cup in 1974 Shankly goes into a fish and chip shop and orders a fish supper. The woman at the counter asks - 'Mr Shankly, shouldn't they be having steak suppers?' Shanks replied - 'No lass, they'll get steak suppers when they win the double!'

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To the Anfield PA during a match - 'Jesus Christ, son, can ye no' talk into that microphone when the players are in the penalty box. You're putting them off, you're doing more damage than the opposition.'

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Shankly on boardroom meetings - 'At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the cheques.'

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Talking about the Liverpool fans - 'I'm just one of the people who stands on the kop. They think the same as I do, and I think the same as they do. It's a kind of marriage of people who like each other.'

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Explaining on what the off-side rule should be - 'If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.'

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'I was only in the game for the love of football - and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.'

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'"If you can't make decisions in life, you're a bloody menace. You'd be better becoming an MP!'

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When told he had never experienced playing in a derby - 'Nonsense! I've kicked every ball, headed out every cross. I once scored a hat-trick; One was lucky, but the others were great goals.'

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After a 0-0 draw at Anfield - 'What can you do playing against 11 goalposts!'
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Waxing lyrical about Ian Callaghan - 'He typifies everything that is good in football, and he has never changed. You could stake your life on Ian.'

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'Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt. We don't need to motivate players because each of them is responsible for the performance of the team as a whole. The status of Liverpool's players keeps them motivated.'

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'Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.'

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On the leaving of Liverpool - 'It was the most difficult thing in the world, when I went to tell the chairman. It was like walking to the electric chair. That's the way it felt.'




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hav any1 here play pes 12 or fifa 12??

i wan to about the gameplay / liverpool team / who got preset face

i play fifa but don't quite understand ur question

ok... few question in tat game

1. in manager mode : do u can disable the autosave?
2. how many liverpool player got preset face like the real face?

for that i need to check back since didn't play long enough yet to explore all things..hehe

watch on utube.. so sad tat suarez & carrol didnt get a proper face
but enrique is given the preset face lol

hope hendo can get the real face seem i like to forge him be next gerrard

Good news i guess now,agger is back in training and glen johnson is getting closer.

Gerrard also getting fit,touchwood our squad is very strong without any injuries coming in to the crucial months where we usually lose points

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/latest-news...d-injury-update

This post has been edited by Rotuham: Sep 29 2011, 10:03 PM

2 straight derbies after this

fingers crossed

May his soul rest in peace.

One of my favorite Shankly quotes "There's only two teams in the whole of Liverpool; Liverpool and Liverpool Reserves"

Today should be a happy day for me. My colleagues and I will be leaving for Janda Baik soon for our team building exercise. However my thoughts are fixated on a man who made us what we are today. A man who literally rolled up his sleeves to personally help rebuild an ailing club. A man who is gone but should never ever be forgotten. I never met the man nor was I even a fan when he left us but it speaks volumes of his stature that even so, someone like me can feel so connected. Having read about him and listened to stories from the lucky few who knew him, it's as though I do know him but that was Shankly for you. Someone who was so in tuned with the fans, who was always willing to listen, to stop to have a chat and to give us his time of day.

It's weird Shanks. I never met you and yet I miss you.

They might have taken you away 30 years ago, but we will never forget what you have done for us. You took us from being an ailing club languishing in the 2nd division to being one of the most feared sides in Europe. You instilled in us values that we hold dear to until today. They may accuse us of living in the past but that is just testament to you and what you achieved. That we still talk about you like you were still around yesterday tells you how much we miss you. It tells you how grateful we are not just to have had you as a manager, but a fellow fan. You may be gone but I guarantee, you will never be forgotten. Rest in peace Bill. Just as you are always looking down on us from above, we are always looking back up. YNWA.



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We miss u Shanks..