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This post has been edited by solstice818: Dec 22 2011, 05:55 AM

The History

On his appointment he released 24 players and began to reshape the team.Promotion to the First Division was achieved in 1961–62, and the club won the League for the first time in 17 years in 1963–64. Another League title followed in 1965–66, after the club had won their first FA Cup the previous season. The club won the League and UEFA Cup in 1972–73 and the FA Cup again a year later; after this, Shankly retired and was replaced by his assistant Bob Paisley.Paisley was even more successful than Shankly and the club won the League and UEFA Cup in 1975–76, his second season as manager. The following season they retained the League title, won the European Cup for the first time, but lost in the FA Cup final, narrowly missing out on a treble. Liverpool retained the European Cup the next season, and the season after won the League again with 68 points—a domestic record, conceding only 16 goals in 42 league matches.During the nine seasons Paisley managed the club, Liverpool won 21 trophies, including three European Cups, a UEFA Cup, six league titles and three consecutive League Cups. The only domestic trophy to elude him was the FA Cup.

Paisley retired in 1983 and (as Shankly had done) handed the reins to his assistant, veteran coach Joe Fagan. The succession of coaches came from the Anfield Boot Room where the Liverpool staff discussed strategy and allegedly stored gin.[10] Liverpool won three trophies in Fagan's first season in charge: the League, League Cup and European Cup, becoming the first English side to win three trophies in a season.Liverpool reached the European Cup final again in 1985. The match was against Juventus at the Heysel Stadium. Before kick-off, disaster struck: Liverpool fans breached a fence which separated the two groups of supporters and charged the Juventus fans. The resulting weight of people caused a retaining wall to collapse, killing 39 fans, mostly Italians. The match was played regardless and Liverpool lost 1–0 to Juventus. English clubs were consequently banned from participating in European competition for five years; Liverpool received a ten-year ban, which was later reduced to six years. Fourteen of their fans received convictions for involuntary manslaughter.
The statue of former manager Bill Shankly, outside Anfield

Fagan resigned after the disaster and Kenny Dalglish was appointed as player-manager.During his reign, the club won another three League Championships and two FA Cups, including a League and Cup "Double" in 1985–86. Liverpool's success was overshadowed by the Hillsborough Disaster: in an FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest on 15 April 1989, hundreds of Liverpool fans were crushed. 94 fans died that day; the 95th victim died in hospital from his injuries four days later, and the 96th died nearly four years later without regaining consciousness. After the Hillsborough tragedy there was a governmental review of stadium safety. Known as the Taylor Report, it paved the way for legislation which required top-division teams to have all-seater stadiums. The report ruled that the main reason for the disaster was overcrowding due to a failure of police control.Dalglish cited the Hillsborough Disaster and its repercussions as the reason for his resignation in 1991. He was replaced by former player Graeme Souness. Apart from winning the FA Cup in 1992, Souness achieved little success and was replaced by a former member of the "Boot Room", Roy Evans. Evans fared little better: a League Cup victory in 1995 was his only trophy. Gérard Houllier was appointed as co-manager in 1998–99, but was left in sole charge after Evans resigned in November 1998.

In his second season in charge Liverpool won a unique treble of the FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup.In the 2001-02 season, during which Houllier underwent major heart surgery, Liverpool finished second behind Arsenal.The following seasons failed to live up to expectations and Houllier was replaced by Rafael Benítez. The club finished fifth in his first season in charge but won the UEFA Champions League by beating Milan 3–2 in a penalty shootout after the match finished 3–3.The following season Liverpool finished third with 82 points—their highest total since 1988. They won the FA Cup as they had the Champions League victory the previous season, by beating West Ham United in penalty shootout after the match finished at 3–3. In 2006–07, the club's search for investment came to an end when American businessmen George Gillett and Tom Hicks became the owners of Liverpool in a deal which valued the club and its outstanding debts at £218.9 million. That season, the club reached another Champions League final, but this time lost 2–1 to Milan

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This post has been edited by solstice818: Nov 21 2011, 01:20 PM

Premier League Scorer

Suarez - 4
Henderson - 1
Skrtel- 1
Adam - 2
Carrol - 2
Maxi - 1
Johnson- 1

Carling Cup Scorer

Suarez - 3
Carrol - 1
Maxi - 1
Bellamy- 1
Kuyt - 1

This post has been edited by solstice818: Nov 21 2011, 01:21 PM

IN:

Jordan Henderson ---- £16m ---- Sunderland
Charlie Adam ---- £9m ---- Blackpool
Steward Downing ---- £20m ---- Aston Villa
Alexander Doni ---- FREE ---- Roma
Villyan Bijev-------Unknown------ Unknown
Jose Enrique -------- £5.5m ------- Newcastle
Craig Bellamy -------FREE------ Manchester City
Sebastián Coates ------Undisclosed------ Nacional

OUT:
Paul Konchesky---- £1.5m ---- Leicester City
Gerrardo Bruna ---- Undisclosed ---- Blackpool
Stephen Darby -------- loan ----------Rochdale
Chris Mavinga ---- £1m ---- Rennes
Peter Gulacsi -------- loan ----------Hull City
Tom Ince ------------- FREE ----------- Blackpool
Milan Jovanovic ------- FREE---------- Anderlecht
Daniel Ayala --------- £800,000--------- Norwich City
Nabil El Zhar ---------- RELEASED -----------------------
Villyan Bijev ------------ Loan ------------- Genk
Sotirios Kyrgiakos -------- undisclosed---------- Wolfsburg
Dani Pacheco --------------Loan----------------- A.Madrid
Alberto Aquilani ------------ Loan ---------------- AC Milan
Emiliano Insua-------------- Undisclosed --------- Sporting Lisbon
Joe Cole ------------ Loan ----------------Lille
Christian Poulsen ---------Undisclosed----------Evian
David N'Gog ---------------Undisclosed ---------- Bolton
Raul Meireles---------------£12m------------------Chelsea
Phillip Degen --------------- RELEASED---------------------------

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Let's give credit when due to. Adam involved in both goals. In fact, most of the goals we scored this season came from his involvement. He is piss poor when it comes to tackling and defending but I think he did pretty well last nite in tackling and nicking the ball away from the blue midfielders. Anyway, he has Lucas to cover his ass up. Lucas can do all the dirty job as long as Adam keep creating chances for the front line.

However, I must say that Adam's corner last nite were piss poor. Nowhere near the 10m rated corner we are seeing last time around. Low ball to the near post where most of the blue shirts are and he actually tried it few times despite trying in vain for the previous few attempts. Hmm, poor decision making.

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Added on November 21, 2011, 4:10 pmAdam gave Malouda space but he was right at his position and he just didnt close him down or tackle but that's more like precaution way of avoiding unnecessary tackling to gift the opponent penalty.

The real culprit was Enrique who didnt man mark Daniel Sturridge and the latter just slotted in the easiest goal of century and he then began shaking his ass, rubbing his armpit for his celebration, contributing my eyesores. I blamed Enrique for that.

All this while, I think that Enrique was our best buy this summer simply because he is reliable and consistent. It stunned me when Spain preferred to play our beloved Arbeloa over him when Arbeloa is a natural RB instead of LB. Last night match explained it all. If you cant perform well in big game, you are not ready for the big stage in national team. If enrique want the call up, he need to buck up and play better in big games. He wasnt even up to his usual standard last nite. Poor crossing, poor man marking, losing possession. Even Robbo did better than him in big games (against arsenal)

This post has been edited by solstice818: Nov 21 2011, 04:12 PM

Yes, we played extremely bad in the second half. Normally, we played better in 2nd half, no? I think the players get complacent. For 20minutes or so, we were defending deep despite conceded a goal. Instead of pushing forward, we looked like we were looking for a draw. I had no idea why though. Luckily, a moment of brilliance from Adam and Johnson made it up for us

Okie, take that Fernando, I will just take 3 points for each and every match coming!

This post has been edited by solstice818: Nov 21 2011, 05:40 PM

I appreciated him for what he did for us. Hated his act in January by deserting the club but support him as good footballer. Still a fan of him. Plus, kinda lazy to dig around new siggy to change. Plan to get one of Lucas / Suarez

They are that bad that they are depending on our result to win the league? Poor guys. Anyway, same old issue. Must have learn too much of complaining and accusing skill from their fellow gaffer. Not surprising really.

More stupid sms-es ahead. Common thing for those mans to moan. Oh well.

He already served the ban the other day and now he collected another 2 yellow... Few more for suspension. Expecting another yellow tomorrow

Karma bites. They were laughing at us back then for the beach ball incident eh? Happened to be the same referee last nite that robbed away their 2 points. Laugh somemore please. Karma

Omg. So sudden! RIP Gary Speed.

I think Bellamy wont be playing today.

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Have a bad feeling about this. Hope Enrique up his game. He was piss poor last game. Poor crossing, poor marking. Just poor!

Why Hendo instead of Maxi? WHYYYYY

Enrique again He is not up for big games eh

They scored