dubious penalty ... converted by ronaldo

Dubious? I think it was pretty obvious Arteta caught Carrick with his trailing foot. Small contact, but enuff to tip him off balance. Rafa to start a rant on how many penos we get a season then?

Neville and Park really work more harder on 2nd half, I don't know how many time Baines pass Neville on first half. sighs.

NO!! He must stay as manager of Liverpool FC!

Gary and Park have been playing like idiots though when defending. Always try to sebok2 when someone already marking the attacker.. and left Baines behind all by himself. 

Disappointed a bit. Tevez was good, but wish he was a bit more aware of those around him and bloody pass the ball(and properly!). Berbatov was quiet, unused by the team. Gah!

and a 6-6 draw scoreline

True that. The sending off changed the face of the game imo. Lampard is far and away the best player for Chelsea atm, he's probably the only one playing with real heart. The challenge was a nothing one. 50-50 ball, Lampard lunges in, nicks the ball and gets kicked in the foot by Alonso. Riley rushed into a decision there. Lol at Mikel's reaction to the red though, on slow mo it looked hilarious. Guess Fergie, the "leader of the FA and referees" will not be to pleased with Riley. No bottle of wine for him then. And that Bosingwa kick was one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time.

Like I said before, Chelsea were always gonna be the bigger threat in the long run. Yes, Scolari is clueless, but the team knows what it takes to seriously challenge for the league up to the end, having done so for the last 4-5 years. This was probably the 2nd best result (or best some would argue) we could have gotten.

edit: Alien didn't like my post 

Lampard's red card was harsh no doubt but in the end, we showed more willingness to get forward. How often did you see Bosingwa or Cole making runs down the flanks? Did Anelka even manage to muster a shot on target? We've often disagreed on matters and I think we will again. I must admit that we were somewhat fortuitous but hey, we've been hard done by before as well. The last time Chelsea visited Anfield, Rob Styles awarded a penalty after Malouda jumped into Steve Finnan. Earlier this season, we had a clean goal disallowed against Stoke, denying us 3 points. Sometimes you get the run of the mill and sometimes you don't, I think you'd agree.

Anyhow these were the stats from soccernet.

Shots on Goal : Liverpool 25(9) - Chelsea 8(2). Corners : Liverpool 12 - Chelsea 1.

The posession count was pretty much even but we pressed higher up the pitch than they did. We got the ball into wide areas whenever possible but were lacking in ideas in the final third. I just find it hard to believe that we didn't go for a win after all the observations I've just made. "Deserved"? I think we all know now that in the end, the team that deserves to win is the one that puts the ball in the back of the net. Ceteris Paribus.

Sorry to go OT but I'm just responding to an issue currently being discussed.

IN: Zoran Tosic (Partizan Belgrade, undisclosed), Adem Ljajic (Partizan Belgrade, undisclosed), Ritchie De Laet (Stoke City, performance-related)
never know we sign/get him..btw who is he?

As long as we can maintain/pick up our form, I'm not too worried, not yet anyway. Right now we're grinding out results. But we can play far better than what we've shown so far, definitely. We're playing in 3rd gear.

Liverpool, could trouble us a bit if they hang on till the final month. If they can keep their main players fit throughout and in form, they would definitely be there. If they get a really good winger or two, then they will consistently challenge for the title.

I agree that Chelsea ought to be Utd's main rival and contender for the title given that they have better players than us overall. Our starting 11 are no pushovers, but beyond that our quality drops off a lot compared to Utd and Chelsea.

This is the reason I question the timing of Keane's departure. I can see the economic ramifications of keeping him till the summer since he's already 29 and theoretically at his peak. His value ain't gonna climb, especially given that I think we had paid over the fair value for him. Yet, he's more established than the replacements we have. So this is certainly a risky gamble.

Was it a mistake bringing Keane in? The boss thinks so.

Is it better to cut our losses now? He thinks so too.

You're right, we've not been playing well eventhough we've been able to get results. Good enough to be in 2nd place but not enough to be 1st at this stage.

As for Torres, he has not started many games for us this season due to hamstring injuries (twice!) coming back from friendlies. He has definitely been missed. 
If as manager you realise you've made a mistake, how long do you wait before taking some decisive action? Do you wait till the end of the season and possibly let the mistake compound itself or do you amputate now?

I agree, from where I'm sitting 6 months is an awfully short time to pass judgment. But I'm sitting at home and not at the training ground, so I'm not privy to all the details of what's going on there.

Plus as was pointed out in some of the replies in the Pool thread, Keane is 29. Time's not on our side as far as gambling on giving him more time to fit in and waiting to offload in the summer. We paid 20M for a finished and polished product but it did not work out as expected. With Vidic, Evra and Henry (when he joined the Gunners), there was time to gamble since they weren't expected to be the finished product (if I'm not mistaken). And they weren't 29.

Why is it that some people have to come up with some disparaging remark whenever a decent discussion is ongoing? Given that our football clubs do interact with each other, it's not like any discussion regarding the other club is going to be truly off topic.

Edit: I notice the remark I'm referring to seems to have been deleted.

Some people might consider that OT as well, since there seems to be this cloud of M.U.S.T is exclusive to Utd only and all other talk is cause for walking out.

Gulp, does this mean that we're obsessed?  Agree with Kobe. MUST to me is an avenue where United fans share their views on football in general, obviously from a United fan's perspective. Therefore, rival fans shouldn't expect nice things to be said about their club, like how Rafa is the best manager for Pool, like ever.