You got to love Sky....

[disco]

I don't know what you guys are getting so worked up about.

I watched the match on Sky and the punditry on RTE.

The muppets on RTE make Gray look like a rabid red.

LOL, so basically you're saying we've had it easy.

Fair play mate, I feel your pain.

[kop-al-74]

To begin with I want to see a bit of ****ing consistency - if that had been Utd - Porto, it would be the sign of a quality team that could win 4-1 when playing poorly.

We didnt play particularly well, but aside from a nervy 15 min spell they barely threatened. And they're a good ****ing side - so for me it was an excellent performance all things considered (Im talking about the present climate at the club).

Gray's a ****ing cunt. If we'd have conceeded from a free kick tonight he would have been waxing lyrical all night about the flaws in zonal marking. Ive never once heard him say "fair do's, Rafa's stuck with zonal and he's had great success from it". Why not? He's supposed to be Sky Sports' number 1 football analyst so dont talk to me about him giving us credit where its due.

Its as good as it's gonna get from an ex bluenose.I'm sure it was Andy Gray shouting at the top of his voice for Gerrard's goal against olympiacos,no?

That reaction was just natural.

If any scum player had scored any kind of goal like that for the scum,theres is no way i would beable to celebrate it or even pretend to in that way purely because of who scored it.Could you?

[PaulLinehan]

Its as good as it's gonna get from an ex bluenose.I'm sure it was Andy Gray shouting at the top of his voice for Gerrard's goal against olympiacos,no?

That reaction was just natural.

If any scum player had scored any kind of goal like that for the scum,theres is no way i would beable to celebrate it or even pretend to in that way purely because of who scored it.Could you?

he was the same with owen though, and i've heard that he :whatever:to a lifesize alan shearer cardboard cutout, i am not sure if its true or not but that is what i have heard......

in all seriousness though, and alan hansen can be accused of this as well, but with regard to international games, he speaks and acts more like he is english than scotish.....i ****in hate that...... lawrenson is ****in unreal for that too........

[kris90210]

Its as good as it's gonna get from an ex bluenose.I'm sure it was Andy Gray shouting at the top of his voice for Gerrard's goal against olympiacos,no?

That reaction was just natural.

If any scum player had scored any kind of goal like that for the scum,theres is no way i would beable to celebrate it or even pretend to in that way purely because of who scored it.Could you?

Oh he loves Gerrard, mainly because he can use him playing on the right as an excuse to have a dig at Rafa.

Fair play, his reaction to THAT goal was good to hear. Although this whole "as good as youre gonna get from an ex blue" attitude doesnt wash with me. He owes it to the paying customers of Sky to remain impartial. Im not asking for him to "cream his pants whenever we play", Id just like to hear his honest, unbiased opinion. If his opinions are unbiased then he quite simply should not be a football analyst (because he's full of ****).

If you really dont know where Im coming from then you must be a very chilled dude - respect.

I would ****ing love to see Gray put his money where his mouth is and have a crack at managment. He's oh so happy to sit in his ivory tower and pass judgment all day long (same goes for Hansen). If he was successful Id give his opinions far more credit.

[dww]

To be honest at the minute all pundits are enjoying putting to boot in to us. Just last night someone on ITV claimed we are no nearer challengin for the PL which considering we are 12 points better off cf the leaders than a similar point last season and only 3 pts behind last years winners with a game in hand we clearly ****ing are.

I'm perversely liking people writing us off - I think it is what we react best too. Especially now we are playing well and have so many options in attacking areas.

[REDSCOUSER]

It didnt take long for someone to have a dig at "baldy cunted ex bluenose ****" and rightly so.
When the REDS were 1-0 he was saying how lethargic and off colour they were but if that was manure or chavski he would have said "does not matter, 3 points is all that counts in the cl".
I loathe the bloke and his ugly bluenose face, end of.

[MrMichael]

To be honest at the minute all pundits are enjoying putting to boot in to us. Just last night someone on ITV claimed we are no nearer challengin for the PL which considering we are 12 points better off cf the leaders than a similar point last season and only 3 pts behind last years winners with a game in hand we clearly ****ing are.

I'm perversely liking people writing us off - I think it is what we react best too. Especially now we are playing well and have so many options in attacking areas.

[PaulLinehan]

I would ****ing love to see Gray put his money where his mouth is and have a crack at managment. He's oh so happy to sit in his ivory tower and pass judgment all day long (same goes for Hansen). If he was successful Id give his opinions far more credit.

****in big time..... that is what really pisses me off about pundits in general...

you have gray who was big rons assistant at aston villa.. Granted he was a good player but sky build him up as if he was the best in the business. Its not as if andy gray was on a par with king kenny, keegan or rushie. I think one of the reasons he used to cream his pants whenever shearer scored is because maybe he thought of himself as an alan shearer type player - scored lots of goals but won basically **** all.....

look at lawrenson. He really went to town on rafa's zonal marking when he rafa first came to the club. Did he say that he was the defensive coach for keegan at newcastle and was ****ed out after a week because he was so ****in ****......NO!!!

Houghton was some kind of coach at crystal palarse for a while but also ended up ****ed out on his arse. He is an awful prick if you ask me... he goes on and on about rafa's rotation and all that. Also, he rarely gives us credit when we do play well - against besiktas, after the game he went to town on how ****e besiktas were. Well ray, you ****in retard, rewind the footage to before the game and you said they were a handy side and that they could come away with a draw. Now either you don't know what the **** you are on about, or else you..........eh......you just don't know what the **** you are on about okay....

Hansen is probably the best of them but is the reason he isnt jumping on the back of rafa because he is on lfc payroll, writing for the lfc magazine??? i ****in wonder.....

on RTE, giles is a ****in useless fool. I remember once when bill o herlihy ws asking him about scott parker, who was playing for chelsea at the time, and giles didnt have a ****in clue who he was on about. He actually said, and this is no ****in word of a lie, that "paul parker has been doing it for years bill" - now i dont know about you, but paul parker was nearing the end of his career when scott parker was still in those mcDonalds tv ads. And how you mix up the two is ****in beyond me anyway.... also, the geriatric prick was an ireland player manager years ago and he was ****in ****e at it.... so how he has the neck to come out and say how ****e staunton or kerr or whoever is ****in beyond me.... what a ****in spanner head!

Dunphy is pure comedy. He is pissed half the time and he goes on about how players like mascherano are "not real liverpool players" - eh....hmmmm great defensive midfielder with 30-odd caps for argentina when he is 23 years old. good man eamon - how'd you get on as a millwall player anyway you ****in mummy-faced prick....

liam brady is alright....

[PaulLinehan]

oh and by the way....i heard that andy gray wacks off to a lifesize cardboard cutout of alan shearer.........not sure if it's true or not but thats what i heard..........

[disco]

Woh

Deja vu

[PaulLinehan]

Woh

Deja vu

deja vu????????????? you trying to tell us you have a lifesize shearer in your room too disco

[disco]

Might do....

[Fivex]

To begin with I want to see a bit of ****ing consistency - if that had been Utd - Porto, it would be the sign of a quality team that could win 4-1 when playing poorly.

We didnt play particularly well, but aside from a nervy 15 min spell they barely threatened. And they're a good ****ing side - so for me it was an excellent performance all things considered (Im talking about the present climate at the club).

Gray's a ****ing cunt. If we'd have conceeded from a free kick tonight he would have been waxing lyrical all night about the flaws in zonal marking. Ive never once heard him say "fair do's, Rafa's stuck with zonal and he's had great success from it". Why not? He's supposed to be Sky Sports' number 1 football analyst so dont talk to me about him giving us credit where its due.

He had a go at Porto's zonal marking though for one of our goals didn't he?

[Darth Marty]

I strongly dislike andy gray, he always seems to be taking a swipe at us, I hate the way he sniggers at things when they go wrong and when we get things right he tends to say well Rafa should have done it before.
For ****s sake I know we played poorly for the "middle" 30 mins but how much of that was down to Porto playing well? We started strongly, took the lead, then stayed in the game until Rafa introduced our subs with plenty of time left and we then go on to score a further 3 goals.
To me that smacks of masterful management and preperation.
But no, not to murdochs muther****ers, we got lucky as porto tired, we will struggle again this year, we are 5th in the premiership with 4 teams only 3 points behind us..yadda yadda yadda.....honestly I genuinely dislike the guy.

[carrsim]

the way i look at it is. Andy Gray said we were rubbish.

Yet we beat the portuguese champions 4-1

things can't be all bad.

must be annoying to have to travel to anfield, get the knife out, only to find a cuddly Spanish fellah outwitting you again