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Pah.Originally posted by Nicey View Post
Kick off is 5am here. I'll stay awake all night for it and go to bed @ 7am. Then get up 2hrs later for work.Comment
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Now that's hardcore.Originally posted by Shanks65 View PostPah.
Kick off is 5am here. I'll stay awake all night for it and go to bed @ 7am. Then get up 2hrs later for work.
A humble guy with healthy desire.Comment
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A humble guy with healthy desire.Comment
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Could be worse...could be a GeordieOriginally posted by ShaggyAlonso View PostJust down in the dumps about it all mate, and a race for 4th doesn't exactly get the heart racing.
Naturally by kick off it will all be different, but these are fairly grim times.
Cheer yourself up and get on Torres first goalscorer 6/1
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It's easier to get up for 'work' though, when all you have to do is sit in an office with 3 pencil-skirted Japanese office girls, and teach them EnglishOriginally posted by The Erectile Banana View PostIf you're lucky you might get a 1-1.
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I'm hoping we go with two out and out strikers after recent games. I don't like the phrase "must win game" but with our currents league form and the position in the table with teams around us I feel we have to start winning again soon!The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.Comment
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Pre match Kuyt:
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IF Dirk Kuyt was to hand pick a Premier League club against whom to begin his own renaissance he could do a lot worse than West Ham.
Last season, the Dutchman enjoyed a memorable debut against the Londoners and also scored one of his finest Liverpool goals to date in the return fixture at Upton Park.
Tonight, Kuyt is hoping the sight of those famous claret and blue shirts will again be enough to bring out the best in him.
“I have a lot of good memories of West Ham,” he said. “And I am hoping that tonight’s game will produce some more.
“When I made my debut last season it was against West Ham and that was a really special occasion for me.
“It was great because it was at Anfield and we won 2-1 so it was almost perfect.
“I can remember coming on for Crouchy who had already scored and just wanting to make a good impression and show the fans what I could do.”
Kuyt certainly did that with a 35 minute cameo in which he adopted a shoot on sight policy which left Anfield enthralled.
He may not have scored that day but when the two teams met again the following January the former Feyenoord man got his name on the scoresheet with his most memorable strike in a red shirt thus far.
“I really enjoyed that goal,” he recalls. “It was definitely one of my best for Liverpool.
“It was funny because the first half was probably my worst first half for the club and nothing would go right for me.
“I went into the dressing room at half-time and I was determined to come out and work harder and do better for the team because I was really unhappy with the way I had played.
“We kicked off the second half and just ten seconds later I’d scored with a shot from outside the box which went in off the crossbar.”
Just as was the case during that opening 45 minutes, the first half of this season has not gone as well as he would have liked as he has struggled for goals and found himself in and out of Rafa Benitez’s starting eleven.
He has also had to cope with the death of his father, Dirk senior, who lost his brave battle with cancer last June.
Kuyt readily admits that his second season in English football has not lived up to his own expectations but he feels it is now only a matter of time before he hits the goal trail again.
He said: “I am not happy with the way things have gone so far this season but I can feel my form coming back so hopefully tonight will be the turning point for me.
“It has been hard for me for a few reasons and I don’t think I have been at my usual level mentally as much as anything.
“I have found it hard going on without my dad because he was my biggest supporter in football but I have to do that.
“It has also been difficult being in and out of the team because when I was at Feyenoord I played 275 games in a row so it takes time to get used to not playing every single week.
“But the manager has told us that if we want to be winning games and challenging for trophies we can’t play with just the same 11 players every week and I agree with that.
“My job is to make sure I work hard in training so it becomes more difficult to leave me out and over the last couple of weeks I have felt that my form is coming back.
“I want to get back into the team and start scoring goals again because I still believe I have a lot more to offer than I even showed last season and hopefully it will come tonight.”
One thing Kuyt can guarantee is that Liverpool are in for a tough test when they take on the Hammers – but it is the type of test he feels they must start passing regularly if they are to take up their usual place in the Premier League’s top four.
“West Ham is always a difficult place to win because they are a good team and their fans are very passionate,” he said.
“But we have dropped too many points in the league lately and we have to start winning games so we can go higher in the league.
“If we get three points tonight it will be very important and it will hopefully be the start of a good run in the league for us.”Comment
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Pre Match Yossi
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YOSSI BENAYOUN returns to Upton Park tonight - confessing he hopes Liverpool can land a crucial victory at a place he still loves.
The Israeli international spent two seasons at West Ham where he became a firm fans’ favourite and tonight's Premier League clash will be the first time he has returned there since making a £5m move to Liverpool last summer.
He said: “I'm really looking forward to going back because West Ham will always be a special place for me.
“I had a really good time there and I made lots of friends and the fans were always good to me so it will be good to go back there.
“I don't know what kind of reception I will get from the fans but, obviously, I am hoping that it will be a good one.
“But even if it isn't it won't change the way I feel about West Ham. I will always love them and the fans are among the best you could find anywhere in the world.”
Benayoun scored eight goals in 72 appearances for the Hammers.
Just 28 games into his Liverpool career, he has already netted 10 times, including hat-tricks against Besiktas and Havant & Waterlooville.
And he puts his improved scoring rate down to the fact he is now playing for a team which sits at the top table of English football.
“It is different at Liverpool because we are nearer to the top of the table,” he said.
“When you play for a big club you are the favourites to win every game and because you get more chances you get more goals.
“It was more difficult at West Ham because we were not near the top of the league and last season we were fighting relegation.”
Despite enjoying the start he has made to his Liverpool career, Benayoun has been frustrated by the Reds’ recent form in the Premier League and wants them to get back to winning ways against his former club.
He said: “We have to improve because we have drawn our last four league games and we cannot afford to drop any points.
“But we have a lot of confidence that we will win a lot of games – hopefully starting with tonight's match – and that we will still end up having a good season.”Comment
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