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No he didn'tOriginally posted by Snigger View Post
Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale did NOT spend any time in the Liverpool dressing room after the Champions League final.
Reports on Tuesday suggested Bale had taken 20 minutes out of his celebrations after Real's victory in Kiev on Saturday to console beaten Reds players.
It was claimed the Welshman spent the majority of his time talking to former Southampton colleague Adam Lallana, who he played with at St Mary's in 2006, and international team-mate Ben Woodburn.
However, while Bale did talk with the pair, it was not in the Liverpool dressing room.
Instead, the conversation instead took place in the drug testing room with both players having been called for a mandatory doping test by UEFA after the game.
This was a totally separate room from the Liverpool dressing room. Bale then saw Woodburn in the corridor afterwards, and spent a brief period in conversation.Comment
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What did they test Lallana for, heroin?Comment
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He tested positive for ripped jeans.Glass Half Full
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Why was Woodburn in the drug testing room? He wasn't even on the bench was he?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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Come off it. If true it's ****ing unheard of. Opposition player who wins the final sat in opponents dressing room. I understand your possible explanation but it's mental if true.Originally posted by Buzzo View PostAlways borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back. Oscar WildeComment
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Don't think it's uncommon for opposition players to pop in. Few ex Southampton and Welsh lads he knows. Probably being played up to create more talk of a riftComment
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Pop in yes. Sat in there instead of his own one, nah.Originally posted by Liverpool View PostAlways borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back. Oscar WildeComment
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Probably went to volunteer (to test the drugs)Originally posted by Exiled_red View Post
One tit for another.
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I don't think we had bad luck. I think there 3 decisive factors resulting in our defeat.Originally posted by Snigger View Post
1. Our best player was injured in a foul. I am fairly certain Ramos was trying to hurt him, so it's entirely foreseeable Salah could get an injury from a challenge like that.
2. We didn't have the right profile/ style/ quality of player on the bench to replace him as we would have liked too (i.e. a pacey forward).
3. Our goalkeeper made two inexplicable unforced errors.
Two of the three (2 & 3) were ultimately within our/ our player's control. As for the first point, I suppose there is a slight degree of bad luck in that we had a ****e ref, but it came as no surprise to me that he was ****e (normally are in these games).
So how do you deal with the first issue. Addressing issue 2 makes a big difference. But I wonder if there was someone in our coaching team identifying Ramos as likely culprit and devising a counter strategy (e.g. have someone put the reducer on him early doors/ wind him up with niggly tackles or verbal/ get in the refs ear about very early).Comment
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That’s one way of looking at it.
The other is the right way which is that we were incredibly unlucky. In isolation those incidents are not particularly unlucky but combine them - not forgetting the greatest goal in CL final of all time and you wonder how the hell did that all happen to us in the biggest game of the past 11 years.Comment
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The last 30 seconds of this.
Everyone screaming their head off with belief. Some moment
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he wasn't if you read my post properly it says he spoke with him in the corridor, go and stand in the cornerOriginally posted by Exiled_red View Post
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