Unlucky Ged

At 22:08:20 on 04-04-2006, Gods of Europe (18 & 5 & 7) delighted uk.sport.football.clubs.liverpool by announcing:

Well I stopped watching after the first half but my brother didn't. According to him luck has nothing to do with it:

"...and that's why I'm glad we don't have Houllier any more. I was sitting there egging on Lyon, hoping they could beat Milan. They outplay them for 70 minutes and I'm thinking, hey, maybe Houllier's tactical nouse wasn't so bad after all. Then he reminded me of his tactical genius. 20 minutes left with the score at 1-1 and Lyon dominating playing free-flowing football, he brings the big striker on, completely changes the pattern of Lyon's play and instantly Milan have their best period of the match, which lasts 20 minutes and is just long enough for them to score 2 goals... I was practically screaming at him not to bring Carew on but he did it anyway... they may as well have gone down to 10 men; in fact, they probably would have been better off.

"One commentator said towards the end, "Carew's had what, one touch?" and the other one says, "Yeah but he's given the defenders something to worry about". What f***ing game were you watching mate because it wasn't the one I was. He gave them nothing to worry about. They probably thought, "great, he's brought on the big slow guy who can't play football; given that we're all 30+ with bags of experience of marking world-clbutt strikers we're laughing now". And thank f*** we didn't sign him as well, as Houllier wanted. I just hope he comes in with a combined £20m bid for Cisse, ALT and FSP in the summer and gives us back what we paid for them. Course, I would have rather kept Cisse and FSP and had him pay us the £17.5m for Diouf and Diao but that's another story..."

-- "At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the cheques, not to make them out. We'll do that, they just sign them." - Bill Shankly