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[boodiddy1]

Too many changing their minds. Stick to your beliefs otherwise you'll become like them.

Me? I've always hated the . 2-0 chelsea carra and gerrard own goals. I hope mctaggert chokes on his rat poisened whisky! No 19? My arrse!!

As the Rock said, "It doesn't matter!"

[Anfield rapper]

Watch us pull out all the stops to beat Chelsea.

[Waldo]

Lie down, roll over and have your tummies tickled lads.

[Anfield rapper]

I think people should stick to posting their own opinions on the question asked rather than making offensive comparisons of the people who have different opinions to their own.

Agree 100% with this. How you/I/anybody want our game with Chelsea to turn out is 100% personal. It's not something you can be objective about, at least it's not something I can be objective about. A lot of sanctimonious posts in this thread. I don't think anyone is suggesting that the manager/players actually throw the game, and of course they're not going to, but that doesn't stop fans FEELING the way they do about the fixture and the ramifications that the result will have. I know that a win will just about keep our faint 4th place hopes alive but I simply cannot bear the thought of the mancs winning that number 19. It's not something i've weighed up, like i've looked at the pro's and the con's and it's definately not something that is gonna be influenced by 'we are lfc and we do things this way or that way' talk either, it's simply how I feel about the situation. Same way I can't bring myself to like Jose Mourinho even though I think he'd probably make a hell of a Liverpool manager in the right situation!

Exactly! some of us are surrounded by mancs others may live on the other side of the globe. I have friends who are mancs and they really will let me have it with both barrells if they win the title this year. Thats why i would prefer Chelsea to win it. Even if we win this game we won't make the CL. That went when we lost to the likes of Wigan.

[zarababe]

Chelsea will be too strong for us - the players are down and Gerrard looked a shadow of himself.. We won't lose cos we 'let them beat us' Chelsea are a good team and have a grt chance to win the title.. need any more motivation?

4th was ours to claim and we let ourselves down.. we need to re-build and start all over - so let those that have strove to reach 4th enjoy the experience, eve if , like Everton it may be only in the qualifying round we'll back (hopefully) next season !

[Dundalk]

TBH i dont really think we will have a choice either way

A fully fit and midweek rested Chelsea who desperately need the points

against

A knackered looking Liverpool team with nothing to play for and a few major injuries



Only one winner in my eyes

[Emerald Red]

TBH i dont really think we will have a choice either way

A fully fit and midweek rested Chelsea who desperately need the points

against

A knackered looking Liverpool team with nothing to play for and a few major injuries



Only one winner in my eyes

And a seriously cack looking bench.

I'd love to see Rafa play Reina in the midfield for this one. Love to see the f*ckers on SSN and Fergies face. Would be legendary.

[Greavesie]

we'd get our wrists slapped off the FA for playing a weakened side surely?

denying the Mancs the title, the FA would have our lives!

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TBH i dont really think we will have a choice either way

A fully fit and midweek rested Chelsea who desperately need the points

against

A knackered looking Liverpool team with nothing to play for and a few major injuries



Only one winner in my eyes

And a seriously cack looking bench.

I'd love to see Rafa play Reina in the midfield for this one. Love to see the f*ckers on SSN and Fergies face. Would be legendary.

  Hopefully Insua will be back for this game, we need a goalkeeper 

[Fauxy]

Sammy Lee can go in goal if Insua isnt back

[bunglemark2]

If Sammy Lee went in midfield, there wouldn't be any space either side to get past him

[The Good Yank]

Pacheco
Spearing                          Ngog
            Maxi         Babel

Soto       Cavalieri   Reina    Carragher

               Agger   
                          Ayala

Whiskey Nose goes from purple to blue and dies.

[RED BEERGOGGLES]

If Liverpool play their first eleven they will be dead on their feet before the first 45 is up ,So I see this as the perfect occasion to start with Pacheco up front and blood some promising youngsters, , I think Ayala should play in the centre of defence alongside Agger play Gerrard at left back and Kelly at right ,I only selected Gerrard for his insistence on playing there for the whole of the second half against Athletico 
Johnson on the right wing because its where he belongs not as a defender ,every team has an Achilles Heel its just when Johnson plays its glaringly obvious to the opposition that it is unquestionably him     Babel on the left being as clueless as possible

As for centre Midfield play Mascherano  with Victor Palsson ,I have watched him a few times this season and he looks a real find, confident on the ball and an accomplished   passer ,Aquilani behind Pacheco  would complete the line up
Oh and Cavalieri in goal (Because it would be obvious if we never had a Goalie ) 

[Bad Bob]

As expected, laying it on thick...

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Liverpool v Chelsea. Click here to bet.

Sir Alex Ferguson is confident Liverpool will not "throw away their history" by standing aside for Chelsea at Anfield on Sunday.

Manchester United head into the penultimate weekend of the campaign knowing their last realistic chance of overhauling Carlo Ancelotti's side depends on Liverpool avoiding defeat this weekend.

If Chelsea are denied maximum points, United can seize the advantage by beating Sunderland at the Stadium of Light a couple of hours later.

All this has been noted at an increasingly agitated Liverpool.

And quite apart from drawing a veil on what has been a disastrous season for the Merseyside giants, that took another downturn last night with a Europa League semi-final exit at the hands of Atletico Madrid, the sub-plot is United attempting to clinch a record 19th league championship.

That would eclipse Liverpool, a situation that seemed impossible when Ferguson came south from Aberdeen in 1986.

It has led a number of Liverpool supporters to voice their desire for their team to lose, even though it would cost them what slender chance they still have of finishing in the Champions League places.

Ferguson cannot see that eventuality and is convinced Liverpool have too much to lose by not trying.

"I am confident they will do their maximum," he said.

"Great clubs don't throw their history and traditions away for one game.

"They have been in 11 European finals. They have won 18 titles.

"That is a fantastic history. You don't throw that away. The fans know that too.

"Do you think the fans want to go home saying their players capitulated and they didn't try and thinking it wouldn't happen again?"

There is a precedent. On the last day in 1995, United headed to West Ham knowing it would take a victory at Upton Park and a Liverpool win over Blackburn at Anfield to give them the title.

Given Kenny Dalglish was the Blackburn manager, the attachment was arguably even greater.

As it turned out, Liverpool did their job, but United were unable to capitalise.

"We were depending on Liverpool producing - and they did," recalled Ferguson.

"You have to earn a right to win the title. Okay, there were a lot of English players in their team that day and they understood the history of Liverpool FC.

"But I don't think there has been such a swing that the current players do not understand the history of Liverpool."

They presumably also know they are tired, weary and unhappy given they slogged through 120 minutes last night before falling to Diego Forlan's extra-time decider.

It leaves Rafael Benitez in a similar position to the one Ferguson found himself in when United crashed out of the Champions League at the hands of Bayern Munich.

And it also gave the United boss a chance to air his long-held view about the Premier League not giving any assistance to clubs sidetracked by European commitments.

"It is difficult to say how Liverpool's players will feel," said Ferguson. "It is Rafa's job to prepare his players.

"The way we lost to Bayern Munich gave me a difficult job to raise players. But you have to do it. That is your job.

"It took me a couple of days to get over it. But you can't wallow in pity.

"I would totally agree that we would have preferred last night's game to finish in 90 minutes and I have always said teams don't get the proper help when they are in Europe.

"Having to play Sunday lunchtime after a Thursday game is not fair but it happens time and again when we see repeatedly teams abroad being allowed to bring games forward to suit their programme. That is a fact.

"They say there is congestion but it is not that big you can't help a team by one day or a few hours.

"We have all had to cope with it over the years. You depend on the great resilience of the English player."

For his part, Ferguson could have Wayne Rooney and Rio Ferdinand back in contention after recent groin injuries, providing a welcome selection poser ahead of a visit to Wearside, where Sunderland have lost just twice in the league all season.

Footy365

[Igor Zidane]

Right i've voted now and i've done a complete u turn . I voted to lose to Chelsea. Get this horrible tw@tty season over with .Get rid of the owners ,let the manger go of his own free will , cos he's made it obvious he's going .Get a new man in , start getting on with everyone on here again and look forward to a new season with a bit of optimisim . Sick to death of argueing the toss over friggin everthing to do with our club . Lets get back to the Liverpool way once and for all .