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Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:12 pm
by RAFABENITEZ
dont wanna jinx it but, I MIGHT GET A TICKET OFF A MATE!!!!! for normal price aswell hopefully.
Dear ZEUS/ALLAH/GOD/FOWLER/MUHAMED please let me have that ticket!!!!!
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Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:24 pm
by anfieldadorer
Benitez receives praise from an unlikely source
Ferguson brands Liverpool boss a ‘straightforward guy’
17/02/2006
Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez has been lauded as a “straightforward guy” ahead of the FA Cup game against Manchester United tomorrow.
That kind of quality helps win over players, according to his Old Trafford counterpart Alex Ferguson.
While there is historically intense rivalry between the two clubs, there appears to be nothing but respect between the two bosses.
“I enjoyed his company in the last UEFA coaches’ seminar, it was good,” Ferguson said.
“We sat beside each other on the coach going to the meeting and I think he’s a straightforward guy.
“That’s good to see and it does your players good, because they can see the quality of the person in terms of success has not changed him.
“That is vital in modern day football because the one thing we don’t like to see is people change within our own confines.
“I don’t like to see United players change and I’m sure that Rafael is the same. He doesn’t want to see his players change.
“Managers like Rafael put the marker down about what they are and hopefully it transfers itself to the players.”
Ferguson was at Anfield in midweek to honour Bob Paisley, who died 10 ten years ago this week.
The United boss has nothing but good memories of the former Liverpool manager and a picture of the two men graces the wall in his office.
Ferguson recalled: “The photograph was taken when he came to one of our games here and I’d gone up to do the press.
“Somebody said ‘Bob Paisley would like to meet you and have a chat with you.’ I’d just arrived (in England) and I think he was welcoming me.
“The thing that came across about Bob Paisley, of course, was his humility, he was an ordinary man who didn’t quite fit with the glamour of success too well.
“He would have been quite happy with his slippers and his pipe, or his pint of beer and not bother with all the trappings of what Liverpool FC could offer, because they were very successful under him.”
Ferguson added: “When I was manager of Scotland I used to talk to (Graeme) Souness, (Kenny) Dalglish, (Alan) Hansen and (Steve) Nicol about Bob.
“They used to laugh about how ordinary a guy he was and that he was running this big football team.
“They loved him and he was very well liked by the players, because he was sort of a cuddly granddad type for them. I think that was the thing that really impressed me.”
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Fri Feb 17, 2006 4:55 pm
by Dundalk
Yeah he is out....
Rafael Benitez has ruled Xabi Alonso out of his plans for tomorrow's FA Cup showdown with Manchester United at Anfield.
The Spanish midfielder was replaced during the second half of the Reds' midweek victory over Arsenal after picking up a minor injury.
Benitez had hoped Alonso would recover in time to face United but he has today admitted the 24 year old won't be involved as Liverpool look to make amends for their recent league defeat at Old Trafford and book their place in the last eight of the FA Cup.
"Xabi is not fit and I don't think he can play against United," said Benitez today. "He is feeling something in his thigh but I think he will be okay for the Benfica game."
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Fri Feb 17, 2006 7:26 pm
by 66-1120597113
Surely we are due a win against the scum!
After the last game when we totally outplayed them for most of the game and lost to that late goal i was sick asd a pig!!As im sure most were on here!!
Its hard to imagine how the game will go but i really feel its time we beat these cu.nts..and how sweet would it be to put them out of the FA cup and send them back to Manchester knowing they are gonna win fu.ck all this season AGAIN!
I feel this game as the last our midfield will be the key to us dominating posession and controling the game!You'd have to say Sissoko could be the key man for us if he plays like he did against Arsenal breaking up play..winning balls whether it be first or second tackle!!
The one thing that concerns me is the lack of goals from our forwards,although i feel it's high time one of them scored and how sweet it would be if Fowler broke his duck tomorrow!!
Im sure it will be a tight game with few goals,i fancy us to nick it 1-0!!
Bring them on!!