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  1. Actonian

    Best FWs to wear a Liverpool Shirt

    If you were looking at out and out strikers it would be hard to look past Rushie, just on the sheer volume of goals scored but also his team play, the pressing from the front and so on. We shouldn't forget Roger Hunt who went from banging in the goals in Division Two to being a top striker in...
  2. Actonian

    Your LFC team (get to know your fellow SCM'ers)

    Probably wise to have given the Boy's Pen a miss. It was an 'interesting' place.;) Anyone who stood on either the Kop or the Anfield Road End in a 50,000 + crowd will have had that experience of ending up in a completely different place to where you started, without knowing how you'd done it. It...
  3. Actonian

    Your LFC team (get to know your fellow SCM'ers)

    I first started going to Anfield in the promotion season (61-62) but my imagination wasn't really grabbed by those players, so for me it was the early 70s team and my favourite players were Heighway and Keegan.
  4. Actonian

    Alisson - The best GK, we've ever had?

    Clemence came into a struggling team, just knocked out of the FA Cup by Watford. So a major rebuild was necessary and the first part of that was a rock-solid defence. In his first full season in the team he was part of a defence that conceded only 24 goals in a 42 game season. Of course, not all...
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    Alisson - The best GK, we've ever had?

    Clem is still the best for me, because of his consistency over a prolonged period. His record of conceding only four home goals in a season will never be equalled. The other thing is that he made so few mistakes. I actually remember them because they were so rare. Allison is without doubt the...
  6. Actonian

    Interesting Young Players

    If he's still there. I've heard that Palace are extremely interested, and I'm sure there are others, too
  7. Actonian

    Championship Play Off Spots

    They're owned by a Saudi, but I'm pretty certain not by a consortium. They don't seem to have much money as they've only just had a transfer embargo lifted, partly imposed because they didn't pay us part of the fee for Brewster. The owner seems to want to sell, but also seems to have trouble...
  8. Actonian

    Championship Play Off Spots

    Being an old-timer, I have a bit of a soft spot for the traditional teams, so in that sense I'd like to see Preston, Blackburn or Sunderland come up. Luton bring back too many memories of plastic pitches and rabid Tory chairmen for me. Was it them who didn't turn up for a cup match at Anfield...
  9. Actonian

    LFC Loan Watch - 2022/23

    Tyler Morton out for the season at Blackburn, having fractured his foot on Saturday (and played on for most of the rest of the match). When I've watched Blackburn this season the kid who has impressed me is Adam Wharton, only 19, I think, and needs to bulk up a bit, but he has a lovely touch...
  10. Actonian

    On this day in 1993 ...

    Was at the game, a League Cup tie at Fulham, which came just days after a dispiriting defeat in the derby, with McManaman and Grobelaar coming to blows on the pitch. Fowler was like a breath of fresh air and scored the third goal in a 3-1 win. If memory serves he got a hatful in the second leg.
  11. Actonian

    Postponements.

    That's why I said 'a strong rivalry' between the fans. My surprise was based on the distance between London and Old Trafford. However, I did read last night that the last match between the two required 900 police from 3 forces and it still kicked off, so less surprising in the light of that.
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    Postponements.

    They seem to have picked the games where there is a strong rivalry between the fans and let other games go ahead, even in London. A bit surprised, though that tey called off the United game.
  13. Actonian

    Other forum meltdown thread v2.0

    Didn't Courtois shag De Bruyne's girlfriend when they were both at Chelsea? Top, top John Terry behaviour if so.
  14. Actonian

    Everton: I'm curious...

    Grew up in Liverpool and started watching the Reds in 1961. Now in Derbyshire via Manchester and London. Would be made up to see the Blues relegated. As a kid, Evertonians used to sneer at us because we were in Division 2 and had never won the cup, so hopefully karma will make a (very delayed)...
  15. Actonian

    Poll Torres, Salah, Suarez - Pick 1

    Suarez for me. An amaing player in a not brilliant team. I can't even imagine the havoc he would wreak playing in today's team.
  16. Actonian

    Mind games

    There are managers who you wouldn't play mind games with because they are very sure of and about themselves. Jurgen would be a great example. The other point that strikes me is you need to have a subservient media. Most of what passes for mind games is not much more than playground name calling...
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    He’s not wrong

    Was at that game, I think the worst performance I've been at the ground to see from a Liverpool team in 60 years watching them. We made the whole QPR team look like the 1970 Brazil team in a game, which if we'd won, would have seen us go top of the league.
  18. Actonian

    He’s not wrong

    November 1961 against Swansea Town. We won 5-0, but all I can really remember was the roar of the crowd throughout the game.
  19. Actonian

    Jimmy Greaves passes away

    I'm one of the 1% then! Terrific player, if you beat a team with him in it then you always felt you'd got a great result. The 1964 champions beat Tottenham home and away over the Easter weekend and those two results put us well on the way to clinching the title.
  20. Actonian

    Pre Match - Leeds (A) - Sun 16:30

    He was and when he moved up, Joe Fagan took over and when he moved up in his turn, Ronnie Moran took over. I read that Paisley had qualified as a physio, but I'm not sure about the other two.
  21. Actonian

    1983/84

    Shankly hadn't prioritised the League Cup, indeed we didn't enter it for a few years in the 60s, but Paisley took a different view, seeing it as the first opportunity to win a trophy and maybe take the pressure of the players as they competed for the bigger prizes. There's no doubt the FA Cup...
  22. Actonian

    Ian St John

    He missed the game which clinched promotion through suspension having sparked out a Preston player. Aside from that he was a great player, far from a typical centre forward, mobile and a great ball player. He was easily able to handle dropping back into midfield later in his career.
  23. Actonian

    Operation 20 become 18

    I don't think there's much point in voting for something that won't pass and risk causing further antagonism. Best to come back another day and in the meantime tweak the plan and work on a few opponents so you eventually get the numbers to get it through.
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    Operation 20 become 18

    Parachute payments completely ruin the economics of the Championship. The relegated clubs have a massive financial advantage, which forces other Championship clubs to spend more to compete so we have the situation where, on average, Championship wage bills are 107% of revenue, and in the worst...
  25. Actonian

    O Captain my Captain

    We were hardly home and dry in that game, leading by a goal after City had already come back from 2 down. What we shouldn't forget is that he had to make the tackle because he was sold short by a dreadful pass from Victor Moses. How good is it that we don't have to tolerate wasters like that in...
  26. Actonian

    Watford Sack Pearson

    West Ham clearly thought he was better than Mascherano:(
  27. Actonian

    United post-match delirium

    You'd have thought that they would have twigged that the Ferguson days when they had the refs in their pocket are long gone.
  28. Actonian

    RefVARees

    Dermot Gallagher has said that it was right to rule Firmino offside because he could have scored with his armpit. Leaving aside the biological complexities of this, given that you now can't score with your arm, then surely he shouldn't have been given offside. Gallagher is either unaware of the...
  29. Actonian

    Other forum meltdown watch

    I knew a bloke who swore the remedy for piles was to stick ice cubes up his arse. There was a noticeable reluctance on the part of visitors to take drink at his house.
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    Other forum meltdown watch

    I happened to be in Manchester city centre the last time they were relegated. What bliss it was to be alive. As for Everton, they've never been relegated in my lifetime. They could make an old man very happy...
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