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And the year before that, too. Another Trebel must be looming...

To be honest, I'm not exactly surprised with the result. Afterall, last night held the exact same situation as the Villareal game a week or two before, that simply being; win or we're out. And even though results elsewhere kept us in with a fighting chance that night, we never once looked like a team that deserved to progress to the latter stages. Its a sad sight to see. We've got the talent and potential to do well in competitions like this but somethings just not right somewhere along the line...Something thats been a long time in the making.

And as expected...

? Seriously though, its no surprise he got the axe. From what I've seen of Real Madrid this season, even with the players they have available they've not been performing. I'm expecting Le Guen to get the job, personally.

Pink Floyd.

The Soccer AM thing is great, especially given the fact that it's usually rubbish teams that are drawn out to Guests that clearly have no clue.

I vote for Livid, Blackholesun's entry just seems a little too dark for my liking.

Nice to see the Free kicks have been improved this time round. I remember in the last game, anytime I got the shot even remotely on target, the keeper made an easy save. Much better now.

Bumping this up for TOG again, I've PM'd him to remind him aswell. Let's hope he can get something up.

Another game, another goal-less performance from Crouch. And way to boo during the one minute silence in George Best's honour, very classy Liverpool.

I think this has been widely known for quite some time now, but still a handy post for those that didn't.

I couldn't be bothered doing that whole post-dissection thing of yours, so I'll keep it simple. Crouch may not have been brought in to be a consistent goal-scorer, but with Liverpool needing goals, I'd sooner drop him for one than keep someone who currently can't score for shit. Ideally, you need a half decent striker and Crouch is about as far as one as humanly possible at the minute.

Although it'll not happen, I'd love Keane to take over as Player/Manager if just for a few laughs.

6.5/10 The text really kills it, IMO. I can understand the red fading into white and then blue to represent the whole 'pepsi' thing but it doesn't really look right. The font choice is also pretty poor.

Disappointing result tonight. Villareal played stubbornly for the draw and got the pay-off in the end. Some good play from us resulting in several clear-cut chances, but we still didn't get the goals to show for it. With Lille and Benfica drawing, the situation stays the same for our next game. Lets just hope we can rise to the occasion moreso than we did tonight.

No surprise with the Italian links in the papers this morning. If Figo can end up at Inter Milan, even at his age, Keane could easily work as a short-term fix at basically any club. The only problem is the fact that he's cup-tied for the Champions League and also (if we're to believe everything we read in the papers) his high wage demands could be off-putting to a lot of clubs. That said, I really can't help but look past him ending up at Celtic regardless of his wage cost.