The chances are you’ll come up with something better than us
It wasn’t until The Spoiler tried to figure out how we would set Liverpool up tonight that we realised just how tough a task Rafael Benitez faces. They need to field as attacking a line-up as possible without leaving themselves so vulnerable at the back that they risk humiliation. After lots of umming and ahhing, here’s what we settled on:
Playing without full-backs is risky with Florent Malouda and Salomon Kalou both likely to start for Chelsea so we’d need Jamie Carragher and Daniel Agger to move wide a lot with Javier Mascherano operating as a virtual centre-back at times. The reason we chose Sami Hyypia over Martin Skrtel is that he has scored in three previous Champions League quarter-finals for Liverpool and could unsettle a Chelsea defence missing John Terry at set-pieces.
Our approach is fairly suicidal so if you have a better way of balancing all-out attack with a steady defence, let us know with a comment below.
With the exception of Professor Wenger’s disjointed Arsenal, the big four have been flexing their muscles in the press this morning, each claiming they will drink the other’s milkshake in the title race.
Unlike his fancy new watch, Fergie claims Manchester Utd are “too powerful” to be stopped, while Frank Lampard says Liverpool will need to show unfathomable stamina to stay ahead of them this year. Sami Hyypia has said he doesn’t mind if the Reds “win ugly” all season long, but they will almost certainly have to get a result at White Hart Lane this weekend to stop Chelsea (who face Sunderland at home) climbing ahead of them.
So, will the Reds still be top of the pile after game eleven? Or will ‘Arry’s Spurs dent the pride of another Big Four team? Let us know with a vote and comment below…
Liverpool’s December Christmas party was postponed when Stevie G allowed masked intruders to burgle his home and terrify his wife. To make up for the celebration-halting gaff, he pulled out all the stops at the rescheduled event with some thoroughly over-the-top prosthetics.
Having dressing as a parrot last year, Peter Crouch let us a little further into his subconscious bird obsession by dressing as a penguin. Which bird next year, Pete? Falcon? Budgie?
Daniel Agger’s homage to the punk greats such as Good Charlotte showed effort, as did Steve Finnan’s Beetlejuice and Sami Hyypia’s strange
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