Hehe … the darkside version worked better RB imo … liked the way you kept it simple for them by sticking to shorter words.
Someone more cynical than myself, might think you were trying to fire them up, over the whole selling Mane fiasco 
They need simple jokes over there - I trust people here to have slightly sharper minds…
Liverpool fans in full-blown rage mode at our bus-parking today. Always a good sign.
Nothing ticks me off more than compliments from an opponent that beat you - so as you can imagine, I find the opposite quite pleasing.
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Playing a team that had scored 10 goals in their last 2 games, and us conceding 5 in our last 2, we had to go back to basics and get a clean sheet. We were solid, from midfield to the back 4.
Also thought it was a really tough game to referee, with both teams going at each other. Really enjoyed the game today. I do worry a little with our lack of pace through the middle.
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How did the bloke near you get on? Stay until the end?
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I would like to have seen Hesketh/JWP on today to replace Davis. We needed someone who can pass through balls forward to keep the ball but all actually create or build attacks. Without that threat they we free to run roit through the midfield
Sim - he stayed very late because we were not behind - but he did roll up five minutes in, so he’s still a twat.
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Oh and typical Tadic, cold and wet and he went completely missing!
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The Match stats do not look pretty reading
Possession
Home35%Away65%
Shots
Home3Away15
Shots on Target
Home0Away2
Corners
Home1Away8
Fouls
Home8 Away 11
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Wasn’t a great game in comparison to last season’s corresponding fixture. Agree with Phillippine that those stats are a little concerning. We didn’t seem to have a great deal going forward, and if not for players totally fluffing their lines, we might have been two or three goals down. Easily.
That said, another crapola performance from Mark Clattenberg and co.
Trivia question for anyone that may know. Does the coin toss still happen? I’m having trouble remembering a recent home game where we were attacking the Chapel in the first half.
The match stats make awful reading - when they are laid out like that!
The stats look like ours against Hull - apart from a goal of course
Pap you asked me (a qualified referee) yesterday and I told you. Whoever wins the toss chooses which way they shoot. The other team kicks off. We either choose to shoot that way (as it s majority home fans second half) or the oppo make us shoot the opposite way that they think we want to. Of course weather conditions and sun are taken into account when making this decision. But overall it is just a fair way to start the game.
PROCEDURE
the team that wins the toss of a coin decides which goal it will attack in the first half
their opponents take the kick-off
the team that wins the toss takes the kick-off to start the second half
for the second half, the teams change ends and attack the opposite goals
after a team scores a goal, the kick-off is taken by their opponents
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There’s a thread here, Sfcsim.
I think I might start it 
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With Lallana not playing yesterday, most of the attention was on Lovren. Songs tended to be about his wife.
“His wife is a whore” was one. “Stand up if you’ve shagged his wife” was another.
Sadly, the opportunity to introduce a bit of Python failed to materialise. No-one went with:-
“He’s a lumberjack and he’s okay
He’ll shag your wife while you’re away”
Shame really. A tuneful tap-in spurned.
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If I hadn’t had my breakfast porridge in my logoed Saints bowl and played towards the Northam End from the off…we would have lost yesterday.
Any other analysis or argument is just wasting your time…game over. On to Thursday’s game please.
Some more on the “Lov-fest” from the local paper of record:-
The stall was set within the first five minutes, with the Southampton fans leaving ambiguity at the turnstiles.
Dejan Lovren? They f****** hate him.
Dejan Lovren? He’s a banker. At least, that’s what it sounded like.
The Liverpool man probably voted for Donald Trump earlier this month, and all, in the eyes of the home support.
The Croatian would have been prepared for this reception, of course. His £20million move up to Anfield in the summer of 2014 was a controversial one, with his insistence of joining the Reds rankling.He would have also expected it because of last season’s trip to his former club. Few centre backs would have walked off at half time with their side 2-0 up, only to remain in the dressing room for the second half; later on, after his side conspired to concede three goals and lose 3-2, Jurgen Klopp would talk about the emotional tightrope Lovren was walking.
On to the high-wire he stepped again. Pantomime season is still a month away, but it was in full effect here; boos met his every touch from the Saints fans, and cheers from the travelling Kop.
I loved Lovren’s Hollywood pass that bobbled off towards the Chapel as if the ball felt partially to blame and was looking for somewhere to hide.
Not many players can shin a ball that far.
I remember a rare 2-0 victory where John Arne-Riise scored a looping header own goal for us.
MLT was commentating. “Not a bad effort for the distance”. Le God of cheek as well 
Those stats are pretty grim reading but looking at this in context, Liverpool have been taking teams apart this season and we’ve had 2 demoralising defeats in a row - to make it a third with 2 big games coming up would have been disastrous. We looked very solid in defence and it’s good to know we have that string to our bow if we need it, sometimes you just have to take a point and move on.
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