news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 175000.stm Does this result show the poor quality of the SPL?

news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 175000.stm Does this result show the poor quality of the SPL?

United or Liverpool?

Corinthian Miniatures – I still have a fair few too. And their successors, the Microstars.







I've got a couple stashed somewhere: they published a couple of letters of mine over a period of time. I might even still have the shirt I got for a letter of the week once.



But it was a really good blend of the fanzine approach and the more 'glossy' approach, if you will. A meeting of [i4-4-2[/i and [iWhen Saturday Comes[/i. The cover headline after Germany won Euro '96 will stick in my mind for a long time: 'Jammy Kuntz'.

It was the best football magazine by a mile and, sadly, the rest of the footballing audience didn't catch on as it could be difficult to get hold of up here and, of course, went bump.



I think it was the subtle humour of the writers that did it more than anything. It was kind of groundbreaking in sports magazines at the time and was the first publication to cross the style of serious football magazines with the fanzine.



It's demise left a huge hole that has never been filled.

So we'll spend £15-£20 million Aquilani and bench him? Get a grip. Also, bear in mid that if we do sign Aquilani and sell Alonso we will still have £20 million to spend. When fit our starting XI could look like this:



Reina



Johnson

Agger

Carragher

Aurelio



Mascherano

Aquilani



Kuyt

Gerrard

Silva



Torres.



Bench:

Lucas

Benayoun

Babel

Reira

Skrtel

Insua

Cavalieri



Squad:

N'Gog

Pacheco

Spearing

Degen





Plenty good enough.

Have you seen the latest cover of [iWhen Saturday Comes[/i?



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Obsessed

He doesn't have to realise anything Alonso has 3-4 years left on his contract the franco s can pay up or leave it and we will keep him.

Would you really want to keep a player that obviously doesn't want to be at the club? SAF saw that Ronaldos heart wasn't in it last season so we sold him to real (i think he'll comeback within the next 5 years though).



Remeber what Blatter said about keeping a player against his will should be classed as slavery?

Considering it's a World Cup year, I don't think it'd be in Alonso's best interest to sulk/play poorly/rot in the reserves if Liverpool were to refuse a transfer this summer. This is why I think Benitez should stand firm amidst all the speculation. He should tell Real to cough up the £35mill or Alonso stays.



I wouldn't mind being a slave if I was earning more in a mornings work than I'm currently earning in a year.

Maybe he thinks his WC chances will be improved playing in Spain with one of the top clubs?

It's a strange one for me as Alan Brazil mentioned months ago that Gerrard and Alonso had a massive training ground bust up and that Alonso would be on his way in the summer, also if you keep hold of him and let his contract run down you may be lucky to get £15m. I think Alonso is one of the most important players you guys have and could be the difference between top two and top four next season. I doubt you'll get £35m for him i'd say it'll end up around the £25m mark which will still be a big profit

The hardest thing to replace will be how many players he gets sent off a season? I think Liverpool won 7 games when people were sent off for fouling Alonso, thats a lot of points lost.

Well my mum is an armchair Liverpool fan and my dad supports Tottenham, having been born about a mile from White Hart Lane, so naturally I support West Ham.





I remember watching footy with my dad as a nipper and I just liked the way they played the game. I also found the name to be hilarious - who names their team after cooked meat?

Well I was only about 5 at the time.



But I don't think it was really until the mid 80's that I fell for them completely - I was always so focussed on TGG and on Hull. But the Tony Cottee-Frank McAvennie combo finally pushed me into the realms of a real fan. I still remember standing on a beach in Ibiza reading some blokes paper over his shoulder about how Cottee had signed for Everton and feeling absolutely heartbroken.

We have no hope in signing David Silva. He doesent want a move to England!

Paul Hawksbee off Talksport was the editor of 90 minutes.

how many years until city win as many medals as those poor two lads?

Alonso money (once deal done) to be spent on Valencia striker David Villa (apparently).

Says The Sun.



I'd love for it to happen, I think it'd turn us into title favourites.

Sky Sports.

Is that a humour deficit I detect?





[iWSC[/i has had loads of covers taking the proverbial out of us in recent years. Don't get so antsy.

Both are owned by the same company.



The probability of us signing David Villa is less than 1%.

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To the Liverpool fans on here...



Is 'Empire of the Kop' usually a reliable website?

Never heard of it; why?

There have been a few rumours today that we're about to be bought within the next week. They're now running with a story that DIC (been linked with buying Liverpool) are close to striking a deal.