Emmo’s Blog

Seems a few people like this site. Must be mad!

If I feel like writing a piece to get my anger of my chest then I will use the site to vent my anger.

On that note does anyone, like me, feel that pro footballlers have totally devalued what tattoos are about.

Tattoos (for me) are for people who are into rock music and have wanted them for years after seeing idols such as nikki sixx and tommy lee covered in them.

They are not for footballers who have nothing else to spend their £50k that week. Look at the tossers covered in tattoos. You have Craig Bellamy, Wayne Bridge, Jermaine Jenas and Tom fat boy Huddlestone to name a few.

These idiots are just sheep and follow each other as they have turned tattoos into fashion accessories.

I for one hate it. Look at Wayne bridge. His bird has shagged Terry so what better way to show how tough he is by getting a 3/4 sleeve tatto and he now wears short sleeved shirts in every game. Even in -10 degrees. Tosser.

Your bird shagged your mate. Deal with it.

Don’t start me on that weasel Bellamy.

That feels better.

So if music is your bag then feel free to look around. I won’t be posting about LFC anymore as there are far many other and better sites out there.

If you are a LFC then please don’t use Koptalk.

Emmo

No not Rafa but due to lack of effort on my part and finding the time this site will no longer to have new posts.

The site started in mid 2008 and ended in late 2009.

Check out the archives as there may be something of interest in the music, football or games section.

The Ed

PS: Will the last one out please turn off the lights…………………………

So 6 weeks after owning Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 for 360 what is the verdict of Konami’s latest effort? Not so good to be honest…

After the first few games I had this game down as one the best PES since PES5 was released way back on the original Xbox. A few weeks later I have it down as one of the worst.

This is the reason why it has taken so long to review as I don’t like to give knee-jerk reviews whether it be CDs, Films or Games. It’s easy to say something’s great after a few games but the proof is in the longevity. How many times do we love an album, say it’s the best, then a few months later never play it? A lot.

Anyway, I got PES10 a few days before general release and when I fired it up I was pleased to see how good it looked. The graphics shat all over EAs new baby Fifa10. Konami had gone into so much detail with every player. Fernando Torres even has his birthmark on his neck! Gone were the ugly menus and horrendous music. In came readable menus and songs from bands like Stereophonics & Kaiser Chiefs.

I played a few games with various teams and was (at first) impressed with what I saw. Everyone knows that PES does look strange at first due to the lack of licenses. I only had to wait a few days for a well known PES fan site to create an option file. The file gave me all the correct kits, team & player names plus a few teams that are not even in the game!

The game now looked complete and I was eager to start the Master League which has had a radical makeover this year. Gone are the points system and in comes real money. There is now a youth team for you to look after and this year they have implemented the Champions & Europa League into the Master League which is a touch of genius. Last year they didn’t and the CL license was a waste of time. There is also a transfer window of 4 weeks before the first league game and you or your scout can try to sign new players before the window slams shut until Xmas. The Master League was now pretty much perfect.

So with all that in mind PES2010 was set up to be a cracker of game. Unfortunately where in previous years PES had looked average and played magnificent this year it has switched around. The game looks amazing but playing the game isn’t a nice experience at all.

It seems that every year since the new generation consoles Pro Evo has gone backwards in terms of game play. I could be here for ages typing out what’s wrong with PES10 but so far I have told you what’s right with it as it’s easier on the fingers!!

I will though tell you a few of the problems with the game. The first is the passing. The ball pings around like a pinball and the simplest of passes goes astray. Keepers are worse than ever as shots are parried too often and every shot to the near post doesn’t even get a dive from the keeper. A cross and header on target results in a goal 9 times out of 10 as the keeper just watches it go in.
First touch? Unless you have a top class player all the players have a dreadful first touch which results in them losing the ball. The pitch is bigger than ever but you wouldn’t know it as the players are all bunched in the middle like my sons U/8s team.

But there are two bigger main flaws and the first is that you cannot get or give away a penalty. I’ve hacked down forwards when one on one only for the ref to wave play on and I’ve also been the victim and been hacked down for a blatant pen only for the ref to ignore it. Some people I know have had over 100 games and not seen a penalty given. Secondly the computers AI makes the game too easy. The teams the AI controls are too negative and don’t attack enough. I played Inter, AC & Madrid in 3 consecutive games and only had 3 shots made against me. The AI makes the team too defensive. After 15 league games I had only conceded 3 goals and I don’t exactly have the world’s best defenders. I upped the level and OK I didn’t hardly see the ball due to the AIs possession but again the shots on goal didn’t arrive.

So there you are. This is the third PES made for next gen consoles and this is the third less than impressive effort. The last great PES game was the first game available for 360 which was PES6.
When it came out in 2006 next gen owners were gutted as this was effectively a PS2 game put onto a 360 disc. The game wasn’t in HD and neither did it have next gen graphics. But after playing the game it was obvious that PES6 was the best PES ever made and it still is to this day.

If you really want to get PES10 then I recommend getting a 2nd hand PS2 console and buying PES10 for it. I have heard that PES10 is fantastic for the PS2 which is no surprise as that’s the format the game is made on. It’s probably the reason that Konami are still not able to make great next gen games for 360 & PS3.

Me? I be playing PES6 until I read the reviews of PES2011 because PES08,09 & 10 have all been major letdowns.

PES10 rating 5/10

This week saw Bon Jovi claim the third biggest slide in US chart history.

The Circle debuted in the US Album Chart at number 1 (the bands third consecutive) but this week it fell an astonishing 18 places to number 19. Only Marilyn Manson and Incubus has have bigger falls from grace from the number 1 spot.

The Circles first weeks sales were less than impressive. 163,000 copies were sold but a dreadful 50,153 were sold week 2. This could be the first Bon Jovi album not to sell more than 500,000 copies.

There was no reasons in particular for die-hards or even casual fans not to buy the album in the US. Wall mart had the CD for the special price of $6.99 and Amazon offered the download at $3.99. Those prices are more than reasonable in a time of world recession.

So what’s the reason behind the drop in sales? Illegal downloads? I’m not buying that (excuse the pun) some albums have sold by the hundreds of thousands in the last year despite the albums being leaked on the internet.

For me it’s a case of a Bon Jovi overload. From 1985-2002 the band released (not including the Greatest Hits, Live album & TLFR) 7 albums averaging nearly 3 years before each release.

Since 2003 they have released 4 albums lowering the average time between albums to 1.5 years.
But the main fact is that the band have released 3 albums in the last 5 years and that’s too much.

More albums will mean even die-hards are seeing and hearing to much of the band.
We would all like our favorite bands to release a new album every week but if they did the quality of song would suffer and that’s what’s happened to Bon Jovi.

While The Circle is a good album and the best since 1995s These Days, if you bought the three albums (Bounce, Have A Nice Day & Lost Highway) since 2003 then you would be well excused for giving the latest offering a miss and I believe that’s what’s happened.

Bon Jovi have finally released an album worth telling the world about but the world has heard too much mediocrity to give it any of its time.

Album sales will pick up when the band starts touring but The Circle may already be officially the worst selling Bon Jovi album of all time.

After the next tour the band need to go away and come back in 4 or 5 years maybe longer. They need to make people want/need/crave another Bon Jovi album. They need to be totally off the radar like when they took a break between New Jersey and Keep The Faith.

People were bored with Grunge which was everywhere at the time. People wanted Bon Jovi back and they returned with a 10 million plus selling album. I would even suggest no solo albums this time either. There has just been too much in a to short space of time.

If you get the chance to see them on The Circle tour then do so as they are still one of the best live acts around. It should hopefully for the sake of the band be the last time you get to see them in a long while….

Even most diehards would admit that Bon Jovi albums since the post 2000 have been patchy.
Crush, Bounce, Have A Nice Day and Lost Highway have all been OK. If you take the best 4 songs from each album and you would have a cracker of an album but in order to get that album you are losing a lot of songs.

So on their 25th Anniversary the band have decided to release a “Total Rock Record” and have gone full “Circle.”

2007 saw the band get a Nashville influenced sounding album with Lost Highway and although it was surprisingly good in places it wasn’t the album the fans had wanted. Lost Highway was never meant to be toured but it was for nearly a year and 2009 was meant to see the (unneeded) release of a Greatest Hits 2.

I’m a firm believer that a Greatest Hits album should be released when the band are no longer together (as I type this I find that Rod Stewart is set to release roughly his 10th Greatest Hits album!) The band announced that writing 2 new songs for the GH2 album became 5, which then became 10 and so on. In all 26 songs were written and 16 demoed. None of the new songs sounded like they fitted on a Greatest Hits so they decided to release a new album instead- postponing the GH2 for Xmas 2010.

So on 02.11.09 Bon Jovi released the The Circle and as fan of the band for over 20 years I can honestly say this is their best album since 1995s These Days. The albums theme is the usual Jovi theme of hope and faith and what makes that even better is the financial state of the  world now. The first 3 songs on the album We Weren’t Born To Follow, When We Were Beautiful and Work For The Working Man are all about the current situation the everyone finds themselves in at the moment.

The Circle also sees Bon Jovi  write their best ballad since 1994s Always. Since the release of Always the slower songs on every album since have all come up way short in comparison so step forward Superman Tonight (2nd single) which is a belter of a song.

Other stand out tracks are Thorn In My Side, Love Is The Only Rule, Happy Now, Brokenpromiseland & Fast Cars all songs are great rock songs and will sound great live.
 
The only disappointments for me are the song Bullet which at the moment hasn’t struck a chord with me yet and Live Before You Die which has a great chorus but the verses sound like Walk Like A Man (HAND) and Joey (Bounce) re-written.

So all in all this is a excellent effort from Bon Jovi and they finally have an album which can stand proudly with the albums released pre 2000. After 25 years the boys from New Jersey still know how to rock.

Track list:

We Weren’t Born To Follow
When We Were Beautiful
Work For The Working Man
Superman Tonight
Bullet
Thorn In My Side
Live Before You Die
Brokenpromiseland
Loves The Only Rule
Fast Cars
Happy Now
Learn To Love

Rating 8.5/10

2009 has been a strange year for me musically.
I have bought a lot of CDs but not many new ones. I have spent most of the year getting my back catalogue in order.
Iron Maiden, Enuff Z Nuff, Poison & Terrorvision have all had their back catalogues completed.
2009 also saw me get rid of some bands from my collection. I think I must have sold around 30+ albums this year.
Artists that have gone include NIN, Pearl Jam (last 4 albums), Papa Roach, Daughtry and Theory Of A Deadman.
My music taste has changed.

So below is my top 6 albums of the year and my turkey of the year. Agree? Let me know.

Chutzpah! – The Wildhearts:
Without doubt my number one album of 2009. From the opening track The Jackson Whites to the self titled closer this album doesn’t let up. Chutzpah! was a different album than the bands previous efforts as other band members also had a go at lead vocals with stunning results. For an extra few pence the Japanese Import was well worth the purchase as it came with an extra 4 tracks including the frantic one minute pre-opener Chutzpah! Jnr. So if you want harmonies thunderous guitars and chorus’s that stick to you like spunk in the bath Chutzpah! is the one album of this top 6 you must own. Never being a band to do things the easy or normal way Newcastle’s finest then toured the album in September and played the album live from start to finish every night. After nearly 20 years this band still produce the goods.

The Circle – Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi now sound like the sons of New Jersey legend Bruce Springsteen and that’s not a bad thing is it?
They were always going to end up sounding like the Boss even if 2007s Lost Highway Nashville influenced album took them on a slight de-tour.  The Circles theme is set in the current global recession but it’s not a doom and gloom album.
The album opens up with a traditional stadium anthem track in We Weren’t Born To Follow and then Springsteen’s influence kicks in during When We Were Beautiful and Work For The Working Man.
The Circle is triumphant return to form from Bon Jovi after a couple of average releases over the last few albums.

Babylon – W.A.S.P
Blackie Lawless and his band returned in late 2009 a new album. Babylon is an immense album that is surely WASPs best release since the epic Crimson Idol in the early 90s. Lawless and band members are on top of their game with the performances on Babylon. The song Get To The Fire for example is 6 minutes of quality WASP metal with 3 (yes 3) guitar solos. The only downside to this album is that there are only 9 songs and one is a cover of the Deep Purple classic Burn. I don’t understand why bands put cover songs on albums as they should be saved for B-Sides or a rarity album. Still, if you have never heard Burn it don’t matter so much. WASP will never match The Crimson Idol but Babylon comes pretty darn close.

21st Century Breakdown – Green Day
How would Green Day follow up the multi selling multi award winning and critically acclaimed American Idiot? By releasing 21st Century Breakdown that’s how. 21CB is in my opinion better than its predecessor. Yes its overblown, egotistical and way too long but we would expect nothing less from Green Day after the success of American Idiot.
21CB is another concept album and is broken down into 3 sections over 18 songs and clocks in at 70 minutes. The album tells the story of a couple of kids (Christian and Gloria) trying to make it in America after the reign of President Bush.
The pressure was really on Green Day with this release and it took them nearly 5 years to complete. A job well done.

Blue Gives Way To Gray – Alice In Chains
Of all the bands that came out of the early 90s “Grunge” scene in Seattle Alice In Chains were head and shoulders above the rest. Following a temporary split after the death of front man Layne Staley in 2003 from a drug overdose, AIC re-grouped and hired long time friend Robert Duvalle to take over vocal duties. The results on this album are outstanding. It’s always hard replacing front men and there are more bands that have failed than succeeded in a change of vocals. But what helps AIC is that DuValle sound just like the man he replaced. Throw into the mix Jerry Cantrell’s backing vocals and velvet guitar and you have the ingredients that make Blue Gives Way To Gray a masterpiece. 

Sonic Boom – KISS
Ok here’s the deal. Never been a fan of KISS. Never got what the big hoo-hah was with them. Maybe I’m too young but most of the bands I like say they were influenced by them so they must have something about them. This album was a no go until I read a few reviews and they all said that Sonic Boom was the best KISS album in 30 years. This album has  Big riffs, big chorus’s and big hair. What more do you want in an album? Chuck in some great guitar work and cheesy lyrics and you have a great Rock record. The new members of the band seem to have gelled with Gene and Paul and even have a go at taking over vocal duties on a few tracks. Sonic Boom is a pleasant surprise. Enjoy

GOBBLE GOBBLE – Turkey of the year:

Manic St Preachers – Journal for Plague Lovers
Loved the Manics first three albums of which all were mostly wrote by “missing” guitarist Richey James. The band lost their way when he disappeared in 1994 but released a corker of an album in 2007 titled Send Away The Tigers. I was looking forward to this album as the band used the lyrics that Ritchey never got round to using. The result? An album of dire songs. There must have been a reason why these lyrics were never used by Mr James and now we know why. The band just seem to be trying to re-create the Holy Bible era again and fail miserably. Back to the studio lads and leave Ritchie’s song book at home!

Qualification from the group stages of the Champions League is going to be hard. We need 3 wins and a favour from someone. It don’t look good. Lose on Sunday and the season as far as the Premier League is over. To be 10 points behind Man Utd in October is unthinkable. But after getting so close last season what has gone wrong at Anfield?

Some say the sale of Xabi Alonso has caused the red machine to derail. But I don’t buy that.
While yes it’s obvious we miss Alonso he wouldn’t have stopped the 11 goals conceded from set pieces so far this season.
The reason why we are doing so badly is that we have no quality in depth when we talk about our squad.

The first 11 is a good team and with the inclusion of Aquilani when fit it will be a great first 11 but after that we are struggling. While the other 3 from the big 4 can call on players whose names might not set the world alight they can do a job. Get them through the games that they are needed for. Liverpool Football Club don’t have that.

It was obvious that as soon as Gerrard and Torres either got injured, suspended or had a loss of form then we would struggle. Who from the squad can replace them? When I say replace I mean come in a do a job. No one can replace these 2 players as they are probably the best in the world in those positions.

For example if Utd lost Rooney, Scholes and Vidic then they could bring in Owen, Fletcher and Brown. All good solid pros who can step up to the plate. Who can we bring in for our best players?  Babel, Voronin and Ngog. It’s not good is it? When I look at our bench there is no one who can take the game by the scruff of the neck if brought on. The quality just isn’t there.

From the moment pre-season began it was plain to see that our squad wasn’t good enough. Especially up front. Think of all the forwards we have let go over the years. Bellamy, Crouch & Keane to name three. How many of them would you have at the club now? All of them is the answer. It was a massive gamble leaving Torres as our only top class forward. One severe injury and we would be in big trouble.

We know that Rafa wanted Voronin out and was hoping to sell him but after Hertha Berlin (where he was on loan last season scoring 14 goals) baulked at the £5m asking price no one else came in for him. There was talk of Hull making a bid but even they weren’t that desperate. So we are stuck with him.

David Ngog is 19 and just not ready for first team action. He looks better every time he plays but he couldn’t play 20 games on the bounce if Torres was badly injured. He just doesn’t have the body and stamina yet to deal with the physical side of Premier League football.

While no transfer can be a guaranteed success Rafa has signed a fair few poor players. For every Riena, Agger, Alonso, Macscherano and Torres there has been an Istandje, Dossena, Babel, Reira and Morrientes.

We have wasted a lot of money but people say that this is Rafas squad and these are the players he wanted but are they? You rarely get world class players for under £15m and most of the squad cost less than that. Rafa wanted Silva and Villa but was told there was no money despite the owners telling us that they hadn’t taken the £32m from the sale of Alonso to pay off debts. So where did £32m go? Not on Aquilani and Johnson who despite what the press told you cost roughly £13m and not £40m.

Has Rafa lost the fans? Not yet but I think a few crazy decisions like subbing Benayoun for Voronin in Tuesdays defeat against Lyon won’t help. Benayoun has been LFCs best player this season and on Tuesday night so this decision was total madness.

So its Manchester United up next and as tough as this game might be I think there’s no better team to try and change your luck against. We beat Utd twice last season and at Anfield we done it without Torres and Gerrard. I have a feeling this will be the game that could turn things around for us. But what if we lose? Could it be Rafas last game in charge?
I doubt it. The Americans say that his job is safe and the main reason for that is he signed a new 5 year deal only a few months ago. It would cost nearly the owners £15m to sack him and another £15m+ to get a replacement better than him.

But what if Rafa was sacked. Many LFC want legend Kenny Dalglish back in charge. I don’t agree with this. King Kenny has been out of the game for over 10 years and football has changed massively. He may be a temporary option while we wait for the new man to arrive. If Rafa was to be sacked there’s only 1 man that can replace him. Jose Mourinho.
Love him or hate him Mourinho would make us great again. He done it with Porto, Chelsea and now Inter Milan so I would have no worries if he took the job should it become available.

I personally feel that Benitez should step aside. He has been at the club for 5 years and we have won the CL, FA Cup & Super Cup under his management. We have also been to another CL final and Carling Cup final. Last season we finished 2nd in the league but this season we have gone backwards. We are meant to build on what we had last season but have somehow not done that.

As I said earlier it’s not all down to the selling of Alonso but signing his replacement Aquilani when injured and out for nearly 4 months was crazy no matter how good he will be. We should have signed someone on a 6 month loan deal to void the gap left by Alonso until Aquilani’s rehabilitation was finished. I also don’t like it when Lucas and Mascherano are in the same team and we have forgot the basics of defending. We lack that something that title teams have. Last season we took 14 points out of 18 points against the big four. That won’t happen again.

This season we are beating the teams who got draws against us but we also need to beat the big teams. Last season City wasn’t the team they are now and neither were Spurs. All of them have got stronger while we have become weaker with our lack of depth. I also think that some of the senior players have lost faith in Rafa and its starting to show on the pitch. In my opinion it’s time for a change. But I like Rafa and hope he can turn it around.

A win against Utd won’t solve all our problems but will certainly give us confidence going forward. plus Aquilani is set to make his debut next week against Arsenal in the Carling Cup so things might be looking brighter next weekend. A week is a long time in football….

Coming soon.
Pro Evolution Soccer 10 review
2009s albums of the year

Well it’s a Rock-tastic week this week at Emmo Towers.

Why?

Well last week I sold some dire albums I’d bought over the years on eBay.

The 10 albums raked in about £60 so I went on a mission to get 11 of the 12 Iron Maiden studio albums I needed.
Amazingly I got them all for roughly £40 on eBay which was amazing as they were all the re-mastered versions.

I am now the proud owner of every Iron Maiden studio album except the two with Blaze Bailey on vocals. Maiden are an awesome band and I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to really get into them even though I’ve had Number Of The Beast for nearly 10 years.

With the Pay-Pal pot still a little in credit I purchased the new KISS album Sonic Boom and the new WASP album Babylon. Both have turned up today so I’ll review these as soon as I can but I have some serious music to get through.

I have never been a fan of KISS but I have read some good reviews about Sonic Boom. Most reviewers have said that this is their best album for nearly 30 years. It’s a gamble for me as I have never really got what all the fuss was about with KISS.

I have only been into WASP for about 18 months but they are amazing. The Crimson Idol is one of the best metal albums of all time and if Babylon is half as good then I’ll be happy.

So that’s 13 albums to get through and they should keep me going until at least Nov 2nd when Bon Jovi release The Circle.

Last month also saw the release of Alice In Chains excellent new album Black Gives Way To Blue. A fine return to form for arguably the finest band to come out of Seattle and the grunge scene. Its hard to change vocalist not that they had much choice after the death of the original front man Layne Staley. The new guy fits in well and the fact that he sounds exactly like Staley will help the fans take to the new album quicker.

Pearl Jam have also released a new album recently titled Backspacer. I haven’t yet bought this album and doubt that I will. The reviews for the latest offering haven’t made me want to go buy it so I doubt that I will. Pearl Jam will never top their first two albums Ten and Vs so in my opinion everything since those releases have been average at best.

Finally, The Wildhearts are rumoured to be releasing download only track on Friday 16th October. It will be available from their website www.thewildhearts.com  No news on what the song is but I reckon it’s a song that didn’t make the latest album the excellent “Chutzpah!” I hope that it’s the song “Some Days Just F*cking Suck”  but who knows what these guys have in store!

On December 17th Wildhearts front man Ginger is playing a Birthday Bash gig at Highbury Garage. Tickets are £12.50 and are well worth a purchase. Expect some special guests to help Ginger celebrate his birthday. I will be there so make sure that you are!

Away from music and next week sees the release of Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer 2010. After the disappointment of Evo 2009 Konami have been working hard to please the army of loyal fans. The have been working hard and trying their best to reclaim the crown back from Fifa.

If you read this site last year I was gutted with Pro Evo 09 and bought Fifa09 but after while I went back to Pro after I found Fifa too scripted. I have played Fifa10 this year and again I dislike it. I have also played the Evo10 demo and am liking it….a lot.

 A full review of Evo10 will be on the site sometime in the next 10 days.

Liverpool lost their 3rd league game of the season with a woeful display against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

In a surprisingly open game of football which is rare when these two teams meet Liverpool struggled to create anything of note.

Chelsea’s stand in keeper Hilario had one save to make in 90 minutes and that summed up Liverpool’s performance. It’s the same old story for the reds and that’s if Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres don’t play well then they have no one else who can help out.

This has to be the most average squad for years considering the amount of money spent/wasted by Benitez in assembling it.

For a team as big as Liverpool to only have one proven striker is criminal. Benitez cant think to highly of Voronin because when they were 1-0 down with 10 minutes to play who did he summon from the bench? Aurelio a left back.

Many LFC fans also were left scratching their heads when the player of the season so far Benyaoun was left on the bench for the hopeless Riera. When he came on Benyaoun showed Benitez how wrong it was to drop him as the Israeli did more in 20 minutes than anyone who played the 90 for the reds.

Without any teams looking anywhere near their best both failed to create any real chances. Then in the second half Mascherano lost the ball Chelsea broke and scored through Anelka – the player Gerrard Houllier preferred El Hadj Diouff too in 2002

Then with time running out Drogba whose broken leg from a tackle 5 minutes previous was suddenly healed and he  powered past Carragher and Aurelio to cut the ball back for Malouda to tap in from close range.

Torres missed and golden chance from six yards and then Benyaoun missed an even better chance from 4 yards with the keeper on the floor.

But it didn’t matter. Chelsea weren’t brilliant but they didn’t need to be to beat a Liverpool team that has been poor all season. Yes they have beat Hull, Bolton, West Ham, Stoke and Burnley but most of the big teams in the league will also do that. Liverpool have faced 3 good teams in Spurs, Villa and Chelsea and lost.

They need to buck their ideas up as a tricky visit to Sunderland and a game against Man Utd await them before the months out.

After the 6-1 thrashing of Hull on Saturday 3 points against an average Fiorentina in the CL looked a dead cert for Liverpool last night.

How wrong can everyone be? Liverpool were dreadful and got what they deserved from the game. Nothing.

They better forget this game quick as we visit Stamford Bridge on Sunday when we play Chelsea.
I can’t see another performance as bad as last night’s coming for a few years so I expect Liverpool to be a completely different side on Sunday.

Terry can’t handle Torres (not many can) and I would hope that El Nino gives him the round around just like every time he has faced the England Skipper. Don’t laugh. It’s true. Terry is England’s skipper. I’m not kidding honestly.

I really hope that Daniel Agger makes his comeback soon as it’s obvious that Carragher and Skrtl are playing awful at the moment. In fact the whole back four are pretty poor at the moment so Agger, our best defender, is really needed now.

Benitez has confirmed that Aquilani won’t be fit for 3 weeks so he will missing. Mascherano is expected to shake off a slight hamstring twang in time for Sunday.

Chelsea V Liverpool Sky Sports 1 HD K/O 4pm.