The Artful Dodger

I've got no time for Liverpool football club as a club. Klopp is boring twat who moans more than he breates. I just want some objectivity from the supposed moderator of a forum. This lad constantly goes on about Liverpool, he's never there when it's a manc club. I'm just pointing out the very obvious. Don't call yourself neutral.

I'll go away when you either admit your bias or treat other clubs with equal contempt. You literally purr over Manchester City.

Truth is you weren't.

Where were you when it was the Manchester clubs manipulating rules?

The doomongers are conspicuous by their absence. Will they answer for the decades if pain that lockdowns will cause?

Even the Guardian are now getting in on the 'we have to live with it" How many lives have been destroyed for people to come around to what we have been saying since the start? The damage has already been done.

Coutinho was one of my favourite players to watch in the Premier League when he was at Liverpool. A better player than Grealish for my money, only issue is whether he's now on a downward trajectory. He also needed a very hardworking midfield around him at Liverpool, do Villa have that?

Liverpool have soldiered on so far and I respect that. It makes no odds to this decision though. Liverpool are due to play a second game in the league Cup within a week...either play or your out. That's what happened to Leyton Orient.

And when is Liverpool's next game against Arsenal due...within a week. Its mealy mouthed rubbish. Liverpool have got their way because of who they are.

Leyton Orient were kicked out of this competition because they could not fulfill it. The precedent was set there. You either play or don't. No moving games.

Why has the game been postponed? Disgraceful decision and a flagrant breach of a precedent.

Every other club gets their fixtures postponed at the drop of a hat. Liverpool thought they'd get in on it.

Blair one of the worst Prime Ministers this country has ever had. It's no surprise he's being knighted, we are living in Blair's world.

Whatever you make of their spending or lack of nice, it does feel like this team is perhaps coming to the end end its peak. Which was a pretty high peak and they're by no means a poor side now. The midfield just needs something adding to it. Maybe another forward player to pressure Mane for his place.

I know I moan a lot but this deserves a moan. So work have been sound and let us finish at 1pm, only issue is my train to London is at 15:47. So I get to Lime Street and see if they can change it to an earlier time. I'm expecting a small fee to change it but that's fine. Get there, the Avanti staff can't help me at all, have to call a number. 30 minutes to get through and 'no, you must pay the full £66.00'...I thought this was the time of goodwill and generosity? What a mess our transport is. Anyway. Happy New year.

Didn't he say Chelsea were the team of his 'heart' only a few months ago

Why are her brothers being interviewed by everyone, rabbiting on about how 'innocent' she is? I don't remember Gary Glitter's family being on sky news telling us about how he's been made a scapegoat of after he was convicted.

What's the inside view on Tuchel? Seems mad to me but managers are quickly under pressure at Chelsea. He is rumoured to be somewhat difficult at times, but I wouldn't be sacrificing him for Lukaku.

He's not worth the bother. Gets goals but he's not elite level.

Power/Money, they role into one. The fear of not being believed is absolutely crucial in keeping the powerful away from justice. Just look at how how hard it is for women to get a bog standard sexual assault to court. Times it by ten, at least, for someone famous I.e powerful.

A truly obnoxious individual. Irrespective of the veracity of the claims against him (I'm sure we can all make up our minds) choosing the day of justice for a monster to try an exonerate yourself is lowlife behaviour.

The reaction from the British press has been pretty bemusing Case in point: Who is Ghislaine Maxwell? The story of her downfall - BBC News You'd be mistaken for thinking Maxwell was some poor victim of circumstance, rather than a crucial player in a paedophile sex ring. Yeah, her Dad was a cunt but that shouldn't be the main subtext of your article when she's just been found guilty of what she has done. I'm surprised at that from the BBC.

That's fair, I was being harsh on Stokes. He's in the top class bracket, all rounders can't be expected to be averaging 50 etc. Archer was definitely a big miss, he would have caused problems. Other than that, it's just dreadful. Admittedly I'm a snob about shorter forms of cricket but England can't seem to find any balance, and these constant whippings in Australia are just demoralising, for the whole sport because the Ashes is the number 1 spectacle in Test Cricket.

The worst there’s been for England, the team is just shit now. Not even bottlers, just shit. Root is only top level player left now, if I’m being generous I’d throw in Stokes but I’m not sure he really is that often at test level. Broad and Anderson former greats of course, Anderson can still do it now and then.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/28/omicron-is-not-the-same-disease-as-earlier-covid-waves-says-uk-scientist More good news.