tonight's games

Please Jebus let Anfield burn to the ground with them all trapped inside it tonight

I see Napoli got the script then.

Good thing Lech didn't

Ah well, it's a while since the Gerrard hype machine went into overdrive

Can someone rustle up a photoshop of Gerrard as a one man band ?

It's nearly time boys...they're approaching the corner...

Ah well, they can't lose every game or else Agent Woy would be sacked. It's best they win a couplke now, grab a draw with Chelsea and then go on a losing run, followed by a couple of victories etc. That way they just keep turing corners and end up going round in circles.

Originally Posted by red in cumbria

Yup. Paradoxical as it sounds, we could do with them winning at the weekend

Not so sure now, could be too late. Win away at WBA on Sunday and they'll be 'resurgent'. Not sure this current soulles outfit is something we should worry about in terms of the classic City cup final syndrome. Coupled with Mancini's inevitable negative tactics, I think we have a good chance of beating those @#%&!s again.

Might as well hope they lose again, we'll finish them off.

it's best they lose every game they play, ever, with the berties game the exception that proves the rule.

Liverpool Hooligans Went On Violent Rampage Before Napoli Game As Goal.com Reporters Fled To Safety

Next to nothing has been reported in the mainstream English media about the violence outside Anfield before and after the Liverpool v Napoli Europa League clash last night, but in 25 years of attending matches these were some of the worst scenes I have witnessed.

On arriving at Anfield by car at 1700 BST, I parked around half-a-mile from the stadium down Anfield Road, and our party of four – dressed in casual clothes – began to walk towards the ground.

Within minutes we observed a group of around eight local hooligans – some in Liverpool scarves and others in balaclavas – embark on an unprovoked violent rampage by attacking any members of the public who may have been from Napoli. A family, including both men and women, were set upon outside a newsagent, while in a separate incident which occurred just 10 yards behind us one Napoli fan was knocked out cold with an uppercut as he walked past the group, and he crashed to the ground face first.

The hooligans then made their way towards us, and outnumbered heavily we were forced to seek refuge in a petrol station. The hooligans continued on down the road.

After five minutes, we left our safe haven and carried on towards Anfield. By the number of ambulances and police cars that drove past us with sirens on, it was clear that there was serious trouble outside the stadium. We didn’t wish to risk finding out first hand, so remained around the museum area until the terraces opened at 1830. But speaking to fans and obtaining eye-witness accounts from both teams, they confirmed there had been violence “all afternoon”, with at least a dozen separate noteworthy incidents.

The most serious occurred outside Goodison Park where it was verified that a group of Napoli fans were beaten up by an organised Liverpool faction as revenge for the stabbings in Campania a fortnight ago. Some supporters did claim there had been a few stabbings in Liverpool yesterday also, but there has been no official word on this.

Inside the stadium, some fights broke out just before half time between rival fans in the corner of the Anfield Road End – where Napoli’s travelling contingent were based – and the Centenary Stand, and around a dozen were thrown out of the stadium.

After the match, most Napoli fans were held behind by police until the rest of the stadium was cleared but when they did leave by escort there were still locals waiting for them

One fan from Benevento, Gennaro Rocco, told Goal.com: “There were problems after the match, but not as bad as before the game. We saw some Napoli fans in small groups being hit. Just as we were being escorted out of the stadium, at a pub near a corner a whole pub of Liverpool fans with glasses in their hands were waiting for us. We were prepared for any fight too, but there were policemen so nothing happened.

“I am a Napoli Ultra, and I have seen a lot in Italy but even by our standards what happened in Liverpool was very, very bad.”

What happened last night was scary, and I was glad to escape from Anfield unscathed having witnessed first hand a number of fans being viciously beaten up. But it was not at all surprising. While the policing inside English stadiums is arguably second to no one in Europe, the idea that the Premier League is a super safe place to travel to watch games is quite frankly a load of utter rubbish.

It is a myth, the product of a corporate cover-up in order to present an image that the EPL is a squeaky-clean league so it can maximise it’s commercial success around the world. From a business point of view, this plan of action works, and maybe countries such as Italy who are so often panned by the media for stadium violence should do something similar.

But it is about time the football world wakes up and realises that there are countless meetings between hooligan elements EVERY SINGLE WEEKEND in the UK, but because they pushed it outside of the stadia it is an inconvenient truth that they can ignore.

http://www.goal.com/en-india/news/22...ent-on-violent