hm. helen got to be in the middle.
February 2006 Archives
helen and i talked about going to see this game last night, but it started at 7:30. screw that noise. i'm not getting up that early to go watch my team get smacked around. worse was that it was already around one, and we would have had to be there at least half an hour early to get seats at the bar. seven o'clock in the morning is an ugly time no matter what, but it's much worse standing for two hours—especially when watching liverpool get punished by chelsea is still heavy on my mind.
damn, tho! would have been sweet. and it's kinda fun to be drunk at the football by eight in the morning.
so: last two games were victories (over arsenal and man u). if today's game had been for the premiership, liverpool would be tied for second. i am beginning to have a mighty hope for the future.
stupid!
(all additional content stolen from the bbc.)
Liverpool 1-0 Man Utd
Liverpool recorded their first FA Cup win over Manchester United in 85 years with an impressive Anfield victory.
Peter Crouch headed home Steve Finnan's cross after 19 minutes to give Rafael Benitez's side a deserved place in the quarter-finals.
Edwin van der Sar had saved brilliantly from Harry Kewell seconds earlier as Liverpool dominated a poor United side.
United's misery was compounded as substitute Alan Smith suffered a broken leg blocking a free-kick late on.
Liverpool restored Pepe Reina in goal and Crouch up front - but United lost Rio Ferdinand when he failed a fitness test on a hamstring injury.
United captain Gary Neville was inevitably jeered after his goal celebration in their victory over Liverpool at Old Trafford.
And he had a painful start when he was bundled over the touchline by Kewell inside three minutes.
Liverpool's power dominated a lightweight United midfield in the first 45 minutes, but chances were at a premium.
Van der Sar produced a brilliant save to stop Liverpool taking the lead after 18 minutes, turning Kewell's header around the post from Steven Gerrard's free-kick.
It was the briefest of reprieves as Gerrard worked the resulting corner to Finnan, whose cross was met by Crouch.
Van der Sar got a hand to the striker's header, but it trickled across the line via a post.
Reina did not have a single moment of anxiety in the first-half, and Liverpool should have doubled their lead after 34 minutes when Finnan fired over an open goal from another dangerous Gerrard free-kick.
Sir Alex Ferguson reacted to United's wretched display by sending on Louis Saha for Mikael Silvestre at the start of the second half.
But Liverpool almost added to their advantage within seconds of the re-start, Wes Brown heading John Arne Riise's cross narrowly over his own bar.
United finally posed their first threat after 52 minutes when Neville's cross almost caused confusion between Reina and Finnan, but the defender kept his composure to clear.
Kewell squandered a great opportunity to give Liverpool a vital cushion when Gerrard's corner fell to the unmarked Australian in the area, but his shot was wayward.
United lacked inspiration, but sparked briefly into life late on, Giggs shooting just over and Cristiano Ronaldo forcing Reina into a save low down.
Smith had been sent on in a bid to get United an equaliser, but he was stretchered off with a broken leg and a dislocated ankle in the closing minutes.
Liverpool were not troubled during seven minutes of injury time as they booked their spot in the last eight.
"We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact," Tyler said. "So don't fuck with us."
you wear your socks twelve days in a row,
turn 'em on the other side so the dirt won't show.
go to school, take a shit, don't wipe your ass...
blame it on another sucker nigger in your class.
you want a battle?!
i'll fuckin'... i'll fuckin'...
sew your asshole closed...
and keep feedin' you... and feedin' you...
and feedin' you...
and feedin' you...