Shreck is BACK, Hodgson IN

It's been a while. Lots of shakeup's in the bish household. To start off, SHREK IS BACK! Wazza pulled a 180 and is now apparently staying at United for the next 5 years. What a crock. He probably got so many death threats he feared for his life. That team is an utter disaster. Then ManUre squeaks out a win against lowly old Stoke Citeh. Chicarito is firing up the prem league with his skillz with a brace on Saturday. This kid could be the real freaking deal. He has the pace and apparently the killer instinct. I would like to see him play a full season though before I bust out the jump to conclusions mat.

Hodgson is also IN! at POOL! despite many tweets about his imminent departure and Frank Rijkaard's even more imminent arrival. (Along with Cruyff, Neeskens, and the whole Ajax dynasty team from the 70s' tagging along) Pool somehow managed to pull off a 2-1 win against lowly ole Blackburn with Torres hitting the target once and Carragher hitting it also... for Blackburn...

YNWA...The Bish

Irish Exit for Hodgson

Looks like Hodgson had a bit too much to drink and didn't realize he was in over his head with that pretty little lady at the local Merseyside tavern. Rumors are swirling that Roy was to make an Irish exit last night and Frank Rijkaard stepping down from his managerial post at Galatasaray... Or was he fired? Meh who cares. Bring him in. His football teams have been known to play a more attractive attacking style football, something that has been missing in action at the Merseyside for some time now. (forever?) One thing that excites me is this excerpt from wiki - " Barcelona finished runners-up in La Liga in 2003–04, having been close to the relegation zone at one point in the earlier stages of the season." Well that sounds an awful lot like Liverpool's current situation.

Hire Frank! Fire Roy!

Until Next Time- The Bish

New Mascot Needed. Shrek Available?

Wazza is no Mazza at Old Trafford. At least by the end of January that is. SAF revealed today in a morning presser than WAYNE ROONEY aka Shrek's long lost berah wants OUT of ManUre. Call the cops. Manchester is going to burn tonight. To make matters worse, he wants to head to cross town rivals CITEH! Call in the Army. Manchester is going to destroy all of England in the coming weeks. This is about as shocking as watching Citeh win silverware. (meaning nobody would ever expect it to happen) Full crisis mode. SAF must be pulling out his hair and thinking about the best time to announce his retirement in the coming weeks.

There is no loyalty in the modern footballer. It's all about the fame and fortune. American sports have contaminated the worldwide sport of "football".

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Now that I got that out of my system, I'll explain. The battle of incompetents on Sunday at Goodison Park would only allow for ONE true LOSER. That loser happebe Liverpool again who fell flat on their faces with the biggest match of the year against cross town rivals Everton. With the ownership situation finally resolved, Liverpool still managed to deflate everyone's elation on the pitch. Utterly tragic and underwhelming are the only two words fit to describe the Reds play. The Toffees on the other hand managed to dominate this one sided match en route to a 2-0 victory and serious bragging rights. I wonder how many people got shanked after this game? Must have beent least some bloodshed. Woy Hodgson is an embarrassment. Fire him. Sell Torres. Sell Gerrard. Start over.What a crock. I am fed the hell up.

At least ManU blew another 2-0 lead... This time to West Brom. Almost as embarrassing except for the fact that they have more than one win on the season.

Until next time...TheBish

PINK KITS ARE IN!

The white flag has been raised as the lobster back wagons encircle Tommy Hicks in the wild west of a Dallas courtroom. Hicks last attempt to go through a Dallas court room injunction to block the sale of POOL to J.W. Henry's NESV group was struck down this morning. Hicks also tried a clever route of repurchasing the team through the hedge fund, Mill Financial. FAIL. Sorry Tom. Soon to be announced that Liverpool's 4th away kit will be PINK! and Everton will be purchased by the Singapore dude to piss everyone off at the Merseyside.

Oh some great games to look forward to this weekend in the Prem League. Looking forward to the Villa-Chelski matchup as well as the Merseyside DARBY on Sunday. Tottenham also make a trip to Craven Cottage where I expect Dempsinho to keep up his good form.


-TheBish

Euro Qualifiers – Scotland, Villa, and Serbian Ultras

-TheBish

Gheys keep getting the beat down it seems. Just this week the Mormon leader in the USA denied gays the right to get married. (Doing so would be legalizing ‘immorality’ per this dude) Then a bunch of Serbian football ULTRAS decided to protest a gay pride parade in Belgrade by attacking the footy stadium in Genoa. Flares. Shanks. Shaved heads. Ski masks. Lots of tattoos. Skillful climbing of plexiglass walls. UEFA officials canceled yesterday’s match with Serbia visiting Italy due to a hostile Serbian crowd. Italy wins 3-0 due to forfeiture. ULTRA good move Serbs. Hating on ghey dudes is much more important than seeing your national footy team qualify for the Euro 2012…

In other news, Scotland decided to score two goals much to Craig Levein’s liking. Too bad that Villa did in fact score his 45^th and Llorientes broke a late deadlock in Glasgow for Spain to triumph 3-2. Dagger. Bunch of other less interesting matches were played including another 0-0 draw from England in Wembley and a GOOOOOALLLLLLLLLLL from RAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLL “Werewolves of London” Meireles scored the game winner for Portugal.

LiverPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

IS BACK! DING! DONG! HICKS IS DEAD! Figuratively speaking at least. High court in England granted the injunction RBS was seeking against Hicks (and Gillette for that matter). The NESV sale will go through. Within hour you can expect PINK Liverpool merchandising including pink flags, pink hats, pink kits, pink paper weights, pink toboggans, AND best of all PINK BOBBLEHEADS of BIG POOPIE in a Liverpool kit, all with shipping detail for the Northeast United States. Hmmmmmmmm.

All things considered though, the NESV deal should flow through as expected prior to Friday, meaning POOL won’t be swimming at the bottom of the table below sea level. That would translate to -3 points for all those not familiar with a simple subtraction of 9 from 6. Things may be looking brighter over the rainbow. The new owners just need to follow the yellow brick road.

LiverSTOOL (Updated 10/12/2010)

Today the high court convened in London to discuss the dispute between RBS and Hicks/Gillette Holding Company regarding the sale of Liverpool and the attempt by Hicks & Co to overthrow the board and supplant cronies. RBS’s argument rests on the fact that Hicks & Co violated their contractual arrangements in the covenants set forth with RBS. They cannot overthrow board members. RBS needs to be repaid their some 200 million pounds of debt supplied to Hicks/Gillette. Hicks’ attorneys admit the violation of the agreement. (Bloody brilliant!) However, their attorney states that they did so because the board excluded them from negotiations of the sale and that there are stronger bids available. Fact of the matter is that at the time of agreement, the NESV deal was in fact the strongest bid as determined by the board after reviewing some 130 odd submittals. (WOW - looks like everyone and their mother attempted to purchase Liverpool FC) New deals submitted within the past 48 hours would NOT warrant additional negotiations. (Sorry Mr. Lim) Also, per documents submitted as evidence, Hicks/Gillette were made aware of negotiations and had an attorney representing them present. The judge ended the affair by saying a judgment issued by Friday would be ‘ambitious’. Seriously? This is what is wrong with the legal system in general. Open and shut case. He must be accepting money from Hicks/Gillette that they will ultimately have to pay back to RBS anyway… Well judgment will be passed tomorrow AM after all at 10:30 (that’s London time so 5:30 AM Eastern Standard Time) Until then…

Euro Qualifier – Spain in Glasgow

Craig Levein needs to spice it up. Seriously Craig? I read this great quote in the Guardian bright and early this AM – Spain “are probably the best team that we have ever played.” Duh. Come on Craigy. They are the reigning Euro 2008 Champions and the 2010 World Cup Champions. No way! Best team you have ever played? You don’t say. Craig then elaborates further that he would like to get a goal or maybe even two goals. Real inspirational stuff here Craig. Someone needs to call up Al Pacino and get him in there for an adaption of his famous INCHES IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE speech from Any Given Sunday. Either that or the Scottish fans invade the pitch and somehow manage to hurt… AHEM… scare the Spanish players… Though I doubt they will fear the Scots much, especially fabled captain Scotty Brown. Look for this to be an exciting game to finish 2-0 or 2-1 in Spain's favor with Villa hitting form and scoring his 45^th goal in his countries colors, passing Raul all time.

LiverSTOOL

Just when things couldn’t get more complicated they did. The ongoing saga of Liverpool football club just took another interesting twist. A brief synopsis will bring us to the present on the current situation. Hicks/Gillette holding company (which owns the STOOL) defaults on their debt with RBS. RBS in turn allows them to refinance in the short term with certain convenants in place requiring the two clowns to sell the club by the time the debts come due again. Broughton is appointed to oversee the sale of the club. Two bids come in and the SAWX-ownership (NESV) has the winning bid. Hicks panics. Pulls an obviously illegal move given the aforementioned new covenants and tosses Broughton and Purslow (current GM of the team) from the board and plants his 20-something brat son along with his business partner (ahem mistress, but with no evidence of this) as members of the board to block the sale. Today the courts FINALLY ruled that this was not allowed. Sorry Tom. BUT just when things were looking to get wrapped up tomorrow, the second bidder a Singapore billionaire (net worth rumored at 1.6 bill), says he would like to rebid given the current circumstances and would pay more… Oh the plot thickens over on the Merseyside… All the while the courts will rule tomorrow on whether the sale can go through and the upcoming DARBY match at Goodison lies in the distance accompanied by possible administration and a 9 point deduction. Oh boy. If there was ever a time the club supporters don’t want to walk alone, it is now. - TheBish