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You'll Never Walk Alone..

LIVERPOOL 4 SHEFFIELD UNITED 0

Scorers: Fowler 20th, 25th minute, Hyypia 70th minute, Gerrard 73th minute.

Team of the day..
Dudek, Riise, Carragher, Hyypia, Finnan, Gonzalez, Gerrard MBE (c), Mascherano, Pennant, Crouch, Fowler.
Subs - Agger, Alonso, Kuyt, Padelli, Sissoko

Louis' Comments..

It's not the best match and performance by Liverpool despite the high score. To be frank, I was bored by the match. Liverpool didn't really went on a top gear against Sheffield United, while the opposition didn't gave us much trouble as well.

A line-up which have 7 changes from the Barcelona game which have Mascherano making his debut for us and Fowler upfront. Rafa had to rest some players and he really did. Only Steven Gerrard, Steve Finnan, John Arne Riise and Jamie Carragher were the ones who played at the Nou Camp and were starting.

The game was slow and Liverpool was patient on the ball. On the 20th minute, a penalty was given. I wasn't sure whether it's Stevie or Crouch who won us the penalty. Crouch had a kick on his face and he had a broken nose. It's was not the best scenes around and he was substituted by Kuyt later on. Up step Robbie Fowler and he scored his 2nd penalty against Sheffied this season.

A second penalty was given when Gerrard was brought down in the box. Robbie was there again, and he made no mistakes on the kick. 2-0 to Liverpool and we seems to be in cruising control.

Mascherano didn't started well but improved in the second half. No doubt I can see his tackling and defensive qualities. However, I do believe that this lad has a long way to go and has to adapt to the Premiership style of playing.

Hyypia added a third which his strong left foot strike and it pleases me to see the commanding defender scoring for us again. I still remember his left foot strike against Juventus in the Champions League Quater final few years back. Sami no doubt, is getting old and slower, but I still believe he is good enough to play and his experience and aerial strength are invaluable.

Gerrard added another 5 minutes later by an assist by Fowler. Gerrard was superb last night. He was all around the field and his stamina, one of the best in the Premiership. Just played 90 minutes at the NouCamp and 2 days later, we see him flying around the pitch. Great example by our skipper.

Even though the performance is not the best, and it's not the most exciting match ever, I could see that the Liverpool team is organised and compact. We didn't let much chances go against us and a 4-0 score shows that we took our chances. A good win and it's nice to see experienced players such as Fowler and Hyypia playing and even scoring for us. Way to go!

It's a record-breaking 9 clean-sheets at home..

You'll Never Walk Alone..

JUSTICE FOR THE 96

It's a campaign supported by all Liverpool fans which is a campaign against English tabloid newspaper, The Sun and it's former editor, Kelvin McKenzie.

The Hillsborough disaster was a deadly human crush that occurred on April 15, 1989, at Hillsborough, a football stadium in Sheffield, England, resulting in the loss of 96 lives.

On the Wednesday following the disaster, Kelvin MacKenzie, then editor of The Sun, a British tabloid newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch, used the front page headline 'THE TRUTH', with three sub-headlines: 'Some fans picked pockets of victims'; 'Some fans urinated on the brave cops'; 'Some fans beat up PC giving kiss of life'.

The story accompanying these headlines claimed that 'drunken Liverpool fans viciously attacked rescue workers as they tried to revive victims' and 'police officers, firemen and ambulance crew were punched, kicked and urinated upon'. A quote, attributed to an unnamed policeman, claimed that a dead girl had been abused and that Liverpool fans 'were openly urinating on us and the bodies of the dead'.

MacKenzie explained his reporting in 1993. Talking to a House of Commons National Heritage Select Committee he said "I regret Hillsborough. It was a fundamental mistake. The mistake was I believed what an MP said. It was a Tory MP. If he had not said it and the chief superintendent (David Duckenfield) had not agreed with it, we would not have gone with it." This explanation was not accepted by families of Hillsborough victims. Even fifteen years after the Hillsborough disaster, the circulation of The Sun in Liverpool is still believed to be only 12,000 copies a day where previously it was around 200,000.

On 30 November 2006, speaking to a business lunch, former Sun editor Kelvin McKenzie repudiated the apology, saying that he only apologised because the newspaper's owner Rupert Murdoch ordered him to. He said "I was not sorry then and I'm not sorry now" for the paper's coverage.

louis' comments..

It's hard to find a place like Anfield and fans like us. I was surprised to see "THE TRUTH" at the KOP and i was also like 'what's going on?' Nevertheless, I only knew that the fans sang from the first minute to the last. Holding the red and white papers up for the first 6 minutes just tells me that the fans are determined to get some justice from the Hillsborough disaster.

Although I was only a few months old when the incident happened, i did see some of the videos about the incident and i could really see the stadium falling apart and fans are being crushed to death. It's really a sad day for all of us especially, those who lost their loved ones there.

I'm really sorry to see such an incident happened, but still, most importantly, we have to learn fomr our mistakes, be it, on or off the pitch.












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you'll never walk alone..

cheers.

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