Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread

While it may be accurate it's only half the story so 50% i'd say. He was initially charged with assaut but it was dropped. If you'd included the charges dropped then it would have been 100%

wcarey1975 wrote: »

While it may be accurate it's only half the story so 50% i'd say. He was initially charged with assaut but it was dropped. If you'd included the charges dropped then it would have been 100%

Cops drop nothing, it's not up to them. He was arrested and charged with Assault, 100% accurate, look it up.

Afray is still a serious charge, especially if it involves violence towards another person.

Highsider wrote: »

Evidence besides a bitter manc DJ? Thought not. Fail me thinks there boggles

Apartently they have the CCTV.

Boggles wrote: »

Bollix!!!

Stevie G gets into a drunken punch up, you do nothing but defend him on here, get a grip FFS.

:rolleyes:

gerrard gets in a puch up. u really are deluded. i think you will find that people on here were defending the innocent til proven guilty. if he was found guilty of assualt it would be a different matter. ur arguments are just so off its not even funny

Cyrus wrote: »

drink it in fergie, thanks for keeping our perch warm

If that's what he's been doing the sun really must shine out of his arse.

Nothing else could keep it warm for that long.

Club probes Hillsborough 'insult'

A Liverpool footballer is at the centre of a club inquiry after allegations he laughed and joked during Wednesday's Hillsborough memorial service.

Reserve goalkeeper Charles Itandje, 26, appears to be laughing on TV footage of the service held at Anfield to remember the 96 Liverpool fans killed in 1989.

About 30,000 football supporters, players past and present and families of survivors attended the service.

The club has yet to comment but fans have criticised Itandje's behaviour.

The footage of the French goalkeeper, who was sitting in the Kop with fellow players, behind families of the victims, is being circulated on the internet.

Richie Pedder, chairman of the LFC supporters' club, said: "I don't think he realised the importance of the occasion.

I'm sure the club will investigate it properly

Margaret Aspinall, Hillsborough Families Support Group
"That sort of behaviour was not appropriate.

"I don't think he will still be at the club come the summer."

The 96 Liverpool fans were crushed to death during Liverpool's FA Cup semi final against Nottingham Forest on 15 April 1989.

Many fans have written comments branding Itandje disrespectful, immature and insensitive or have called for him to be sacked or sold.

One comment on the popular lfcreds.com site said: "Hillsborough is a very meaningful and important event for Liverpool, the families of the victims, the club, the team and the people of Liverpool.

"If Itandje really did that, then he has no respect."

Itandje signed for Liverpool in August 2007 and made his first team debut the following month, but has not played for the first team this season.

He was placed on the club's transfer list last summer.

Margaret Aspinall, who lost her 18-year-old son James in the stadium disaster and is vice chair of the Hillsborough Families Support Group, said: "I'm sure the club will investigate it properly."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/8005039.stm

purple_hatstand wrote: »

Anyway, on an unrelated note (and a coupla days late) here’s a great article from Jim White…..

http://http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com.../article/7247/

That seems to be a missing link, so here's the real thing...



Liverpool's fitting tribute
Wed Apr 15 11:56AM
It didn't quite come off. The result was not the one their many followers would have wanted.
But still, the performance given by Liverpool's team against Chelsea during Tuesday night's astonishing Champions League tie was the most fitting tribute imaginable on the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster.
Never once did their players give up what appeared a forlorn cause. Where there is time, there is hope was the message delivered by those on the pitch. In short, it was the perfect eulogy.
If that sounds trite in the context of a horror in which 96 people died, over 700 were injured and many more traumatised, consider this: those who lost their lives on April 15 1989 did so expressing their faith and hope in Liverpool Football Club. It is often stated by those who don't really understand that they died at a mere football match.
But for them there was nothing mere about that football match. It was an FA Cup semi-final involving their beloved Liverpool, a highlight of their lives, something meaningful, something vital, something in which they had invested huge emotional capital.
Of course that doesn't mean their deaths were any less horrific. But to trivialise the occasion as something meaningless is to do those who died a disservice.
As a club, Liverpool have always understood that. And what better way to recognise that dedication than by producing a display of unfettered enterprise, optimism and belief. It was a manifest expression of what those who died fervently believed in.
Over the years since the disaster, much has changed in football. The game is played in a setting in which the security and safety of the paying customer is now paramount.
Anyone who does not count that as progress should have marked how quickly Stamford Bridge emptied after the wonder game. The speed and facility with which the fans were able to leave was in marked contrast to a time not that long ago when crush and shove were as much a part of the match-going experience as suspect pies and lukewarm tea. Stadiums are now efficient people machines. 20 years ago some were death traps. That is progress.
Sure, it has come at a price, particularly in atmosphere and cost. But, as was proven by Tuesday's performance, one thing about football has not changed: the ambition shared by the players on the pitch and the fans in the stand. Indeed, Liverpool FC have been nothing but exemplary in maintaining that link across the 20 years since Hillsborough. Jenny Hicks, who lost two daughters in the crush, recalls the stark contrast between the two first meetings she had with officials after that horrible day.
A couple of days later, the South Yorkshire police interviewed her and spoke to her as if she were a criminal. A middle aged woman who had just lost her children was addressed as if she had travelled to Sheffield intent on engaging in hooliganism, the questions all about how much alcohol she and her daughters had consumed.
Later that same week, she and her husband went to Anfield to lay flowers on the spot on the Kop where her children used to stand. They were alerted to the fact that a room had been set aside for the families of the dead. Here, the couple were approached by Liverpool officials, including the then manager's wife, Marina Dalglish. Mrs Hicks was overwhelmed by their kindness and consideration. For her, the bond was a real comfort. And, despite the endless change of personnel out on the pitch, as was shown on Tuesday it is a bond that is maintained even across these venal times.
It is a solidarity that makes the police's attitude all the more reprehensible. In Moscow in 1982, a crush at the Luzhniki stadium during a UEFA Cup game resulted in the deaths of 67 people (though some regard that official figure as a wild under-estimate and reckon as many as 350 perished). The immediate reaction of the Soviet authorities was to pretend nothing had happened. Information was suppressed, the first instinct of those responsible for the disastrous policing was to cover their own backs, no-one in the West even knew of the disaster until the coming of glasnost seven years later.
We used to mock Soviet ways as intolerable, yet how was that so different from the behaviour of our own police in the 20 year aftermath of that sunny spring afternoon in Sheffield? Still they refuse to acknowledge culpability. Still they refuse to apologise. And still, in the shape of their reaction to the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 demonstration, the first instinct of the British police when exposed appears to be to cover-up to protect themselves.
The cry of justice that will ring round Anfield today at the Hillsborough memorial is not some lost relic of a bygone age. It is as pertinent now as it ever was.

lol @ Allardyce.

lol @ Ferguson.

lol @ Des agreeing with them.

rafa should'a gesturized them with some more of this shit

Anyone remember this?

http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8652_5169700,00.html

He really is a joke.

Whatever about the mind games Gerrard being out for the Arsenal game is a huge blow. Especially with Fabregas and adebayor bang in form.

redout wrote: »

Club probes Hillsborough 'insult'

A Liverpool footballer is at the centre of a club inquiry after allegations he laughed and joked during Wednesday's Hillsborough memorial service.

Reserve goalkeeper Charles Itandje, 26, appears to be laughing on TV footage of the service held at Anfield to remember the 96 Liverpool fans killed in 1989.

About 30,000 football supporters, players past and present and families of survivors attended the service.

The club has yet to comment but fans have criticised Itandje's behaviour.

The footage of the French goalkeeper, who was sitting in the Kop with fellow players, behind families of the victims, is being circulated on the internet.

Richie Pedder, chairman of the LFC supporters' club, said: "I don't think he realised the importance of the occasion.

I'm sure the club will investigate it properly

Margaret Aspinall, Hillsborough Families Support Group
"That sort of behaviour was not appropriate.

"I don't think he will still be at the club come the summer."

The 96 Liverpool fans were crushed to death during Liverpool's FA Cup semi final against Nottingham Forest on 15 April 1989.

Many fans have written comments branding Itandje disrespectful, immature and insensitive or have called for him to be sacked or sold.

One comment on the popular lfcreds.com site said: "Hillsborough is a very meaningful and important event for Liverpool, the families of the victims, the club, the team and the people of Liverpool.

"If Itandje really did that, then he has no respect."

Itandje signed for Liverpool in August 2007 and made his first team debut the following month, but has not played for the first team this season.

He was placed on the club's transfer list last summer.

Margaret Aspinall, who lost her 18-year-old son James in the stadium disaster and is vice chair of the Hillsborough Families Support Group, said: "I'm sure the club will investigate it properly."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/8005039.stm

Thats bad. Footage of him Here