TO WATCH OR NOT TO WATCH... oh shakespeare... help me!

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I have to be in the office at 9am tomorrow. And still have to wake up at 4.50am for my supper. At 7pm, I have a dinner appointment with Telekom Malaysia people. So when could I get some sleep if I watch the 2.30am game? This is a silly dilemma for me. hahaha

Should I just let it be and watch the re-run tomorrow night? Or I just watch the game and take an emergency leave on Thursday to regain my sleep? hmmm... I think this is a good idea. Though I might suspect my mood won't be that brilliant the whole day tomorrow and I know my staff would loathed at me if I don't smile at all. hahaha... unless LFC won the game. But to me, it's a sure win. The french team doesn't have the firepower to overcome LFC. In fact the only factor that can topple LFC is their own faulty. Yeahhh if they play crap, LFC might see the repeat of last season. Three games gone with no points and on the brink of disqualified... Though this season, with the magnificent Mascherano, the return of Agger and the prowess of Torres... everybody must be trembling with fear when they meet LFC.

aaa... I'm suppose to finish my article on Volvo C30... ok see ya. Let's do some fun - I say LFC will win with a 3-0 margin. Why not?

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NOTICE:Now all of you LIVERPOOL FC Fans... We must enjoy the win against Man.U on Sept. 13 and gloat about it for a month. Do not hesitate to hassle any of Man.U fans and jeer them mercilessly. Create a funny face, smile you must not but LAUGH loudly at them. Make a statement. Tell them that LFC have beaten Man.U over and over again... until he walks away...crying may be.

The Malaysian Prime Minister must resign

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UNLIKE many of you, I don't have multiple blogs. The only other blog that I help created was for my residential associations.I guess I'm not that savvy to handle too many blogs. But I think it's more about I don't have time to do so.

So my one and only blog is these utusanlfc.blogspot.com, so please forgive me if I broke my own rule here by commenting on politics.

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NOW, I am bursting with anger and feeling that sinking feeling... that massive frustration. May be just like many of you out there. A lot of stupid things is happening over and over again in Malaysia for the last few years since our current prime minister came to the office.

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At first, we thought all the attacks and jibes were simply politically motivated. Then slowly and slowly we get to see the real colour of this old man and the repercussion from his administrative style of the so-called `liberal, open-minded and democratic''. After the general election held in March, the whole nation was stunned. The ruling coalition incurred a huge defeat when they lost 4 additional states and failed to regain Kelantan that they have been trying to win for more than 13 years... They are merely 30 seats more from being toppled totally by the opposition and still some of them thought that everything is okay. They are in the state of denial. They can't accept that today they are no more in control. They shouldn't talk too loud, walk too tall. They should be mind that as a loser, the only honorable thing to do is ratify their mistakes. Not repeating it.

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The declined is the 1st time in 50 years National Coalition history. Some may want to see it as the beginning of a new era when Malay domination is no more absolute. Some would see it as the faulty of the current prime minister, thus he must be made responsibled and must step down as he has failed the party and the nation. But sadly, he refuse to acknowledge all the cries and believes he still has a strong support within the party.

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Yesterday, a minister in charge of law tender his resignation as a protest for the government usage on the Internal Security Act or ISA (very much alike the Patriot Act in the US). This minister is hand-picked by the prime minister himself. Look at how the way his man repay his kindness. So he resign but what happened? The prime minister refused to accept it and ask him to reconsider. WHAT THE HELL? Why must you stop him? Is it because the prime minister wants both of them to resign together in December?

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The prime minister is still adamant. He refuse to listen or believe what the grassroots are talking and feel towards him. To the ruling coalition, he is the epitome of disintegration. To the opposition, he is the light of their successes - his buffoon enable the opposition to benefit.

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But we -- the layman, the ordinary people, the you and me... we are suffering from his indecisiveness and he is nothing but a weak person, blatantly blinded by almost everything and we have lost hope of him to rule and administered the country accordingly.

oh God I am so mad. I am so sad. I am so frustrated. Oh God, please... please open his heart and resign as the Prime Minister today.

s.o.s.... Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, we need you.

utusanLFC:

Brother and sister of Liverpool Fan Club in Malaysia, please forgive my intrusion as I cannot stand the stupid people running our country to the brink of anarchy. You guys know how serious it is now when a football fanatic turn his dedicated blog into a political statement. I hope this would be a one off thing. I hope. I hope.

Olympique Marseille must not fear Liverpool, says Valbuena (are you sure?...hahaha)

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Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:01am BST

By Jean-Francois Rosnoblet

MARSEILLE, France, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Olympique Marseille must have no fear when they host Liverpool in their Champions League Group D opener on Tuesday despite painful memories of the English club's last visit, said midfielder Mathieu Valbuena.
"We're full of confidence and must not show any inferiority complex," said Valbuena, who remembers Liverpool stormed through to the last 16 of European soccer's showcase event with a spectacular 4-0 win at the Velodrome stadium last December.
"We have no reason to be fearful," Valbuena, who returned to action this weekend after nursing a groin strain, told reporters.
"Liverpool are the favourites in the group and it's a good thing to start against them," added the playmaker, who scored a superb goal to make Marseille the first French club to beat Liverpool at Anfield in October last year.
Marseille should be at full strength with Valbuena and France winger Hatem Ben Arfa, who has recovered from a knee injury, both expected to start after coming on as substitutes in an entertaining 1-1 draw at Girondins Bordeaux on Saturday.
That result left the 1993 European champions undefeated after five Ligue 1 matches and second in the standings, two points behind champions Olympique Lyon.
Liverpool, second in the Premier League, boosted their morale by beating arch-rivals Manchester United 2-1 on Saturday to give manager Rafael Benitez his first league victory over United in his fifth season in charge at Anfield.
BEST PERFORMANCE
"Now we will go to Marseille in a good frame of mind," Benitez told reporters after Saturday's win. "That was our best performance of the season and we now feel we can go into the Champions League in good heart and spirit."
Benitez, however, was unsure whether key players Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres would be fully fit for the Marseille game.
Gerrard played 22 minutes on his return from a groin operation but Spain striker Torres remained on the bench after suffering a hamstring injury against Aston Villa on Aug. 31.
Javier Mascherano is also a doubt after pulling up in Saturday's game with a calf problem.
Probable teams:
Olympique Marseille - Steve Mandanda; Laurent Bonnart, Ronald Zubar, Hilton, Taye Taiwo; Hatem Ben Arfa, Modeste Mbami, Mathieu Valbuena, Benoit Cheyrou; Bakary Kone, Mamadou Niang.
Liverpool - Pepe Reina; Alvaro Arbeloa, Jamie Carragher, Martin Skrtel, Fabio Aurelio; Yossi Benayoun, Steven Gerrard, Javier Mascherano, Ryan Babbel; Dirk Kuyt, Robbie Keane.

We won it without using our 2 SUPER FIGHTERS and Man.U is KAPUT...

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It took me 2 days to come back to earth... before I can write about the defeat of Man.U and the winning of LFC... in a nonchalant but sober situation. It took me that long to settle down... hahaha

The joy from defeating our fiercest opponent is not merely felt spiritually but more importantly, from speculative point of view. I won RM300. It could have been higher, if not for my lack of capital injection prior to the game to enable me to up my stacks. But it's still early days.

Again, the most beautiful part of this win is that it was won without relying to our double super fighters in Torres and Gerrard. Though Gerrard came in for the last 20mins but it was evidence that the assault started early in the 2nd half. Not to say that we don't need those two super fighters but imagined what kind of harm they could inflict unto Man.U if both of them started the game.

There are a few pointers that we can attribute our win :

1. Rafa must have said something to them rather `intimately' during the break and it was shown during the 2nd half with everyone running for the ball full-hearted AND tackle the opponent with full convictions. That excite the crowd and we, tv viewers trusted the manner they play.
   
2. The greatness of Monster Masherano is the key. He was seen to be shaking his head when his fellow countrymen managed to score as early as the 3rd mins. He must have been cursing himself for that goal. And when he set his target, damned this short and small but very strong midfielder just rammed on his opponent, thus `complimented' by Fergie who claimed that his boys was hassled by LFC's physical approaches (that's funny... Fergie knows football is a contact game and coming from a very experience manager - such statement is insulting to humans intelligent.


3. The defensive midfielder typified the tenacity that turned the game in his side's favour and left Sir Alex Ferguson angry that United had been outfought.


4. Masherano was the play maker in setting up the winning goal. In fact, without him I sincerely think that LFC won't be able to stop Scholes or Giggs. But he did. Tremendously!


5. Man.U lost Carrick. I guess that's also contribute to the collapse of Man.U's defence. But is it LFC's fault that he got injured? No way. It's part and parcel of the game. You break your leg, you'll lose. That's all.
   
6. No matter what people are talking about Robbie Keane... and yes, he is yet to score any goals after 4 league games and a couple UCL, but the manner that Wes Brown and Ferdinand shadowed him, proves how much the Man.U's defenders rated him. Both of them knows Keane is a lethal striker. They managed to close his movement, stop him from scoring but they failed to do the same to Babel.


7. Rafa was seen changing his mind at the very last minute. David Ngog was ready to go in for Keane but Rafa saw that Masherano has waved for a change. On live telecast, Rafa acted as if he was a madman.. shouting NO... NO!... with his dramatic hands signals and everybody (in particular the referees...) was shocked (for a moment). Ngog's arrival was canceled and came in Hyppia for Masherano. The time is 5 minutes into full time. However, the whole thing shows what a brilliant man Rafa is. I'm not bias. I guess you got to use your brain to defeat such a talented team like Man.U and Rafa did just that.

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Now all of you LIVERPOOL FC Fans... We must enjoy this win and gloat about it for a month. Do not hesitate to hassle any of Man.U fans and jeer them mercilessly. Create a funny face, smile you must not but LAUGH loudly at them. Make a statement. Tell them that LFC have beaten Man.U over and over again... until he walks away...crying may be.

LIVERPOOL 2 - Manchester U - 1 (HAIL MASCHERANO... THE BEST, THE CRUNCHIEST MIDFIELDER FOR LFC!)

Javier Masherano... YOU'RE THE BEST... he rules the midfield and one the important reason why Man.U collapsed helplessly in the middle of the pitch last night...

LIVERPOOL 2 - Manchester U - 1 (TO BEAT THEM IS GREAT, TO SEE THEM SCORED OWN GOAL IS HILLARIOUS...)

Sander... what have you done? Now you made me the only Man. United with 2 own-goals against Liverpool...

LIVERPOOL 2 - Manchester U. - 1 (WE SHOULD BE PROUD BUT DON'T GET OVER EXCITED YET...)

Dear Ryan, can you please help Keane to score goals...

Even if Vidic didn't get his second yellow card, it won't affect any of the result. He was totally ineffective in Anfield.

Lets break the jinx and beat Man.U

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wow... for 2 years... we never beat Man.U in the league. The most recent we managed to beat them was in 2006 FA cup quarter-final or something by a margin of 1 goal (headed by Crouch).

• Rafa Benitez is looking to record his first league win over United at the ninth attempt. He did however oversee Liverpool's first F.A.Cup victory over United in 85 years thanks to a Peter Crouch goal on this ground in 2006.
• Liverpool have not scored in any of their last seven league games against United since John O'Shea scored an own goal at Old Trafford in September 2004.
• In fact, no Liverpool player has scored a league goal against United since Danny Murphy from the penalty spot at Old Trafford in April 2004. Harry Kewell in November 2003 was the last to score in open play.
• Liverpool's last league win here against today's opponents came in November 2001 when they won 3-1 with Michael Owen (two) and John Arne Riise scoring.

Other than that, I don't remember any win and I had to pay massive losing monies to the Man.U fans. Rafa has different ways of approaching Fergie's tactics. And all are wrong!
Contrary to Houllier, he managed to win double (home & away) over Man.U. Remember that rocket from Risse that hit the bar so hard, everybody was shocked and laughing at Fabian Bartez!

Crouch scored and we're on our way to be the FA Champion of 2006.

The most famous man in Anfield. Small wonder what the hell is his other sibling doing in Everton?

The sadness in Ruud face is a distant historical photo... but didn't it feel ohhhh so good then? hahaha

ENGLAND 4 - Croatia 1

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I didn't watch the game but I am glad to hear that one bright future player, Theo Walcott at last has come to his maturity. It is high time for him since his sensational inclusion in Sven's World Cup squad in 2006... and hopefully he won't repeat the feat at the club level (hahaha...)

I didn't watch the game simply because I am damned tired. And all the energy now is generated toward this weekend game. LFC vs Man.U.

So what's with the SOPRANOS poster above? errr... This is because I will resume watching the Soprano's DVD set. I bought the WHOLE 6 seasons and watch continuously for many-many weeks before I halted it at season 4. The movie was introduced in the US in 1999. It took almost a decade before it can be aired here in Malaysia, though via the satellite TV. It's just a mafia story. But just like THE GODFATHER that made Corleone an establish name for a mafia stature, THE SOPRANOS obviously brought a new aura for the namesake.

It still a good show.

I will be travelling up north on Friday and should be returning on Sunday. I guess my next posting will be on Sunday after the game as I seldom carry my laptop when I travel (takut hilang laaaa....).

Lets hope Torres and Gerrard available for the game and help us to beat Man.U.

Wish to, but don't want to

A few fellow writers questioned me over my decision to blog on Liverpool, instead of something more `juicy' and `hot' such as current political issues in Malaysia.

I said... I wish to do so, but I don't want lah. It's simply because I want to enjoy to the fullest my passionate relationship with this entity of ours - Liverpool Football Club more than anything.

Aside than that, I prefer not to think, eat and talk about politics all the time. This is usually true because most the time you have plenty to blog is when you're away from the office (cannot blog in the office maaa....unethical !!!! hahaha...)

At the moment though, the political climate in Malaysia can be considered as `volatile, on the verge of eruption and nonsensical''. Still I don't see there's any need for me to add fuel to the fire. It doesn't mean that I chose to be neutral or passive. I do believe I am as active as any of you would be, especially during my working hours. One of my major task is to prepare the daily strategy of my organisation. Here, suffice to say that all are well-covered and no one could accuse me of not participating or ridiculously passive. (Pardon me for writing in such a way, I can't be seen revealing too much of my job-scope... hihihi)

Today, a few political events occurred. Early morning, Anwar Ibrahim was brought to the court. The hearing was set on Sept. 24. That's big event but nobody really bothered lah. At least for me. hihihi

2nd, one of MCA senior member, Chua Jui Meng declared he is going to contest for the president post in the party. That's cool. He has been sidelined by the current party administration. Still, he has to face Ong Tee Keat.

Thirdly, UMNO is convening an emergency meeting to discuss Ahmad Ismail's fate. He has been deemed vocal in his remarks toward Gerakan. He is also accused of being a racist. In this age, being a racist is not really fashionable. I will not reveal to you where do I stand in this whole mess. I may support or I may not.

The important thing is that - we have something to discuss, in a more meaningful and attractive to both sides... that is on Liverpool Football Club.

As I said, I wish that I could have run a blog solely on political issues but I follow my wisdom and settled for what I am doing now at http://www.utusanlfc.blogspot.com.my/