As the Chelsea v Liverpool game was on at midnight our time last night I recorded it and watched it before work this morning.
With Chelsea being unbeaten in the league at Stamford Bridge for 86 games, I was expecting yet another goalless or 1-1 draw between the two sides.
Incidentally, the last team to beat Chelsea at home, 4 and a half years ago, was Arsenal, and they went on to win the title.
You never know, you just never know.
According to this BBC report, Liverpool FC have launched an investigation into how John Arne Riise's payslip has appeared on the Internet.
So, if Riise is on 120 grand a week base salary, what is Gerrard on?
This has been doing the rounds on some of the football websites. Apparently this is the payslip of one of the Liverpool players but no one's quite sure which one. By the salary amount, I reckon it must be Gerrard - there's only a handful of players in the country who are on over 100k per week.
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Liverpool today unveiled the design for the new stadium, scheduled to open in 2010.
The design is an upgrade on the initial plans as the new owner's would like to be able to increase capacity above 75,000, subject to the plans being approved by Liverpool council. It was always a nightmare getting tickets for Anfield so I'm sure they'll have no problems filling it. Not sure if there's the road infrastructure in place though to support it - it will be only a stone's throw away from the current home of the real theatre of dreams, which is not the most accessible of stadiums.
Exciting times ahead, especially with all the new acquisitions, which Liverpool added to today with the signing of Brazil's under-20 Captain Lucas Leiva.
More info at Liverpoolfc.tv.
Finally, a signing that might help us challenge for the title.
Liverpool has completed the signing of Fernando Torres from Atletico Madrid. He's taking up the number 9 shirt left vacant by Robbie Fowler. If Torres turns out to be half the striker that 'God' was in his prime then we're in for a really exciting season ahead. Although it was brief, from what I saw of him playing in the World Cup I predict he could become world-class.
I nearly had heart failure watching the penalty shoot-out to see Liverpool reach the Champions League Final. I'm now going to have to find somewhere to watch the match in Brisbane at 05:30 in the morning!
I know that theoretically things could still go wrong with the house completion but we took a small gamble and booked the flights over the weekend. We're now booked to fly to Oz leaving on the 17th May. It's a bit earlier than we originally planned and it has come as a shock to some friends and family, but now that the house sale has gone through fairly quickly we just want to get off. Of course we're going to miss everyone, but we've been waiting for this for a long time. The whole visa application process took an age and then when we finally got the visa last March, and popped open to champagne, it has taken us another 14 months to sell the house!
We've decided to go the opposite route to our previous trips, choosing to have a 4 night stopover in Los Angeles. It was originally going to be a 5 night stopover but I realised that we would be in the air during the Champions League Final. Ever the optimist I changed it to 4 nights, much to Rachelle's dismay. Just because we're moving to the other side of the world doesn't mean I'm going to stop supporting Liverpool FC.
I wonder if Rach would consider changing our flights to go via Athens??
