Deadline Day Shenanigans
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I can't remember where we landed on this in the pissing contest, is barret reliable?
No sign of any new players at Liverpool but boss Jurgen Klopp has provided some good news in his news conference just now - striker Daniel Sturridge is set to return to full training next week.
Watch him breakdown this week
The bright-eyed optimist in me who still thinks Texeira will sign says you're wrong. The hacked off cynic in me who thinks we'll panic and buy Shane Long for 15million says you're right.
Well he reported this at Klopp's press conference, so....
This appears to be a picture of a hand clutching straws – the straws are evidently being clutched. However, I am manifestly clutching at straws. The straws are by no means in my possession.
What is the etymology of that phrase anyway? I sort of picture a man falling off a thatched roof and trying to grab a handhold
In medieval English the expression was 'catch at straws', but meant much the same thing. The motif is linked with drowning, and being so desperate to have something to help you float, you would grasp at straws.
"We do not as men redie to be drowned, catch at euery straw."
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Not sure I buy that. Sounds like a bit of a stretch.
Depends whether you agree with what he says or not, by and large.
I always thought it was that thing where you're trying to take a drink but the straw keeps moving away from your mouth so eventually you just grab it in between your fingers and put it in your mouth. I had to clutch at a straw yesterday while having a Sprite.
Would using your fingers really mean it was a desperate situation though? I reckon it should either involve a part of a car, or a small handbag.
the true etymology of the phrase goes back to the medieval practice of wanking off a scarecrow as an act of escapism amidst the opression, disease, and painfully dense theological discussion of the era.
Been reading my essays on academia.edu?
no but i will at some point.
Origi and Coutinho too.
As if. What a pile of shite. At least post something realistic.
The Metro reckons we're signing Icardi.
http://metro.co.uk/2016/02/01/rumou...omplete-19m-transfer-of-mauro-icardi-5655756/
Doesn't get any more reliable than that.
http://metro.co.uk/2016/02/01/rumou...omplete-19m-transfer-of-mauro-icardi-5655756/
Doesn't get any more reliable than that.
Just a bit of fun stroppy knickers. It's in the echo after all.
NO.CHANCE unfortunately ... I mean, I really hope we pull this out ... Would be a Suarez-like player, minus the biting obviously.
I like that this post was immediately followed by two posts about us signing Icardi.
Sorry mate - poorly phrased, I wasn't having a go at you. Just at those wankers at The Anfield Talk.
Ha ha - should have been anther Anfield Talk exclusive.
This is really the state of us now, after being blessed with some extremely talented strikers over the years.
We are getting excited over the return perm crock Sturridge, Origi (who frankly only had a decent 30mins and many shit others), and finally the blind optimism that Benteke isn't shit.
Andy Hunter Newcastle are trying to re-sign Jose Enrique from
Of course. We all feel silly and that's a desperate situation. Also, statistically speaking every straw of the kind I'm talking about ends up in liquid and the person has to decide whether to handle it or not.
Doctor Mac's idea has straws in the river but only a statistically insignificant number of those kind of straws end up in rivers and even fewer within the grasp of a human.
Skully's explanation has more to do with a wet dream he had after watching The Wizard of Oz than medieval customs.
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