we're not talking about what kind of team liverpool are, we're talking about the liverpool style and that is pass and move and a good old dose of hard work.
the bootroom is more about an idelogy and IMO its still in operation. houllier didn't graduate from there but was well grounded in the principles and rafa more so.
the idea of limited young UK players coming through is a general theme, not just one relevant to the UK. IMO and having heard the same arguments for 20 years since i was a kid at my first school of excellence, the failure of the FA to implement a solid, progressive training and development basis for football in the UK is nothing short of a scandal.
the majority of young english players don't play because they're not good enough, not because johnny foreigner is there. i'm basing this on the fact that i played alongside the cream of the crop of the uk's best in and around my age groups and barely a handful make a living from the game, let alone become stars.
to be frank, i couldn't give a sh!t how much it would cost us to get rid of rafa cos nobody i know wants him gone. i don't really blame anyone on here to be talking about rafa going cos it's hard to ignore with all the media bollox going off. at stoke on saturday and this wednesday coming, the fans rallied behind him more than ever. the amount who want him gone are in such a small minority that it's untrue, unfortunately within this minority are manor pundits and the muppets they let through to speak on talksport and 606.
