Tuesday, February 26, 2008

The balls of it

Tuesday February 19th, 2008

"Hij snapt er de ballen van," as we say in the Netherlands.

I have been catching up on the reviews of our Champions League fixture. I thought that scoring two goals in two games might win back support; that my fans would flock to my cause and realise that every top goalscorer has dry spells and then comes good, but instead I get the kind of treatment usually reserved for players like Titus Bramble.

I recorded the ITV coverage and Andy Townsend has really taken the gloss off my interview with Gabriel. He might well think the goal was a "fortunate, skiddy deflection", but it was my fortunate, skiddy deflection and any time he scores against Inter he can come back and talk to me about it.

Paul Doyle in The Guaridan seemed to think that I scored despite myself. He called my display "wretched", which I thought was very unkind. I do try very hard and how anyone could fail to be moved by my emotional applauding of all four stands last night is a mystery to me.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/02/19/benitez_veni_vidi_vindicated.html

Someone has even emailed me suggesting that I was at fault for losing to Barnsley in the cup. "Is it possible," he asks, "that scoring your goal stunned the rest of the Liverpool players into inaction for the rest of the game? Lol." Well, Alex from Manchester, thank you for your kind words but I don't think it was that good a goal!

What does "lol" mean?

Tot de volgende keer

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Red18 you're a disgrace to the beautiful red jersey of Liverpool. Call yourself a Dutch goal-machine? You couldn't even hit the spot in a Dutch porno!

And don't you come doing your happy-clappy nonsense in the Sandon or you'll get the same that Junior got!

Anonymous said...

kopland you're bang out of order! Red18 is already a Liverpool legend, proudly standing tall with other Anfield giants like Fernando Morientes, Djibril Cisse, Bruno Cheyrou and the mercurial Igor Biscan!
People like you are blinded by the goal tallies of players like Drogba, Henry and now Torres but I tell you winning games is about off-the-ball movement. In fact Red18 throws defences into total disarray by his lack of off-the-ball movement. Truly we are in the presence of genius...
Red18 you are the successor to God and with a nose he would be proud of. We applaud you, sir.

Anonymous said...

Fantastic Read Dirk keep going.

YNWA

livery said...

great read red18
i m nothing in front of you.
but i really want you to be little bit of selfish.
in that case you will really score goals.
some time you pass the ball where you could've score easily

ajayanfielder said...

Mr.Kuyt.
Just wanna say one thing.We love you.You'reGod,version 2.0
YNWA

ajayanfielder said...

And yeah,Lol=Laugh out loud.
Internet slang:P

Anonymous said...

hey man..

i dunno if you are really dirk kuyt or not..

but if you are...buddy im with you......uve been great off the ball...buh with ball...i know u can score....u got pretty good dribbling ability too.....

just hope you find the net more..hope nothing is holding you back....if anything is.....we ar with you....forget about the hardhips n look ahead with a big smile n u will see us standing behind you....let no one touch ur self respect n dignity......

Unknown said...

Red 18, You continue to be my favorite player in the squad. You play with all your heart and that is all I want from you in the future.

May you never walk alone.

Skand Tripathi said...

Hey

err... one thing LOL = Laugh out loud


Then, plz take yourself as a striker dont take yourself as a midfielder