Chelsea

Oooooh, this was the tastiest result all season. My preview, or parts of it, were completely off-target, but I couldn't care less. What a result and it was so well-deserved!

My hat is off to Kenny Dalglish. I dunno what he's said or done to my club over the past month, but the results speak for themselves. Twelve points out of twelve in the last four games, back to back away victories for the first time in the league for 17 months.

A lot of credit to this turnaround is being directed at Steve Clarke, the ex-Chelsea coach and the man swapping all the tactics around, whilst Kenny has a word in the players' ears.

This same bunch of players were dispirited and lacking in any urgency during Hodgson's dreadful tenure at Liverpool. The $64,000 question should be, why wasn't Dalglish given the manager's job back in the summer????

And a bonus for ten should be why doesn't he get the job full-time on the back of form like this??

Kenny, typically, deflects these sort of musings and simply says the club is doing its' job. There's a twinkle in his eyes at the moment, and it's a heart-warming sight to see him celebrate a Liverpool goal - no different to when he was playing. There's a steady confidence in everything the man says and does. It's a man who's at peace with the world now - the haunted face of Hillsborough and Heysel has been tightly put away in a box called "shut".

Above all he represents absolutely EVERYTHING that is good about Liverpool Football Club. Kenny is a link to a bygone age when we wiped the floor with the best football that the world had to offer. Dalglish is stooped in "The Liverpool Way". He's down-to-earth, doesn't boast, has belief in his players and is always taking every game as it comes.

Today, we played got bodies behind the ball, and got bodies flying forward in attack. The excellent form of Raul Merieles is quite astonishing. This is a box-to-box player on the same lines as Terry McDermott. His forward runs are very, very difficult to defend against.

Carra, back from injury, held the defence together like he'd never been away. A superb block tackle from you-know-who was ample evidence of a player showing their true class. Kuyt, as lone striker, held the ball up very well and never let the Chelsea backline have a moment's peace with his harrying and scurrying. Glen Johnson showed more of his improved form in the unfamiliar left-back role. Martin Kelly has made the right-back spot his own - hard in the tackle and excellent coming forward with his pin-point crossing ability. And Lucas, yet again, broke up Chelsea attack after attack with some perfect covering in front of his defence.

Only sour point was the awful miss by Maxi - but he'll have better days.

The whole team played very, very well and on this sort of form I wouldn't bet against us qualifying for the European Cup come May.

See it was Danny Agger who pole-axed El Nino. Didn't have him down for that!!!