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		<title>Pre Match Press Conference &#8211; Lyon (a) 04/11/2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here if part of Rafa&#8217;s press conference ahead of the Lyon game. I&#8217;d put his mood somewhere between the last Lyon game and the Utd game. Strangely optimistic but also brutally realistic.  Not sure about the You&#8217;ll Never Walk Alone quoting. I mean props to him for it, many lesser managers wouldn&#8217;t give a monkeys [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesmilingassassin.co.uk/2009/11/04/pre-match-press-conference-lyon-a-04112009/</link>
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		<title>Bad Karma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know how many mirrors Rafa has broken in recent weeks, or indeed whether he broke them while walking in front of a group of stray black cats but you get the impression that luck is not something that is in large supply at the moment down on Merseyside.
In recent weeks, it would seem [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesmilingassassin.co.uk/2009/11/03/bad-karma/</link>
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		<title>Pre-Match Press Conference &#8211; Fulham (A) 31/10/2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another great week of updates I think you&#8217;ll agree&#8230;.
Long week at work and some RL things that needed sorting this week, added to the general feeling of smug satisfaction after the Utd game meant that the blogging for this week was low down the list of things to get done. Things with the site are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesmilingassassin.co.uk/2009/10/30/pre-match-press-conference-fulham-a/</link>
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		<title>Time Becomes A Loop</title>
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Five years ago, Gerard Houlliers reign at Anfield was slowly falling apart around him. The man simply wasn&#8217;t the same after his heart attack; the passion was gone, the squad had started to ignore him and his tactics and we were regularly losing games against teams that we should have been dispatching with relative ease [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesmilingassassin.co.uk/2009/10/23/time-becomes-a-loop/</link>
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		<title>Pre-Match Press Conference &#8211; Man Utd (H) 25/10/2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every week I bookmark Rafa&#8217;s pre match press conference on the sites Delicious page, yet I never actually seem to post it here and comment on it. Well, that changes today as we have clips from said press conference. The Liverpool Echo usually post the whole thing online but ITN news usually edits it down [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesmilingassassin.co.uk/2009/10/23/pre-match-press-conference-man-utd-h-25102009/</link>
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		<title>Not Good Enough</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It would seem that if three words were to sum up both the efforts of Liverpool FC and this blog over the last three weeks, then the three up above would probably be as good as any.
There are lots of reasons for the poor run of form and I&#8217;ve got quite a few ideas as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesmilingassassin.co.uk/2009/10/22/not-good-enough/</link>
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		<title>Rest and Recovery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I needed that.
Was very tired yesterday evening and also had some kind of virus too, so both of those added together made me feel less than brilliant. Anyway, enough about me. Yesterday was hardly a busy newsday LFC-wise either, so things kind of worked out OK in the end.
Today is, of course, the biggest game [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesmilingassassin.co.uk/2009/10/04/rest-and-recovery/</link>
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		<title>No post for you</title>
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Nothing from me today, suffering from usual weekend illness of Lazyarsecantbearseditis, something that afflicts me on almost every Saturday. I&#8217;m genuinely feeling a bit under the weather having had a busy few days, so I will catch-up with news and such tomorrow before the game. Straight after I catch up on sleep.
So that&#8217;s it. A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesmilingassassin.co.uk/2009/10/03/no-post-for-you/</link>
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		<title>Looking back, Looking forward</title>
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Aaah, I love the feeling of a Friday. That realisation that a footballing weekend is ahead of you and the joy, hope and promise that it brings. And it&#8217;s fair to say that this weekend is something a tiny bit special.
It&#8217;s been two and a half years since Rafa and Carlo last met and that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesmilingassassin.co.uk/2009/10/02/looking-back-looking-forward/</link>
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		<title>Go Let It Out</title>
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If there is one picture that clearly sums up Tuesday nights performance and all the talk of Rafa clearly losing his rag, then I think the one to the left is pretty much it.
I don&#8217;t think we needed Fabio Aurelio telling us that Rafa lost his temper, I think that was clear from his expression [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thesmilingassassin.co.uk/2009/10/01/go-let-it-out/</link>
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