#captain-stevie

The nine actors who played the Fellowship all got the word "nine" in Elvish letters tattooed I think. And I seem to remember that there were plans for Dagger to ink the entire squad if we won the league or am I making that up?

5 things in no particular order:1. dogs!2. liverpool fc3. a good book4. hanging out with my friends5. getting enough alone time.

Sorry to gatecrash the conversation, but Will Marsh has played as a number 9 for the U18s fairly regularly this season and scored 9 in 16. He’s a good finisher and I think we could well turn him into a striker. It worked with Jack Dunn ;)

(For this questionnaire!)

1. If you had to support your hometown team, who would it be?

Hahaha there's no good/non-annoying way for me to answer this because I don't strongly identify with a hometown/country? I did not grow up in one place/country and both my parents can claim two nationalities (different to where I was born, at that). My dad has got northern Italian roots and supports AC Milan, so I guess it would tenuously be Milan. Whom I do support (kinda)!

6. Earliest football memory?

World Cup 1998 in France. I was quite young so it's all very patchy but, Zidane. Zidane.                              

12. Your rival club. A few things you secretly like about them but wouldn't admit.        

Everton - I really appreciate that they're focusing more on their own identity/success under Roberto Martinez rather than obsessing over Liverpool. All that School of Science stuff, go on. Chelsea - Smart business strategy. Deserve more credit than the billionaire-with-a-checkbook stereotype they're known for. City - Pat Vieira is in charge of their youth academy, I think he's great. United - ... ........ ...........??

17. If you were to become manager of your club, what kind of changes would you make to the squad? What kind of a different lineup? What different tactics?

Ahh the pressure! I'm going to assume this is a hypothetical future scenario, not this current season since I'm a coward. 4-2-3-1 is my favourite formation so here's one example of an ideal Liverpool future line-up for me:

StudgeSterling - Coutinho - IbeEmre/Hendo - ?? (a true DM, not box-to-box like they are)Alberto Moreno - Sakho - Raphael Varane ?? - Flanno

No Lucas or Skrtel (though I love both, especially Lucas) because I don't think age-wise they are part of the long-term plan :( I also don't think Sterling will stay very long but that's a different can of worms...

19. An unpopular opinion you have about football. 

Probably the park-the-bus thing we've talked about. Football is won by goals, not marked on how attractive it is by a panel, like figure skating or gymnastics. I don't like watching parked buses but the tactic is not illegal or immoral. It annoys me to hear people talking about the 'right way' to play.

34. If you could change one thing in football, it can be a rule to a president to a club disappearing, literally /anything/, what would you change? 

3 outfield players + the 'keeper are allowed to be overage so senior players can play in the 21s to regain match fitness etc. Lucas and Sakho played for our 21s once when coming back from injury :)