Arsenal v Liverpool - Live and With No Added Hype!

MBM Reporter's Logic Found To Have Massive Holes In It shocker! "If your no-hype rationale was followed to its vanishing point," writes David Studer, "for today's match to be the greatest and most beautiful of all time would require that you never existed at all." Ssh, David, don't be giving them any ideas, for God's sake. Meanwhile Liverpool fans are already gearing themselves up for an evening of entertai... oh alright, they're clinically depressed. "Philosophically, I have resigned myself to losing one, possibly two of the three games this week," mopes Ian Joilet. "Clearly, this is not the right attitude, but winning one out of three would be great and avoiding a whitewash is my main priority. Nothing if not depressingly, pessimistically
pragmatic." Hold on, did you say "philosophically"? Is this what passes for thinking about stuff these days in modern Britain? Does the rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge and conduct now boil down to worrying if Dirk Kuyt will be, literally and metaphorically, up to speed? Bertrand Russell would be spinning in his grave, had his ashes not been scattered up a mountain in Wales.

Chelsea v Arsenal 2004, Arsenal v Chelsea 2004, Chelsea v Liverpool 2005, Liverpool v Chelsea 2005, Chelsea v Liverpool 2007, Liverpool v Chelsea 2007. Big hyped matches all, terrible anti-climaxes to boot, give or take a neat Wayne Bridge one-two here, the odd phantom goal there. So my rationale is this: you'll get no whipped-up preamble from us, and hopefully we'll all be rewarded with an open, free-flowing, classic tie. You'll thank me for this in a couple of hours. Meanwhile the teams are in...

Arsenal: Almunia, Toure, Gallas, Senderos, Clichy, Eboue, Flamini, Fabregas, Hleb, Van Persie, Adebayor.
Subs: Lehmann, Diaby, Song Billong, Silva, Bendtner, Justin Hoyte, Walcott.

Liverpool: Reina, Carragher, Skrtel, Hyypia, Aurelio, Mascherano, Alonso, Kuyt, Gerrard, Babel, Torres.
Subs: Itandje, Riise, Voronin, Benayoun, Crouch, Arbeloa, Lucas.

Referee: Pieter Vink (Holland)

Kick off: 7.45pm.