Liverpool icon Aldo won't hear of excuses over timing of Chelsea Cup clashes
Liverpool legend John Aldridge says they must not talk up excuses over the timing of their Carling Cup quarterfinal against Chelsea.
Aldo wrote in his column for the Liverpool Echo: "I can understand Liverpool's fury at the schedule because it's given Chelsea an unfair advantage but the decision has been made and now we have to get on with it.
"We've been saying all season that the squad is much stronger than in previous years and I'm sure Kenny Dalglish would have made a lot of changes for the Cup anyway.
"We should also have Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher back by then.
"Playing twice in three days isn't great because preparation time is massive in football.
"But we've got to be positive and you don't want to give anyone any excuses."
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Comments (2)
Well said Aldo, Chelsea once played at Newcastle on a sunday and then at Camp Nou on the Tuesday at least LFC are at home in the first game.
SANJAY get a life you idiot Rafa spent a fortune i think your dreaming he spent fortunes on crap players the list is endless you LFC rafa lovers make me laugh oh and then moaned he wanted more in fact he spent more than Jose did at Chelsea so stop going on about Rafa who is KK?
Yes Surely right what is john telling because kk made lot and lot of changes at lfc after the departure of Rafa and he spend 5 times more than rafa had and now can compete with all the Great Teams like the two manchester/Arsenal/Tottenham/Chelsea/Everton/Newcastle etc.I think had Rafa had such amount of funds should have bring lot of other like torres capacity.
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