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A solid performance from the boys and goals from the Flim Flam man, King Kolo and Willy Gallas saw us to a 3-0 victory over the Bindippers, who have now lost their past five games on the road, leading everyone's favourite Spanish scouser to look even more anxious and flushed than ever.

On a sidenote, Jamie Carragher's face in this photo is an absolute beaut.

I didn't get to see the game live due to my having to work on Sunday (not to mention til 3am Saturday morning, stupid work) but having seen the highlights what struck me most was our determination and efficiency in front of goal. Again this is only from highlights, but it looked like Kolo had yet another fantastic game, and that the supposedly greedy, selfish, only in it for himself Robin van Persie got two assists and, his cheeky handball not withstanding, had another lively game. TH14 looked like he was getting back to his old self too.

When I heard that Jens was missing due to flu or a sore throat or something, I automatically feared a drubbing, but in all honesty Aluminium had hardly anything to do, with the Scouse only having two shots on target. That said Zenden should have done better with a header from six yards which went over the bar, and having two goals ruled out for offside, the second very marginal (although by this time we were three nil up with minutes to play).

The goals were well made. Flamini swept the ball into the net from six yards following fantastic build up play from Hleb and then Cesc. Kolo was then put through by a fantastically weighted pass from Robin. Lastly Gallas found himself unmarked from an RvP corner to nod home. Emmanual Adebayor came on and missed his customary sitter. One day he's going to learn how to put the ball in the back of the net, and he's going to score hatfuls. Or not.

In the end Liverpool were actually lucky to end the match with all 11 men, as Jamie Carragher should have seen a second yellow for an awful challenge on RvP, and part-time footballer, part-time young offender Jermaine Pennant made a wild tackle on the Flim Flam man. I'm glad he got heckled for his entire time on the pitch.

All in all a much welcome three points taken off one of the supposed big four.

Wenger has come out and spoken (finally) on the incident with Pardew in last week's game, stating that he was provoked. I wouldn't be surprised if there had been some sort of xenophobic comment from Pardew, but I think Arsene won't be letting anyone in on what was said any time soon.

Further plaudits have been forthcoming for Fabrice Muamba after another Man of the Match performance. As said before, could be a special kid this one. Nice that he's English too.