Sammy Lee gets it.

Liverpool legend Sir Sammy Lee fired a warning shot across the bow of Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal yesterday by claiming: "We're going to tear you a new arsehole"

"They are three very good teams. Only results will prove whether I'm right
or wrong, but I feel that we need to be looking to be not just as good as, but
better than those three.

"We just need that little stroke of luck, that little attention to detail,
and you never know."We are not that far away and I feel we have proven on many
occasions over the past four or five years that we can be better than them. Not
as good as - but better."

"Only time will tell, but what I will say is that everyone is striving and
working hard to try and make sure that we can close that gap and overhaul
it".

Sammy's comments are refreshing. It's about time we saw someone involved with the club display this kind of confident attitude in the press, It's been years. With the additions of World-class signings like Degen, Dossena and Cavalieri, and having four Euro2008 winners we should be fucking confident.

Sammy also hits the nail on the head by saying we need luck. Scum have had their fair share over the last 16 years but it won't last forever. If you carefully examine facts you will see that we are a more consistent team than them and more consistent than any other club in Europe.

The UEFA coefficients are based on consistency and we are top of that league with UEFA, in May this year, awarding us the prize of the greatest team in Europe over the last half a decade. This is no small feat.

The other thing that Sammy knows and many are not aware of is that last year, if we beat Manchester United in the league both home and away, we would have won the bloody thing. With Sir Sammy on board, a player who won it all, we win have that spark in the change room for this fixture now, something we didn't have with Pako. He will fire the players up no end and give them confidence to go out at both Anfield and Old Toilet and give the cunts the hiding of their lives.

If I were scotchnose I'd be shaking in my boots right now. Rafa has gone out and found his number one, the final piece of the jigsaw, whilst Fergie is left rudderless by the departure of Carlos Queeroz, with no one wanting to fill that gap and work under the tyranny of football's great oppressor.

Well done Sammy, hopefully your attitude will give players like Gerrard and Carragher the confidence to come out and proclaim that we are title favourites as well. It would mean so much to the other players and fans, all of whom know that this year is our year.