Fulham v Liverpool – live!

• Hit F5 or use the autorefresh tool for the latest updates • Email your wit and wisdom to john.ashdown@guardian.co.uk • Follow John on Twitter , if you’re one of those GOAL!!! Fulham 0-2 Liverpool (Rodriguez 6) Cripes!!! 5 min: “Just be sure to get it together by the second half, John,” writes Jason Graff. “I expect some pithy comment about how Thames canoeists are no longer safe because Bobby Zamora has entered the game.” 4 min: Spearing prods a shot at goal, but Schwarzer drops down to save at his near post. Liverpool have raced off the mark here. 1 min: Murphy goes into the book for a wild lunge on … somebody. Missed it while concentrating on the goal. This has been some start. GOAL!!! Fulham 0-1 Liverpool (Rodriguez 32sec) An unbelievable start! Lucas puts Suarez clear down the left, Hangeland (I think) having failed to intercept on halfway. His cross is bundled towards goal by a Fulham boot, Schwarzer desperately clears from near the post with his own boot (perhaps thinking it was some sort of idiotically ambitious backpass), and it drops out to Maxi, who lashes the ball home. Peep! Lee Mason gets things underway. Bloody hell! Team news! I’ve been a shambles from start to finish today. Forgot my wallet, brought a paint-strewn t-shirt to change into (meaning I’ve had to remain in mm sweaty cycling t-shirt all day), and now I’ve forgotten to give you the line-ups: Fulham: Schwarzer, Baird, Hughes, Hangeland, Salcido, Davies, Murphy, Gudjohnsen, Sidwell, Dempsey, Dembele. Subs: Stockdale, Johnson, Senderos, Etuhu, Kakuta, Zamora, Greening. Liverpool: Reina, Johnson, Carragher, Skrtel, Flanagan, Maxi, Spearing, Lucas, Meireles, Suarez, Kuyt. Subs: Gulacsi, Cole, Kyrgiakos, Wilson, Poulsen, Shelvey, Robinson. Referee: Lee Mason (Lancashire) Andy Carroll has a knock, apparently, while Fulham have made three changes, recalling Clint Dempsey, Brede Hangeland and Mousa Dembele. Or Steely Dan’s “Hey Nineteen”? suggests Jon Millard. “Technically very good, but the experience rather bland and clearly manufactured?” Craven Cottage is a wonderful place for football and it’s barely changed since 1926: That video makes me yearn for two things: a hot dog and proper hats at the match. If United fans want to taunt their Liverpool counterparts wouldn’t getting this back to No1 be less controversial? [INSERT YOUR OWN JOKE ABOUT IT BEING OFTEN UNINSPIRED BUT SEEMINGLY UNSTOPPABLE HERE] Preamble: Evening all. Anyone fancy a bit of gentle end-of-season fare? If so, you’re in the wrong place, buddy. This is going to be a blood-and-guts, win-at-all-costs, never-say-die, pedal-to-the-metal, balls-to-the … ach, no one’s buying this are they? When the sun is out for an evening kick off down by the Thames it’s tough to get too wound up. This could end up 7-5 and there’d still be a mellow tinge to it. So. What else has been in the football news today? • Some hugely inappropriate inter-fan-baiting • Some really rubbish mickey-taking from Blackpool • And such and such. Premier League Fulham Liverpool John Ashdown guardian.co.uk

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