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Liverpool's preparations for their match against West Ham at the weekend have been dealt a major blow after the squad was left stranded in Italy last night.

The Reds were due back in Liverpool at around 1am this morning but the aircraft that they were due to return on developed a problem while taxiing. The pilot subsequently informed the Reds that he was turning back to the airport after a warning light had flagged up a fault with an engine.

At least 2 hours were spent on board the Monarch plane before the players were shuttled 30 miles back to the city of Udine where they spent the night.

Club officials are now desperately trying to organise a flight back today knowing that Sunday's preparations have already been hit.

That's terrible news, something should be done about this inconvenience, lets have a quick game of what it will be.

Coach back to hotel
A) 200k coach with beds fully stocked fridge, reclining seats, vid and telly behind every seat
B) local transport bus like the old Mersey bus, no suspension in.

Hotel
A) 5 star Hilton Hotel, concierge to carry all bags of coach, swimming pool, mitchellin chefs, gym, in house porn films, free mini bar and room service.
B) Bobs bed and breakfast, 25 quid a nite, shared toilet between 12 rooms with no lock on the door, 24 hour nite club underneath, ladies of the nite patrolling the lobby.

Plane home
A) V.I.P lounge with everything free before getting on plane, whisked through customs, driven across Tarmac to board plane, reclining seats and freebar home, stewardess doing everything they can for them including wipe there @rse, chauffeur driven car to pick them up from airport on landing to take them back to there 3 million pound house.
B) stuck in busy departure lounge with stag and hen parties, babies crying, queuing up to get on easy jet flight 26501 back to John Lennon airport, customs going through there bags, no duty free because its all run out, sitting in separate seats coz all can't be sitting together, seat at back by toilet, one stewardess between 30 passengers, have to get public bus with ure bags when you get off.

I was just wondering which will be applying to our poor, unfortunate players...

and yet you fail to add the impact on the managers plans to prepare for a match on sunday...

yep totally agree, those poor players will be shattered, how on earth are they going to be able to stay on there feet and keep there eyes open for a full 90 mins against west ham, do you think they could take the case to the European Parliament or maybe human rights because they are being forced to work under such extreme conditions, the 50 or 60 thousand pound a week they receive is pretty scant consolation...

did I mention the players? You have a serious issue with players and what they get paid but is it their fault they're paid so much? Would you turn down a 60,000 a week contract? The money is no issue in this case and all the money in the world doesn't change how their body reacts to situations just like me and you (maybe not you who appears to do 12 hour shifts in the mines before breakfast)

Once you take money out of the equation and look at it from a purely logistical and performance point of view, you'd understand that sitting on a plane not moving for 2 hours does not aid the recovery process to well resulting in a build up of lactic acid which will be harder to shift over the next day or 2.

It also ruins the managers plans for his training session today as times will be skewed and the players returning on the plane will only be doing a light run out today more than likely. Depending on what time they return to Liverpool at, BR might not take the training session this morning with the players who remained behind...

You sound like you despise footballers Joe, why do you bother watching them?

I like and enjoy most of the football and things around it, however I don't like modern players, don't agree with the money they receive, don't think owners who don't have any love or affection for a club should be in charge, don't think players should be pampered or looked after the way they are, don't like agents and don't like admission prices to go the match. Bit of a pointless point of view you have just put forward its just like me saying you don't like players cheating and diving in the game, why do u bother watching. If you are sensible about things,you will realise there will always be things people do or don't like about the game, some more than others. I personally don't think the game is as honest as it once was but that's just my opinion...

You don't like the players, don't like the owners. You put down our club whenever a chance arises....You don't like the prices of going to matches yet you claim to be a season ticket holder......What is it you enjoy then as I don't think i've seen a positive post from you on this forum to date.

JoeCool, i just think you are jealous....these players get paid what they are worth, because no buiseness will run for years at a loss. The players are not paid only to play but for their marketing and brand value aswell, they get paid to generate income. If whatever work you did generated as much income for your boss, you would be paid just as much and would not complain then.

Clear cut case of jealousy...get over it! They get paid what they get paid...it's for a reason...! They oviously generate huge revenue for the people paying them. No one would rent a lame donkey for 50k a week....

Perhaps he enjoys moaning....