Liverpool Gave Kinnear A Lesson He Won't Forget!

Last updated : 29 December 2008 By Footy Mad - Editor

Joe Kinnear: "To be fair, if it wasn't for Shay Given, who knows what the score would be.

"I've never seen a performance from a goalkeeper like it - he kept us in the game before their first goal with save after save.

"That's why it's so important to have a settled back four. We'll learn from this, and we do need some reinforcements. There's no question about it.

"They drove at us. I thought some of our players were leggy.

"They had a tough game at Wigan, but what we had was what we had. We were threadbare.

"We chopped and changed, and put players in that were half fit.

"Thankfully Shola (Ameobi) turned up - he hadn't trained all week. We just had to go with him - I just said 'we've got to get 45 minutes out of you'.

"We had no (Mark) Viduka or (Alan) Smith, and I can go on and on. It's behind us now. Thankfully it's over, but it's not finished in the best possible manner."