Anfield Road

It’s Liverpool’s last game without Luis Suarez as the Uruguayan star serves the last of his eight-match ban for that incident we’ll have to stop talking about sooner or later. Kenny Dalglish has made a couple of changes from the side that despatched Manchester United from one cup on Saturday, bringing back one or two from the side that despatched […]

Having beaten Manchester United 2-1 at Anfield yesterday thanks to goals from Daniel Agger and a late Dirk Kuyt winner Liverpool are through to the fifth round of the Budweiser sponsored cup. The draw took place at Wembley today and Liverpool were drawn against the only other side Kuyt has scored against this season.

LUIS SUÁREZ has one game left of the eight-match suspension he got following on from the incident with Patrice Evra in October. By the time he returns the incident will have been in the headlines, or never far away, for the best part of four months. For two and a half of those months the headlines sat above stories that […]

LUIS SUÁREZ has one game left of the eight-match suspension he got following on from the incident with Patrice Evra in October. By the time he returns the incident will have been in the headlines, or never far away, for the best part of four months. For two and a half of those months the headlines sat above stories that […]

Forget the media-driven circus off the field, the place to keep your eyes this afternoon is on the pitch as Manchester United are the guests at Anfield for this 4th round cup tie. Liverpool were outstanding on Wednesday as they sent Manchester City out of the Carling Cup and booked a place at Wembley, more of the same today could […]

Freddie Kanouté, the former West Ham and Tottenham striker now playing in Spain for Sevilla, agrees that despite the FA’s reluctance to accept it the Liverpool striker Luis Suárez might well have been punished for cultural differences. Kanouté told the BBC’s World Football Focus that he’s seen those cultural differences first-hand, including in Seville where he’s now been based for […]

IN a parallel universe somewhere, if such things exist, the Liverpool –Manchester United league game in October turned out a little bit differently. The first fifty-odd minutes were exactly the same; the rest of the game, to all but a couple of people, looked to have carried on exactly the same too.  Evra still had that little tantrum about losing […]

A COUPLE of weeks ago I started something I’d loosely titled “An open letter to Piara Powar, Lord Ouseley and the rest of them.” In the first paragraph it asked: “Are you all the same you anti-discrimination campaigners?” I didn’t finish it; it was one of those pieces that have no end in sight because there’s so much to say. […]

A COUPLE of weeks ago I started something I’d loosely titled “An open letter to Piara Powar, Lord Ouseley and the rest of them.” In the first paragraph it asked: “Are you all the same you anti-discrimination campaigners?” I didn’t finish it; it was one of those pieces that have no end in sight because there’s so much to say. […]

A LETTER from Alex Ferguson to Manchester United supporters urging they behave at Anfield on Saturday has nothing to do with the recent Patrice Evra incident last October. Suggestions from some that Liverpool should now follow suit are either ill-advised, lazy or an attempt to stir up a bit more trouble. When Manchester United played at Anfield last season in […]