QUESTIONS are being asked about Piara Powar’s suitability as the figurehead of a European anti-racism body after he was accused of making racially abusive comments towards an Asian football supporter. Powar heads up the Football Against Racism in Europe organisation, sometimes referred to as the FARE Network, and has been very outspoken about Luis Suárez, Liverpool FC and Liverpool supporters […]

QUESTIONS are being asked about Piara Powar’s suitability as the figurehead of a European anti-racism body after he was accused of making racially abusive comments towards an Asian football supporter. Powar heads up the Football Against Racism in Europe organisation, sometimes referred to as the FARE Network, and has been very outspoken about Luis Suárez, Liverpool FC and Liverpool supporters […]

ESPN have selected Liverpool’s fifth round tie with Brighton and Hove Albion as one of their live matches meaning the fixture will now be played on Sunday 19 February with a 4.30pm kick-off. With Everton also drawn at home for the fifth round the match might have been moved anyway. Everton now get to play their tie, against Blackpool or […]

Former Liverpool midfielder Dietmar Hamann, the man who scored a penalty in a European Cup final – that European Cup final – with a broken foot, scored the last goal at the old Wembley, played in a World Cup final and knows how much of a boost to confidence and morale a League Cup winners’ medal is (because he’s picked […]

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 […]