Anfield Road

THE dates for the semi-finals of the Carling Cup have been announced and Liverpool will play both legs of their tie with Manchester City on Wednesday nights, both with 7:45pm kick-offs. The first leg, in Manchester, is on January 11th and will be shown live on BBC1. The second leg is a fortnight later on January 25th and will be […]

LUCAS LEIVA won’t be playing again this season for Liverpool after the club announced he had sustained an anterior cruciate ligament injury would now need an operation. When the Brazilian midfielder was stretchered off 20 minutes from the end of the Carling Cup quarter-final against Chelsea it was feared afterwards that his lay-off would be lengthy. The player underwent a […]

TEENAGE midfielder Jonjo Shelvey is on his way back from Blackpool early after the Seasiders announced Liverpool had recalled him early from his loan with them. The recall follows on from last night’s injury to Lucas Leiva when the Brazilian midfielder was stretchered off twenty minutes from the end of the game against Chelsea with a knee problem. The recall […]

BOB PAISLEY was Liverpool’s manager for nine seasons and in every single one of those seasons the club won a piece of silverware.  The only major trophy to elude him was the FA Cup but that wasn’t through lack of trying. His first season was the least successful, Liverpool finishing runners-up in the league (two points behind Derby County) and […]

EVEN with the best of intentions people can make mistakes. And that includes The People, the Sunday tabloid from the same publishers as the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror. Did The People have the best intentions when they made a mistake in a story they ran about Andy Carroll? If it was a genuine mistake, and this was pointed out, […]

Today’s game between Liverpool and Manchester City at Anfield will be played amidst much sadness following the news that Gary Speed had died this morning at the age of 42. Speed was Craig Bellamy’s manager at Wales and played for Kenny Dalglish at Newcastle. He grew up supporting our neighbours Everton who he would later play for and be captain […]

Manchester City visit Anfield today looking for a win to increase their gap at the top of the Premier League to seven points. Liverpool go into the game in seventh place with every team above them, other than today’s opponents, having played yesterday. Any points for Liverpool today would see them move up into sixth place. A draw would move […]

HE’D JUST set up the winning goal and was standing with the goalscorer, in front of the Sky reporter, ready to hand him the man of the match champagne – but Charlie Adam had one thing he really wanted to say. “I’d like to dedicate the win to Brad Jones who had a difficult week losing his son. That one […]

Liverpool legend Ian Callaghan played for Liverpool 857 times, scoring 68 times. Current Liverpool goalkeeper Jose Reina has played 324 times for the Reds. This week the duo will be signing books at two separate events a quarter of a mile apart on the same evening. Having made his debut six days after his eighteenth birthday in 1960, Callaghan (or […]