Kenny Dalglish has named his side to take on Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. Maxi Rodriguez makes a surprise but welcome return and Craig Bellamy starts the game with Andy Carroll on the bench. No room in the starting line-up for Jamie Carragher or Stewart Downing who are also both on the bench. Dirk Kuyt also starts in what looks a […]
Read moreChelsea play host to Liverpool in the day’s only Premier League fixture this afternoon with both sides looking to pick up points to move them closer to the targets they’d set out to try and reach before the season began. For Chelsea that target would have been the league title, with Andre Villas-Boas installed to repeat his success in Portugal. […]
Read moreSpain are in London this weekend to face England in the friendly at Wembley but Rafael Benítez caught up with the squad before their trip and persuaded a number of them to sign football shirts for him to be auctioned for charity. As already mentioned on this site, a shirt signed by Spain’s World Cup winning coach Vicente Del Bosque […]
Read moreANOTHER international break – another weekend to find something else to do. No live Premier League games, no Match of the Day, no Sunday papers full of match reports and laughable opinions about your club. It’s like summer, with less daylight and even less rain. Not this time though, maybe. For once it might be worth giving the football, the […]
Read moreAN UNCHANGED Liverpool side will be out looking for three points at Anfield this afternoon against a Swansea City side yet to record an away win this season. The Reds won their last outing 2-0 away at West Brom and manager Kenny Dalglish has kept faith with the same 11 from the off. Where to watch >>>
Read moreLIVERPOOL play host to a newly-promoted side for the second time this season as they welcome Swansea City to Anfield. Despite having met each other on a relatively low number of occasions there is a certain bond between Liverpool and Swansea. Where to watch >>> History In 1981 the world of football mourned the loss of Liverpool’s beloved Bill Shankly. […]
Read moreTHE EARLY days of one of Liverpool’s most famous exports is the subject of a film getting a special screening at FACT later this month, followed by an exclusive Q&A session with one of its stars. Not a story about former Juventus and Liverpool striker Ian Rush, not a story about Liverpool FC at all, it’s about the band that […]
Read moreWHEN Roy Hodgson left Liverpool in January the joy for Liverpool supporters was off the scale. The fact Kenny Dalglish was replacing him was of course a large part of what brought that joy but even without someone lined up the celebrations would have been big. Today the Reds travel to face Hodgson’s current team, West Brom, and only those […]
Read moreWHEN Liverpool were involved in the Champions League it’s safe to say that the League Cup wasn’t a top priority for The Reds. Liverpool had a squad that contained a mixture of abilities in each position and attempts to get multiple top class players in each of those positions were often scuppered by the financial situation at the club. With […]
Read moreLiverpool play host to Norwich City today and Kenny Dalglish has made a number of changes from last week’s draw with Manchester United. Glen Johnson returns to the defence in place of Martin Kelly. Lucas is suspended so there’s a bit of a reshuffle that sees Bellamy come into the starting line-up. Carroll is not in the 11. Kick-off is […]
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