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Liverpool v Manchester City
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…
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In tribute to some little heroes
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…
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Meet some heroes: Cally on Bold Street, Pepe at Liverpool 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…
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Maxi, Bellamy and Suarez start for LFC v Chelsea
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…
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Chelsea v Liverpool
Chelsea 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…
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David Villa signs for Benitez
Spain 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…
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Spain focus on winning, England stay distracted
ANOTHER 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…
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Reds unchanged: LFC v Swansea
AN 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…
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Preview: Liverpool FC v Swansea City – and where to watch
LIVERPOOL 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…
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Backbeat is back in Liverpool: FACT
THE 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,…
