RAFA PICKS SAME SIDE AGAINST DEBRECEN
Liverpool name an unchanged team for their opening Champion’s League game at Anfield against Hungarian new-boys Debrecen. Steven Gerrard and Lucas Lieva stay in midfield with no place for fit-again Xavier Mascherano who starts on the bench. The Team is: Reina, Johnson, Carragher, Skrtel, Insua, Lucas, Gerrard, Riera, Kuyt, Benayoun, Torres. 3-1 to the mighty […]
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HICKS BACK WITH HIS USUAL GARBAGE
Tom Hicks, that paragon of virtue and sadly, joint owner of Liverpool has decided to speak to the press as I knew he would about the new sponsorship deal that M.D. Christian Purslow agreed with Banking giants Standard Charter yesterday. Hicks was quoted on the PA as saying: ”You have to look at the cash […]
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WHO GETS THE £80 MILLION?
Liverpool today announced a new shirt-sponsorship deal with Standard Charter, a multi-national banking group. The deal worth £20 million a year for four years will dwarf the £7.5 million a year that long-standing sponsors Carlsberg had been paying the club. Liverpool’s Managing Director Christian Purslow said: ”This is a huge step forward for the club […]
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BENAYOUN HAT-TRICK AGAINST BURNLEY
Yossi Benayoun scored a hat-trick at Anfield as Liverpool ran out comfortable 4-nil winners against Owen Coyles’ newly promoted Burnley. The Reds, with Stevie Gerrard in central midfield ran the game throughout and opened the scoring on 26mins when Benayoun danced past three defenders to coolly slot home the first of his three. Liverpool had […]
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MASH OUT, GERRARD IN MIDFIELD
As I predicted yesterday, Xavier Masherano is out injured and does not make the squad. Steven Gerrard goes back into central midfield alongside Lucas. Benayoun plays behind Torres upfront with Riera wide on the left. Aurelio doesn’t even make the bench. Team in full; Reina, Johnson, Insua, Carragher, Skertel, Lucas, Gerrard, Riera, Benayoun, Kuyt, Torres
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MASCHERANO OUT OF BURNLEY MATCH
Bad news Liverpool fans, Javier Mascherano is out of the game at home to Burnley tomorrow. The Argentina skipper suffered a knock away on International duty mid-week and is ruled out of Saturday’s game. Rafa Benitez now has a major problem in midfield without a recognised holding/defensive player. Options include that man Lucas who I […]
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STEVIE G SCORES TWICE AS ENGLAND QUALIFY
England beat Croatia 5-1 at Wembley Stadium to qualify for the World Cup Finals in South Africa next year, with two games to spare. Congratulations to England, but commiserations to Scotland who are out after losing to Holland to end their World Cup dreams. Wales and Northern Ireland also lost tonight to make it difficult […]
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LIVERPOOL ANNOUNCE FULL SQUAD FOR CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Liverpool announced their squad for the Champions League with the main players named as well as goalkeeper David Martin, defenders Martin Kelly and Steven Martin along with Jay Spearing and Damien Plessis as the English-based players to satisfy UEFA rules on native talent for the competition. Lets hope for a thrilling campaign this season, lets […]
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NO NEW STADIUM UNTIL 2018
Bad news on the building off the new stadium at Stanley Park with new M.D. Christian Purslow saying this afternoon ”Construction on the new stadium will begin when the current contraction in the banking industry ends”. In other words when Hicks and Gillette can find a bank daft enough to lend them £450 million to […]
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CHELSEA BANNED FROM TRANSFERS
Chelsea have been banned from making any transfers by FIFA until 2011. In an extraordinary move, they announced that former Lens player Gail Kakuta was ‘induced’ into breaking his contract to join the chavs in 2007. The player himself, still in his teens, has been banned from playing football and ordered to pay nearly £700,000 […]
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