AGAINST a relatively strong West Brom side midweek, Liverpool's young-looking side finished the match looking pretty damn special. Everyone on the pitch – bar Downing – stood out and stood up to be counted; each and every one taking their...read more »
LIVERPOOL FC trail-blazed their way to a first Premier League victory yesterday after a 5-2 thrashing of Norwich City. A second successive Carrow Road hat-trick for Luis Suarez and goals from Nuri Sahin and Steven Gerrard gave Liverpool a...read more »
THEY say the best players have an edge about them; a snarl, a professional meanness which seeps from them as they take the field. Anyone who has played high level sport or has been privy to a competitive environment will in...read more »
THE mid-week win over West Brom in the League Cup has obviously excited Brendan Rodgers, and for the right reasons as well. The ability to push hard and fight back from a goal down is something every manager dreams of in...read more »
ONE of the many factors that makes football the most popular sport in the land is its simplicity. Fundamentally all you need is a ball and some goalposts, hence the famous phrase about jumpers. On a larger scale, when the basics...read more »
WITH eleven changes made to Liverpool's starting line-up for the League Cup game against West Brom, there was a lot of pressure on both Brendan Rodgers and the team he sent out on Wednesday night. With a 2-1 victory ensuring that...read more »
FABIO Aurelio, Emiliano Insua, Andrea Dossena, Paul Konchesky, Jose Enrique, Glen Johnson. These are the players who have been tasked by Liverpool to handle the left back position since the 2008-2009 season. For some, this may make grim reading, especially as these...read more »
BRENDAN Rodgers hasn’t had the best of starts to his season as the Liverpool manager and has come under severe scrutiny thus far. The Reds have only secured two points from their opening five games and scored only four goals in...read more »
Starting team: Jones; Robinson, Coates, Carragher, Wisdom; Henderson, Downing, Sahin; Pacheco, Assaidi, Yesil Subs: Gulacsi, Sama, Suso, Sterling, Wilson, Coady, Sinclair...read more »
SO, just as Yahoo!, MSN and various online news outlets were reporting that the game on Sunday had gone off without a hitch – off the pitch, anyway – Sky Sports News were already showing the clips they'd recorded at...read more »