Monthly Archives: April 2015

Puzzled Liverpool lack fight yet captain told to stay at home

LIVERPOOL captain Steven Gerrard made his 500th appearance for the Reds on Saturday – but he was told he wasn’t needed for Tuesday night’s trip to Hull – not even as part of the travelling party to give some encouragement to his squad mates in the dressing room. He wasn’t wanted. He clearly isn’t the force he once was on […]

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5 Players for Brendan to clear this summer

TWELVE months ago, Liverpool FC looked to be on course for their first Premier League title, and Brendan Rodgers was set to enter the club’s pantheon of managers that had taken the Reds to top flight glory. A year later, and the Merseyside club are in relative disarray and despite Manchester United’s defeat at Everton, the Reds remain outsiders for the […]

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Molby – FSG may let Rodgers go before allowing him experienced players

LIVERPOOL’S exit from the FA Cup at Wembley on Sunday is effectively the end of a season that begin with hopes it would feature another title challenge, a decent run in the Champions League and maybe some silverware. It will end without any of those and, failing a further collapse from Manchester City, won’t even end with Liverpool in the […]

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Lallana: FA Cup semi win would be icing on the cake

LIVERPOOL midfielder Adam Lallana hopes the club can make it back to Wembley for the FA Cup final to end a season he admits has “not gone great” for him. Lallana was one of three players Brendan Rodgers signed from Southampton in the summer for a total outlay approaching £50m and as the season draws to a close it’s fair […]

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In memory of 96 football fans

26 years ago today thousands of Liverpool supporters left home and made the journey to South Yorkshire to see their club play Nottingham Forest in an FA Cup semi-final at Sheffield Wednesday’s Hillsborough stadium. 96 of them never returned home. As the fresh inquests into their deaths continue we are limited as to what we can say about what happened that […]

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Liverpool FC launch New Balance 80s-inspired home kit

ANOTHER year, another new shirt – in fact there’ll be three – as Liverpool launched the latest all red home kits. New kits come out annually now, in home, away and what used to sometimes to be called ‘European Away’ flavours. With no guarantee of European football for Liverpool next season, chances are it’ll just be a ‘third kit’ that […]

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Liverpool’s Raheem Sterling speaks out on his contract talks – is he greedy?

LIVERPOOL youngster Raheem Sterling has given an exclusive interview to the BBC that will no doubt add to the controversy surrounding the current standoff between the player and the club over a possible new contract. Sterling’s current contract has plenty of time left on it but it’s a £30k-£35k per week contract that reflects his standing at the time he […]

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Liverpool's Raheem Sterling speaks out on his contract talks – is he greedy?

LIVERPOOL youngster Raheem Sterling has given an exclusive interview to the BBC that will no doubt add to the controversy surrounding the current standoff between the player and the club over a possible new contract. Sterling’s current contract has plenty of time left on it but it’s a £30k-£35k per week contract that reflects his standing at the time he […]

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