Liverpool
Five… Top Premier League Signings Of The Season
It has been a vintage Premier League season and with a fresh influx of cash, a record amount of money was spent in the summer of 2007. Footballing World picks out the five best signings from last year.
Where will it all end?
Despite some scintillating football, two English teams in the Champions League Final and the closest run-in to a league title in 40 years, many English football puritans have been left with a bad taste in their mouths this season. At the heart of this is rising ticket prices despite the huge investments in the game along with foreign owners who seem capable only of making a mess out of a stable environment.
Champions League: The Real Moment of Truth
A broadsheet journalist quite rightly pointed out this week that Champions League semi-final first legs are pretty pointless, beyond giving both teams the chance to play a home leg.
Chelsea’s away goal is arguably very valuable but it seems that, more and more, the main priority of teams in the first leg is to stay in [...]
Who On Earth Is… Philipp Degen
Liverpool have captured Swiss defender Philipp Degen on a free transfer as Rafa Benítez looks to construct a squad capable of mounting Liverpool’s most credible challenge for the Premier League title since the Spaniard’s arrival in 2004. But is Degen any good? And who else will be arriving through Anfield’s door this summer?
Exceptional Villa can bring an end to Arsenal’s profligacy
Arsenal are not beset by goal-scoring problems but profligacy in front of goal has been a consistent issue as the club endeavour to pick up their first trophy since 2005. David Villa has been touted as the answer and Spaniard is set to leave Valencia in the summer, with Arsene Wenger poised to move for the striker.
Hicks’ madness does not veil the role of destructive Parry
PARRY AND HICKS MUST BOTH STEP DOWN
Many Liverpool fans have been waiting for a while now for someone in their right mind to call for Rick Parry to resign from the club. Unfortunately for those of us that love the club, it is not someone in their right mind that has called for it, it [...]
No country for tall men
Keegan and Toshack. Quinn and Phillips. Owen and Heskey. Football is littered with successful examples of the ‘classic’ big man/little man partnerships. And with Peter Crouch linked with a move away from Liverpool, could he and Jermain Defoe form the latest tall/small partnership?
Player Ratings: Liverpool
Pepe Reina 5
At fault for the opening goal of the evening as Diaby’s stinging shot somehow deflected in off the Spanish stopper.
Jamie Carragher 7
The defender did not stop running and provided his customary exceptional service at the back to steer Liverpool through.
Martin Skrtel 7
Skrtel has been an impressive presence in the Liverpool shirt and was [...]
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