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Arsenal great Ian Wright says any England win with Liverpool’s Raheem Sterling would be hollow
“KEVIN PIETERSEN let his country down — but Jack Wilshere hasn’t, say Ian Wright, who adds in his Sun column:
The flak Jack copped for his views on foreign players representing England is outrageous. And I agree with everything Jack said. You MUST be English to play for England. KP can say whatever he wants but he was born in South Africa — it isn’t the same him having the Three Lions on his chest…
It’s like cheating. Any victory that requires foreign help is hollow. If you’re English and not good enough to play for England you don’t just go and play for Ireland.
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Posted: 11th, October 2013 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comments (6)
Rafa Benitez gets his own statue in Naples – Liverpool and Chelsea must wait
WHEN Rafa Benitez left Liverpool, the club lost a great manager. But they never did build a statue to his name. Rafa was one of the things that made Liverpool great; they should have made a statue of him in the Tate. At Chelsea, Rafa did well. No statue, of course, but many appreciative Blues’ fans did tell him to get stuffed and offer to mount his head on a spike at Stamford Bridge. And then to Naples: a very slightly unsettling full 1:1 life-size terracotta figurine of Napoli manager Rafa Benitez, complete with ultra realistic signature paunch has ben spotted in the arcades.
No, no tray. He’s no dumb waiter:
Spotter: @matthew_barker)
Posted: 10th, October 2013 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comment
Liverpool: The Sun won’t let Luis Suarez move on from that bite
CAN Liverpool’s Luis Suarez be allowed to move on by the partisan anti-foreigner, righteous English press? No. This is how the Sun reported on Suarez’s two-goal salvo that saw Liverpool beat Sunderland and move to second in the Premier League:
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Posted: 29th, September 2013 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comment
Liverpool: England’s Sturridge wasn’t cheating when he scored with his arm – he’s no Suarez
WHEN Liverpool played Sunderland at the Stadium of Light, England’s Daniel Sturridge scored the first goal with his elbow. Handball, surely. But the goal stood. Was it cheating, then? When Uruguay’s Luis Suarez scored with his hand against Macclesfield last season he was labelled a “cheat“.
To see what the experts think of it all, first we read the Sunderland Echo’s report:
In the 27th minute Gerrard curled in a corner from the left which was met by the unmarked Daniel Sturridge six yards out, who was unable to make a connection with his head, but the ball bounced off his outstretched arm and beat Larsson on the line.
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Posted: 29th, September 2013 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comments (5)
Liverpool Watch: Mignolet’s coffee politics, Suarez’s baby and Reina’s long, long goodbye
LIVERPOOL Watch: a look at the Reds in the news.
Pepe Reina is back to tell us that his Liverpool career is over. Probably. Says the affable Spaniard now on loan at Napoli:
“At the moment it’s difficult to think about being a Liverpool player next year. They have a young goalkeeper in Simon Mignolet and the manager prefers him to me. That’s the reason why I’m here and he will be at the club next year as well. There’s no reason to think I’ll be a Liverpool player from now on but we’ll see where the future takes us.”
He then revisits the circumstances of his move to Italy:
“It did come as a surprise. It was the club who made the move. I was on my holidays and nobody told me anything. Suddenly Napoli called and said they were agreeing terms with Liverpool and Liverpool just rang me two days later and said the same. They probably had their own reasons. It’s been a good move so far and I don’t regret what happened. I would have preferred to say goodbye in a different way.”
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Posted: 28th, September 2013 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comment
Liverpool top Premiership tweeting list for January
An iffy start to the season might mean that the Premiership title is beyond Liverpool, but the Red half of Merseyside are at least top of one league – the country’s top footballing tweeters. Barclays has analysed Twitter traffic using Sysomos’ Media Analysis Platform (MAP) to see which teams and which cities were the centre of the Twitter-sphere throughout January, and found that when it comes to expressing themsleves in 140 charactars the Scousers come out top.
There was apparently a million tweets about the Barclays Premier League and its clubs in January with Liverpool FC, the subject of nearly a third of those tweets (301,169). In second place was Arsenal FC (110,901), which is something of a surprise given the club’s lack of transfer activity. Chelsea FC (97,655) and Manchester United (86,249) roll in as third and fourth place.
Posted: 9th, February 2011 | In: Arsenal, Liverpool, Sports | Comment
The Smell Of Victory: The Scent Of Football
SMELL that? That is the smell of Liverpool FC.
L4Men leads with the intense freshness of Robbie Keane and the garlic-infused sparkle of Fernando Torres.
Note the virile blend of frustration and star anise which finishes down with undertones of second-hand tyre and gold top.
This is Liverpool’s attempt to dethrone Beckham as the official smell of football. Right now L4Men is the official scent of the Premier League, but we can expect Liverpool’s rivals to up the stakes and take more vigorous approaches to the challenge of advancing the brand.
Here are some of the other odours that should be wafting through the grounds next season:
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Posted: 10th, October 2008 | In: Back pages, Liverpool, manchester united, Sports, Spurs | Comments (3)
