It was a mixed night at the UEFA Champions League Tuesday, Arsenal was comfortable with a 2-0 win against Standard Liege and topping their group, meaning that they qualify for the last 16 knock-out stages.
Not-so-good news for Liverpool, dispite beating Debrecen 1-0, but not good enough to be in the top 2, but they are still playing in Europe, but in the Europa Cup.
Rather dismal night for Rangers though, losing 2-0 to Stuttgard and bottom in their group, meaning that their European football dream is over for another year.
Liverpool Striker Fernando Torres has signed a new contract with Liverpool which includes an option for another season.
Since joining Atletico Madrid two years ago, he has scored 50 goals for the Reds.
The Spanish player still had an additional four years remaining on his original contract. However Liverpool offered him improved terms and added an option to take the deal through to the 2013-2014 season.Liverpool Striker Fernando Torres has signed a new contract with Liverpool which... more
Chelsea are in the UEFA Champions League semi final after beating Liverpool 7-5 on aggregate (score on the night: 4-4)
Chelsea will play Barcelona as they also won on aggregate (Bayern Munich 1-1 Barcelona [AGG 1-5])Chelsea are in the UEFA Champions League semi final after beating Liverpool 7-5 on... more
At the UEFA Champions League draw, Liverpool and Chelsea will go head-to-head while Arsenal are against Villareal and Manchester United takes on Porto.
Draw for the Quarter Final on the (1st Leg - 7th/8th April; 2nd Leg - 14th/15th April):
-Villarreal v Arsenal
-Manchester United v Porto
-Liverpool v Chelsea
-Barcelona v Bayern Munich
Semi final (1st Leg - 28th/29th April; 2nd Leg 5th/6th May)
-Manchester United/Porto v Villarreal/Arsenal
-Barcelona/Bayern Munich v Liverpool/ChelseaAt the UEFA Champions League draw, Liverpool and Chelsea will go head-to-head while... more
When ITV forget to air Everton's winning goal due to a technical glitch, it disappointed many football fans (2,000 complaints were made) so here is some tic tacs to reenact that goal...From youtube.com
When ITV forget to air Everton's winning goal due to a... more
Footballers (or soccer stars) would do anything to advertise stuff (just like in Japan), for Fernando Torres and a spanish dog training school, WTF!?From youtube.com
Footballers (or soccer stars) would do anything to advertise stuff... more
ITV has apologized to viewers after Everton's winning goal was interupted with an unexpected commercial break.
The commercial broadcaster blamed the technical problem at transmittion centre and not the production team. Chairman Michael Grade says that heads will roll...ITV has apologized to viewers after Everton's winning goal was interupted with an... more
Liverpool and England footballer, Steven Gerrard, has been arrested following a bar fight in Southport.
According to sources, Steven and five others was in custody at around 02:30 at the Lounge Inn after he celebrated a 5-1 victory against Newcastle, he was arrested for assult.Liverpool and England footballer, Steven Gerrard, has been arrested following a bar... more
Liverpool captain, England midfielder and scouse legend, Steven Gerrard has reportedly been arrested after a fight in a Southport bar at 2.30am.
Police say that the 28-year-old as well as five other men have been arrested on suspicion of assault, and remain in custody.Liverpool captain, England midfielder and scouse legend, Steven Gerrard has reportedly... more
Bastian Schweinsteiger was quite a sight at the Bayern Christmas party - he donned a long blonde wig to disguise himself as his girlfriend, Sarah Brandner!
The Bundesliga star was joined by his teammate at the Circus Krone for a crazy party held by Bayern and BILD's 'Ein Herz fuer Kinder' children's charity.
Some 500 kids were invited to join the fun, and saw Schweini clowning around disguised as his own partner!
Coach Jurgen Klinsmann also provoked laughs when he picked up some tips from American Indian chief Jimmi Falco.
Star Italian striker Luca Toni, meanwhile, was the only man brave enough to have knives thrown at him!
“I don’t think he knew what to expect,” Bayern's general manager Uli Hoeness said.
The Bayern team also brought along their own kids to join in the fun: Lucio came with wife Dione and their three children, Miroslav Klose proudly showed off twins Luan and Noah and Franck Ribery brought small daughter Hiziya.
Hoeness added: “We wanted to do something different and it was a wonderful evening. The goal was to establish closeness with the kids, and that was definitely the case.”
No wonder - a circus is always a huge hit with kids! And football players, for that matter...
For photos of Bayern's festive fun head to BILD.comBastian Schweinsteiger was quite a sight at the Bayern Christmas party - he donned a... more
Five-time European champions Liverpool sent a warning to the rest of the continent with a 3-1 win at PSV Eindhoven which saw them top their Champions League group.
They had already qualified for the next stage before last night’s final group stage matches, but the win, coupled with Atletico Madrid’s 0-0 draw with Marseille, will see them among the top seeds for the second round.
Elsewhere, Michael Ballack’s Chelsea side confirmed their place in the knock-out stages following a nervy campaign with a 2-1 win over CFR Cluj. The Romanian minnows finished bottom of the group despite an impressive opening win at Roma.
The Italians recovered from that defeat to qualify by beating Bordeaux 2-0.
Werder Bremen claimed the UEFA Cup spot in Group B with a 2-1 win over giants Inter Milan, coupled with Anorthosis Famagusta losing 1-0 to Panithanaikos. That result saw the Greek team top the group ahead of Jose Mourinho's Inter.Five-time European champions Liverpool sent a warning to the rest of the continent... more
LIVERPOOL Football Club will face “difficulties” registering the Liverbird as its trade mark, an expert in intellectual property rights said last night.
One of the city’s design and marketing agencies warned that if the club got a trade mark it would spell bad news for hundreds of businesses in the city.
It comes after the Daily Post reported how LFC had applied for a trade mark of the famous bird which forms a key part of its club badge.
Liverpool City Council is taking legal advice on the matter with a view to lodging an objection with the UK Intellectual Property Office before the deadline for doing so expires on Saturday.
Liverpool FC claims it is only seeking to trade mark its own version of the Liverbird because the club is losing a “substantial amount of money” each year due to counterfeit merchandise. The club insists it would not try to prevent the council, business, charities or other bodies using the Liverbird logo.
David Worrall, senior solicitor with Liverpool’s Shipley Solicitors, last night warned the club that the version of the Liverbird it was seeking to trademark was quite generic.
“I would expect that if people do challenge it through the opposition process, the football club will face difficulties in registering this. It’s not cut and dry, they might get it if nobody opposes it. But I am sure there are plenty of people thinking about doing it.
“I think a lot of people feel that it belongs to the public and not a company, no matter who they are. The club are in a really difficult situation because I understand what they say with regards to wanting to protect their products and revenue.”LIVERPOOL Football Club will face “difficulties” registering the Liverbird... more
In the sadly execrable season five of the once mighty Peep Show, one of the few funny riffs involves the sexually hapless lead Mark Corrigan internally hailing every new female he meets as "The One". The problem is that even that riff shows that the show has lost touch with the reality that it once so brutally conveyed. In real life, someone who had been let down as often as Corrigan (and yeah, we know he cancelled the wedding, but still) would be much more backwards about coming forwards with such a perception, even to themselves.
It's a decent rule of thumb that, the more someone's heart is broken, the more cagey they become: once bitten, thrice shy, and so on. All of which explains the Liverpool fans' almost eerily pragmatic response to their side's outstanding start to the season, which went up a level today when they deservedly ended Chelsea's 86-match unbeaten run at home in the league.
In the 18 years since Liverpool's last championship, they have endured too many rejections to expose themselves again. Umpteen first dates have gone well, or so they thought, only for a second to never materialise. A few medium-length relationships (1990-91, 1996-97, 2001-02) also ultimately faded away. No wonder they are not crowing yet.
This is not, nonetheless, something we are used to from football fans. "And now you're gonna believe us, we're gonna win the league," is often sung absurdly prematurely, to be scoffed at by neutrals, but this time there is a role reversal: those of an impartial nature feel that Liverpool look the real deal, but the fans will not – externally at least, and probably not internally for fear of imposing some kind of hex – admit as much. They really are taking it one game at a time.
Yet the evidence that this is a serious side becomes harder to ignore. It's impossible to overstate the symbolism of today's victory. Already they have won four league games after going behind, and today they knocked off a number of records: their first league goal at Stamford Bridge since Bruno Cheyrou in January 2004, first win away at any of the big four in the league under Rafa Benítez and, of course, first side to win in the league at Stamford Bridge since Arsenal's Invincibles on February 21 2004. It seems 21 is today's magic number: this was, staggeringly, Benítez's 21st game against Chelsea in a four-and-a-bit season. History might just record it as Liverpool's coming-of-age.
In the sadly execrable season five of the once mighty Peep Show, one of the few funny... more
Uefa, European football's governing body, told Claus Bo Larsen that it would offer him its full support if the Danish referee decides to halt Liverpool's Champions League tie against Atlético Madrid at the Vicente Calderón Stadium, should the match be marred by racist abuse.
Rafael Benítez, the Liverpool manager, and José Manuel Reina, the club's goalkeeper, both of whom were born in Madrid, rejected claims last night that either the city or Spain had a problem with racism, but that has not prevented Uefa from encouraging Larsen to withdraw the teams, should there be a recurrence of the crowd trouble that blighted Atlético's previous European game against Marseilles this month.
Atlético were fined £120,000 by Uefa and banned from playing their next two Champions League matches at the Vicente Calderón or within 300 kilometres (about 186 miles) of Madrid, although it was allegations that the Spanish club's supporters had directed monkey chants at the black players in the Marseilles team that caused the most concern and invited widespread condemnation. Uefa, European football's governing body, told Claus Bo Larsen that it would... more
