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Liverpool Balls: Luis Suarez Interviews Everton Fan Paul McCartney
IT’S a Liverpool love in as Paul McCartney meets Luis Suarez.
On the eve of the former Beatle’s show in Montervideo’s Centenario Stadium, Uruguay, loveable Luis Suarez appeared on satellite to chat with McCartney about his homeland, football and music.
Well, sort of chatted. It’s pretty clear that Suarez recorded his questions well in advance. And one-time enemy of the State Macca might not be the biggest Reds fans, unable as he is to name the club’s manager, referring him to as “coach”…
Liverpool Balls: Threatening Luis Suarez Puts Bite Into The PFA
LUIS Suarez should be crowned this year’s Professional Footballers’ Association Player of the Year.
But can other professionals overlook the repeated racist abuse of Manchester United’s Patrice Evra, the diving and the biting? We should all of us admire Suarez’s abilities, but how much do his disciplinary offences weigh down opinion?
Suarez has so much baggage he could not afford to fly Ryanair.
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Posted: 19th, April 2014 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comments (11)
Hillsborough In Photos: A Lone Liverpool Fan Sits On The Broken Terraces
FLASHBACK to April 15, 1989:
A lone supporter sits by the damaged fencing at Hillsborough Stadium, in Sheffield. Twenty years after the Hillsborough disaster, English football is enjoying a golden age with multi-millionaire players starring in modern stadia, reaping the rewards of lucrative TV deals. But in the aftermath of the disaster at the Sheffield ground in April 1989, that saw 96 Liverpool fans crushed to death at an FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest, things never looked so bleak.
Posted: 15th, April 2014 | In: Flashback, Liverpool, Sports | Comment
Liverpool Balls: Funny Foreinger Luis Suarez Is Good For A Giggle
THE hacks spending their days discussing Luis Suarez have yet to create a single word as entertaining as the man himself’s actions. The racism and cheating and biting have all been terrible, just terrible. But – boy – has he kept us entertained.
Luis Suarez his wife Sofia Balbi and their children, Benjamin and Delfina, arriving for Disney On Ice at the Echo Arena in Liverpool
Everything the hugely talented and unpleasant Suarez has done has been clouded by his status as filthy foreigner. He has given the elite a chance to engage in some cheap moralising about enlightened England. His fearsome bites were worse than Jermain Defoe’s nibbles. His dives are worse than Gareth Bale’s slips. His cheating is so much worse than Team GB’s efforts in the cycling. When he spits, he does so because as a filthy foreigner he knows no better. But we – says Gary Neville – can teach him.
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Liverpool And Manchester United Balls: It’s Like 2013 All Over Again
LIVERPOOL Balls: The very big-spending, foreign-owned Reds are at the Top of Premier League. Having beaten very very very big spending foreign-owned Manchester City 3-2, Liverpool are two points above very, very big spending, foreign-owned Chelsea. All three clubs have
To the Daily Mail’s Martin Samuel this is a triumph of the English spirit.
These days, to rise from seventh last season to become champions is the equivalent of Nottingham Forest winning promotion, and then the championship a year later. To do so with a predominantly British starting XI is equally a feat from a bygone age. We had accepted that champions were foreign entities now. A title-winning team with an English spine? We thought its time had passed.
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Posted: 14th, April 2014 | In: Liverpool, manchester united, Sports | Comment
Liverpool Balls: Luis Suarez Doesn’t Eat Young Boy With Down Syndrome In Park
CAN Liverpool’s bristling Luis Suarez be loved?
On Liverpool’s Reddit page, we spotted this picture of Suarez in Calderstones Park with a young boy who has down syndrome.
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Liverpool Balls: Flanagan Goes Down In Slow Motion And Anthony Taylor Misses CCTV Footage Of Carroll’s Assault
LIVERPOOL are top of the Premier League. They defeated West Ham United 2-1. They scored two penalties. The first was a pen. The second shouldn’t have been. The Hammers’ goalkeeper Adrian got to the ball first. We captured Jon Flanagan’s tumble on camera.
The game was also memorable for referee Anthony Taylor’s inability look at the massive TV screen behind his head to see Andy Carroll’s foul in the build up the the happy Hammers’ goal.
Sky TV’s Jamie Redknapp says Andy Carroll’s challenge on Mignolet was “bordering on assault”.
Adam Hurry explains:
The established measure for this, of course, is the If You Did That To Someone in The Street Test – this one would be rather hard to stage in that context, perhaps.
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Liverpool Balls: Manchester City To Buy Luis Suarez, Who Hates Brendan Rodgers
ARE MANCHESTER CITY preparing a “huge investment” to buy Luis Suarez from Liverpool?
Txiki Begiristain, City’s director of football, says he knows the contents of Suarez’s Liverpool contract. He “believes” the contract Suarez signed in December 2013 contains a release clause making a transfer viable if the player wants to move.
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Posted: 6th, April 2014 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comments (2)
Liverpool Balls: Luis Suarez Let’s His Jaws Do The Talking
LIVERPOOL Balls: The Reds are top if the Premier League. The Liverpool Echo’s Kristian Walsh reacts by commenting on Luis Suarez’s performance in a 4-0 win over a poor Spurs side:
To say like he was akin to a shark smelling blood would be inaccurate – sharks do not thrust themselves as frequently, or with the prolonged determination, of the Uruguayan. People sometimes survive shark attacks, too; the same cannot be said of Dawson.
Dawson is Spurs captain Michael Dawson. Reports of his death are premature.
Liverpool Balls: The Most Inane Michael Owen Commentary Quotes On BT Sports
OVER on Pies, you can read the Top 12 Most Inane Commentary Comments from former Liverpool striker Michael Owen.
The collective sigh of a nation was palpable when BT Sports announced that Michael Owen was joining their team in co-commentator capacity at the beginning of the season, as subscribers suddenly realised that they were in for at least a season’s worth of beige footballing clichés and banal, perfunctory observations from a man who more or less talks in binary code.
Lo and behold, L’il Mike didn’t let anybody down, causing many a BT Sport viewer to suffer catatonic nervous meltdowns with his colourless delivery and 2D insight.
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November 1972: Liverpool’s Steve Heighway And Brian Hall Read A Greek newspaper in Athens
FLASHBACK to November 1 1972: Liverpool’s Steve Heighway (left) and Brian Hall (right) read a Greek newspaper in Athens ahead of their UEFA Cup second round second leg match against AEK Athens.
Liverpool won the tie 6-1 on aggregate. They would go on to defeat Spurs in the semi-final and Borussia Mönchengladbach on aggregate to win the cup.
Posted: 25th, February 2014 | In: Flashback, Liverpool, Photojournalism, Sports | Comment
Can We Walk Alone With You? Everton Fan Gets Liverpool Anthem Tattoo (For Charity)
DIEHARD Everton fan Matty Bowman has raised funds for desperately ill George Johnson, 4, by having the Liverpool’s club motto, You’ll Never Walk Alone, tattooed across his back. The deal was that if enough people pledged money for George, Matty would get the ink.
George suffers from a very rare motility condition (which means that he can not eat or drink and survives by being fed through his heart) and desperately needs to travel to a specialised clinic in the US to have his illness diagnosed and treated properly – and, sadly, incredibly expensively.
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Posted: 29th, January 2014 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comment (1)
Liverpool Balls: Brian Reade’s Bad Maths Makes Andy Carroll Look Good
Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish, center, poses for photos with new signings Andy Carroll, left, and Luis Suarez before a press conference at Anfield, Liverpool, England, Thursday Feb. 3, 2011.
LIVERPOOL FC fan Brian Reade looks away from the hellholes of South London to talk about his team. He writes in the Mirror:
Bonus Brian Reade: Liverpool the ones laughing now over much-mocked January 2011 transfer window
Are they laughing now? Why? Liverpool are the club who spent £35m on Andy Carroll.
Ask anyone what the most laughable performance in the January window was and the answer will be Liverpool’s £35million splurge on Andy Carroll three years ago. And, in isolation, they’d be right. But if you analyse all of the Anfield club’s transfer business that month, it’s becoming one of the most profitable windows ever.
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Posted: 9th, January 2014 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comments (4)
Spurs Balls: AVB Was Sacked For £20 And A Dare
BEFORE Liverpool tonked Spurs 5-0 and in so doing saw off the pretty ineffectual Andre Villas -Boas, Olivia Brown, 10, of Wood End, Hertfordshire, executed her game plan to perfection.
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Liverpool Balls: Luis Suarez Isn’t That Good Because He Hasn’t Won Anything At Anfield
JAMIE Redknapp uses his Daily Mail column to contemplate Liverpool’s Luis Suarez:
I’m not a big fan of comparing players from different generations.
So…
Kenny Dalglish was an icon in that No 7 shirt, he was tough and he had everything in his game. Luis Suarez has been breath-taking at times this season but he has a way to go because of the trophies Kenny won.
Maybe in King Kenny had played in this Liverpool team, he’d not have won quite so much.
Posted: 6th, December 2013 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comments (10)
Liverpool Balls: Sturridge Says England More Important Than Reds And Vice-Versa
LIVERPOOL’S Daniel Sturridge only made it onto Everton’s pitch in the 79th minute of last weekend’s derby match. The reason was that he’d been less than sparkling in training. Brendan Rodgers says: “If you want to be a champions, you have to be ready. For this game, I just felt Daniel wasn’t ready.” Daniel went on to score in the 88th minute.
Sturridge had spent the week before the match playing 90 minutes for England against Germany. He said:
“For me, regardless of what condition you are in, if you are selected by the manager of England you go out there and do the best you can, regardless of whether you are injured or not. The manager gave me that opportunity and it was a pleasure to put the England shirt on. Fit or not fit, you go out and do your best.”
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Posted: 26th, November 2013 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comment (1)
Liverpool Legend Michael Owen Talks To Us About His Picture Frames
IN case you missed it, the Daily Mail produced an “exclusive” account of Michael Owen’s life. The former Liverpool and England player is mesmeric in his dullness. Highlights are:
‘”I was never really one for having my house adorned with all my memorabilia. I had it all put away. I never wanted to put them up while I was playing in case something miraculous happened and I won another FA Cup or something, but now I’ve finished and I’m getting them all together. I know the number of caps and shirts and I’m framing the special ones. I’ve got a set number of frames and I’m going through in order, with my different debuts and the shirts from every cup final, England-Argentina in the World Cup and when I scored the winner for Manchester United against City. About 15 definitely need to go in, and if there’s room for more I’ll decide what goes in.”
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Posted: 14th, November 2013 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comment (1)
Why Did A Thief Steal A Wheelchair Ramp From Liverpool’s Lime Street Station?
Posted: 13th, November 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Liverpool: Reality TV Star Brendan Rodgers Hates Manchester United’s Fly On The Wall
LIVERPOOL manger Brendan Rodgers is a quotable sort (“My biggest mentor is myself because I’ve had to study, so that’s been my biggest influence”). Today he’s been talking about Sir Alex Ferguson’s autobiography:
“Anyone who’s been in football knows that whatever is said behind closed doors and in the changing room is something you wouldn’t want to hear again… It’s something that’s vitally important. You want to know as a human being that you can speak openly and communication is honest, and hopefully wouldn’t get repeated. You would like to think you would still have some old-school values and ethics that whatever is said you take it on the chin and keep it behind closed doors and move on.”
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Posted: 24th, October 2013 | In: Liverpool, manchester united, Sports | Comment
Liverpool: Daniel Sturridge won’t pick Steven Gerrard’s pre-match music
LIVERPOOL and England’s Daniel Sturridge is talking music:
“It’s too much stress for me having to look after the music and making sure that everybody’s vibe’s right.”
Not easy. Not when Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard is such a big Phil Collins fan. Footballers are so very mainstream…
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)
Liverpool sisters stole funeral wreaths to sell on to the grieving
SISTERS Marion Hill, 41, and Lyndsay Millett, 37, removed flowers left in tribute to a dead man at Liverpool’s Springwood crematorium. They said the flowers were for their mum’s grave at Allerton cemetery.
Police thought it an idea to visit their home in Almeda Road, Speke. here, they found blank condolence cards, wreath stands, “wreath-making paraphernalia” and seven wreaths, including one to “DAD”. Two wreaths to MUM” and “NAN” had vanished from the crematorium on the evening of May 7, having been left in tribute to Bridget Jannet.
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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
