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Liverpool legends Robbie Fowler runs foul of the language police
POOR old Robbie Fowler. Back in his day a footballer could poke his backside out at another professional he accused of being ‘gay’ and laugh. Now Fowler’s landed a job as a pundit on the BBC’s Final Score. His mind turned to the Tottenham-Chelsea game, where Fernando Torres and Jan Vertonghen were, as he opined, “pulling at each other like a pair of girls”.
We think we know what he means. But people complain on Twitter and the BBC gets upset. Fowler feels a need to apologise, which makes him look weak as well as off-message. Says Fowler:
“I made a comment about women’s football. I do apologise. I’m a big, big fan of Liverpool Ladies, who have got a chance of winning the [Women’s Super League] tomorrow and I’ll be watching. Obviously, anyone at home who was offended, I am deeply sorry. Hope that’s the end of that.”
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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 admit to smoking the same stuff as Arsenal over Luis Suarez
WHEN Arsenal were bidding for Liverpool’s Luis Suarez – and Suarez was making noises about wanting to leave Anfield – Reds’ owner John W Henry asked what Arsenal were smoking. Brendan Rodgers added that the bid showed Arsenal had no “class“.
Liverpool admit to smoking the same stuff as Arsenal over Luis Suarez:
“That’s the transfer market. I have huge respect for Arsenal, they’re a great football club, with some great people. I’m good friends with Ivan [Gazidis, the Arsenal MD]. Trying to get players, making offers for players, it’s all part of the game. Anyone who says it isn’t and makes a big noise is not really being honest. Everybody does the same thing in football, everybody’s trying to achieve the same thing, we’re all trying our best to buy the best players for the best price.”
Best tell his manager and boss…
Posted: 27th, September 2013 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Liverpool local walks home in the traditional fashion (video)
TO Liverpool, to see a drunk man walk home in the traditional manner.
Language is sweary.
Madness:
Posted: 27th, September 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Liverpool: Tesco cashier not sacked for telling shopper not to buy the Sun
DID the cashier at the Tesco store do wrong when she told a customer not to buy The Sun because of its Hillsborough coverage? No, of course she didn’t. We like the idea of supermarkets being local shops, and with that should come the prejudices of the local shopkeeper and their staff.
When working as a reporter I used to buy all the national newspaper titles every day (and read them cover to cover). My newsagents would looks at the Daily Star in my hand and asked me if my lips moved when I read it slowly. The Tesco Sun readers is free to make their own decision; and free to be mocked for making it.
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Liverpool: Luis Suarez fails to eat a Manchester United player and other views on his return
HOW did Liverpool’s Luis Suarez get on last night as he returned to the Liverpool team after serving a 10 match ban for biting?
Neil Ashton, Daily Mail:
High up in the top tier of the old Scoreboard End they sang the name of Luis Suarez as if he had never been away. All is forgiven, all is forgotten.
Of course, the Liverpool faithful sung his name when he was trying to manufacture a transfer from Anfield and manager Brendan Rodgers was putting a price on his head. Ashton then adds:
Suspension served he is free to start over, to light up English football again with those match-winning performances.
And how does the Mail show readers that Suarez is free to begin anew? Yep, by showing them a photo of the Uruguayan biting the arm of Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic. Liverpool fans may wonder why whenever a certain England player is reported on the Mail doesn’t equip the story with photo of what he termed his “mischievous” behaviour?
In October 2006, Spurs forward Jermain Defoe (England) bit West Ham’s Javier Mascherano (Argentina). Defoe was booked for “aggressive behaviour”. No more punishment came his way because the referee had dealt with the incident at the time – even though the FA knew the official had missed the bite.
The Sun quotes Suarez:
“It is important that I am back because I can help the team on the pitch — off the pitch I can’t. We will keep going.”
The Sun then opted for a few puns:
Mark Ogden in the Telegraph also looks at the loyal fans:
…football supporters, as hardline and unforgiving as they often claim to be, quickly forget their principles when it involves a star player such as Suárez or Rooney.
And just as Rooney has been serenaded by United’s fans since his return to action this season, Suárez emerged from his suspension at Old Trafford with 7,200 Liverpool supporters offering strong vocal proof of their affection for the lightning rod from Salto.
But Jeremy Cross tells Daily Star readers:
Footballing convictions for racist abuse and biting have stained his reputation forever.
The Express focuses on Suarez outside football:
In Uruguayan book Vamos Que Vamos, Suarez admits that his rebellious side began when he was just nine, after his parents split up.
“They were tough times,” Suarez said. “My parents had split up and there was all the problem of us being a family that never had the possibility of choosing anything. I was never able to tell my mother or father, ‘I want these trainers’, and have them buy me those trainers. It was the pure reality.”
“Up to the age of 12 I knew that I wanted to play football, but afterwards, from 12 to 14, I went through a phase in which the football wasn’t going well for me and I didn’t want to study. I didn’t like to train. I only liked playing the games and that way it was going to be very difficult for me to achieve something. I got really angry. I was a rebel and that worked against me.”
So his racially abusing Patrice Evra was a sign of rebellion rooted in a broken home?
David McDonnell in the Mirror:
He thudded the ball against the bar, hit the side netting and caused anxiety in the Manchester United defence with his guile and clever movement. All that was missing on Luiz Suarez’s comeback from a 10-match ban for biting was a goal and a fresh chapter of controversy to add to his compendium of misdemeanours.
In the Star those misdemeanours were convictions.
Ever since he was found guilty of racially abusing Patrice Evra and then refused to shake his hand in the pre-match ritual when the sides next faced each other, Suarez has been Public Enemy No.1 at United. Cast in his familiar role as pantomime villain of the piece for United fans, Suarez was booed and jeered every time he came into their proximity to take a corner, and was duly serenaded by Liverpool supporters, whose delight at having him back was tangible.
Racial abuse is a form of panto? He ends his piece with a predictable pun:
But there was enough creative instinct and attacking intent in his play to suggest it will not be long before he is back putting the bite on defences where it hurts most.
Suarez could hold his head high after a tireless display which emphatically answered the questions about his ongoing commitment to the cause. Some 157 days after he was banned for 10 games for sinking his teeth into Branislav Ivanovic, there was the welcome sight of Suarez back in a Liverpool shirt tormenting defenders.
We’ll know when Suarez is back when the puns about his biting end.
Posted: 26th, September 2013 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Epic photo: Liverpool’s Luis Suarez ponders where his next goal will be coming from
LIVERPOOL’ S Luis Suarez ponders where his next goal will be coming from, writes Danny Baker:
It is, of course, the late great Bernie Winters-Suarez.
Liverpool: Rodgers says Suarez is ‘chomping at the bit’
LIVERPOOL: Brendan Rodgers is talking about Luis Suarez, banned from football for biting an opponent:
“It has been a really difficult time for him not playing games. How he has prepared himself over the last number of weeks has been fantastic. He’s really chomping at the bit to help the team. Everyone knows the depth of his quality and his attitude. Once he gets back on the field again he will show what he has shown since he’s been here.”
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Liverpool: Brendan Rodgers says Pepe Reina is not telling the truth
FOOTBALL Balls looks at Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers and his former goalkeeper Pepe Reina. You can read what Reina think of his transfer to Napoli here.
Says Brendan Rodgers:
“He had been at the club a number of years and done well but I didn’t do anything underhand. I looked him (Pepe Reina) in the eye and told him I was thinking of bringing in another goalkeeper good enough to be No1. He accepted that at the time. When he decided he wanted to go on loan to Napoli I never got the two No1s I had wanted but I still ended up with a good goalkeeper”
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Posted: 16th, September 2013 | In: Sports | Comments (4)
Liverpool: Kolo Touré fans gets ‘Kolo Touro’ tattoo
LIVERPOOL’S Kolo Touré is hit with the Anfield Kopites. One fan wanted a tattoo of the player’s name. So. He got “Touro” inked on his foot..
Can an O be turned into an accented E? Will Touré change his name? Will a sock solve the problem..?
Spotter: Pies
Transfer Balls: Willian loves Liverpool, loves Chelsea and only used Spurs for the free medical
TRANSFER Balls: Willian has signed for Chelsea. It was ever his dream move to play for the Blues.
August 16: Willian loves Liverpool:
“There are conversations, and I am hoping in the next few days for an offer from a club like Liverpool. If it is Liverpool, then they are a great club.”
August 22: Willian has a medical at Tottenham. He passes.
Former Anzhi Makhachkala coach Rene Meulensteen days of his former player:
“He’s very versatile, he can play in different positions, he’s a very creative player and an excellent professional with a very good personality.”
August 28: Willian becomes a Chelsea player:
“It’s been my dream to come to play here. Finally it’s become a reality, and when the offer came I never gave a thought to anybody else, I said to myself that I would run here, and I’m happy to be here now. Chelsea were always my first choice.”
Get a loaf of that personality.
Transfer Balls: Luis Suarez will be off to Arsenal in the January sales
TRANSFER Balls: Is Liverpool’s Luis Suarez going to Arsenal?
The Reds’ owner John W. Henry goes on the record:
“We are not going to sell Luis… “I’m unequivocal that we won’t sell to Arsenal, whatever the bid is.”
The man’s word is his bond. No price is right for loveable Luis.
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Posted: 14th, August 2013 | In: Sports | Comments (6)
Liverpool: Suarez’s hand balls turned Manchester United’s Evra into a history book hero
TRANSFER Balls: Eurosport has a question about Liverpool’s loverly Luis Suarez:
Do Arsenal really want a player with a rap sheet as long as Luis Suarez’s? Let’s take a look.
That look features 6 of Suarez’s most heinous acts.
6. Uses his hand to stop a certain goal against Uruguay in the World Cup
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Posted: 8th, August 2013 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Transfer Balls: Arsenal offer £51m for Liverpool’s Luis Suarez and Brendan Rodgers just won’t shut up
TRANSFER Balls: News of Liverpool’s soon-to-be-former striker in the news media:
The front and back pages:
The i says Liverpool have told Suarez to train with the stiffs. How’s that for building team unity? On a positive note, the reserves will get better results.
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Posted: 8th, August 2013 | In: Sports | Comments (46)
Transfer Balls: Luis Suarez wants Arsenal and Spurs teach Liverpool how to strike a deal
TRANSFER Balls: Liverpool and that Luis Suarez saga continues:
Arsenal manger Arsene Wenger has been talking to Al Jazeera Sport:
“At the moment the situation is on standby. I really don’t know what will be decided by Liverpool. I don’t know what has been said, what has been promised and what has been written. That is the story between Suarez and Liverpool. Only Suarez and Liverpool can decide that. It’s nothing to do us. We have been told the player wants to leave Liverpool and that’s why we’ve acted. We try and get what we want, if that doesn’t work we will look somewhere else.”
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Posted: 7th, August 2013 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Transfer Balls: Luis Suarez says Liverpool told him he could leave for Arsenal this summer
AND lo, Liverpool’s Luis Suarez did speak to the the Telegraph:
“Last year I had the opportunity to move to a big European club and I stayed on the understanding that if we failed to qualify for the Champions League the following season I’d be allowed to go. I gave absolutely everything last season but it was not enough to give us a top-four finish – now all I want is for Liverpool to honour our agreement.”
Adding:
“It is not as if I am asking to move to a local rival. And I would not consider moving to a club outside the Champions League. I have made my desire to move known in private various times and now it feels like the time for me to make it public. I have to put my career first. People say Liverpool deserve more from me but I have scored 50 goals in less than 100 games and now they could double the money they paid for me.
“I spoke with Brendan Rodgers several times and he told me: ‘Stay another season, and you have my word if we don’t make it then I will personally make sure that you can leave.
“I am 26, I need to be playing in the Champions League. I feel I have done enough to be playing in the Champions League at this stage of my career. Now there is an option for me to do that and I want very much to take it.”
He wants to go to Arsenal, says the Irish Mirror:
The Uruguay striker insists that he is prepared to submit a written transfer request by the end of the week if the club continue to block his move to Arsenal.
The Times:
Luis Suárez has withdrawn from Liverpool’s pre-season trip to Norway after pulling out of training today with a foot injury.
Rooney is injured at Manchester United. Bale is injured at Spurs. Why are all these injured players in such demand?
Posted: 6th, August 2013 | In: Sports | Comments (5)
Transfer Balls – Liverpool: Suarez snubs Gerrard’s testimonial dinner and Arsenal lack class
TRANSFER Balls: News on Liverpool’s Luis Suarez in today’s media.
The Daily Star leads with news that Brendan Rodgers says Arsenal lack “class“. In the insane world of football, Rodgers views an offer of £40m plus £1 offer for a player who wants to leave as a sign of low upbringing. Making a bid for a footballer now requires etiquette. Maybe Wenger should deliver any further handwritten missives on a plump purple cushion?
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Transfer Balls: Sunday Times says Liverpool in breach of contract over Luis Suarez
TRANSFER Balls: Writing in the Sunday Times, Duncan Castles has an interesting line about Luis Suarez’ Liverpool contract.
TOTTENHAM are considering a bid for unsettled Liverpool striker Luis Suarez and Colombia international Jackson Martinez as they plan to reinvest the income from Gareth Bale’s pending transfer to Real Madrid. Andre Villas-Boas is also seeking reinforcememts in defence and on the wing to mitigate the world-record sale.
A sucessful Spurs bid for Suarez seems fanciful. If Arsenal can offer Suarez the Champions’ League football he apparently craves, Spurs can’t. But this is the line that stands out:
With Liverpool refusing to honour a £40m clause in Suarez’s contract by permitting him to talk to Arsenal, the Uruguayan is likely to prove beyond Tottenham’s reach.
So. Liverpool are in a breach of contract?
But Caught Offside.com says:
“…in actual fact the two clubs are said to have already come to an agreement over the sale of Suarez, with the player set to join Arsenal for £45m on Aug 28 on the condition that the club have successfully navigated their way past their upcoming two-legged Champions League playoff that will take place across Aug 20/21 and Aug 27/28.
More facts to follow…
Posted: 4th, August 2013 | In: Sports | Comments (9)
Transfer balls: Liverpool and Manchester United targets Diego Costa and Geoffrey Kondogbia reprise the Suarez and Evra show
TRANSFER Balls: How’s the summer shaping up for Atletico Madrid striker Diego Costa and Sevilla midfielder Geoffrey Kondogbia?
These two are paired because if they head to the Premier League they will renew a relationship that made headlines last season. Sevilla midfielder Geoffrey Kondogbia earned a red card for a foul on Costa. He went on Twitter to claim:
“In short Mr Costa, next time keep the monkey noises to yourself. The first red of my entire life playing football and I get four matches 🙁 ?”
Geoffrey Kondogbia is black. Costa is what are now called “white Hispanic”.
It seems that Liverpool want Costa:
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Transfer Balls: Liverpool want £35m for Arsenal target Suarez, and Ian Wright and Steven Gerard remain desperate
TRANSFER Balls: The experts in the media tells us what’s happening with Liverpool’s Luis Suarez in August:
August 1
Daily Mirror: “Liverpool agreed to Luis Suarez transfer if a Champions League club offered £35m claim Arsenal target’s camp”
Luis Suarez is refusing to give up on a £40million transfer to Arsenal after angrily claiming Liverpool AGREED to let him go.
Suarez’s agent, Pere Guardiola, has told the Anfield giants that the striker is frustrated, wants to quit and feels let down over what he thought were promises to sell him if the Reds missed out on the coming season’s Champions League.
Now, the Uruguay international is determined to force the issue as he wants to join Arsenal – while also secretly harbouring hopes that Real Madrid will come in for him.
Looks like that secret harbouring has set sail.
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Posted: 3rd, August 2013 | In: Sports | Comments (2)
Liverpool FC wants its fans and staff to be Thought Police narks
LIVERPOOL FC’s widely distributed list of things you cannot say has yet to be handed to all fans entering the Anfield ground. Your moral credentials will not be checked at the gate…yet.
I have said infantile things at football matches, mostly when I was young and thought it funny and possibly liberating to sing things I would never sing at a polite dinner table; belting out abusive lyrics to songs like the First Noel:
Hoddle, Hoddle, Hoddle, Hoddle
Born is the Queen of Golder’s Green
That’s racist! Nowadays it could be. I knew that words cold hurt. Well, that was the idea. You get worked up in support of your own team and say things designed to damage the opposition. You don’t mean it. The song was targeting Spurs’ best player and the fans, many of whom are Jewish (Golder’s Green has a considerable Jewish demographic). It would also be now classed a homophobic. Hoddle is not the King of Israel, as the Spurs fans might have had it. He was the Queen. Was I a homophobic anti-Semite? No. I just thought it was funny. The song did not show me in my true colours. They were just part of the match.
Was Hoddle offended? No. He just smiled and – get this – later became a born again Christian.
(It was he who said: “You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime. I have nothing to hide about that. It is not only people with disabilities. What you sow, you have to reap.”)
Arsenal fans also had this to say about their own Nwankwo Kanu:
He’s big, he’s black, he’s had a heart attack, King Kanu, King Kanuuuuu
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Posted: 31st, July 2013 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (2)
Liverpool say Luis Suarez can call black staff a negrito but Yids and poofs are banned
Below the headings race/religion, sexual orientation, gender and disability, we see the list below:
Posted: 31st, July 2013 | In: Sports | Comments (11)
Luis Suarez Transfer balls: Arsenal have history – Liverpool have death threats and deadlines
TRANSFER balls: By now you’ll be wondering what Luis Suarez has been up to. Today’s news round-up follows:
Metro: “Arsene Wenger admits Arsenal are not close to signing Liverpool striker Luis Suarez”
Admits?
We recall Wenger saying on Suarez discussions:
“As you know the transfer period demands secrets and confidentiality, so I can’t answer the question.”
And:
“You want me to announce a spectacular signing, but I can’t. We are working behind the scenes to strengthen the squad – but I can’t give you names.”
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Posted: 27th, July 2013 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
