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Liverpool 4-1 Portsmouth

AnfieldRed-Admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:03:54 +0000

Liverpool beat Portsmouth 4-1 at Anfield, with Torres scoring twice and Alberto Aquilani getting his first goal for Liverpool. The Reds were 3-0 up at half time, and Anfield were expecting the final score to be about 8 or 9 nil (and it could have been) but Liverpool only found the net once more in the [...]

Liverpool Cruising at Half time: Aquilani gets his first Liverpool goal

AnfieldRed-Admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:46:48 +0000

Liverpool are beating Portsmouth 3-0 at Half time at Anfield, with Alberto Aquilani scoring his first goal in a red shirt. In a quiet Anfield, Torres, Babel and Aquilani have found the back of the net; while in reality Liverpool could be 5 or 6 up. Liverpool have been the far better side, playing some nice [...]

Liverpool v. Porstmouth 15.03.10 Preview

russell — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:08:56 +0000

With nine games remaining in the Premier League season and our Champions League aspirations hanging by a bloody thread, now would be as good a time as ever for the club to make a big move. After sleepwalking during the week against Lille, it would make sense for Rafa to consider some wholesale changes in [...]

New York-based management firm vies for stake in Liverpool

russell — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:06:05 +0000

George Gillett and Tom Hicks have been swimming upstream for some time now. Ever since The Royal Bank of Scotland issued an ultimatum on the American owners’ £237 million debt — the currently government-controlled bank made it clear the massive debt needed to be paid down by July if they wanted to refinance their [...]

Now if only that ‘V’ stood for ‘victory’…

russell — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:43:34 +0000

Steven Gerrard’s ‘v’-antics appears to be a bigger story than last night’s humbling loss to Wigan. And why not? I mean, it’s not like Liverpool lost a match to a club that defeated a ‘big four’ side for only the second time in their history. Oh, right. That should probably rate as the bigger [...]

Monster Cash! Liverpool prepared to offer Mascherano new deal

russell — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:10:08 +0000

Barring a significant setback to this season (read: not making the Champions League next season), it looks like it could be all systems go for a new deal for midfielder Javier Mascherano. ESPN is reporting that the club is ready to offer the Argentine a new contract to keep Barcelona at bay. We’ll see what happens, [...]

Here we go again: Torres to feature in Spain friendly

russell — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:23:46 +0000

Get out your rosary beads and start making your usual sacrifices to the football gods, because if you’re as mad about Liverpool football as I am, you know how maddening this week can be. International friendlies. If there’s a football match many of us absolutely cannot stand to watch, it’s this one. Having to [...]

How did this face shove by Nzonzi go unnoticed?

AnfieldRed-Admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:55:25 +0000

Fat headed Sam Allardyce claimed the Anfield crowd influenced decisions from the ref in the tie between Liverpool and Blackburn at the weekend; yet he clearly forgot to mention this shove from Nzonzi. This should have been a straight red; yet he remained on the pitch; although fat Sam still come out with this gem: They [...]

Liverpool 2-1 Blackburn

AnfieldRed-Admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:40:54 +0000

Liverpool beat Blackburn Rovers 2-1 at Anfield, with Fernando Torres and Stevie Gerrard getting the goals for Rafa’s side. Torres returned to the starting line up to score his 13th goal of the season, tapping in a Maxi Rodriguez cross after Lucas played a pass through to Torres which was cut out. Keith Andrews bagged a penalty [...]

Skrtel and Agger injury updates

AnfieldRed-Admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:32:05 +0000

Martin Skrtel and Daniel Agger both picked up injuries recently; and the club have now given updates as to where both defenders are at in their recovery. Skrtel broke a metatarsal in his right foot in the game against Unirea last week,and is expected to be out for 8 weeks. Daniel Agger suffered severe bruising to [...]