

Articles tagged with "ryan-babel"
Ryan Babel Is the New John Barnes
By Daryl | September 30th, 2008Laurie already brought this to everyone's attention in the Daily Dose, but I just couldn't resist posting the video. It's Liverpool's Ryan Babel doing some freestyle ...
Good Week/Bad Week
By Rob | September 13th, 2008And so we arrive in our Saturday night slot, where I take a look at the day's football, and let you Offsiders know who has ...
Benitez Finally Gets a Premier League Win Over Man Utd
By Daryl | September 13th, 2008It's been a long time coming but Liverpool finally beat Man Utd at Anfield today for the first time since 2001. And for Rafa Benitez ...
Oh Yes, Even Liverpool Can Be Victims of Sub-prime Loans
By Inara | April 20th, 2008In the latest twist to the ongoing soap opera at Liverpool Football Club, it turns out that the mounting debts brought on by Tom Hicks ...
Bolton 1 - 3 LFC
By CSD | March 2nd, 2008Boo-Ya! Every once in a while The Crystal Ball is wrong--OK, every time, but thankfully it was wrong in a good way today. ...
Liverpool through in style.
By ed | December 12th, 2007Wow, that was some result. Needing a win in the uber-hostile atmosphere at l'Olympic Marseille to get into the lucrative last 16 of the Champions ...
Liverpool clinical; Anelka profligate | Liverpool 4 - Bolton 0
By ed | December 2nd, 2007In the end, Liverpool cruised to their fifth straight win and scored their 21st goal since that dour 0-0 draw away to Blackburn. But it ...
Rafa Benitez Puts the Brakes on Rotation
By Daryl | November 10th, 2007Rafa Benitez finally ended the seemingly endless squad rotation at Liverpool today, picking the same eleven against Fulham that demolished Beşiktaş 8-0 in midweek. The ...
Blackburn 0 - Liverpool 0
By ed | November 3rd, 2007Another game, another draw, another frustrated 90 mins. Blackburn utterly dominated the first half and we looked like my Friday nights 6 aside team. There was ...
International Round-Up
By Stop. | September 8th, 2007Well, today is the day plenty of Liverpool fans will dread. Frankly, the thought that one of our first-teamers could pick up an injury whilst ...
Pennant for England? Maybe not...
By Stop. | September 5th, 2007Yes. Hello Again. Well, Ed and I have decided to alternate posts to every other day so I don't trip over him on the stairs. ...
Xabi should have had a hat-trick
By Brian | September 1st, 2007Did you expect me to be optimistic about our 6-0 thrashing of Derby County today? Okay, so I'm a little pleased. Okay, so ...
Liverpool vs Derby County: What will Rafa do?
By Brian | August 31st, 2007Broken record alert: Stevie-G and Carra are out for this one. God I hope this means Gerrard sits out the England qualifying matches. ...
Liverpool 4, Toulouse 0
By Brian | August 28th, 2007I'm not sure whether I should try to watch this match again, the final score almost says it all though it could have been worse ...
Liverpool vs Toulouse II: the line-up
By Brian | August 28th, 2007Leto to start!!! Now I'm freakin' pumped for a match I was otherwise dreading. If Leto plays as well as he did in the ...
Liverpool vs Toulouse II: What will Rafa do?
By Brian | August 28th, 2007Apparently both teams will be missing their respective captains as well as other key players, but this being at Anfield and Liverpool being clearly the ...
Liverpool 2, Sunderland 0: Player grades
By Brian | August 28th, 2007Pepe Reina C Didn't really have to do much. Didn't get bored and have his ADD affect his performance which is always a good thing. ...
Liverpool 2, Sunderland 0
By Brian | August 25th, 2007Same old story, different result. The final tally in this match should have been much, much worse as our finishing looked a lot like ...
Liverpool 1, Sunderland 0: halftime thoughts
By Brian | August 25th, 2007Congrats to Momo Sissoko who scored his first career goal for Liverpool today. Maybe now this will give him the confidence to be more ...
Liverpool vs Sunderland: the line-up
By Brian | August 25th, 2007Reina Arbeloa Hyypia Carragher Finnan Babel Alonso Sissoko Pennant Voronin Torres Subs: Itandje Agger Riise Kuyt Mascherano No real surprises except for maybe Hyypia for Agger. I sort of expect Agger to come in for the second half.
Kuyt's goal versus Switzerland
By Brian | August 23rd, 2007Dirk Kuyt is set up by fellow Red, Ryan Babel, on a cross, as he scores the only goal for Holland in their 2-1 defeat ...
International hangover: No Gerrard & no Carra = no win for England
By Brian | August 23rd, 2007I can only laugh. As much as most fellow England fans take any chance to slag off on the scousers, we certainly needed them ...
Liverpool vs Mickey Mouse FC: What will Rafa do?
By Brian | August 17th, 2007I doubt I'll get around to doing this tomorrow so I might as well get it out of the way. First and foremost, the ...
Liverpool 1, Toulouse 0: Final thoughts
By Brian | August 17th, 2007Well, I finally got to watch this match again and despite pausing it on multiple occasions due to tedium and letting my cloud like attention ...
Liverpool 1, Toulouse 0
By Brian | August 15th, 2007I didn't get to see the whole match, so I'm going to put myself to sleep watching it later tonight. It was dreadfully boring ...
Liverpool vs Toulouse: the starting line-up
By Brian | August 15th, 2007Reina Finnan Carragher Hyypia Arbeloa Benayoun Gerrard Mascherano Babel Voronin Crouch Subs: Itandje Agger Riise Torres Alonso Kuyt Sissoko Good to see Mascherano out there. The only surprise for me is Hyypia over Agger, hopefu
Liverpool vs Toulouse: What will Rafa do?
By Brian | August 14th, 2007Well, Jermaine Pennant and Harry Kewell will definitely not be in the line-up, that's for sure. JP was given a rest and Harry Kewell ...
Liverpool 2, Aston Villa 1: final observations
By Brian | August 14th, 2007A friend of mine recorded this match for me, so I got to watch it again last night and a few things stood out to ...
Liverpool vs Aston Villa: starting line-up
By Brian | August 11th, 2007Here it is: Pepe Reina Alvaro Arbeloa Jamie Carragher Daniel Agger Steve Finnan John Arne Riise Steven Gerrard Xabi Alonso Jermaine Pennant Dirk Kuyt Fernando Torres Subs: Charles Itandje Sami Hyypia Andriy Voronin Ryan Babel Momo Sisso
Top 5 preseason players
By Brian | August 7th, 20075. Xabi Alonso - seemed to already be in mid-season form, making fantastic passes and being an all-round menace on the pitch. 4. Dirk Kuyt - ...








