Articles tagged with "rafa-benitez"
As Your World Turns: The Soap Operas
By chris | January 2nd, 2008It happens every single transfer window. One of more potential transfers begin to turn into a soap opera, and it leaves the rest of the ...
Transfer Talk: Wenger - "I'm unhappy that he is unhappy and we will try to make him happy"
By Daryl | December 18th, 2007I love of the smell of transfer rumours in the morning. Smells like... well, actually it smells like things that probably won't happen. But if ...
Technique (and luck) trumps tactics
By ed | December 16th, 2007That was...infuriating. Rafa clearly had the game plan to beat Man Utd today. The team had been well briefed and everyone did what was asked ...
Liverpool vs. Manchester Utd Preview
By ed | December 14th, 2007Last night, Liverpool beat Manchester Utd 1-0 at Anfield. Jermaine Pennant slotted home a 25 yard free-kick from just to the left of the "D" ...
10 Things We Learned in the Premier League: Turkish Delight
By Daryl | December 10th, 2007The Premier League's not just for staring at, it can be educational too. Read on to find out why Gareth Southgate is grinning like a ...
Manager vs Owners: Who will win
By ed | November 26th, 2007If you work, as I do, in a big company, you know two things. One, that shit rolls downhill and two, never pick a fight ...
Nothing Important Happening At Anfield
By ed | November 26th, 2007...which is why there've been a lack in posts. My bad guys; my bad. Solid win over the Toon over the weekend. My wife managed to ...
Benitez Has Found Himself a New Steven Gerrard
By Daryl | November 26th, 2007Rafa Benitez threw a press conference tantrum recently when Liverpool's owners told him to pipe down about spending all their money on new players. Work ...
Transcript of Benitez's Brilliant Press Conference Tantrum
By Daryl | November 23rd, 2007Rafa Benitez may be a magician, but he can't magic money out of thin air. So when Liverpool owners George Gillett and Tom Hicks refused ...
England's National Team: A Rant
By Matthew | November 15th, 2007I know this isn't about Leeds, but hell, I'm angry. What planet is Steven Gerrard on? The England captain (in the absence of John Terry) ...
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 ...
What Does Peter Crouch Have to Do?
By Daryl | November 3rd, 2007There's a growing feeling that Rafa Benitez needs to ditch Dirk Kuyt and kiss and make up with Peter Crouch. Kuyt is horribly out of ...
Arsenal and Liverpool Remain Unbeaten, Fox Soccer Channel Confused
By Daryl | October 28th, 2007"Well Arsenal's 12 game unbeaten streak in all competitions is over," said that strange voice that cuts into Fox Soccer Channel's Premier League broadcasts at ...
Ten Things We Learned from The Premiership This Week 09.30.07
By Daryl | September 30th, 2007This week's Premiership goings on lacked the drama and intrigue of last week, but that's probably a good thing. The ins and outs at Stamford ...
Benitez: Nice Guys Finish Last?
By ed | September 25th, 2007Over on the always excellent This is Anfield, Neale Graham has a really long, very thoughtful post on Benitez's potential legacy, should he leave today. Neale ...
Ten Things We Learned From the Premiership This Week 09.23.07
By Daryl | September 23rd, 2007Big spending in the summer may have made the Premiership a little more open, but now a certain Russian billionaire's dissatisfaction with big spending will ...
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 ...
The six biggest surprises so far as the transfer window closes
By Brian | August 31st, 20076. Crouch wasn't sold Okay, so this isn't much of a surprise as Rafa has said again and again that Crouchy isn't going anywhere. I ...
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. ...
We've drawn FC Porto, Marseille, & Beşiktaş J.K. for the CL
By Brian | August 30th, 2007Not a bad draw and I don't foresee us having many problems advancing to tell you the truth. FC Porto worries me a little ...
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 1, Toulouse 0: halftime thoughts
By Brian | August 28th, 2007Wow, after the first leg, I don't think anyone could have predicted such an entertaining first half. It hasn't exactly been good football, but ...
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. ...
Anfield Banter: LFC = class, Julio Baptista, Adios, Kewell?, & God to debut
By Brian | August 28th, 2007* In a tribute to their rival's 11-year-old fallen fan, Liverpool will play the Everton anthem "Johnny Todd" prior to their Champions' League clash with ...
Chelsea 1-0 Portsmouth
By Andy | August 26th, 2007Top of the League, first clean sheet of the season and Frank scores his third goal in a week. COME ON THE CHELS!! I walked out ...
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.
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