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A premiership news blog with recent happenings in the world of English Football.Also covers multimedia aspect of the game.New features like transfer gossip to be added soon.
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Notable January Transfers
January transfer window has been pretty dull this time around with nothing major happening or any big money moves happening. The “big four” have stayed away from the splashing the cash. There have been many transfers in England but the n...
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Champions League night-out
Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea were back in action in Europe to take on Debrecen, Standard Liege, Besiktas and Porto respectively. Manchester United were already through and were going to field a lineup of youngsters at Old Trafford....
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Liverpool players HATE beach ball!
Liverpool lost to Sunderland yesterday in a bizarre fashion after Darren Bent’s effort deflected off of a beach ball thrown onto the pitch. Now some people say it should be a goal and some say it shouldn’t be a goal. That’s debatabl...
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Video – Zizou is on the ‘Ultimate Search’
Zinedine Zidane has been on the search for ultimate talent to include in this team. Getting into that list would be a huge accolade for any player. Although, these are not handpicked by Zizou himself but by people at Adidas who make superb commercial...
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Funny : Virgin Trains ridicule Robbie Keane
Robbie Keane Robbie Keane had a less than memorable time when he joined his childhood favourite club Liverpool from Spurs in 2008. He lasted at the Merseyside club for only a single season and missed two million chances in that time frame. Later he ...
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Monday's Newspaper Roundup
Sunderland to target Spurs' Alan Hutton in January (Daily Mirror) What I Think? : It would be a great signing for Sunderland if it does happen. He's finally emerging from being on the sidelines due to an injury but Harry Redknapp has players comin...
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Alonso joins Madrid..finally!
Liverpool have finally sold Xabi Alonso to Real Madrid for a fee of nearly £30million. Real Madrid had earlier claimed they would pull out of the deal if Liverpool asked for more than £25million, however that seems to have not been the case in the ...
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Tuesday's Transfer Gossip
Not everything in the paper can be believed,right? So why not try to distinguish the "Oh yeah that might be true!" from "What crap!".Lescott himself asks for a transfer to Manchester City (Daily Star)What we Think? : With Swiss FA agreeing that Phili...
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Liverpool sign Mavinga
Liverpool have signed young French starlet Chris Mavinga from Paris Saint-Germain and extended the contract for Nabil El-Zhar.Mavinga is a left back who has very little professional experience in the league.This could be seen as Rafa's strategy to im...
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Pennant joins Zaragoza
Liverpool's out of contract player, Jermaine Pennant has joined La Liga new boys Real Zaragoza on a free transfer.The player was out of contract at the end of June after spending the latter half of 2008-09 season on loan with Portsmouth.He played for...
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Gerrard extends Liverpool contract
After agreeing to a contract extension back in April on a verbal basis, Steven Gerrard has put pen to paper to stay with the club until 2013.The player returned to the club from his summer holiday for training and officially secured his future and se...
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Benayoun extends contract at Liverpool
Liverpool's Yossi Benayoun has extended his contract with the Merseyside club until 2013.Benayoun whose previously signed contract was to expire in 2011 has now extended it further by two years.Benayoun arrived at Anfield from West Ham in July 2007 a...
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Liverpool sell Leto to Panathinaikos
Liverpool have decided to offload Argentine Sebastian Leto and Panathinaikos have swooped in to make a permanent signing.The player arrived in 2007 from Lanus in Argentina but except for very few apperances in Champions league qualifier and League cu...
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Johnson signs for Liverpool
Portsmouth's Glen Johnson has snubbed Chelsea's fat salary to sign for Liverpool.Both Chelsea and Liverpool were trying to sign the English defender from Fratton Park based Portsmouth.Portsmouth had agreed to the £17.5million fee for him and allowed...
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Friday's Transfer Gossip
Not everything in the paper can be believed,right? So why not try to distinguish the "Oh yeah that might be true!" from "What crap!".Manchester United,Chelsea,Real Madrid,Inter Milan make bids for Lyon's striker - Karim Benzema [The Independent]What ...
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Real Madrid - Galactico Era Part II
With summer comes the transfer speculation and some other baseless and senseless rumours which actually make for great entertainment if you're a fiction lover. Real Madrid had a shockingly disappointing season with yet another loss in the last 16 of ...
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Torres improves deal with Liverpool
Liverpool have extended the contract with their star striker, Fernando Torres which would keep him with the Merseysiders till at least 2013."El Nino" has had emphatic two years since his arrival from Atletico Madrid as he completed 50 goals in the la...
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Hyypia heading to Leverkusen
Liverpool's veteran defender,Sami Hyypia is moving to Bayer Leverkusen at the end of the season.Reds purchased the Finn for a meager 2.5million pounds from Dutch side Willem II in 1999.The player has won every medal possible.He helped Liverpool to a ...
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Agger signs new deal
Liverpool's Daniel Agger has ended speculation regarding his future at Anfield by signing a deal to keep him until 2014.The center back was in the news with a possible oust at the end of the season but positive reports emerged when he held talks with...
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Indian group GMR eyes Liverpool
After Sahara India were in talks with sponsoring Manchester United jerseys,another Indian conglomerate GMR Group has emerged as contenders for a stake in Liverpool.GMR group currently owns Indian Premier League cricket club Delhi Daredevils.They now ...
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Itandje apologises for bad behaviour
Liverpool's French goalkeeper,Charles Itandje has apologised for his behaviour during the Hillsborough memorial service.The player was spotted laughing in the process of the service by television cameras.This didn't go down well with the Liverpool fa...
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Voronin to return to Anfield
Liverpool's on loan striker Andriy Voronin looks set to return to Liverpool at the end of the season.The Ukrainian player was on loan to Hertha Berlin in the Bundesliga for the whole season where he has scored 11 goals from 20 appearances.The Berlin ...
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Liverpool leave it late for the win
Injury time Yossi Benayoun goal took Liverpool to the top of the Barclays Premiership table.Liverpool had been on a run of classic wins over bitter rivals, Manchester United and Aston Villa when they faced Fulham at Craven Cottage.Fulham had started ...
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Liverpool Day!
After Kuyt and Gerrard extended their contracts by two years,along came the awards.Liverpool duo of Rafa Benitez and Steven Gerrard have been named Manager and Player of the month of March,respectively.This is Gerrard's fifth player of the month awar...
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..Kuyt extends contract too
Liverpool fans had a fabulous day.After Gerrard extending his contract with the Anfield club its the turn of Dutchman,Dirk Kuyt.Kuyt has agreed to pen a two year contract extension which would keep him with Liverpool till 2012.He already had one year...
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Gerrard extends Liverpool contract
Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has agreed to a two year contract extension with the Mersey siders.This would keep the talismatic midfielder with Liverpool until 2013.Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez had this to say on the clubs official website :"Ste...
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Benitez : I could have quit
Liverpool boos Rafael Benitez considered quitting the Merseyside club before he eventually signed the deal.The main concern for the Spaniard was the future of the club in the hands of American tycoons Tom Hicks and George Gillett.The former Valencia ...
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Benitez says Liverpool won't sign Silva
Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez put the rumours linking Valencia's attacking midfielder to Anfield to rest.Throughout the week there had been speculation that the 23 year old Spaniard would add to Rafa's "Spanish Armada".Valencia have finally succumbed t...
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Sir Alex to quit if they win title : Son
Sir Alex Ferguson's son,Darren Ferguson has claimed the Scot could step down if they win the Premiership title.Sir Alex has been at Manchester United since 1986 and has brought numerous titles to add to the Red Devil's trophy cabinet.He had done a u-...
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Brad Friedel red card rescinded
The red card handed out to Brad Friedel over the weekend has been overturned.Brad Friedel was adjudged to have brought down Fernando Torres in Aston Villa's 5-0 drubbing at Anfield.Torres was charging towards the goal when Friedel brought the Spanish...
