Currently in sixth place in the 2011/12 Italian Serie A table and into the Round of 16 of the
Champions League, SSC Napoli is enjoying its most successful period since its glory days of the
1980s. The team from the south of Italy will meet Chelsea FC in a home and away series in [...]
Kenny Dalglish is one of Liverpool's most successful managers, and is one of only three managers to
win the league with two different teams. Liverpool fans would almost certainly argue that the King
is a World Class manager, but former Leicester City and Blackburn Rovers midfielder Robbie Savage
is not so sure.
Guest blog: Deputy PM Nick Clegg backs the Mirror's Open Goal campaign for racial
equality in football
When it comes to racial equality, football's progress is very similar to Britain's. Like the
country, the game has come a long way in Âtackling racism in the last 30 years.
Ian Rush played alongside Kenny Dalglish in the 1980s, and was later worked under him during the
King's first spell in charge at Anfield. Clearly, Rushie is in a unique position to know exactly
what Kenny brings to the club.
Rush, who doesn't appear to have any management ambitions of his own, is happy to see that one of
Liverpool's key principles is being upheld:
"What Kenny brings to the club is the thought that no one is bigger than the team, but he does that
without hurting any of the players' sentiments".
After Tottenham's controversial defeat against Stoke City last Sunday, it has been reported that
hundreds if not thousands of Tottenham supporters have been and continue to send obscene tweets to
Sir Chris Hoy. It appears there seems to be a literacy problem among some of the Tottenham
supporters.
I promised you a look back at the Dutch presence at Euros in the past, right? We feel the 1988
tournament was the only one that that ever counted, right? It's indeed strange how in the 1970s and
early 1980s Holland couldn't make an impression in Europe. While Ajax, Feyenoord, [read more]