Steven Gerrard described the criticism directed at Andy Carroll this season as 'nonsense' after the striker scored Liverpool's winning goal against Everton.
Carroll's performances have been closely scrutinized since he made the move to Anfield from Newcastle for £35million, but he has always been stoutly defended by manager Kenny Dalglish.

Steven Gerrard described the criticism directed at Andy Carroll this season as 'nonsense' after the striker scored Liverpool's winning goal against Everton.
Carroll's performances have been closely scrutinized since he made the move to Anfield from Newcastle for £35million, but he has always been stoutly defended by manager Kenny Dalglish.

Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher believes this weekend's FA Cup semi-final with Everton is evenly balanced.
Everton go into the game as the team in form having won four of their last five games, while Liverpool have lost three of their last five outings.
David Moyes' side arguably goes into the Wembley showdown as favourites, but Carragher insists there are no favourites when the two local rivals lock horns.

The Hillsborough Justice Campaign have announced they are to follow up their campaign that saw 25,000 posters distributed at the Carling Cup Final with another 30,000 Don't Buy The Sun posters for the FA Cup semi-final against neighbours Everton at Wembley.
The match takes place on the eve of the 23rd anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster, and resulting boycott of the ‘newspaper' since.

Scottish Premier League side St. Mirren FC has unveiled its 2012/13 third kit from new technical sponsor Diadora. The striped jersey is also St. Mirren's 135th Anniversary shirt. According to...

It's probably the worst kept secret in Indonesian football. After heading to Bandung, ostensibly to play golf, Noh Alam Shah has signed for Persib Bandung! His signing coincided with the club's celebrations marking their 79th anniversary.
NAS, also known as Ah Long, had been a free agent since he left Arema IPL earlier in the year.

Regular readers will know that my heart in Football ( Soccer ) matters is with Atletico de Madrid. However, here there is no fanatical devotion with the only solid support being to Sports, all Spanish Football & the fans around the World. Many millions of those mentioned fans & daily readers of Spanish Football Sports Blog are supporters of Real Madrid.

Mail: Martin Skrtel prepares for Carling Cup match Manchester City Liverpool

Martin Skrtel remembers his first month at Anfield with great clarity. It is four years to the day since the Slovakian moved to Merseyside and there could be no better way to mark that anniversary than by helping Liverpool towards Wembley.

Mail: Kenny Dalglish on one year Liverpool return anniversary

Kenny Dalglish has had an eventful year as Liverpool manager, but would not change anything about the last 12 months including his stance of support for race-row striker Luis Suarez.

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Brilliant retro Liverpool pictures: Ian Rush's Reds career celebrated on the anniversary of his Anfield debut

On this day in 1980 Ian Rush made his Reds debut click the arrows to see memorable photos of Rushie's career

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Today is the first anniversary of Alan Pardew becoming manager of Newcastle United. Alan Pardew excellent job over the past year Last year on this date, which fell on a Thursday, Alan was giving his first interview to the local press, and he came across very well indeed. Alan had come on board after popular manager Chris Hughton had been unfairly sacked, but since then he's taken Newcastle up to 3rd place [.

By Chris Wright

FIFA have announced their three-man Ballon d'Or shortlist this morning, and it's crushingly predictable fare: Lionel Messi (the 5th time he's made the 'final three' in five years), Xavi (3rd time in 3 years) and Cristiano Ronaldo (4th time in five years).

Some Pub lunch!No idea who the guy in the middle is,but the one on the far right is Greg Meyer. Greg tucks in at A Kent Pub with a fork in one hand and a lap-top in the other to celebrate both the anniversary of the birth of General George Custer who died at the Battle of the Little Bighorn as well as yet another famous Spurs victory over Bolton at White Hart Lane.

By Liam "Wrestlemania" Brown Upon the anniversary of Martin Edwards changing the history of Manchester United the internet has been awash with "Fergie's Greatest Xi" and "Fergie's...
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Premier League round-up: Fergie marks anniversary with win

Man United, Chelsea, Aston Villa and Arsenal win. Liverpool limp to goalless draw against Swansea

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John Henry admits he was won round by Kenny Dalglish after initially wanting to appoint a younger manager in the Liverpool FC hotseat.
Saturday marked the anniversary of Fenway Sports Group's protracted £300million LFC takeover that banished Tom Hicks and George Gillett from the club.
One of Henry's first decisions as principal owner was to install Dalglish in place of deposed manager Roy Hodgson on a temporary basis in January until the end of last season.

Back in Serie A after a one year absence, Atalanta BC is currently in 16th place in the league after five matches played. The club will celebrate its 104th anniversary this weekend. In recognition of the occasion Atalanta has launched a special edition of its Errea 2011/12 home jersey to be used in its October [.

Mexican giant Club de Fútbol América (commonly called Club América or Club America) has launched its limited edition 95th Anniversary Nike jersey. The new Águilas kit will be worn by Las Aguilas (The Eagles) when they face arch-rivals Chivas on October 23rd in the Super Clásico at the fabled Estadio Azteca.

Henry: I knew virtually nothing about Liverpool when I bought the club

US tycoon comes clean as first anniversary of takeover nears

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Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre reveals club was on brink of administration

This week marks the first anniversary of the club's parting with reviled owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett, whose tenure could have ended in disaster for the Reds

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Liverpool were "on the brink" and could have gone bust under Hicks and Gillett

MD Ian Ayre makes shock revelation on the anniversary of FSG takeover

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Winning, as successful managers are wont to say at moments of extreme hubris, is a habit. If there is anything to this theory and whether we should be taking what managers say during times of success at face value is, of course, a matter for conjecture in itself then we can probably assume that losing can become a habit, and there are few clubs that have developed as much of a habit over the course of 2011 as Lincoln City.

September 1996 marked the arrival of the man who changed English football forever, all the science and technology that surrounds every club these days is 100% down to Wenger's original ideas and methods.

Fergie may have more silverware.... but he has not implemented and introduced methods which the entire league have picked up and copied.

The legendary Bill Shankly passed away on this day 30 years ago. He will forever be remembered as the man that transformed Liverpool Football Club into the "bastion of invincibility" it eventually became, conquering all of Europe and being feared by all.

It is perhaps fitting that his anniversary comes just before the weekend of the Merseyside derby.

BBC make a drama of 2018 World Cup bid crisis Charles Sale

England's doomed bid to host the 2018 World Cup will become the centre of controversy again when BBC Radio Four broadcast a drama about the failed campaign around the first anniversary of the vote in December.

In this post, on the anniversary of "cut me a cheque", former Red Dwayne de Rosario makes a bid for the MLS MVP Award and why I feel that this should not give any TFC supporter reason to doubt that he still had to leave Toronto.
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Spanish Football Today is exactly 1 year ago when SPANISH FOOTBALL reached its highest level in World Football & Sports history, recognition, prestige & winning its first ever FIFA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP. The SPAIN FOOTBALL NATIONAL TEAM defeated 1 - 0 HOLLAND in the FIFA WORLD CUP Final in SOUTH AFRICA thanks to the ANDRES INIESTA extra-time (116 min) goal the 11th of June 2010.

With the 2010-2011 season all wrapped up, reflecting on days gone by has been the trend. Today that trend extends a bit further back, as we celebrate the anniversary of Liverpool's victory over Milan in Istanbul and their fifth European Cup.

There's obviously plenty that's changed in the six years that have passed, and in some ways looking back can be more of a painful reminder of what's not present.

257th Anniversary Of The Publication Of "Join, or Die"

On this date in 1754, the "Join, or Die" editorial cartoon was published. (h/t to @robness13)

Fifty years ago, the Double was won in the Spurs way, as Bill Nicholson's team won the league and FA Cup playing beautiful passing football. To commemorate the anniversary of this achievement, our friends at Philosophy Football have released a superb T-shirt featuring the Tottenham Hotspur Double squad and the pair of trophies.

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The new home shirt features a bespoke crest to highlight the proud origins of the Club 125 years ago.

Founded in Woolwich in 1886 and called The Royal Arsenal, the celebratory design features 15 laurel leaves to the left side of the Club's crest to reflect the detail on the reverse of the six pence pieces paid by 15 men to establish the Club – the laurel leaves also represent strength.

Penarol fans are apparently overachievers, which is quite nice to look at and quite the process for what is merely something typically stuck on a pole. In honor of their club's 120th anniversary, they created the largest sports flag in history. And it's both huge and hugely impressive.

With my wife and I celebrating our anniversary for a few days, there's been plenty of Timbers news around before the home opener so I provide some recaps to the big events. I'm pleased about the improved play and the potential for something special when the team opens JELD-WEN Field on April 14 for their first ever MLS home match.

Ian's actual match ticket for the Leppings Lane end... For this year's Hillsborough anniversary i am proud to say that i have paired up with Ian from PassionatelyRED (@Ian_LFC) to make a blog post. At this surely emotional time i would like to thank Ian for bringing up this idea and helping me make a post which will hopefully reach a few people and help educate them about the disaster.

Clube Atlético Paranaense is a Brazilian football team from Curitiba in Paraná that currently campaigns in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. The club was league champion in 2001 and finished the 2010 season in an impressive 5th place. Atlético Paranaense celebrated its 87th Anniversary this past weekend with the launch of a special edition Umbro commemorative [.

Argentines Abroad is up late this week in honour of an infamous anniversary; it's twenty years today since Diego Maradona played his final match for Napoli, failing a doping test after the game. Napoli's current Argentine star, Ezequiel Lavezzi, scored ... Continue reading →

Roma won la stracittadina and kept up a sequence that has seen Lazio fail to win as the away side since 1998, a failure that may well derail their season at a crucial point.
Roma win and Totti marks an anniversary – but is Lazio's season over?

This Saturday marks another special anniversary for Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho. It is nine years since one of the four teams he has managed since 2002 - Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real - lost a league match at home.

The last time the self-styled "Special One" experienced a league defeat with a side that he coached was on 23 February, 2002, when Porto were beaten 3-2 by Beira Mar.

By Azeem Banatwalla, writing from Bombay, India

The title of this post may sound like a guide on how to deal with a bad break-up, but that isn't what it's about. Well, mostly.

Last weekend's madness, and that's putting it mildly, will most likely have had a massive psychological impact on each of the Premier League's top six, and I believe that their reactions to the weekend's events, in particular, could shape the course of the remainder of this season.

Over the weekend this little site turned 4 years old.

I nearly forgot about it and last year I totally skipped over it. What can I say I'm getting older and birthdays are hard to remember for my family members much less a blog on the internet.

Anyways, I wanted to thank all of you who've helped push me this far.