The term ‘Landmark Agreement' is sorely overused but Tuesday's High County judgement to promote
Tottenham Hotspur into the Champions League qualifying stages at the expense of Everton has
resonated throughout the game. Pity the poor Toffees, also at the heart of a legal wrangle back in
2005 that saw their Merseyside neighbours Liverpool favoured ahead of them after winning the
previous season's trophy.
ESPN understands that Liverpool will only consider an offer of £25 million for Denmark
international Daniel Agger, who has been targeted by Premier League champions Manchester City.
Liverpool sources have confirmed that City has made approaches over Agger, 27, but that the two
sides are some way apart in their valuation of the player, who has two years left on his contract.
Manchester City and AC Milan in Carlos Tevez talks, What the back pages say
Manchester City have held fresh talks with Milan to try to reach a compromise that will allow
the Premier League leaders to remove Carlos Tevez from their payroll.
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Once again, the giant globe-spanning Illuminati conspiracy established to keep Liverpool from
'having their year' has come into effect and has demanded that the FA ban the club's most effective
player this season for the next eight games and fined a week's wages just for openly and admittedly
calling a black man a 'negro' a few times during a game of football.
Once again, the giant globe-spanning Illuminati conspiracy established to keep Liverpool from
'having their year' has come into effect and has demanded that the FA ban the club's most effective
player this season for the next eight games and fined a week's wages just for openly and admittedly
calling a black man a 'negro' a few times during a game of football.
Well Luis Suarez has been found guilty of Racism by the FA and banned for 8 matches and given a
£40,000 fine. Liverpool have appealed this so he should be free to face Wigan in tonight's
match.
"Today (Tuesday) is a very difficult and painful day for both me and my family. Thanks for all
the support, I'll keep working!
Official Liverpool Statement
Liverpool Football Club is very surprised and disappointed with the decision of the Football
Association Commission to find Luis Suarez guilty of the charges against him.
We look forward to the publication of the Commission's Judgment. We will study the detailed reasons
of the Commission once they become available, but reserve our right to appeal or take any other
course of action we feel appropriate with regards to this situation.
• Club are 'very surprised and disappointed' • Statement: 'Luis Suárez is innocent'
Liverpool FC is very surprised and disappointed with the decision of the FA commission to find Luis
Suárez guilty of the charges against him.
Liverpool Football Club have issued a statement about Luis Suarez
Liverpool Football Club and the Montgomery City Bus Company are is very surprised and disappointed
with the decision of the Football Association commission to find Luis Suarez and James F. Blake
guilty of the charges against them.
Update: Liverpool has responded. They're not happy.
LFC considers racism in any form to be unacceptable without compromise. It is our strong held
belief, having gone over the facts of the case, that Luis Suarez did not commit any racist act. It
is also our opinion that the accusation by this particular player was not credible certainly no
more credible than his prior unfounded accusations.
IT'S that time of year again: the Christmas tree is up or at least threatening to be, the snow
is falling or at least threatening to, and the streets are packed with frantic shoppers threatening
to do things to the next person to get in their way as they search frantically for the ideal
pressie for their loved ones, never quite sure if the loved one in question already has that
particular one anyway.
What are the odds an England player involves a poppy in a goal celebration? Derek
McGovern's Bets of the Day
The easiest way to end the big poppy row would surely have been to bribe FIFA into letting
England wear them. FIFA's heavy-handedness in banning the poppy from England shirts led to fears
earlier this week that Saturday's England v Spain game would be called off.
The names of two goalkeepers feature heavily this morning and while some papers are suggesting
that Spurs will make an improved bid for French international Hugo Lloris, others are claiming that
any approach for Jack Butland will be rebuffed.
Some papers were suggesting that Tottenham were going in for both Lloris and Butland in an
attempt to overhaul their ageing keeper list at the club.
Carlos Tevez was told by Roberto Mancini he would never play for Manchester City again. Carlos
Tevez told Manchester City he never wanted anything to do with the club again. This week Carlos
Tevez is going to return to Manchester City and within a couple of weeks, after fitness training,
Carlos Tevez will be pulling on the blue Manchester City shirt all over again.
Two Arsenal fans have been banned from football matches for an altercation with police at the
Emirates which was prompted by the fact they were standing during the game.
It is fair to say there was more to the incident at the home game against Manchester United than
simply the fact that they wouldn't sit down and you can read a full report here.
Two Arsenal fans have been banned from football matches for an altercation with police at the
Emirates which was prompted by the fact they were standing during the game.
It is fair to say there was more to the incident at the home game against Manchester United than
simply the fact that they wouldn't sit down and you can read a full report here.
Arsenal could be set to join Aston Villa and their Villa Park plan to introduce a safe-standing
area by replicating the scheme at the Emirates.
Villa will put forward their suggestion at a meeting of the Premier League later this season.
And if given the go-ahead, the club hope to have the safe standing zone in place in the Holte End
by the 2013/14 season.
I have a dream fellow Gooners. Well, in truth, I have several dreams. But I'll leave the one
involves Robbie Savage's testicles and a set of vinegar soaked razor blades for another time. I
dream that one day, international football will jump back into its bloody box and quit its
persistent interruptions in the club season.
It is one of the most commonly recurring stories of modern football. Should Celtic and Rangers
be allowed to leave the Scottish league system and join the English football league system instead?
It's an emotive subject, for sure, and it's one that seems to divide both supporters and
administrators, with the only people that are certain of which way they would like to go being
those that run Glasgow's two giant clubs, who would like to utilise the vaster resources that would
be open to them as a result of being in the more lucrative English system than they would get from
remaining in England.
Imagine a bad breakup with someone you shouldn't have hooked up with in the first place, someone
who seemed perfect for you but who belittled you to your friends, was a slob, didn't pay their half
of the rent and utilities and criticized your sexual performance. Now imagine having to have that
person spend one weekend a month at your house for the next two years.
Women's Professional Soccer is awaiting a decision from the US Soccer Federation regarding its
future as a USSF sanctioned league. WPS now consists of five teams after the league terminated its
relationship with magicJack and its controversial owner Dan Borislow. Â Borislow is currently
engaged in litigation with WPS.
Aston Villa manager Alex McLeish has called on his side to be more ruthless in front of goal
this weekend when they take on a confident Norwich City.
Those looking at bookmaker free bets note how Villa have had an up and down campaign so far.
They have only lost twice, but they find themselves down in 9th position having drawn six of their
ten games so far.
You may have heard about this little disagreement between FIFA and the English FA over the use
of poppies for England's friendly against Spain on Saturday. A compromise was finally reached, but
that didn't stop Nike from taking things into its own power-tripping hands.
Nine England internationals will wear Nike boots embroidered with a poppy for the match.
England players and the FA are pleased that a compromise has been reached in their puppy row with
FIFA ahead of Saturday's friendly with Spain. The FA wanted England players to have puppies
attached to their shirts for the match, but this was deemed to be in breach of FIFA rules. After a
brief impasse, [.
While the European Championships have been chugging along neatly in the forefront of most
peoples minds over the last couple of weeks or so, football in Scotland has reached a crossroads,
the ramifications of which could be felt for many years. The saga of Rangers FC and the debate some
might even say argument over where The Rangers, the club that has emerged from the ashes of perhaps
the biggest financial collapse in the entire history of British football, will start next season is
now set to drag into July, with the distinct possibility of reaching a conclusion that will satisfy
absolutely nobody whatsoever.
Calls for goal line technology erupted yet again and this time they were mooted even quicker
than usual. With England leading 1-0 over home side Ukraine in the second half of their final group
stage match, a Marko Devic shot that was tipped into the air by Joe Hart and cleared by John Terry
in the goal was ruled a non-goal even though the overhead view showed that the ball had completely
crossed the line before Terry volley it away.
It's always funny how rumors come out of no where and are really based off of nothing. The Birahim
Diop to Colombia rumors started out of nothing but a running joke that Diop would look to continue
to follow Ocatvio Zambrano as he had quite a few times in his career. Today another rumor really
based off of nothing has come up.
Jozy Altidore subbed on in the 78th minute for AZ in their rescheduled KNVB Beker (aka the KNVB
Cup) game on Thursday. The game was played during the day to allow school children to attend, a
compromise after the original game was abandoned due to a fan attacking AZ's goalkeeper and
rescheduled to be played without fans present.
If someone asked you about Carlo Ancelotti and his managerial style you would think of his time
here in his first season winning the double, his time at AC Milan and the relationships he built
with "his players".
Renowned for getting the maximum out of ageing players, Ancelotti was always one to stand up for
the old guard and defend them to the hilt especially when he was here for two seasons.
I have a dream fellow Gooners. Well, in truth, I have several dreams. But I'll leave the one
involves Robbie Savage's testicles and a set of vinegar soaked razor blades for another time. I
dream that one day, international football will jump back into its bloody box and quit its
persistent interruptions in the club season.
