Goals:
Rooney 47' 50'
Suarez 80'
The worst possible result. Not just a loss, a deserved loss – self-inflicted thanks to a feeble 30 minutes after the restart – but continued, probably increased, focus on the Suarez-Evra contretemps thanks to each acting like spoiled children.

Liverpool travel to Manchester and Old Trafford to face United for the second time in two weeks in a match that, depending on your resting heart rate, is either mildly exciting or something that's possibly life threatening. There's as much to cover off the pitch as there is on, but for everyone's sanity we'll try to just do the football.

Yesterday in a comment on here I said that passion is not equivalent to anger. Once you start confusing the two, people begin using the notion to justify all sort of idiocy. I was looking for a way to make my point [...] Read the original post on Pissing Red

Just when I had considered giving up on Father Christmas altogether, he fills my stocking with dropped points by all of Chelski, l'Arse, Liverpool and even Man City. And – and - he even un-twinges VDV's hamstring. I'm not sure there has ever been a Christmas quite like it.

No reason not to expect another high-class performance, missed chances a-plenty and ultimately three more points tonight.

MirrorFootball Podcast: Robbie Savage on Blatter and Gerrard, Paddy McGuinness on Bolton, Simon Bird on Newcastle

On this week's MirrorFootball Podcast Steve Anglesey talks Strictly, Stevie G and Sepp Blatter's idiocy with Robbie Savage, Newcastle's unbeaten start and Sunderland's faltering campaign with Simon Bird and then settles back with comic Paddy McGuiness to talk Bolton, Phoenix Nights and much more.

MirrorFootball Podcast: Robbie Savage on Blatter and Gerrard, Paddy McGuinness on Bolton, Simon Bird on Newcastle

On this week's MirrorFootball Podcast Steve Anglesey talks Strictly, Stevie G and Sepp Blatter's idiocy with Robbie Savage, Newcastle's unbeaten start and Sunderland's faltering campaign with Simon Bird and then settles back with comic Paddy McGuiness to talk Bolton, Phoenix Nights and much more.

MirrorFootball Podcast: Robbie Savage on Blatter and Gerrard, Paddy McGuinness on Bolton, Simon Bird on Newcastle

On this week's MirrorFootball Podcast Steve Anglesey talks Strictly, Stevie G and Sepp Blatter's idiocy with Robbie Savage, Newcastle's unbeaten start and Sunderland's faltering campaign with Simon Bird and then settles back with comic Paddy McGuiness to talk Bolton, Phoenix Nights and much more.

MirrorFootball Podcast: Robbie Savage on Blatter and Gerrard, Paddy McGuinness on Bolton, Simon Bird on Newcastle

On this week's MirrorFootball Podcast Steve Anglesey talks Strictly, Stevie G and Sepp Blatter's idiocy with Robbie Savage, Newcastle's unbeaten start and Sunderland's faltering campaign with Simon Bird and then settles back with comic Paddy McGuiness to talk Bolton, Phoenix Nights and much more.

Life's tough enough for the unemployed in an unstable global economy. And life is certainly tough enough for those who have to referee football games.

But it's infinitely worse when unemployed and forced to live with the same name as a referee recently rendered exceedingly unpopular by some decisions in a rather large game the previous weekend.

I give up. Honestly.
How can you love a team, desperate for points in the playoff race, that takes a 2-0 lead at home to one of the worst teams in the league and conspires through a combination of catastrophic defending, a complete inability to retain possession, and, most damningly, sheer gutlessness in the face of adversity, to throw away two points?

In theory when you're a journalist you don't root for teams and therefore all you're looking for is an angle, something interesting to write about that will get people to buy your newspaper, click on your link, or head to the Facebook page to make some pithy comments about your genius idiocy. As much as we'd all like to believe that our journalists stick to this standard (because they tell us

30 shots, six on target, six blocked, zero goals. 76% possession to the opposition's 24%. 400 more passes attempted than the opposition. Statistically, it seems impossible.
Obviously, it's not. Because it's happened twice in three years. The above stats are from when Liverpool met Stoke at Anfield in September 2008.

Baines, Valbuena, Cahill and Samba, not Barton and Doyle! by Kalvin Ovsiowitz I will start by saying that this is not a rant nor an article about the idiocy that is the Arsenal board, but about who we need to buy to keep us fans from going beserk. Yesterday all Arsenal fans said goodbye to [...]

Competition for the inaugral 'Bish, Please' awards sponsored by Zlatan Ibrahimovic is already underway in the England camp. Image: Reuters/Daylife.

We confess to being quite startled at the huge response our query regarding coverage of the Women's World Cup received. We must warn you that while we are thrilled to bring you our take on the competition, this is precisely the type of behaviour that tends to upset people who prefer to believe that the Kickette Army's interest in football extends only as far as the number of naked torsos we can drool over in ninety minutes.

It's because of you that all must be destroyed.
Quote: Speaking Thursday with the Associated Press Sports Editors, MLS President Mark Abbott said "promotion-relegation is not something we're looking at."
"I don't see that in the future, certainly in any reasonable future for us," he said.

Chivas USA did the unthinkable and let Benny Feilhaber slide on by.
Excuse me for a second while I pound my head into the wall.
I just don't understand how this club can continue to get things wrong when it comes to players. I'm not talking about the rank-and-file guys like Jimmy Conrad and Heath Pearce.

The Mirror got jokes.

Ashley Cole shot my mum last week. The drama has since been immortalized in digital form, first by Taiwanese television and now by some crafty fucks with degrees in software engineering.

No disrespect, of course. This is good, real good.

According to Major League Soccer Soccer headlines, MLS teams are starting to assert themselves against their eternal enemy, their players.
Here's Frank Klopas, who according to the headline, is wielding the hammer:
Quote: "Klopas: Castillo Will Report To Preseason Camp.