Like sex, football sells. For the good, but usually for that bad as you will see in 10 swift steps. Please take into consideration that there are thousands more, but for now there is one question I need to ask you� What's the� French for Va, Va Voom?

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Michael Thomas'ın 1989'da Anfield'da attığı ve şampiyonluğu Arsenal'e kazandırdığı tarihi golün hemen ardından çekilmiş bir fotoğraf karesi. Thomas golü atmış bulutların üzerine çıkmak üzere iken Liverpoollular'ın ise Anfield Road üzerlerine çökmüş adeta. 26 Mayıs 1989'da oynanan maçın önemini ve bu golün dramatikliğini şöyle anlatabiliriz. Click to continue reading...

So yesterday marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and thusly the reunification of Germany. To mark the occasion I watched the rather brilliant film Goodbye Lenin! (recommended, if you haven't seen it), which basically takes place during the fall of the Berlin Wall, from the East German perspective.

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Apparently Del Amitri did the theme song for Scotland's 1998 World Cup team. YouTube embedding has been disabled by their label (yeah, because you wouldn't want to let their millions of fans talk about it, right?), but you can watch it here (with a special guest appearance by Colin Hendry's mullet!

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Peter Beardsley! The more I watch Benayoun the more I'm convinced that he is the current Liverpool team's version of Beardsley.
Beardsley was an absolutely superb player for Liverpool, and anyone who had the privilege of watching him play during the Dalgish era will know what I'm talking about. Click to continue reading...

Bulgaria's greatest, Georgi Asparuhov, life tragically cut at 28. Rooney misses a sitter. (Studs Up) The incredible new lows of Mike Ashley. (Three Match Ban) Stamford Bridge name TBA; football's name also TBA. (Futfanatico) John Barnes: Savior of Rwanda, not Don Cheadle. (Fisted Away) Adriano: The face of crack. Click to continue reading...

Benayoun is the new gerrard (Never Captain Nicky Butt)

Rooney should of called his son Bruce (Studs Up)

Deniz Naki starts a riot (Caught offside)

Rwanda Believe its a tragedy to be linked with John Barnes (Fisted Away)

Barnsley fan lives the dream (3nil)

The 57 Varieties of Zavon Hines (Never Captain Nicky Butt)

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Just when you thought the Italian tactician and master of success couldn't get any more focused; England manager Fabio Capello has banned a fans' and players' favorite: the World Cup song.

Not content with prohibiting WAGs from attending the England base next summer, Capello is again trying to take the Englishness out of English football by restricting the players' voices.

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Has to be a quick one this weekend due to the imminent arrival of most of wife's family for lunch, then I'm straight off to a game in the Championship. Last weekend I managed to watch no football whatsoever due to a family gathering and a wedding ('Likely Lads' moment: I was the guest with the mobile phone looking at score updates from Liverpool/Man U� during the speeches), so I'm looking forward to this weekend, especially Ajax v Feyenoord tomorrow lunchtime (ESPN)

It's about an hour or so to go before the lunchtime game: Arsenal v Spurs (12:45pm, Sky Sports 1) looks a tasty one, Arsenal have won all four of their home league games this season and Spurs have a decent away record; the rest of today's slate is notable for the players that are missing.

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Big Story
The surprising news that one of the greatest and highest-earning footballers of his generation, John Barnes, had somehow managed to end up bankrupt is superbly deconstructed in a piece looking at players' incomes and financial cluelessness by former Ireland star Tony Cascarino, as he considers how the likes of even recent Premier League stars like Eric Djemba-Djemba and John Arne Riise have somehow suffered a similar fate despite their massive pay checks.

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There are plenty of reasons to be disappointed with Rafa Benitez right about now. Liverpool head into this weekend's match against� Manchester United with the prospect of lodging their fifth defeat on the trot. After such high expectations for this season, Liverpool have been finally exposed as a two-man team.

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Picking Liverpool's greatest ever XI is a nigh-on impossible task, especially given the sheer volume of fantastic players in the club's glorious history. In my personal greatest XI, skill and leadership ability are the defining characteristics, and I believe that the side I've chosen would pulverise any team in world football - past or present. Click to continue reading...

Un viernes más nos encontramos en el blog para recordar a uno de esos jugadores diferentes que quedarán para siempre en la memoria colectiva. Hoy es el turno de John Barnes, el extremo inglés de origen jamaicano que destacó en los ochenta y noventa en la Liga Inglesa.
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Digger ready to hold and give but do it at the right time Former Tranmere boss John Barnes has already had offers of employment flying in. But unsurprisingly they don't involve him managing a football team. Instead, the ex-Liverpool and England man is preparing to re-record his famous rap for a revamped version of World In Motion [. Click to continue reading...

1.How do you feel about the departure of your manager John Barnes and Jason McAteer ?

I am glad John Barnes and McAteer have been sacked as i feel if we carried on any longer with those 2 in charge we would have been relegated and if we brought anyone in later on in the season it would have been to late to turn things around.

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Monday 12th October
19:45 Tranmere Rovers v Stockport County, League One, Sky Sports 1/HD1
Rovers are now John Barnes-free after a pretty awful start to the campaign. County are only a few places above them. Needless to say both teams are skint and don't have much to work with, squad wise. Click to continue reading...

Manager John Barnes and his assistant Jason McAteer have been sacked by Tranmere. Former England legend Barnes and ex Liverpool star McAteer have been told that they were to have their contracts terminated by the club earlier this morning. Tranmere are currently sat in the League One relegation zone - and after a string of poor results in the league and their recent defeat in the Johnstone's paint Trophy earlier in the week, it seems that the Tranmere board have finally lost patience with Barnes and his regime. Click to continue reading...

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[- Note: There are TWO QPR Report sites: This QPR Report site. And, a second combination messageboard and quasi-blog QPR Report Messageboard for cutting-edge, up-to-the-minute news re anything QPR-related. If you're interested in continuously-updated news re anything QPR (along with QPR nostalgia; and selected articles of broader football interest). Click to continue reading...

Yoann Gourcuff visits a children's hospital in Ploemeur (good) but his leather jacket looks like pleather (bad). But he's hot. Thus, his placement within the good week section.

GOOD WEEK

Bitchfaces and cut-eyes
King of the side-eye, David Villa brought a new twist to his usual gaze of steel: the condescending shoulder tap.

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Yoann Gourcuff visits a children's hospital in Ploemeur (good) but his leather jacket looks like pleather (bad). But he's hot. Thus, his placement within the good week section.

GOOD WEEK

Bitchfaces and cut-eyes
King of the side-eye, David Villa brought a new twist to his usual gaze of steel: the condescending shoulder tap.

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Former Liverpool and England legend John Barnes was sacked today, hence the creation of this topic for discussion! Oh yes, and anyone who manages Argentina and struggles to qualify for a World Cup must be up for consideration (see image below).

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There is no real reason that a top level former football should have any more chance of being a successful manager than someone who works his way through the coaching schools and learns the ropes off the field.

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Hands up if you didn't see this coming. Put your hand down Mr. Barnes.

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Tranmere have sacked manager John Barnes and assistant boss Jason McAteer after a run of just two league wins from 11 matches.
The club are 22nd in League One and were knocked out of the Johnstone's Paint Trophy on Tuesday.

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Henry Winter is one of Britain's most respected football journalists and currently works for the Daily Telegraph. His career started at the Independent and he moved to The Telegraph in 1994. A familiar face on Sky's Sunday Supplement, Henry was been kind enough to have a quick chat with us about himself and football.

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The FA Cup Final, May 1989 was contested by Everton and Liverpool at Wembley Stadium. It became one of the most memorable FA Cup Final in terms of excitement, emotions and tension. John Aldridge had put Liverpool 1-0 up after four minutes but Stuart McCall equalised in the 89th minute to force extra time. Click to continue reading...

Before I say anything else, please accept my apologies for the site having been down for much of this afternoon and this evening. It's an issue related to the hosts' servers and I think it has now been resolved. Normal service resumes here.

As summer starts to meld into the autumn, the nights draw in and the daggers start to become drawn.

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Usually the lower divisions offer calmer seas for managers to negotiate. Away from the cash rich goldfish bowl of the Premier League, fans and chairman are more sympathetic to the restrictions placed on lower league managers.
But given that Bryan Gunn was sacked less than a week into the new campaign those days appear to be numbered. Click to continue reading...

In January 2001, Gerrard Houllier signed one of Europe's most renowned and exciting creative players. Liverpool fans everywhere rejoiced at the prospect of having such a rare talent in the team, the ideal player to complement Michael Owen and Robbie Fowler. Joy quickly turned to frustration though as Houllier criminally underused the player and inexplicably wasted his considerable talent. Click to continue reading...

An insight into the treatment and attitudes that for decades have surrounded Liverpool's England heroes from COS's latest writing recruit Michael Williams.

Since the mid 1980's there has been a distance between Scousers and England. In the depression years of the decade Liverpool became a target for the Government and the Southern based media joined in with Thatcher's persecution of the city.

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Usually the lower divisions offer calmer seas for managers to negotiate. Away from the cash rich goldfish bowl of the Premier League, fans and chairman are more sympathetic to the restrictions placed on lower league managers.
But given that Bryan Gunn was sacked less than a week into the new campaign those days appear to be numbered. Click to continue reading...

Despite the club's inability to give themselves a strong launching pad at the start of the season, Liverpool legend John Barnes has pointed to Manchester United's early campaign blips in past years as evidence of how Rafael Benitez's Reds needn't be written off so soon.
Liverpool lost to Tottenham Hotspur and also to Aston Villa, but beat Stoke City emphatically, and also showed good character to overturn a losing position against Bolton Wanderers and win 3-2. Click to continue reading...

It always baffles me when I hear people disparage David Speedie as one of Liverpool's ‘worst ever players'. He may have been an unfashionable signing, but Speedie was a very effective player for Liverpool in the latter stages of the 1990-91 season, scoring some big goals against the club's biggest rivals. Click to continue reading...

Alberto Aquilani's transfer to Liverpool from Roma was completed with the

Injury-prone?

minimum of fuss, which is highly unusual for a transfer involving Liverpool considering the unsuccessful Gareth Barry saga of last summer, and this year's Xabi Alonso blockbuster. The Italian has signed a five year deal, and the thing that will worry the Anfield faithful is that in his last five seasons at Roma, he has started a miserly 60 Serie A games.

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Two seasons ago, Zaragoza surprisingly had that trap door open up under them and they fell into the netherworld that they call second division. Forty two matches later the celebration was on as Zaragoza fans filled La Romareda and the project to make this club a force in Spain that seemed to have failed miserably might be back on track for now. Click to continue reading...

A Southend United fan has won a national competition to find a new football chant.
Terry Cockell - an accountant based in the town - penned a four line poem dedicated to veteran strike Dougie Freedman. To the tune of the Wombles, it's as follows...
"Underground, overground signed on a free,
He's Dougie Freedman of SUFC,
Scores goals for fun, he's a Blue through and through,
Better watch out, 'cos he'll score against you". Click to continue reading...

Jamie Redknapp believes his old club, Liverpool, will win this season's Premier League title and end two decades of hurt on Merseyside.
The Reds have not won the domestic title since the days of Alan Hansen, John Barnes and Peter Beardsley in the 1980's, but Redknapp is convinced his former side have what it takes to usurp rivals Manchester United as champions. Click to continue reading...