FC Lyn goalkeeper Tyrel Lacey's season has come to an abrupt end after sustaining a knee injury in practice last week. Click to continue reading...

Hunter Freeman and Clarence Goodson return home to face Aalesund while Tyrel Lacey and Lyn hope to make the best of things versus Stromsgodset as the Eliteserien returns to action this weekend. Click to continue reading...

Tyrel Lacel and Lyn live to play another day as they visit Lillestrom in the Eliteserien while Alta's Jay Needham returns from suspension to face Notodden in 1. Division action. Click to continue reading...

Troy Perkins and Valerenga rebounded from Cup disappointment to beat Bodo/Glimt on the road while Tyrel Lacey and Lyn were shutout at home versus Tromso. Click to continue reading...

Hunter Freeman and Clarence Goodson will look to give Start a late season push versus Sandefjord while Tyrel Lacey and Lyn may be playing their final match of the year at home against Tromso. Click to continue reading...

Lyn goalkeeper Tyrel Lacey says that the threat of bankruptcy for the storied Oslo club will do nothing to hinder the squad's focus on the field. Click to continue reading...

Valerenga beat Lyn for the first time in 28 years giving Troy Perkins and company three points while Jay Needham and Alta's promotion hopes took a big blow in 1. Division action. Click to continue reading...

An Oslo derby between Lyn and Valerenga highlights this weekend's action in the Eliteserien as goalkeepers Tyrel Lacey and Troy Perkins hope to keep clean sheets while Jay Needham and Alta host last place Skeid. Click to continue reading...

Tyrel Lacey and Lyn look to take down first place and undefeated Rosenborg while Troy Perkins and Valerenga hunt for their first league win in months. Click to continue reading...

In this modern era of football we so often see the word 'saga' follow any talk of transfers, with money playing such an important role in our game and complicating so many situations.

The first transfer saga that really got under my skin involved us, Chelsea and John Obi Mikel, and with hindsight, the timing of this mess probably sparked my fury as much as the behaviour of the player.

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After an unsuccessful trial with Eliteserien club FC Lyn, Nick Webb is trying his luck with 1. Division's Kongsvinger in hopes of earning a contract soon. Click to continue reading...

Tyrel Lacey sparkled in his debut as Lyn stunned Start's American duo in the Eliteserien while Jay Needham used his hands to lift Alta right back into the 1. Division promotion race. Click to continue reading...

Ah, what a pre-season it's been. We picked up a number of injuries, lost our midfield magician, but hey, at least we got a work out. Or something like that.

In the face of real competition, we didn't do too well. We managed to romp and stomp Singapore 5 - 0, and squeaked by with a win over FC Lyn, but pretty much got worked over by everyone of importance.

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The departure of Xabi Alonso may be tough to take but for one man the Spaniard's exit represents the ideal opportunity to finally prove he's good enough to make the grade at Anfield.
Lucas has struggled to endear himself to supporters since he arrived from Gremio two years ago.
Limited first team chances and indifferent form meant many wrote him off as a £6million mistake. Click to continue reading...

Argentinian Javier Mascherano was granted extra time off in the post-season following the birth of his second daughter, and is now playing catch-up with the rest of the squad.
"Maybe I need a little bit more work because I arrived back when my team-mates had already been back 10 days," he told Liverpoolfc. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool triumphed 2-0 today in Oslo over Norwegian outfit FC Lyn, with Rafa Benitez's men enjoying their second win of pre-season in comfortable fashion.
Andrey Voronin headed the Reds into the lead just before the interval, with David Ngog doubling their advantage on the hour mark. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez does not believe the ankle injury sustained by Albert Riera against FC Lyn last night is serious.
Riera had to be stretchered off after falling awkwardly during Liverpool's 2-0 win in Oslo.
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Dirk Kuyt insists Liverpool will "fight on" following Xabi Alonso's £30million move to Real Madrid.
Spain international Alonso completed his move to the Bernabeu on Wednesday as he signed a five-year contract with the Primera Liga giants.
The departure of the influential midfielder has led some to question the Premier League title credentials of Liverpool, who are set to sign Roma's Alberto Aquilani as a replacement. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool were at the wrong end of a 3-0 scoreline against Spanish side Espanyol in a pre-season friendly. Jamie Carragher looked back on the match and expressed his concern over the Merseyside club's pre-season form, imploring his team-mates to improve before the Premier League begins.
"Obviously it was only a pre-season game but it was still a disappointing result for us because you never want to get beat," the Reds' vice-captain has been quoted in the Liverpool Daily Post as saying. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool lost 3-0 to Espanyol tonight, as the La Liga outfit celebrated their first game in the new Estadi Cornella-El Prat in style, with goals from Luis Garcia and a brace from Ben Sahar sealing an impressive victory for the hosts.
Reds manager Rafa Benitez acknowledged that his side were very much second-best, with the Spaniard admitting the home side thoroughly deserved their win. Click to continue reading...

Fox Soccer Channel announced today that it'll be broadcasting three of the upcoming friendlies involving Liverpool this summer.

The U.S. TV network will be showing the following games live:

• Thai national team v Liverpool, July 22, 9am ET
• Singapore national team v Liverpool, July 26, 8am ET
• FC Lyn v Liverpool, August 5, 1pm ET.

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As the curtains close on part one of the Tippeliga, the 18th round proved a highly appropriate ending: Rosenborg won without impressing anyone, Molde won and impressed everyone, Lyn shot themselves in the foot and the rest was all a bit random.

Now, nothing would be more gratifying than to report that the bullies from Bergen where humped, thumped, thwacked and indeed wallopped by a magnificent Molde.

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You heard me. And after a fairly hectic summer-period one imagines quite a few of the Tippeliga players could do with a rest as well, which is why it's so convenient that after this weekend the Tippeliga takes a two week holiday. Before that though there is a potentially cracking round of matches to be played, including the ultimate showdown of doom.

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Well, terrific if you like your games full of goals and incidents. No so much if you like, youknow, vaguely competent defenders.

After a couple of pretty stale rounds the Tippeliga perked up a bit in round 17, with goals flying in at a fairly bonkers rate of 4,4 goals per game. Still, no matter how hard the ever-excitable TV2 tried to talk it up, it was hard for the discerning viewer to watch the weekend's highlights without being slightly troubled by the hopelessly poor defending displayed by most of the Tippeliga outfits.

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Really, this has to stop now, this wonderfully stereotype-busting weather currently enjoyed in most of the country makes it virtually impossible to get anything done.

Saturday

Sandefjord (9th) Odd Grenland (3rd)

Right, the fact that this game is well underway at the time of writing renders this preview utterly pointless.

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This recent bout of hot weather has made Norwegians hit the beaches like dyslexic gangsta rappers, but like busses in the Stavanger-area the Tippeliga waits for no one, and so here is a quick roundup of the latest batch of games from the top tier of Norwegian football.

By now you really must be getting tired of reading this phrase, but it continues to be the case and we're too hot to figure out a more clever way of wording it: Unless Rosenborg sell their entire midfield in the summer, they'll win the league.

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A rare outbreak of sunshine in the Western bits of the country has left NFN's Norwegian offices in a state of confusion and chaos, yet we struggle manfully on and here is an unusually pithy preview of this weekend's action.

Sunday

Tromsø (13th) Aalesund (9th)

Tromsø will be desperate to improve on their rubbish home-record (1-4-2), while Aalesund will be desperate to get attention for something else than what's coming out of their manager's mouth.

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Tippeliga rounds are coming thick and fast, and the market is in severe danger of being flooded. The issue is in no way helped by the fact that Rosenborg are running away with the league, while everyone else just look a bit knackered. So, with the league currently a less than entrancing event in purely sporting terms, we need some good old soap-opera to keep it interesting.

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After several teams looked sluggish and tired at the weekend, this midweek round could see some very random results even by the Tippeliga's standards..

Wednesday

Fredrikstad (14th) Lyn (16th)

One rather peculiar quirk of the current standings is that bottom of the table Lyn actually have a better goal difference than Aalesund, who are eighth.

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13 games in and there are three teams in particular who look like they could be heading for doom and despair (or the Adeccoliga, as some call it), but amidst the casual randomness of the Tippeliga few things are ever certain and on matchday 14 all three of those teams picked up points..

Leading the line of the troubled threesome is Lyn, who even by their standards face a remarkably bleak set of circumstances.

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As clubs across the board sack players and cut wages, we here at NFN plow on heroically..Â

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Sandefjord (9th) VÃ¥lerenga (5th)

After Mad Martin Andresen realized he was about to lose his job a couple of weeks back, he shelved ambitions of playing expansive football and went into "let's just not get fired"-mode.

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The second round of the Norwegian cup was so staggeringly uneventful and dull that we here at NFN elected to ignore it altogether. However, with an epic shootout in the South, a local derby in the Southwest and rampant minnows up North, the third round was an entirely different kettle of fish...

We start up North with the upset that wasn't really an upset.

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Honestly, it may be that our brains were dulled by watching Norway and that we've lost the ability to judge these things objectively, but wasn't that a rather good round?

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The Tippeliga rolled back into life in predictable fashion this Saturday when Rosenborg won 3-0 over a hard-working but undeniably limited Strømsgodset.

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Enough with this international nonsense, let's get on with the proper football..

Saturday

Rosenborg (1st) Strømsgodset (13th)

And we start this weekend's preview with an appeal. Strømsgodset are a nice little team with a likable manager and a bunch of sympathetic players (and Stian Ohr).

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Rosenborg still better than anyone else, Brann still can't be bothered against smaller teams, Molde still quite tasty, Viking still struggling: In the excessively random world of the Tippeliga there are still some things you can rely on..

The best team in the league versus the (on current form) worst, Rosenborg's visit to Bodø was always going to end badly for the hosts.

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