Liverpool huffed and puffed once more but came up against another excellent goalkeeping display. A
feat that Mark Bunn probably will and could not repeat even if he tried. The journeyman goalkeeper
showed far better reflexes than Paul Robinson have had this season to deny Andy Carroll a
confidence-boosting goal.
Earlier this week, Liverpool Football Club called on fans to help influence the Anfield
atmosphere against Manchester United by submitting their match-day playlists and we can now reveal
the special Mersey-inspired winning tracks as voted for by fans.
Scott Heavey/Getty Images (Bleacher Report) Luis Suarez according to the Guardian a few days ago is
the rumored target of a £35 million bid from Real Madrid expected to hit Liverpool FC's bank of
the Mersey in January.
The Uruguayan has been a constant bother to any opposition and he is nothing short of tireless when
it comes to chasing down every chance he has to be part of the game.
Why Saturday shows Everton will have upper hand in Mersey derby
Don't be fooled by Saturday's results I think Everton head into the Merseyside derby in much
better shape than Liverpool. Everton came very close to pulling off yet another fine result at the
Etihad Stadium and Roberto Mancini's multi-million pound had little clue how to break down their
stubborn resistance before Mario Balotelli's lucky deflection off Phil Jagielka.
England centre-half at the 1950 World Cup The tale of the Liverpool footballer Laurie Hughes,
who has died aged 87, is one of the game's saddest stories. He was plunged into World Cup football
in Brazil in 1950, his debut for England. But during a Charity Shield game a few months later, he
was badly injured, ending his international career.
Steven Gerrard return will boost Liverpool Mersey Beat
Every Friday, Sportsmail's man on Merseyside, Dominic King, will provide expert analysis and
behind-the-scenes insight into the affairs of a footballing heartland.
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The international break provides a welcome opportunity to reflect on club football without the
inevitable distractions of results and the transfer market. Â These two factors would be of
paramount importance to most clubs but Liverpool have one more pressing concern to add, one that
Fenway Sports Group have been carefully considering for some time.
In the second part of this two-part article, Guest writer Ryan McCarthy continues to explore the
influence and ideological impact of club legend Kenny Dalglish since his return to the managerial
hotseat at Liverpool Football Club.
Read part 1 here
These days it has become common practice for television cameras to zero in on Dalglish for his
reaction when Liverpool score, which is usually arms rising to the heavens; a smile as wide as the
Mersey; caught up in the infectious unbridled, childlike joy of the moment.
Kill, Marry or Shag: The Liverpool Midfield - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Have you every played the game "Kill, marry or shag"? In it, one player gives his or her
opponent three names it works best with celebrities. Made famous in the TV show "30 Rock", the
"player" then has to hypothetically kill one, shag one and marry one.
Audio: MirrorFootball Podcast You won't believe who Robbie Savage says City should swap
Tevez for...
Robbie Savage and MirrorFootball Mersey correspondent David Maddock join Steve Anglesey to talk
Liverpool's summer spending, the prospect of a new Anfield and the shock name Robbie believes
Manchester City should swap Carlos Tevez for.
I don't know what it is about Liverpool that lends itself to modifying pop-culture so much.
Maybe it's just that the club itself is so steeped in history, pop-culture and filled with so much
nostalgic emotion (they are closer to the Indian cricket team on the Emotional Quotien than an
English football club).
The Mersey has been the center of the footballing universe this week, so what better way to cap
it off than with one of the world's greatest derbies?
Liverpool will probably consider anything a victory so long as Tom Hicks & George Gillett are
removed from eyesight, but this year's first edition is taking place in an unfamiliar locale: the
bubble around the relegation zone.
Probably everyone has experienced the sequel suck factor - going to see the second edition of a
beloved film and realizing that this new movie is so bad that inevitably, former fond and happy
memories of the first edition are forever tainted.
For me, it was the Matrix Reloaded - with a contrived, convoluted storyline, product placement
action sequences, and odd, disconnected acting - that ruined The Matrix for me.
The English Premier League is coming to Philadelphia as last year's 7th place team, a for one
night only Tim Howard-less Everton, comes to PPL Park to take on the Philadelphia Union. For
Everton, this is a pre-season friendly and a trip similar to the Philadelphia Union's trip to
Greece earlier in the season.
As was reported by the Brotherly Game last week, the Philadelphia Union and Everton FC will play
in an international friendly on 7/20/2011 at PPL Park.
At the surface there isn't much of a connection between the two sides, with no former Everton
player on the Union and no former Union player on Everton.
After an enforced absence PMP is being ressurected and hopefully will be as informative and witty
(ahem) as ever....
Plenty has gone on since my last post, it has got colder for starters, but Everton's fantastic
ability to start a season badly and so tarnish the rest of their season is still a familiar tale to
tell.
HRH Kofi Sarkodie is at it again, wrapping up the European adventures of both himself and
teammate Will Bruin with the Generation adidas team in the Netherlands.
And here you thought with that title that I was going to write about Landon Donovan heading back
to Everton. Well, for Ginge's sake, I hope Donovan kicks ass across the Mersey.
Instead of bringing Aaron's comment thread to a standstill, I'll just stay in my corner of the
catbox. But there are a couple of things about the Scary Across the Mersey I'd like to address.
It's bad enough that anti-American prejudice has infected Liverpool, but to see a High Court
decision based purely on bigotry is very disheartening.
Of course up here we all new this already. The north of England was just an inconvenience to the
Tories in the 80s. Think of that bit in the movie version of The Beach were the dying man is making
too much noise so the other commune members just put him in another hut. Thatcherites will argue
that the heavy industries prevelant in the north were outdated and innefficient and so needed to be
removed like Christo's gangrenous leg but what was put in place by way of "post-operative care"?
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Liverpool were back to their irresistible best as they cruised to glory in the Selco Mersey Masters
tournament at the Echo Arena on Saturday evening.
A Patrik Berger-inspired Reds saw off Everton and Blackpool in the group stage, before thumping
Bolton Wanderers 5-1 in the final.
It's Liverpool's first Masters title in five years, and the victory gives them the opportunity to
be crowned national champions later this year, when they'll contest the Grand Final at Wembley.
Peter Gulacsi has taken a short journey across the Mersey to join Tranmere Rovers on an emergency
loan.
The Hungarian stopper spent a successful loan spell with the Wirral club last season and played a
major part in helping Les Parry's side regain their League One status.
Gulacsi joins on an emergency loan because Tranmere's two experienced 'keepers Gunnar Nielsen and
Simon Miotto are both injured.
In a shameless act of self promotion I am pointing you the way of another blog - Royal Blue Mersey
- where I wrote a tribute piece to the legendary Duncan Ferguson. It is part of the new Everton:
Classics section of the site detailing memorable players, seasons and matches.
I'm sure I'm not the only Evertonian to list big Dunc as their favourite player (especially those
of a certain age) and certainly couldn't fit all of his special moments in one blog so if you have
any special Ferguson memories you would like to share feel free to comment either below or over at
Royal Blue Mersey.
There once was a young lad called Wayne,and it was from near the Mersey that he came.From quite a
young age he developed a tastefor the ladies upon whom money you waste.The rumour went that it was
around the bingo hallwhere our Wayne used to trawl;looking for that special grannyand then trading
his cash for fanny.
