Guardian: Fare chief slams Liverpool 'tribal fervour' after Luis Suárez affair

• Piara Powar criticises club for attitude to FA • Supporter arrested after Oldham FA Cup tie The head of European football's anti-racism group believes Liverpool's reaction to the Luis Suárez affair has whipped up "a tribal fervour" at Anfield.

The head of European football's anti-racism group has urged the Football Association to charge Liverpool with bringing the game into disrepute over their response to Luis Suarez's eight-match ban.
Piara Powar, executive director of European football's anti-discrimination body FARE, said Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish's comments had been ''undignified'' and that their reaction had damaged the club's brand across the world.

Guardian: Piara Powar urges the FA to level disrepute charge against Liverpool

• European anti-racism head says club has shown no respect • Powar criticises Kenny Dalglish's comments as 'undignified' The head of European football's anti-racism group has urged the Football Association to charge Liverpool with bringing the game into disrepute for their response to Luis Suárez's eight-match ban for racially abusing the Manchester United defender Patrice Evra.

Patrick Collins: Kenny Dalglish needs a few home truths¿ not more flattery

During a year which has seen Liverpool make qualified progress while spending money on an unprecedented scale, Dalglish has behaved with a prickly defensiveness which smacks of paranoia.

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AVB craziness Last time Chelsea had a Portuguese manager there was usually a whirlwind of conspiracy theories and paranoia swirling around. But with Jose Mourinho at the helm it was usually created for the benefit of the club. Under Andre Villas Boas it seems the manager himself is the biggest victim.

Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish cannot understand the "obsession" with Andy Carroll's form as the £35million striker continues to search for his first Premier League goal of the season.
The England international is yet to score in five league appearances so far this season, although he was on target for the Reds in the Carling Cup second-round victory at Exeter.

Dalglish dismisses obsession

Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish is baffled by the 'paranoia' surrounding £35m goal-shy striker Andy Carroll.

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Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish: Everybody is obsessed with Andy Carroll but they don't know him

The Reds manager admits he does not understand why there is a "paranoia" over the England striker and insists the former Newcastle man's £35 million price tag is irrelevant

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Liverpool boss Dalglish bemused by obsession with £35m striker Carroll

Kenny Dalglish has questioned the 'obsession' and 'paranoia' over Andy Carroll's form. The Liverpool boss must decide whether to play the striker against Wolves.

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Kenny Dalglish criticises 'paranoia' over Liverpool's Andy Carroll

• 'I don't understand the obsession,' says Liverpool manager • 'They talk about Carroll's lifestyle ... what lifestyle?' Kenny Dalglish has claimed there is an unhealthy and unfair "obsession" with Andy Carroll.

Arsenal will go poof if Wenger were to leave

Guess who said this in 2009?

"It is not often that a boy of five or six is always living with adults in a little village. I learned about tactics and selection from the people talking about football in the pub - who plays on the left wing and who should be in the team.

Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish in fighting mood following first defeat of season to Stoke City

Kenny Dalglish's suggestion, following defeat to Stoke, that Liverpool are being victimised by referees' smacks of paranoia.

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Jose Mourinho's paranoia has to be growing after Andres Iniesta escaped a UEFA ban after getting a 'deliberate' booking for time-wasting.

Iniesta has been cleared of picking up a deliberate yellow card against Shakhtar Donetsk and will not face any action from UEFA's disciplinary committee, which means he can now play against Real Madrid at the Bernabeu on April 27.

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'Paranoia. Backstabbing. War. The dark secrets of a divided club.

So you aren't allowed to have a Youth team - because of FFA paranoia, finances, rules, whatever - and yet you play professional football against other clubs, ten of them, most who have a Youth team and after six years of football - we're seeing heaps and heaps of young players filling in as your stars get injured or are out of form.

West Brom have sacked Roberto Di Matteo after just 19 months at the club; further proving that football has gone mad...

The board released this statement: "Our poor sequence of results stretches back more than three months and there has been little sign of it coming to an end".

Only at Liverpool could a day where a fee for Luis Suarez is agreed first be dominated by news of Fernando Torres' possible exit. The last remnant of the Hicks and Gillett era is the perpetual expectation that only bad things are going to happen. It's going to take more than a few months where we've seen the return of the King and slightly improved results to wash away the preeminent feeling of paranoia.

Leo Messi was wearing a dickie bow last night. Proof, some said with a smile, that he knew he was going to be awarded with a second successive Ballon d'Or – after all, Xavi Hernández and Andrés Iniesta were only in ties. But he didn't know: amid all the shock, the disgust and the pathetic patriotic paranoia, the man most surprised at Messi's award was Messi.