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.

Yesterday afternoon, or if back home in England, yesterday evening, a strange thing happened in the crazy world of soccer journalism and social networking that illustrated, to me at least, the huge power that has now developed across Twitter, Facebook and other popular network sites.

Disaster for Keys and Gray as theatre tour cancelled

Dave Whelan's ill-advised comments on Premier League racism, in which he advised black players to "just get on with it" if abused, weren't his only bizarre utterance of the weekend. How did the former JJB Sports boss and Conservative Party backer respond to his side's eighth consecutive defeat, which leaves them bottom of the Premier League?

I spent a couple of hours in the car on Sunday afternoon driving home after a weekend away. I was feeling a little bit jaded, so to keep myself entertained, I had the radio tuned into BBC Radio Five Live to while away the time and to keep my brain engaged.
I like Five Live. There's a good mix of news and sport, and I vastly prefer their more informal style of broadcasting to that to be found on Radio 4.

By Chris Wright

"Dzeko's been purr tonight, very purr. Which reminds me, I hate kittens..."

Anyone who happened to listen to BBC Radio Five Live's coverage of Man City's clash against Villarreal will have probably turned off (as I did) around about the point that their insufferable, jowly curmudgeon-in-chief Alan Green added 'orchestrated fan displays' to the long, long list of piffling things he 'really hates' about football which came about five minutes before kick-off (a couple of minutes after he'd already taken the time to add the City fans themselves for having the temerity not to fill the completely fill the stadium on a Tuesday night).

Former Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes has insisted he didn't deserve his reputation as a bad tackler, insisting he was simply ‘getting people back' after they had previously fouled him.
36-year-old enjoyed an illustrious career where he was thought to be the perfect midfielder by many, but fans and pundits alike were very critical of his tackling or lack of ability to tackle, especially towards the end of his playing days.

Former Liverpool chief executive Rick Parry expects that Liverpool's U.S. owners, New England Sports Ventures, will conclude that building a new ground, rather than redeveloping Anfield, is the way forward.

"The new owners have been very smart in not making any false promises or predictions," Parry told Sportsweek on BBC Radio Five Live.

Arsenal's former vice-chairman David Dein insists Arsene Wenger remains the best man to lead the Gunners, despite six seasons without a trophy at the Emirates Stadium.

Dein has remained in close contact with Wenger since leaving Arsenal after the pair spent 11 largely successful years working together.

By Chris Wright

Huge news from the Championship, where Doncaster Rovers have sacked their mascot of three years after she got her wabs out for a fairly timid lingerie shoot, posing alongside the head from her 'Donny The Dog' costume.

Doncaster have announced that 40-year old, mother-0f-three Tracy Chandler has been relieved of her voluntary duties after she 'disgraced the club' by appearing in a charity photo shoot for a newspaper.

Former Arsenal defender Martin Keown believes manager Arsene Wenger will sign new players in the summer transfer window if the Gunners end yet another season without any trophies to show for. Speaking to BBC Radio Five ...

While I was ‘away' at the Asian Cup, English football ‘personalities' maintained their capacity to infuriate – through stinking hypocrisy as much as the usual pig ignorance.

Brady

Everybody on the planet bar a couple of Buddhist monks in Bhutan (only a couple, mind) has had their say on Andy Gray's and Richard Keys' departures from SKY.

Former Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez has backed the appointment of Kenny Dalglish as boss for the remainder of the season.
This is Dalglish's second stint as boss, having managed the club between 1985 and 1991. He is also the last Reds manager to have guided the Merseysiders to the league title, something he achieved three times, most recently 20 years ago in 1989-90.