We can look at this international break in a couple of ways. The typical way is to curse and swear and moan that all our world class players Robin van Persie is away with their national squads to play football and get injured, while Arsenal pay the wages and have to endure weeks without the player due to injury and/or fatigue.

Swansea back at Anfield 21 years after The Swans to the Slaughter

Premier League new boys Swansea are 10th in the table and loving life back in the big time. Their trip to Anfield is the first since an 8-0 thrashing in an FA Cup third-round replay in 1990.

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It's only Monday, but already it's almost time for another match. And for a moment it's almost as though Liverpool were back in Europe once again, the games coming thick and furious and with hardly a moment to decompress in between them. Then you remember that Liverpool's last bit of midweek football was a will-sapping friendly at Rangers, and that this week's sees a trip to Stoke to face a side renowned for its ability to sap the will of opponents and their fans alike.

By Chris Wright

It wasn't so very long ago that we saw Sivasspor get a tarpaulin down at the side of the pitch and slaughter a sheep as a sacrifice to the Gods of goal difference, and now comes this Karsiyaka's attempt to upstage their fellow countryman.

By slitting a camel open and smearing it's blood on their player's faces (some of whom look decidedly undecided about the whole thing), some divine deity is duty-bound to afford the club the edge in the race for promotion from the Turkish second division which seems a little unlikely to us, but hey ho.

UZ, of SB Nation's Colorado Rapids blog Burgundy Wave, and I chatted, ahead of today's Philadelphia Union-Rapids game in Colorado. To read the second half of the discussion, over on Burgundy Wave, click here.

Scott Kessler: What do you think the outcome of Omar Cumming's return from the Gold Cup will be?

New Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre is convinced the Fenway Group will bring the good times back to Anfield.
Liverpool haven't won a trophy for five years but the club's new managing director insists a structure is being put in place to ensure that drought is addressed.
"I took great comfort when John Henry did his first interview on that famous day when we came down the steps at Slaughter and May," Ayre told the Liverpool Echo.