Luis Suarez And so the villain enters stage left. After nine games out, Luis Suarez returned for twenty minutes on Monday, but it will be his second game that will raise the intrigue this Premier League weekend. Suarez announced this week that Manchester United fans booing him would simply make him play better, but one [.

Thierry Henry went from hero to villain in just a matter of days when, following his amazing match winner against Leeds in the FA Cup, he remonstrated with an Arsenal fan to come onto the pitch after the game to have a word with the Frenchman.

Arsenal lost the match 3-2 with Swansea playing some excellent passing football, much in the same style as Arsenal, but won the game following a loose pass from Henry.

It's a bit of an unexpected grab-bag today, with plenty of newsworthy tidbits but not a whole lot to really sink our teeth into, so we've got a few highlights to hit before getting to the video that might normally round out a lazy Sunday here on the Liverpool Offside:

* The third round is done, the fourth round is drawn, and because it simply had to happen it means that Liverpool will host Manchester United in the FA Cup on either January 28th or 29th.

This isn't going to be overly analytical of the game, THFC1882 is about to go on it's Christmas holidays! Before that though we take a brief look at Tottenham Hotspur versus Chelsea from The Lane.

On the balance of play both sides will have been satisfied with a point.

Former Liverpool hero turned villain Fernando Torres has come out to defend his choice of joining rivals Chelsea in January. Torres who has struggled to replicate his Liverpool form with Chelsea revealed that he shocked by the way his former fans were behaving.

In an interview with Spanish TV station Canal+ Liga, Torres was quoted as saying that there was more to his move than what many people know or would like to believe.

By Amy Eustace

"People just don't know how good Lucas is," prophesised Rafael Benitez, three years ago to the month. It was December 2008, and Liverpool had found themselves in a somewhat unfamiliar position by recent standards. Top of the table, ahead of the pack and with just one defeat for the first half of the season away to Spurs, the only problem was a smattering of frustrating draws.

When people use the word 'saga', it's usually in relation to a beloved film franchise or some centuries old epic tale, however this saga doesn't take place in a galaxy far far away or in the pages of history, it all started when a world class footballer decided to swap the red half of Manchester for the blue.

Aston Villa 0-2 Liverpool: Bellamy Stars in Reds' Stroll

First-half goals from Craig Bellamy and Martin Skrtel gave Liverpool a comfortable victory over a lacklustre Aston Villa at Villa Park. The Reds were two-up within 15 minutes and, but for the woodwork denying them yet again, they could have racked up more against a Villa side which offered nothing in response.

Villa Park Match Zone: Stewart Downing cements villain status

They cursed his departure in the summer and on Sunday Aston Villa's supporters were reacquainted with Stewart Downing for the first time since his £20million move to Liverpool.

View the full story here: The Mail

A news article on 2011-12-18 22:00:18 from: The Mail

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Here! Have some points!

It's easy to sit here and criticise, of course.

So here goes.

Why on earth did we sit back and (seemingly) play for a 0-0 draw against a fragile team who let's face it we match up very well against?

When Swansea scored (a fluke, but a fluke that was absolutelydeserved) Fulham woke up and attacked, and for half an hour gave Swansea a relative pasting.

As pantomime season moves swiftly in, Wolves served up their live performance of Jekyll and Hyde as the team, and especially their goalkeeper, went from villain to hero over 90 minutes on this soggy Sunday afternoon. The welcome three points ...
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Happy Cyber-Monday everyone! I've been scanning the internet using some of the new apps that check for deals and its been making things a lot easier. Although it feels like cheating when you don't even have to work on your search-fu to find bargains. Cyber-Monday is another day for celebrating the glories of American consumerism by blowing off work.

Thomas Vermaelen was the villain turned hero last night when he scored at both ends of the pitch to ensure Arsenal earned a point form their fixture against Fulham. The draw means that the Gunners remain in position 6 in the EPL table.

However, Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger had other reasons as to why his side performed the way they did.

And so it ends. Ninety-three years of England's ignominious and unpatriotic failure to wear poppies on their shirts comes to a deserved end, and a nation can rest easy, safe in the knowledge that now football has fallen into line, people will actually start wearing poppies for the first time ever.

In defence of Luis Suárez | Scott Murray

The Liverpool striker has become a pariah in the Premier League thanks to little English football's strange kind of logic Having showcased his Hand of God tribute act at the last World Cup, and sunk his gnashers into a fellow pro while at Ajax, Luis Suárez was a ready-formed cartoon villain when he washed up on these shores last January.

If Arsene Wenger's career was a kung fu movie, we would be in the part where the search is on for the villain who poisoned Arsene's rice. Taking cues from the charismatic Frenchman, all eyes would be on the usual suspects, the media, referees, disloyal players, Roy Keane, Sam Allardyce, and the most obvious targets, those pin-stripe-suited figures throwing around Scrooge McDuck money for fun.

Rangers profit on and off the pitch against lacklustre Liverpool

• Lee McCulloch scores only goal of a drab friendly match • Rangers benefit financially as 4,000 fans follow Liverpool For Rangers, there proved a football benefit to a friendly encounter which almost certainly had finance as a motivating factor.

Manchester City went two points clear of neighbours United after comprehensively beating Aston Villa 4-1 at the Etihad stadium today, with the pick of the goals being City's fourth scored by former Villain James Milner.

Liverpool striker Luis Suarez was the villain in the eyes of Everton fans after he was involved in the sending-off of Jack Rodwell before scoring the second goal in a controversial 216th Merseyside derby victory.
The Uruguay international was berated as a cheat by the majority of Goodison Park - and appeared to have a coin thrown at him - after making the most of Rodwell's sliding tackle midway through the first half.

It is highly likely that the media focus on this game will centre upon Gary Cahill. No doubt he is a good player (though he was crap against MU) but the interest has little to do with his playing ability and more to do with the conflict between the clubs off pitch. Should we be surprised that Gartside decided to go public with the transfer negotiation and made a prat of himself?

It is highly likely that the media focus on this game will centre upon Gary Cahill. No doubt he is a good player (though he was crap against MU) but the interest has little to do with his playing ability and more to do with the conflict between the clubs off pitch. Should we be surprised that Gartside decided to go public with the transfer negotiation and made a prat of himself?

Landon Donovan and Mexico go hand-in-hand like meat and rabid dogs. It seems that every time Donovan plays against Mexico, be it the national team or a Mexican club, Donovan seems to bring out some emotions from Mexican supporters.
He certainly has drawn some emotions out from the locals here in Morelia.

Sepp Blatter voted 'celebrity villain' of the decade

FIFA boss tops list ahead of Sir Fred Goodwin and Ashley Cole

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There was no more margin for error in today's WWC quarterfinal game between the US and Brazil. The team that lost goes home, while the winning team books a ticket to the semifinals on Wednesday. Twitter and Facebook blew up as the match progressed and more and more fans logged on to see what was happening.

Stunnah! To me, it was shocking mostly because justice was served at a time that it seemed to have left the building. Even more than that, it was amazing theater because it had everything required. Marta ("The pantomime villain" according to Ian Darke), was the perfect foil, diving relentlessly, complaining with such vehemence that she earned a yellow and turning any nonpartisan fans against

There was no more margin for error in today's WWC quarterfinal game between the US and Brazil. The team that lost goes home, while the winning team books a ticket to the semifinals on Wednesday. Twitter and Facebook blew up as the match progressed and more and more fans logged on to see what was happening.

By THOMAS FLOYD

WASHINGTON - For D.C. United, how new acquisitions Dwayne De Rosario and Brandon McDonald would fare in their debuts was the storyline entering Saturday's meeting with the Philadelphia Union. But for the second straight week, the team's inability to hold onto a late lead at home will steal the postgame headlines.

For the first time in their history, Argentina's biggest club River Plate have been relegated to the second division after a 3-1 aggregate defeat to Belgrano at the Estadio Monumental.

The result was followed by mass riots as furious River Plate fans set fire to cars and clashed with police outside the stadium.

Call it an episode of Chester Shore.

Shots shots shots-shots-shots. But not much game.

Breaking down the defense

The Union huffed and puffed (and an appearance by Hugh Jackman nearly blew the house down), but Jimmy Nielsen and shooting display worthy of a Die Hard villain left Philadelphia with a single point from two matches against inferior competition.

An article by Alex. You can follow Alex on Twitter @someteamupnorth and view his articles on his blog. He's been likened to a horse, had semi-serious cannibalism allegations thrown at him, and is theoretically barred from the world's second largest continent. This could easily be the story of a villain in a bad ‘B' movie, [.

An article by Alex. You can follow Alex on Twitter @someteamupnorth and view his articles on his blog. He's been likened to a horse, had semi-serious cannibalism allegations thrown at him, and is theoretically barred from the world's second largest continent. This could easily be the story of a villain in a bad ‘B' movie, [.

An article by Alex. You can follow Alex on Twitter @someteamupnorth and view his articles on his blog. He's been likened to a horse, had semi-serious cannibalism allegations thrown at him, and is theoretically barred from the world's second largest continent. This could easily be the story of a villain in a bad ‘B' movie, [.

An article by Alex. You can follow Alex on Twitter @someteamupnorth and view his articles on his blog. He's been likened to a horse, had semi-serious cannibalism allegations thrown at him, and is theoretically barred from the world's second largest continent. This could easily be the story of a villain in a bad ‘B' movie, [.

An article by Alex. You can follow Alex on Twitter @someteamupnorth and view his articles on his blog. He's been likened to a horse, had semi-serious cannibalism allegations thrown at him, and is theoretically barred from the world's second largest continent. This could easily be the story of a villain in a bad ‘B' movie, [.

An article by Alex. You can follow Alex on Twitter @someteamupnorth and view his articles on his blog. He's been likened to a horse, had semi-serious cannibalism allegations thrown at him, and is theoretically barred from the world's second largest continent. This could easily be the story of a villain in a bad ‘B' movie, [.

So here it is.

The first blog of a new era at THFC1882.

I had a lot of trouble deciding what I wanted to write about. There are a number of issues dividing Spurs fans at the moment, not least the future of the manager & the possible return of a hero turned villain.

In America they have a saying: flags (trophies) fly forever, and surely this applies to Birmingham City. They've won a major(ish) trophy and ought to be promoted quite quickly. So on balance I'd say that they had a pretty good season.

Same applies to Blackpool, who had no business going even as close at they did to staying up.

At the risk of letting light in upon magic, I sometimes prepare a few things to say before the game starts. Bit of background, some context maybe, the key themes to put the match into the context of what's gone on before. For this one, as recently as last week I resolved to stand back from the clamour about this being the 4th place decider.

He shoots from distance. The keeper sees it early and gets everything behind it.

Ultimately it comes down to the keeper. Number one, at the back, unique in that he and only he has the precious gift of being able to use his hands to repel the voracious attackers. Sure there are tactics. he's part of a team, the back four is really a back five, with him in a crucial role.