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Transfer rumours and paper review with Tony Evans – Friday, June 22
Here is the latest gossip from the back pages of the papers… Liverpool are interested in signing striker Fabio Borini, 21, who scored 10 goals in 26 games for Italian side Roma to make Italy’s Euro 2012 squad. Reds boss Brendan Rodgers worked with him at Chelsea and signed him on loan from the Blues […]
10th May 1986
Two second half goals from Ian Rush and one from Craig Johnston cancels out the opener in the first half from Gary Lineker as Liverpool beat local rivals, Everton, 3-1 in the FA Cup Final. The Cup Final win completed a domestic League and Cup double for Liverpool who also pipped Everton to the Division […]
9th May 2011
A Luis Suarez and Maxi Rodriguez inspired Liverpool thrashed Fulham at Craven Cottage 5-2 with a brilliant display that Fulham struggled to cope with all night. A Maxi double and a Dirk Kuyt third put Liverpool 3-0 up after 16 minutes. Two more second half goals from Maxi again, to complete a brilliant hat-trick – […]
Liverpool Dominate A Very Poor Chelsea – Liverpool 4 Chelsea 1
Liverpool ended their disappointing Premier League home campaign in style as they hammered Chelsea 4-1, a scoreline that flattered Roberto Di Matteo’s side. Right from the off Liverpool dominated Chelsea who had the dispirited looking Fernando Torres making his first return to Anfield in a blue shirt. He hit the bar in the first half […]
9th May 1992
Graeme Souness wins his first major trophy as Liverpool manager as Liverpool defeat Sunderland by 2-0 in a rain-soaked FA Cup Final at Wembley. Michael Thomas scored a brilliant volley to open the scoring for Liverpool two minutes into the second half. Ian Rush scored a second midway through the second half when he beat […]
8th May 1971
Charlie George scores the winner as Division One champions, Arsenal, come from behind to clinch a domestic League and Cup Double by beating Liverpool 2-1. Steve Heighway opened the scoring for Liverpool in the first minute of the extra-time period after the first 90 minutes finished 0-0. Eddie Kelly equalised ten minutes later before George’s […]
Liverpool v Chelsea
Well, it wasn’t to be. Yesterday’s defeat was quite hard to take in a way because I thought that Chelsea would have been there for the taking, especially after all their difficult games they’ve had recently. The way we played in the first half looked as though we’d gone 120 minutes with Napoli, Benfica and […]
5th May 1979
Bob Paisley clinched his third Division One title as Liverpool manager as they win the League for the 11th time. Liverpool beat Southampton 2-0 at Anfield to open up an unassailable lead at the top of the top ahead of soon-to-be-crowned European champions, Nottingham Forest. Ultimately, Liverpool won the League with ease by eight points […]
5th May 1966
Liverpool reached their first major European Final, but there was disappointment as Liverpool lost to Borussia Dortmund in the European Cup Winners Cup Final at Hampden Park, before a crowd of 41,657. Liverpool had previously beaten Celtic over two legs before a combined attendance of more than 130,000 in the semi-final but goals from Reinhard […]