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The Premier League in Review: Liverpool get the Leicester Blues

The Premier League in Review: Liverpool get the Leicester Blues

Posted by | Feb 4, 2016 | , | 0 |

Whenever things aren’t going so well at Anfield, there’s a statistic that is rather instructive to refer back to. Liverpool have not finished below eighth place in the table in whichever division they’ve been playing in at the time since the end of the 1954/55 season. Unlike any other football club in England, there is no-one below a pensionable age supporting or otherwise involved with this particular club who can even remember what it’s like to finish below this position in an end of season league table. At the time of writing, Liverpool are in eighth place in the...

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Video of the Day: Leicester City vs Liverpool, April 1974

Video of the Day: Leicester City vs Liverpool, April 1974

Posted by | Feb 2, 2016 | | 0 |

Leicester City take on Liverpool this evening in a match which makes up the first of a triumvirate of games that many believe will determine whether Claudio Ranieri’s team can really last the course near the top of the Premier League table. When the two sides met on Boxing Day, Liverpool won by a single goal at Anfield, so it promises to be a difficult match, though Leicester may well consider themselves better rested than their opponents, having skipped a match last weekend on account of their elimination from the FA Cup in the Third Round of the competition....

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Video of the Day: Liverpool vs Derby County, January 1973

Video of the Day: Liverpool vs Derby County, January 1973

Posted by | Jan 31, 2016 | | 0 |

The easiest thing, they say, is not winning a trophy, but holding onto it. Over the years, a number of clubs have put a decent run of form together at the right time and lifted a title, but successfully defending it can be a significantly greater challenge. None of this, of course, is to detract from the achievement of Derby County in getting to be the champions of England in the first place. The following season, with added expectation brought about as a result of having been champions and fighting on two fronts – the club’s European Cup run...

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Video of the Day: Everton vs Liverpool, January 1981

Video of the Day: Everton vs Liverpool, January 1981

Posted by | Jan 26, 2016 | | 0 |

There’s nothing quite like a local derby, and there’s especially nothing quite like a local derby when one is pulled from the velvet bags in the FA Cup. Unlike the league, this is sudden death, where one of the two teams concerned will end its involvement either that day or after a replay. There are no opportunities to avenge a cup defeat for that particular season, at least. And where the balance of power between two local rivals isn’t quite even, that can be particularly useful for the underdogs in that particular equation. Everton had started the 1970s in...

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Video of the Day: Norwich City vs Liverpool, February 1980

Video of the Day: Norwich City vs Liverpool, February 1980

Posted by | Jan 21, 2016 | | 0 |

There are some moments in the history of English football that are preserved in a weird form of virtual aspic, captured on film and periodically replayed as representatives of those few seconds of precious genius that we all chase like addicts. So it is with Justin Fashanu’s goal at Carrow Road for Norwich City against Liverpool in a First Division match from February 1980, our Video of the Day for today. The turn on a sixpence and thunderous drive past a hapless Ray Clemence is, perhaps, the defining football moment of that year. It is a goal for the...

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