Dirk Kuyt found the back of the net for the first time this season to send Manchester United crashing out of yet another competition and propel the Reds into the 5th round of the FA Cup. A header from Daniel Agger and a Park Ji-Sung effort saw the teams the heading for a replay before the Dutchman, who carried on his welcome habit of scoring against United, ran…
It’s during those last few minutes, when the clock can’t tick fast enough and you’re afraid to blink, that you begin to remember all the downright filthy things you’ve done in your life. Every piece of trash you talked, all the dastardly, despicable stuff you wouldn’t admit to in presence of God himself. In those…
I won’t lie; when I’m sick, I tend to be — in the very least — 85% meaner than normal. If you want to combine our downright embarrassing loss at the Reebok stadium on Saturday with my sinus nightmare, the beginning of the week saw me morph into one of the worst people on the…
The Dutch Master knows when it's time to shine...
Liverpool FC have increased their international presence by opening a football academy in Cairo, Egypt. This will offer many children the opportunity to learn to play the Liverpool Way.
Craig, you can go on and brush your shoulders off.
Hybrid match review / match preview for the weekend to follow. It’s late and I’ve been drinking again.
Right, then. Who's thirsty?
...and Steinsson makes it three...
HA! THEY DON'T READ THE NEWS DESK!
JUSTICE.
The News Desk has asked you to sign petitions before and we’re going to keep on doing it until there’s none left to sign. Anne Williams’ son Kevin was one of the tragic victims of the Hillsborough Stadium disaster. The lad was only 15 years old when he died and his mother has been waiting 22 years for justice. The original inquest into his death, as well as those of many others from that day, was riddled with corruption and the suppression of vital evidence that has prevented those reeling from the loss of their loved ones to gain closure. Please take a few minutes out of your day to sign the petition and make sure you confirm the email that will be sent to you or else your signature will not count. The petition closes on the 19th of the month and is currently short of reaching the goal of 100,000 signatures.
All Ur Stadium Are Belong to Us.
If you read An Epic Swindle: 44 Months with a Pair of Cowboys, you already know the proposed stadium design was one of the early rifts between Hicks and Gillette. Early on, it was clear the club needed more seating to increase revenue to be competitive. A sensible design was mocked up in 2003 and approved. The new stadium would have increased the capacity to a sensible 60,000 with room to grow. Unfortunately, no one had the money to pay for it. Hicks and Gillette took over in 2006 and Tom Hicks shredded the plans and hired a Dallas-based firm to design a spaceship looking monstrosity.
The Hicks plans have officially been buried forever as FSG as opted to proceed with the original stadium design from 2003. Using this design means they can tweak it a bit without having to get designs re-approved by the planning people which apparently takes years…and years…and years. This really is not surprising news at all. Judging by early reports a few months ago and even comments from Tom Werner and John W. Henry, it seemed that this would be the eventual course of action. The bigger question, however, is what shall this new home be called? Naming rights are key for the development so it has to be called SOMETHING.
What do you think, Kopites? If you had your choice of sponsors, who would it be? Would it be called Pepsi Arena? McDonald’s Park? Qantas Field? The News Desk would personally go for something like Trojan Personal Massager Bowl, but the News Desk is a sick little monkey.
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