The Manager by Barney RonayBarney Ronay is a difficult one to pin down. A senior sports writer for the Guardian, he is often the one to pick up ackward stories – a recent piece went by the title ‘Should Sepp Blatter Lock Himself in a Cupboard – and in

4pm, live in the US on espn2Last 4 head-to-head:0-2 Pompey (a) 12.19.093-2 Liverpool (a) 02.07.091-0 Liverpool (h) 10.29.084-1 Liverpool (h) 12.22.07Last three matches:Liverpool: 0-1 Lille (a); 0-1 Wigan (a); 2-1 Blackburn (h)Pompey: 1-2 Brum (h); 2-0

You have to feel for Alberto Aquilani. Game after game, he has to watch as Liverpool contrive to make even the worst of teams look like world beaters conscious that, perhaps, he could change the way the match is going. It is frustrating for us to know

ReinaJohnson Carragher Agger InsuaLucas MascheranoKuyt Gerrard BabelTorresGoals:Hazard 84As if Liverpool were going to line up or play any other way. A poor mans version of Liverpools best stifling European performances, and they finally paid for

This is not a happy time for Liverpool FC. On the pitch the team is struggling, off it there’s the ever looming shadow of financial melt-down. Yet there’s one area where the club remains as strong as ever: the support of its fans. That much was on

1:00pm, live in the US on DirecTV channel 462 (or in HD on 462-1).Last 3 matches:Liverpool: 0-1 Wigan (a); 2-1 Blackburn (h); 3-1 Unirea (a)Lille: 1-1 St Etienne (a); 1-2 Auxerre (h); 1-1 Fenerbahce (a)Round of 32:Liverpool: 3-1 Unirea (a); 1-0 Unirea

What would you rather take, a fourth place finish or winning the Europa League? That question has been put about quite often of late and in itself belies the lack of confidence that there is in the current team, as if there is some tacit understanding

It’s no better a day later. Nothing will happen until the end of the season, but I’m afraid nothing’s going to change either.The list of parties responsible for Liverpool’s poor season is overwhelmingly long, and includes any of the scapegoats you’d

It was Wigan this evening but it could easily have been Portsmouth or Sunderland or any other team that Liverpool have faced this season and simply failed to turn up. In fact, it feels as if Liverpool have failed to turn up this whole season. For this

There is something exciting about the thought of moving to an exotic new country and leaving everything behind. Even the most breathtaking of sights can be rendered unremarkable through familiarity. It is this desire to break free from the hold of