From the 2005 Champions League final to a Prenton Park classic, here are half a dozen of the best games of the noughties 1) Milan 3-3 Liverpool, 2005 Champions League final In 2001 a prankster named Karl Power crept into the Manchester United team photo ahead of their quarter-final second leg at Bayern Munich. But the Champions League final four years later featured, according to some observers, even...
Roma came from behind to beat nine-man Fulham last night after the London club had two players sent off. Diomansy Kamara put the Cottagers ahead in the 19th minute from the penalty spot after being brought down inside the area by Marco Andreolli. But Fulham shot themselves in the foot early in the second half, though, when substitute Erik Nevland was shown a straight red card three minutes after coming...
Liverpool's talismanic striker gave his side 87 minutes last night and left the pitch with his team one-up Fernando Torres is carrying a sportsman's hernia not a magic wand, and his pain will be all-consuming after a night when a Herculean effort counted for little in Liverpool's attempt to avoid elimination from the Champions League. For 87 minutes he dragged defenders across Stade Gerland, his longest...
Have your say on all of the day's big stories and send us your favourite links 9.50am: Good morning and welcome to our daily rolling sports blog. You're probably familiar with the concept now, but if not, the idea is this: throughout the day we will update this page with news, links, and what's expected to happen in the hours ahead. Time permitting, we'll also try to wade in below the line, answering...
The Manchester City forward is often regarded as being one of football's bad boys, but off the pitch there is a very different side to him It was the sort of modest home in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, where entire families feed themselves on the equivalent of 50p a day and the word "decor" simply does not figure in anyone's vocabulary. Craig Bellamy sat inside, trying to persuade...
If you’d asked me what the chances were of George Burley being kept on after the debacle in Norway, I’d have said they were negligible. But 180 minutes of football later (some of it good and most of it acceptable), he has turned it around – for now. In reality it’s not that much to go on. Whatever way you want to look at 4 points collected from 6 games against the Netherlands,...
I can't take any credit for this what so ever but this brilliant viral has been doing the rounds and I think it's well worth sharing. Technically some of it will seem a few days out of date now but unless you've got alzheimer's disease, I don't think you'll have much trouble "getting" it. I realise that this blog has been a bit football heavy recently and I appreciate that only football fans...
Norway 4-0 Scotland A shell-shocked Tartan Army watched their World Cup hopes diminish last night in Oslo. The result hinged on the controversial decision by referee Alain Hamer to send Gary Caldwell off after 32 minutes for tugging back John Carew. John-Arne Riise’s resulting free kick took a wicked deflection off Scott Brown’s outstretched leg and flew past the helpless Scotland goalkeeper...
• SFA chief executive: 'People were expecting us to be better' • Scots require six points from six to secure play-off The brutal simplicity of a play-off or a pay-off awaits George Burley next month after the Scottish Football Association reiterated his remit as Scotland manager is to qualify for the World Cup in South Africa. The prospect of a first World Cup finals appearance since 1998...
• Fletcher says 'top referees' should be in charge of big games • 'The ref got big decisions wrong and he has cost us the game' Darren Fletcher blamed the appointment of a referee from Luxembourg for Scotland's 4-0 thumping in their World Cup qualifier in Norway. The visitors were on top in Oslo last night before Alain Hamer booked defender Gary Caldwell twice in two minutes, reducing Scotland...
George Burley’s side pressed the self destruct button in Oslo last night and as a result seriously jeopardised the chances of Scotland claiming the runners up spot in a group already won by Holland. Former Liverpool man John Arne Riise started the scoring with a deflected free kick and two goals from Blackburn Rovers winger [...]
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