Liverpool's Rafa Benitez should be criticised for what he does, not what he...
Ronnie Whelan, it is fair to say, is not an ardent supporter of Rafael Benitez, the Liverpool manager who is coming to define the word beleaguered. Speaking on RTE Sport in the aftermath of Liverpool's...
View ArticleRafa Benitez can get set for another Liverpool miracle
Without too much effort, you can find odds of 11/2 against Liverpool qualifying for the knock-out stages of the Champions League. With David Ngog set to lead the line for Rafael Benitez’s team against...
View ArticleCristiano Ronaldo can't lift Real Madrid's curse
Commentators and sportscasters the world over, when they leave commentating school, go out into their booths and studios repeating the same four words over and over again: "Find the killer phrase."...
View ArticleJose Mourinho proves Europe's resistance is not so futile
And so, one by one, the Premier League's victims strike back. First, Lyon, representatives of the land and the league plundered more than any other as English football's taste for the exotic grew into...
View ArticleBayern Munich's Champions League win over Lyon has Andy Gray thinking of England
It may have gone unnoticed in some quarters but after the last of the English sides in this year’s Champions League bowed out, the rest of Europe took a deep breath and decided to carry on regardless....
View ArticleThe unlikeliest hero emerges from Liverpool's age of ordeal
Anfield in recent months has hardly been the stamping ground of heroes. The last year has been one of witnessing each and every one of Liverpool's most revered icons fall from grace. Steven Gerrard,...
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