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Gerrard Wins Sports Book Of The Year

Steven Gerrard’s book, ‘My Autobiography’, has scooped Best Sports Book (Sports Book Of The Year) at the Galaxy British Book Awards. Fair play to Stevie for it. I’ll confess, I own a copy of the book and have had it sitting beside my bed to read since, oh, maybe January… I will get there eventually.

Yet another crowning achievement for the skipper with the win. A boost also after he netted twice for England last night against Andorra. After England’s disaster against Israel at the weekend they needed to pull something out of the bag. Being booed off the pitch at half time certainly didn’t help matters but Gerrard’s brace should ease a few fears about the goal-shy English squad.

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Two Months For A Takeover - Not Bad

Eight weeks was the running time and Tom Hicks and George Gillett have effectively wrapped up their takeover process of Liverpool Football Club. The pair have secured 98.6% of the clubs shares and expect to take the club into private ownership shortly. Damn good going. David Moores has done well out of the deal, pocketing around €150m for his shares. Soccerway.com compares the club’s takeover to United’s takeover by the Glazers, interesting look.

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Stanley Park About To Get Bigger?

According to the Beeb this afternoon, Stanley Park is about to get bigger - if the new American owners have anything to do with it. Word has the work has stopped on the stadium altogether with George Gillett and Tom Hicks ordering a review of the stadiums plans with a view to increasing capacity, something which is going to take a few weeks to cover.

They could be looking for more bang for their buck but could you imagine a fortress 70,000 strong, or more? Is it actually possible given the size of the area to fit that much more seating in?

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Delighted, But Surprised With Champions League Draw

I would have put money on us drawing an English side. Then I would have put more money on one English club drawing another English club. Then I would have lost each bet, and thats the surprise. Was full sure we’d get Chelsea or Man U, or one Premier League club would draw another seen as there’s three of the last eight in there but we’ve all been kept apart.

Of course, what happens now is if we beat PSV, we face Chelsea in the semi final and avoid Man United until the final - subject of course that Chelsea beat Valencia and United beat Roma followed by the winners of Bayern Munich vs AC Milan (tie of the round). Liverpool vs United in the final - hell, Liverpool vs Milan in the final? Jesus, there’s food for thought!

Full draw was as follows….

• Bayern Munich vs AC Milan
• PSV Eindhoven vs Liverpool
• Roma vs Man United
• Chelsea vs Valencia

The first leg takes place over April 3rd and 4th with the return legs one week later on April 10 / 11

Away again this weekend so few updates I’m afraid!

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Walk On - Liverpool Into The Quarter Final

Liverpool, despite the fact that play in the second half wasn’t fantastic, have survived the late threats of Barcelona and advance to the quarter final of the Champions league.

Delighted with the result but they were dire in the second half, and will need to make up for that in the next stage of the game. It came down, I feel to Liverpool looking like they had accepted they were going through to the next round. We beat them well in the first leg and if Barcelona were THAT committed, Barcelona should have done the job in the Nou Camp instead of waiting until tonight, knowing that they were starting on an uphill slope.

We made chances, Gerrard came close but not close enough and play overall was pretty restricted. Listening to Eamon Dunphy now on the TV and he’s got some seriously strong points about Liverpool that I hope the team are listening to.

End of the day, the team are through, not in the most glorious of circumstances for the second leg but at least they know they gave it their 110% and then some when it was needed the first time around. Barcelona for their part also lacked, and Gudjohnsen’s goal should have come earlier for them to give the Spaniards a fighting chance for the final 15 minutes but again, not to be.

End of the story from Anfield, Liverpool on to the next round alongside Chelsea who took the win against Porto tonight 2-1 (3-2agg), Roma (who struck twice in the first half to dispose of Lyon 2-0) and Valencia who go through on away goals over Inter Milan.

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Live: Liverpool 0 - 1 Barcelona

Well, nuts to that anyway, Barcelona have struck first with a quarter of an hour left. Trust a former Chelsea man to grab the goal. Fifteen minutes to hang on or try produce something worthwhile in the second half.

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Onwards Towards Barca And The Last Eight

There’s just over an hour to tonights Anfield kick off against Barcelona with a place in the last eight of the Champions League at stake. Seriously disappointed that the team couldn’t do the business against United at the weekend, more annoyed that it was John O’Shea that scored, and seriously pissed that it was in the dying minutes of the game but what can you do!

At least we know at this stage the league is well done and dusted - but that doesn’t mean we roll over and concede tonight either.

Liverpool have a terrific chance of taking a place in the quarter finals of the Champions League as they lead Barcelona 2-1, shellshocked by their loss on home soil in the first leg.

Benitez is weary of the Spaniards attack

They need to score at least twice - we know they are an attacking side. I expect them to play with Ronaldinho, Samuel Eto’o and Lionel Messi up front and we are prepared for that.

But according to Steven Gerrard on the radio this evening, Liverpool have been keeping a close eye on Barcelona and their tactics of late which have changed a lot. Barca look to be a tricky side at the moment to pin down, at least tactically so we’ll have to see how that plays out. If Eto’o starts there could be some trouble at Anfield

Overall though, the feet are pretty grounded, and damn right they should be. A place in the last eight with the opportunity to dispose of Barcelona is nothing to be sniffed at. Steven Gerrard this time…

We are starting on Tuesday with the score at 0-0 and it would be suicidal for us to go into the game over-confident because we have a slight advantage

Deco and Lillian Thuram are expected to play after resting up ahead of the game while Liverpool themselves don’t have any real injury worries or scares going into this evening. If Liverpool go out tonight thinking the game is in the bag its going to be over before we’ve even started. Keep the heads down, the minds leveled and focused and don’t get carried away. We should really be playing as if we’re already 2-1 down and have it all to do - forget the cushion and finish the job here - onwards towards the last eight!

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So, United Tomorrow Eh?

Yet another weekend comes and I won’t be around to catch a big Liverpool game. The early kick off is a bit of a pain in the arse as I’ll be on the road heading to the Blog Awards tomorrow. Liverpool Access might not have made the cut but KilkennyMusic.com did. For anyone who’s reading and will be in attendance tomorrow, say ‘hi’ if you recognise me on the night.

The important thing about tomorrow though is that we’ve got a strong chance to put the skids on United’s mammoth run to the title. Odds are at this stage that it will be United and not Chelsea who will lift the trophy, what with Steven Gerrard already having conceded Liverpool’s title hopes. There’s always Europe, eh Stevie?

I’ll be delighted if someone knocks Rio Ferdinand about the place tomorrow seen as I won’t be there to do it myself. Last thing I want to see is that head-the-ball ruining Liverpool’s winning streak at Anfield, now at 30 games unbeaten. It has been over five years though since Liverpool have beaten United at Anfield in the league so historically at least, the stats are against us.

We’re currently 16 points behind United, a pretty uncatchable lead at this point in the season, but reducing that to 13 while cutting the gap between ourselves and Chelsea to just four points would make for a damn good run in to the end of the season.

Keep an eye on Ferdinand though. Four goals he’s scored for United, two of them against Liverpool, and both of them in the last two games. United bet us well in October gone but we can’t have that tomorrow night. Too much at stake for us, especially going into the Barcelona game.

I’m going to stick my neck out and call a Liverpool win. I’ll take it any way it comes - scrappy, sloppy - but I’ll be taking a win.

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