LIVERPOOL crashed out of the Champions League after a bitterly disappointing victory in the Hungarian capital last night. They needed to win to give themselves any chance of reaching the last 16, but events in Florence ended those dreams with Fiorentina achieving the victory they needed to qualify.

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Liverpool have Glen Johnson and Fabio Aurelio back from injury and in their starting line-up at the Ferenc Puskas Stadium for a Champions League match they must win to have any chance of staying in the competition beyond the group stages.

HUNGARIAN football legend Ferenc Puskas, the inspiration of the “Mighty Magyars” side that dominated world football in the 1950s, has died after a long illness. He was 79.

The Football Association paid a warm tribute to former Wolves manager Stan Cullis, who has died at the age of 85.