AS we all know, there’s nothing Liverpool fans like doing more than blaming others for their misfortunes — something that Howard Webb will have been chuckling about this week, no doubt.

SO the transfer window slams down on our fingers again, and who were they reaching towards?

Bells rang out tonight in Liverpool to mark the 25th anniversary of the Heysel football disaster.

THERE was a distinctly solemn atmosphere when I arrived slightly late for the start of this year’s Annual Congress in Newcastle’s Slieve Donard Hotel.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy

The BBC has received more than 1,000 complaints about violent scenes and references to the Hillsborough disaster in 'EastEnders'.

STEVE McCLAREN must have wondered if he had wandered in to an episode of ‘Life on Mars’.

IT’S NICE when you can bring people together isn’t it? The other two (no prizes for guessing) have been sniping away at each other all season. Enter the Scousers, and all is harmony once more. Ah, bliss.

Liverpool chief executive Rick Parry today expressed his relief after the holders avoided Everton in the draw for the third qualifying round of the Champions League.

WE'VE come full circle, haven't we? Forty years and three weeks ago, the first of what became known as The Great Anfield European Nights took place. Our opponents were from Milan.

Clubs could be deducted points or even kicked out of Europe in a throwback to Heysel under a new get-tough policy starting next season, UEFA announced today.

Juventus 0 Liverpool 0 (Liverpool win 2-1 on aggregate)

Liverpool forced a goalless draw against Italian giants Juventus to ensure Premier League representation in the Champions League final in Istanbul on May 25.

ITALY’S media praised Liverpool supporters for their tributes to the victims of the Heysel tragedy, while criticising the behaviour of a section of Juventus fans at Tuesday’s Champions League quarter-final at Anfield.

THE quarter-final draw for the Champions’ League; the straight for home in the Premiership; a Merseyside derby with significant European implications; and the renewal of World Cup qualifying – spring is sprung and all of a sudden it seems we’ve arrived at the business end of the football season.

Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez predicts his side will overcome Juventus to reach the Champions League semi-finals, as the two clubs vowed to use the opportunity of their meeting to mark the 20th anniversary of the Heysel disaster.