For all the daunting figures of Manchester City’s financial superiority, there is one other statistic that brings it all back to a more basic human level.

Of all the cities in England, there’s a connection between Liverpool and Ireland that stretches far beyond the players who have represented Everton and Liverpool.

LET it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Please? When there’s no game, you can always pretend Johnson can pass, Torres is bothered and Skrtel knows what day it is.

Former England and Manchester City manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has admitted to being a life-long Liverpool fan and that he wants to manage the Barclays Premier League club.

RAFAEL BENITEZ is intent on writing his own chapter in Liverpool’s history as he eclipses the great Bill Shankly in tonight’s Champions League clash with Marseille.

MARK LAWRENSON believes Rafael Benitez could walk away from the “everyday farce” at Liverpool even if the club win the Champions League for the second time in four seasons.

Mark Lawrenson believes Rafael Benitez could walk away from the “everyday farce” at Liverpool even if the club win the Champions League for the second time in four seasons.

IRELAND’S new coach Kevin MacDonald was born on New Year’s Day 1960 in Inverness in Scotland and won a Division One medal as part of the Liverpool double-winning side of 1986.

Legendary Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar today insisted Champions League hero Jerzy Dudek “did a much better job” than he had when the Reds won the competition in 1984.

WHEN you have been forced to confront your mortality as recently as Gerard Houllier, the result of a football match is not, despite Bill Shankly’s famous observation, more important than life and death.

Liverpool legend Alan Hansen has written off his former club’s title hopes this season and claimed they hit “rock bottom” in their New Year’s Day defeat at Newcastle.

Roma striker Francesco Totti is a doubt for tomorrow’s Champions League clash with Liverpool because of an ankle injury.

Former Liverpool manager Joe Fagan has died following an illness at the age of 80.