Merseyside Police are hoping Liverpool supporters on their way to the club’s Champions League tie with Roma will come forward with footage and eyewitness accounts of an attack which left a Co Meath father in a critical condition.

Liverpool City Council insists plans for the regeneration of the Anfield area remain on track.

Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks has blasted UEFA’s claims that the club’s fans are the worst-behaved in Europe, with the American claiming their spokesman William Gaillard “doesn’t know what he’s talking about”.

Tony Blair's right-hand man Alastair Campbell may have been the man who introduced Sven Goran Eriksson and Ulrika Jonsson for the first time.