PORTO COACH Jesualdo Ferreira insists he has no interest or knowledge of Liverpool’s current problems and intends to ensure the Portuguese champions’ passage into the last 16.

LIVERPOOL manager Rafael Benitez is calling for his players to keep their cool as they are pitched straight into the combustible atmosphere of a Merseyside derby on their return from the international break.

Tear gas canisters were fired in Istanbul today to prevent hundreds of leftist protesters from marching to mark the 30th anniversary of a deadly Turkish May Day rally.