LIVERPOOL manager Rafael Benitez has warned the club’s current – and prospective future – owners that without major investment, they cannot continue to survive on reputation alone.

STEVE BRUCE is keeping his fingers crossed that Jordan Henderson and David Meyler can do for Sunderland what Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes have done for Manchester United.

LAST Saturday morning, I got a phone call from well-known racing photographer, Pat Healy, asking if I’d read page 24 of the Racing Post.

FORMER Manchester United striker Diego Forlan returned to haunt Liverpool as his extra-time strike sent Atletico Madrid into the Europa League final despite losing 2-1 at Anfield last night.

ROY KEANE is the second richest manager in Britain and Ireland with a fortune put at €34.7 million, according to a new survey.

ONCE a year for eight years now, Roy Keane has been popping up in Dublin to put in a long day of helping to promote the Irish Guide Dogs For The Blind.

FULHAM manager Roy Hodgson will not gamble on the fitness of striker Bobby Zamora in tonight’s Europa League semi-final second leg against Hamburg at Craven Cottage.

MANCHESTER UNITED’S chief executive David Gill admits he does not think the ‘green and gold’ protests are going to be abandoned in the coming season.

MANCHESTER UNITED defender Nemanja Vidic was forced to appeal to Serbia fans for calm as they rioted during his side’s embarrassing 1-0 friendly defeat by New Zealand in Klagenfurt on Saturday night.

CHELSEA chairman Bruce Buck insists there is “no chance’’ of Jose Mourinho signing Frank Lampard for Real Madrid.

THE Glazer family have slapped a ‘Not for Sale’ notice on Manchester United.

HAS there ever in the history of football been a league title won quite like this?

CHELSEA coach Carlo Ancelotti revealed how he was forced to tell Didier Drogba to forget his selfish ambitions to win the Golden Boot after Frank Lampard refused to let the Ivorian striker take a first-half penalty at Stamford Bridge yesterday.

THANK heavens for little boys.

ALEX FERGUSON has played down fears about Wayne Rooney’s fitness ahead of this summer’s World Cup.

THIS was not the ending Aston Villa had hoped for but it was still sufficient to earn the net result manager Martin O’Neill really wanted – sixth place.

THE enduring frustration for David Moyes must be that despite such a fine finish to the season, the ones that got away cost Everton an unlikely place in Europe.

CALL me cynical, negative, whatever you want, but I don’t consider that this has been anything like a vintage Premier League season.

CHELSEA coach Carlo Ancelotti has warned his players there is no room for error as they approach their biggest game of the season against Wigan.