Tag: Liverpool

EPL Injury Report: Steven Gerrard To Undergo Shoulder Surgery

EPL Injury Report: Steven Gerrard To Undergo Shoulder Surgery

Liverpool captain and legend will miss the rest of the season for The Reds due to a left shoulder injury that requires surgical repair. Gerrard told The Sun that he originally injured his shoulder three months ago against Oldham in the FA Cup, but has played through the pain. He said since the original injury [...]

Daniel Sturridge, Frank Lampard Goalfests Celebrated in EPL Week 37

Daniel Sturridge, Frank Lampard Goalfests Celebrated in EPL Week 37

In the penultimate weekend of the Premier League season, only two sides managed to keep clean sheets across eight fixtures, once again highlighting the value for entertainment held in the English top flight. With Arsenal, Manchester City and newly-crowned FA Cup champions Wigan Athletic still to feature in this week’s meetings, the action doesn’t look [...]

PSV Manager Dick Advocaat Suggests Kevin Strootman Should Move Abroad

PSV Manager Dick Advocaat Suggests Kevin Strootman Should Move Abroad

PSV Eindhoven manager Dick Advocaat will not have won any fans over after admitting that the time is right for star midfielder Kevin Strootman to leave the club in the summer. PSV finished second in the Dutch Eredivisie this season courtesy of a better goal difference than third-placed Feyenoord. For long periods of the season, [...]

Fernando Torres and His Return By The Numbers

Fernando Torres and His Return By The Numbers

Fernando Torres has come under a lot of scrutiny in recent years. Ever since his transfer from Liverpool to Chelsea, the Spanish international has failed to deliver on the hefty price the west London club splashed for him. Chelsea did indeed buy him at a strange time. Though he’d been very effective for Liverpool since [...]

Liverpool Analysis: Projected first team against Fulham

Liverpool Analysis: Projected first team against Fulham

Fulham have been on a backward skid in form having lost their last four matches. Liverpool on the other hand continue to prove they have bite without Luis Suarez having one and drawn their two matches since the Uruguayan’s suspension. Liverpool in all have not lost since their match against Southampton in late March, however [...]

Transfer Analysis: Five English Premier League Strikers That Could Be On the Move This Summer

Transfer Analysis: Five English Premier League Strikers That Could Be On the Move This Summer

SWOL’s look at the top Premier League players that could transfer this summer has taken in defenders and midfielders, and now we take a look at five strikers who might be on the move. From an erratic but outrageously talented African forward who continues to perplex to an England star perhaps in need of a [...]

Roma to Snatch Ajax Star Toby Alderweireld’s Signature from Premier League Suitors

Roma to Snatch Ajax Star Toby Alderweireld’s Signature from Premier League Suitors

One year on from selling former club captain Jan Vertonghen to Tottenham Hotspur, Ajax are set to lose another of their defensive stars after it became apparent that Toby Alderweireld was closing in on a switch to AS Roma. It’s been apparent for some time that the Belgian star would be leaving the Amsterdam Arena [...]

Liverpool News: Steven Gerrard out for remainder of season

Liverpool News: Steven Gerrard out for remainder of season

According to an announcement on Liverpool’s official website captain Steven Gerrard is going to miss the remainder of the season. Reports from the Red’s camp confirm that the soon to be 31-year-old midfielder has had a nagging shoulder injury for some time that has reached the point of no return. Gerrard is scheduled to have [...]

English Football Weekly Wrap: Weekend Stutters, Rafa’s Legacy, Promotion Watch

English Football Weekly Wrap: Weekend Stutters, Rafa’s Legacy, Promotion Watch

In my weekly column on SWOL, I take a look back at the weekend’s English Premier League and domestic cup action and the talking points that it throws up, as well as any significant news related to English football at large. Follow me @theredarmchair for regular updates throughout the week. EPL Round 36 Recap: United Get Complacent, [...]

Liverpool vs Everton: Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher reflect on 0-0 draw (Video)

Liverpool vs Everton: Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher reflect on 0-0 draw (Video)

Liverpool failed to be able to topple their close neighbors Everton at Anfield this afternoon as the Merseyside Derby ended in a frustrating 0-0 draw for both sides. While Everton fans will take it as another reasons to celebrate as they are now close to ensuring they will finish above Liverpool for two consecutive seasons, [...]

Liverpool: What Luis Suarez ‘Garra Charrua’ banner means

Liverpool: What Luis Suarez ‘Garra Charrua’ banner means

Luis Suarez has become an icon of the Liverpool faithful since his arrival from Ajax several seasons ago. He has been hammered by controversy season after season and match after match, but one thing is for certain. That is that he will never give up his fight to be the best he can be. During [...]

Liverpool Transfer News: Luis Suarez Going Nowhere

Liverpool Transfer News: Luis Suarez Going Nowhere

The belief that Luis Suarez could be leaving Liverpool has once again been laid to rest. According to the player himself, Suarez is going nowhere. Despite his frustration over the 10-match ban he is currently serving preventing him from playing in Sunday’s Merseyside Derby with Everton. “I have a deal with Liverpool and this is [...]

Merseyside Derby: Preview and Prediction

Merseyside Derby: Preview and Prediction

This Sunday, seventh placed Liverpool will host sixth placed Everton in another installment of the Merseyside Derby. With the season winding down, not only is this match important for bragging rights, rather the match is a pivotal decider of which club will represent the English Premier League in the Europa League next season. Though Liverpool [...]

Five Worldwide Football Matches you should watch this Weekend

Five Worldwide Football Matches you should watch this Weekend

Though many of the major leagues are just weeks away from reaching the end of their campaigns, there appears to be no sign of the action slowing down just yet. This weekend plays host to some of the biggest games of the football calendar, with high-profile fixtures featured from right across the globe. With scores [...]

Henk Veldmate: Luis Suarez Has the Mentality of a Child

Henk Veldmate: Luis Suarez Has the Mentality of a Child

Luis Suarez has just received his ten match ban from the English FA and is all over newspapers around the world. The prolific Uruguayan and Liverpool striker has been a revelation in Merseyside since the departure of Fernando Torres. Suarez was sold to Liverpool from Ajax in 2011 but before his time at the Dutch [...]

EPL Week 35: Frank Lampard, Romelu Lukaku and Star Performers for Liverpool

EPL Week 35: Frank Lampard, Romelu Lukaku and Star Performers for Liverpool

With the Premier League title now decided, attention turns slightly southward in the top flight in terms of pivotal action. As such, it’s from the likes of Liverpool, Manchester City, Chelsea and West Bromwich Albion that this week’s biggest players all arrive. But who was their club’s man marvel this time around? With fights still [...]