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Liverpool Trophies
Division One winners: 1900-01, 1905-06, 1921-22, 1922-23, 1946-47, 1963-64, 1965-66, 1972-73, 1975-76, 1976-77, 1978-79, 1979-80, 1981-82, 1982-83, 1983-84, 1985-86, 1987-88, 1989-90
Division Two winners: 1893-94, 1895-96, 1904-05, 1961-62
FA Cup winners: 1964-65, 1973-74, 1985-86, 1988-89, 1991-92, 2000-01, 2005-06
League Cup winners: 1980-81, 1981-82, 1982-83, 1983-84, 1994-95, 2000-01, 2002-03
European Cup/Champions League winners: 1976-77, 1977-78, 1980-81, 1983-84, 2004-05
UEFA Cup winners: 1972-73, 1975-76, 2000-01
European Super Cup winners: 1977, 2001, 2005
Super Cup winners: 1985-86

Wigan chairrman David Whelan has attacked Liverpool‘s demand for more TV cash, saying that such a move would kill the heart and soul of football.

Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre said yesterday the bigger clubs in the Premier League should get a greater share of the £1.4billion overseas TV cash, instead of the current arrangement where the revenue is shared equally between all 20 clubs.

Ayre’s comments have not gone over well with Manchester City, Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea are believed to be against a change in how the TV revenue is spli.

With the influx of foreign ownership in the Premier League I have been waiting for one of them to challenge the deal that Premier League TV rights are divided equally amongst the clubs. So I cannot say that I am surprised to read that Liverpool have announced they will lead a challenge for overseas TV rights to be sold on a club-by-club basis.

Liverpool’s managing director, Ian Ayre, has insisted the break-up of the established broadcasting deal, worth £3.2bn in total to all Premier League clubs for 2010?13, is “a debate that has to happen”, with the Anfield club in favour of the Spanish model that allows Barcelona and Real Madrid to negotiate individual contracts that dwarf their domestic and European rivals.

It seems like 2 of the top 4 teams in the EPL has shelved their hopes for winning the Premier League title at least for another year as Arsenal manager Arsene Wnger becomes the latest coach to surrender the tile to the current top 3 Manchester City, Manchester United and Chelsea.

Athough Liverpool‘s Suarez was quoted as making the same sentiments while speaking to reporters, there is still no official word from manager Kenny Dalglish as to the ambitions of Liverpool in regards to the title.

Manchester City put a turbulent week behind them with a 4-0 victory at Blackburn Rovers on Saturday as Premier League leaders Manchester United rode their luck in a 2-0 win over Norwich City.

City, who suspended Carlos Tevez following his refusal to come off the bench in the UEFA Champions League defeat at Bayern Munich, bounced back in style with goals from Adam Johnson, Mario Balotelli, Samir Nasri and Stefan Savic.

The win left City level with United on 19 points after seven games, with the two Manchester rivals four points clear of Newcastle United in third place.

Manchester City joined Manchester United at the top of the Premier League table, beating Everton in the day’s early game, with Sir Alex Ferguson’s men held to a 1-1 draw at Stoke City later on.

Roberto Mancini’s side put the pressure on as second half substitutes Mario Balotelli and James Milner gave the blue half of Manchester a 2-0 win over a poor Everton side.

Big welcome sight for all Liverpool fans last night against Brighton in the Carling Cup was the appearance of  Steven Gerrard for the last 15 minutes. The Liverpool skipper has endured the longest lay-off of his career, stretching six months and covering 17 matches, after surgery on a niggling groin problem that had previously restricted him to just 482 minutes under Dalglish.

Gerrard instantly grasped the captain’s armband from Jamie Carragher, and his reappearance, and the win, will help rebuild confidence shaken by successive defeats at Stoke City and Tottenham Hotspur.

They have two of the richest football owners in the world, so it should not be a surprise that Manchester City and Chelsea were once again the big spenders in the summer transfer market.

Manchester City spent well over 120 million euros last summer, and for the second year in a row, the club was the biggest spender, albeit only a comparitively modest 92.2 million euros this time around. Almost half of that expenditure was dedicated to one player int he form of Sergio Aguero. City also snapped up Samir Nasri, Stefan Savic and Gael Glichy, while Owen Hargreaves arrived on a free transfer on Deadline Day.

La scritta e il luogo fuori dallo stadioIt would not be a transfer deadline without a surprise Liverpool and Chelsea deal. In January it was Torres going to Chelsea and this transfer window is was the sale of Raul Meireles to Chelsea for around £12m, who has signed at four-year deal with Chelsea.

Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas worked briefly with the Portugal international at Porto before Meireles moved to Anfield last August. He is currently injured with a collarbone problem suffered at Exeter City in the Carling Cup.

Earlier this week, Liverpool turned down an offer of £8m plus Yossi Benayoun, but Chelsea came back with a higher bid after Spurs turned down a reported bid of £30m plus Alex for Luka Modric.

There were goals aplenty for some of Europe’s leading clubs this weekend as both halves of Manchester celebrated big wins, Real Madrid kicked off the Liga season with a 6-0 win and PSV Eindhoven racked up half a dozen strikes of their own.

Premier League
Manchester United were rampant as they handed a depleted Arsenal side their biggest defeat of the Premier League era, Wayne Rooney notching a hat-trick and Ashley Young scoring twice in an 8-2 triumph. The win took United ahead of Manchester City, after their neighbours posted an eye-catching 5-1 win at Tottenham Hotspur with Edin Džeko hitting four. Elsewhere Chelsea beat Norwich City 3-1 and Liverpool beat Bolton Wanderers y the same scoreline.

Inspired by a tremendous performance again by Luis Suarez, produced an electrifying performance at Anfield, Liverpool beat 3-1 to move top of the Premier League.

Jordan Henderson and Charlie Adam scored their first Liverpool goals and with Downing and Suarez in terrific form, Kenny Dalglish has his Liverpool side is looking very much like Champions League contenders.

At Stamford Bridge, Didier Drogba was carried off with a head injury before Juan Mata marked his Chelsea debut with a late goal in a 3-1 win against Norwich City.