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Pick your Liverpool team to beat Arsenal and go top


Liverpool/Arsenal, Premier League, 8pm, Sky Sports 1

With Steven Gerrard still out injured, the main point of contention is whether Lucas should keep his place. We’ve decided that Yossi Benayoun is the better option and would also opt for Daniel Agger over Martin Skrtel, who hasn’t impressed us as much recently as he did earlier in the season:

The Spoiler’s Liverpool team to face Arsenal

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Posted: April 21st, 2009 by Michael Lintorn

ITV show adverts instead of boring Merseyside Derby


TV blunder helps nation miss late goal

Nineteen-year-old midfielder Dan Gosling will always have the memory of steering in a 118th minute winner that saw Everton progress to the fifth round of the FA Cup ahead of Liverpool. Unfortunately, most ITV viewers will not have this memory, thanks to Tic Tacs.

Aware that the Merseyside Derby was dreadfully boring, someone at ITV decided the nation would be much better off with a set of adverts instead. Unfortunately, the timing wasn’t great, as ITV were forced to cut back to Everton players celebrating their last gasp winner.

Aside from Lucas Leiva’s dismissal and some socks on the pitch, nothing else happened. If you must, check out the highlights after the jump…

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Posted: February 5th, 2009 by Ryan Bailey

The ‘players to watch at the Olympics’ XI


Feast your eyes on some football players in China

Alexandre Pato

Perhaps one day someone will start a sentence with “there’s an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman” without it being a joke about people in boxes saying “potatoes” - it could even be used to introduce a Great British football line up. How wonderful would that be? Although, of course, the Irishman would have to come from the less green-grassy part of the emerald isle, and more the cobbled street bit where horses run wild (that’s the north, right?). Until that day, though, we’re going to have to content ourselves by gazing jealously at the other countries who get to call their footballers Olympians. Here’s eleven to keep a hungry eye on this year…

GK Brad Guzan, USA
Aston Villa’s (other) new American goalkeeper called Brad, the USA’s decision to make him one of their three over-23 players - he turns 24 during the tournament - shows just how great he is. That, of course, will count for nothing when he gets to Villa and warms the bench for the next decade, as Friedel becomes steadily more decrepit but still brilliant.

DL Marcelo, Brazil
Real Madrid signed the left wing-back in 2007 and he became a regular starter last season, pushing Gabriel Heinze into the centre. Unsurprisingly, he gets compared to Roberto Carlos - everyone does - and found the net on his international debut against Wales.

DC Vincent Kompany, Belgium
For those who spend their weekends playing Football Manager instead of talking to girls, you already know this guy, he’s one of the best buys in the game, damn it! And as it turns out, the 22-year-old isn’t too shabby in real life either. Right now he’s at Martin Jol’s Hamburg, and The Spoiler’s computerised West Ham.

DC Ezequiel Garay, Argentina
With all the Ronaldo talk this summer, Garay’s arrival at the

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Posted: August 7th, 2008 by Josh Burt