Liverpool

No man is a prophet in his own land, ask Fernando Torres about it. He, who joined Liverpool has matured a lot as a player and has become a Premier League star. With 21 goals on the Premier, the Spanish player is succeeding and developing a well known play style in Spain, but not admired as much as in England nowadays. Fernando Torres, the young natural from Madrid who started to shine on Atletico de Madrid, has become a fundamental player for Liverpool and Premier League while also competing to achieve the title of Golden Boot. Only Luiz Fabiano is opposing him with 23 goals.

The Torresfever as it’s known in England the passion for Fernando Torres, has become a new fashion of the current season, where match after match all talk about how wonderful is the Liverpool’s striker performance. His coach, Rafa Benítez, qualifies him as one of the best world’s strikers because “to score so many goals is not easy, even less for a recently arrived foreigner like Fernando. It is great for him and wonderful for the team”.




With this, Fernando Torres is the second more chanted name by Liverpool’s supporters, behind the so loved captain Steven Gerrard. With only the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals and the last Premier League matches left, we will see how many goals will Fernando score!

According to British newspaper Daily Mirror, Rafael Benitez is expected to become the new coach of FC Barcelona if Rijkaard leaves Camp Nou at the end of the season. This newspaper also insists Johan Cruyff, president Laporta’s closet adviser, has already made a report urging the club to ignore the options of Jose Mourinho an instead pursue Benitez to replace Rijkaard, who could leave Barcelona this summer. So far, Mourinho is the candidate that vice-presidents Ferran Soriano and Marc Ingla defend.If the Spanish manager decides to leave Anfield by the end of the season to come back to Spain, he could choose between Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid or Valencia, the club that Benitez left to join Liverpool.Anyway the Liverpool coach has frequently maintained he wants to stay at Anfield for the foreseeable future and still has more than two years remaining contract. But Barça president Jan Laporta has placed Benitez at the top of his wanted list to replace Frank Rijkaard as coach because despite guiding Barça to the Champions League quarter-finals, Rijkaard’s future at the Camp Nou is under threat because is behind Real in the Liga for the second successive season. However, any move for Benitez will only take place if Laporta himself remains at Barça beyond the end of the season.While there is a perceived lack of respect in England for his achievements at Liverpool, Benitez is one of the most sought-after coaches in Europe after leading the Anfield outfit to two Champions League finals in three years.

With four Premier League clubs through to the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League the question today is: Will two English teams attend the Final in Moscow next May? The prospect of Liverpool meeting Manchester United or a London derby between Arsenal and Chelsea, as in the last eight in 2003/04, is one for which the players would rather wait. Save it for the semis or Moscow is the general consensus.
It is the first time four sides from one country have reached the last eight and it is a measure of the Premier League’s dominance that two sides were able to win in San Siro to advance. No English side had ever beaten Milan there before Arsenal knocked out them last week and Liverpool’s victory against Inter was their first in the famous stadium, albeit at only the second attempt.
In 2003 three Italian teams reached the semi-finals, with Juventus and Milan ultimately contesting the final in Manchester. With the financial riches on offer, packed stadiums and the lure of European success, there is no doubting why the Premier League attracts the world’s top players. But there is a downside to this success. In the second legs only two English players started in Liverpool’s win at Inter, four in Chelsea’s victory against Olympiacos, none in Arsenal’s San Siro triumph and four in United’s defeat of Olympique Lyonnais.
That, though, is a matter for another day. For the moment, one man at least is looking forward to the possibility of facing off with the likes of Arsène Wenger and Rafael Benítez on an even bigger stage. “We will relish the chance to face another English team in the quarter-finals if that happens,” United manager Sir Alex Ferguson said. “But it doesn’t really matter who you play in the quarter-finals, they’re all going

If we had to tell which team has got the best fans, we would say Liverpool (with the exception of Celtic). What a coincidence…! Both teams have got the marvellous hymn of “You’ll never walk alone” (which is singed before every match by everyone that is in the stadium, no matter if it’s CelticPark or Anfield), and they also share the hobby of drinking as much beer as possible (before, during and after the match). (Listen Liverpool’s fans singing “You’ll never walk alone”)

When fans of any team like (or love) a player, because he is fantastic, they use to say (in chorus) his name, but in Anfield, they not just say the name, they try to look for a piece of a song and create a lyric to sing him. Is really impressive the creativity of the kop (Liverpool fans)!

Many songs have been created for Spanish players that are playing in Liverpool, today we will focus in Torres’ song (Xabi Alonso and Luis Gracia have also got one, but no-one have been created so quickly as the Spanish striker) There are 2 versions, with the same music, but with different lyrics. Now in Spain there’s an ad in TV with this song, is called “Ants go marching” (in the ad… “los animales de dos en dos ua… ua…”). Whach ad). The two versions of the lyrics are:

His armband proved he was a red, torres torres
You’ll Never Walk Alone it said, torres torres
We bought the lad from sunny spain, he gets ball, he scores again
Fernando Torres, Liverpool’s number 9

Fernando Torres came from Spain, Olé, Olé
He came to make us great again, Olé, Olé
The Spion Kop will roar him on
He scores the goals and he scores for fun
And we all get blind drunk
When Torres scores a goal

The Cup is a competition not so much highly valued in some countries although in England, as it also happens in many other things, it is quite different. FA Cup still emanates the old fashion football. Emotion, full up stadiums, direct matches. Face to face games. And it is a tournament where anybody can provide a surprise. The English Football Association gives maximum importance to this tittle. A good example takes place last weekend where the Premiership competition was stopped to dispute a qualifying round of the FA Cup. And for a lot of clubs in England the exiting fact of going ahead or out from this competition was enervating most of supporters. In the FA Cup the topic of not to be confident with any enemy even small is hundred per cent certain. Ask this to Liverpool FC who in last 32 qualifying round last Saturday was out of the competition for several minutes in the match against the modest Havant & Waterlooville, a team five categories below Liverpool, who fought with dignity in front of the famous team of Anfield Road. Moreover, the great virtue of this competition is the profits that modest clubs obtain. For that small club, for example, this qualifying round supposed an important economical input because the FA gives a third of the money collected to the team who plays away. Therefore a third of the money collected at Anfield Road was directly to the strongbox of Havant. And still more important – the social milestone that supposed for an small city to dispute that match. If only 2,000 people attend the matches that Havant plays at home, more than 6,000 supporters went to Anfield and sold out all the tickets reserved for them. There are still some qualifying rounds before reaching semi-finals round and final match which probably is the most exiting football match that supporters are waiting for to attend it at New Wembley Stadium.