Whether Jurgen Klopp was right to stay away from Liverpool’s FA Cup replay with Shrewsbury this week is a complicated issue. Most likely, Klopp was making a good point, but at the wrong moment and in the wrong way.“So the situation is the following what we said, we got a letter last April from the Premier League that they asked us to respect the winter break and not organise any international friendlies or competitive games, so we did that," the Liverpool manager explained."We respected the winter break. So we will be in the winter break and in two weeks’ time our youngsters will play against Shrewsbury at Anfield. That’s the solution.”"The Premier League asked us to respect the winter break....
Seven minutes are on the clock and there are 30 clubs to guess.Remember to tweet your scores@FourFourTwo, and challenge some friends too!THEN TRY:Quiz! Can you name the home stadium of every club in the Premier League and Football League? Back in the day, any team could win the old First Division of English football. Nowadays, it's the usual suspects - except for that one year that Jamie Vardy had a party.Despite the old myth, the same clubs have tended to be towards the topthroughout history - and we're not just talking about England, either.Scotland, for example, has had the same two teams reigning supreme for over a hundred years, save for a few fallow years. Spain, too, is dominated by...
Life moves slowly in Burton upon Trent. The headlines in the Burton News last week, when FourFourTwo went to see Kieran O’Hara, were about the passing of a popular newsagent and two trees being cut down in the town centre. Yet the town famous for breweries is home to one of football’s most successful clubs of the last decade.There’s no way Burton, for so long a non-league club, should have risen as high as the Championship but they did, they stayed up for two seasons until 2018 and they’re now comfortable in League One. Far bigger and wealthier clubs would love to have done what Nigel Clough’s team have managed on average crowds of 3,500, but Burton, who train in...
Fifteen minutes are on the clock and there are 91 grounds to get - there are two clubs currently ground-sharing in the Football League.Remember to tweet your scores@FourFourTwo, and challenge some friends while you're at it.THEN TRY:Quiz! Can you name every player to play for both Inter and AC Milan since 1995? 2,520,495 - that's how many people you can fit in every stadium in the Premier League, Championship, League One and League Two, all at once. Think of the traffic.Home is where the heart is for all of us. All we have to do is utter the words "home ground" and you conjure the image of your own stadium.Some are goliath glass structures with gormet burgers and NFL hosting...
Today is February 6, the 62nd anniversary of the Munich Air Disaster.How supporters choose to remember or memorialise it is their own business. For many, though, the photograph above is the one to get lost in. It’s the most famous. It shows Manchester United’s 1958 side deep in Tito’s Yugoslavia, pictured together for the very last time.There they are, young, alive and brilliant, with those specks of snow and ice around them on the pitch, harbingers of tomorrow's doom.The day before, the United squad had had dinner at The Majestic Hotel and walked the streets of Belgrade to watch an English film at a local cinema. These weren’t today’s millionaires, but still young, bright-eyed players high on life and excited...