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Liverpool midfielder Philippe Coutinho celebrates with the crowd after scoring a goal during the English League Cup final against Manchester City at Wembley Stadium in London in February 2016. (AFP)

Premier League Pre-Season Tours: a Feast for Fans in Far-Flung Destinations

by Amy Lawrence | Jul 19, 2017 | Sports

London – It is not only superfans of the elite who are catered for in the modern era of the pre-season international extravaganza. Mansfield Town are warming up for the new League Two campaign in Malta, and the club offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to...

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A man reads the names of the victims of the Hillsborough disaster inscribed onto the Hillsborough memorial in Liverpool on April 27, 2016. (AFP)

6 Charged over England’s 1989 Hillsborough Stadium Disaster

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 28, 2017 | Sports

Six people, including four former senior policemen, were charged on Wednesday with criminal offenses over the 1989 Hillsborough stadium disaster in England that killed 96 Liverpool football fans in the country’s worst sporting disaster. “I have decided...

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Mohamed Salah in action with Lazio’s Stefan de Vrij. Liverpool on Thursday completed the signing of Egyptian winger Mohamed Salah from AS Roma for a fee reported to be 39 million euros ($43.5 million). Reuters

Mohamed Salah May Have Flopped at Chelsea but He Can Fly at Liverpool

by Jonathan Wilson | Jun 26, 2017 | Sports

All across Europe are scattered forwards who did not quite make it at Chelsea, some more bafflingly than others. There is Marko Marin, signed by Olympiakos last season after four years on Chelsea’s books with only two league starts. There is Patrick Bamford, signed by...

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Football Soccer Britain – Southampton v Leicester City – Premier League – St Mary’s Stadium – 22/1/17 Southampton’s Virgil van Dijk Action Images via Reuters / Paul Childs Livepic

Liverpool’s Virgil Van Dijk Blunder Is Damaging Setback for Jürgen Klopp

by Andy Hunter | Jun 12, 2017 | Sports

Transfers are not part of Peter Moore’s remit as Liverpool’s new chief executive and the club’s alleged tapping up of Virgil van Dijk predated his official start date in the job, but his first Premier League meeting in Harrogate on Thursday will have been awkward...

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Divock Origi says: ‘I’m very interested in how the brain works and the different personality types. At Liverpool I can say who is an introvert and who is an extrovert. We have both.’ Photograph: Jon Super for the Guardian

Liverpool’s Divock Origi: ‘Maybe If I Wasn’t a Footballer I’d Be a Psychologist’

by Andy Hunter | May 14, 2017 | Sports

Divock Origi calls it his “resource” – a memory bank of highs and lows that is extensive for a 22-year-old and drawn upon regularly. It contains a World Cup emergence offset by European Championship torment, a leading role at Liverpool snatched away by injury and now,...