

Liverpool Echo
Anfield Banter: Bells Tolled, Babel fished, Benayoun soon, Kids challenged, Calling in the big guns, & Everybody loves Carra
By: Brian |* It’s official, Craig Bellamy has joined West Ham on a record breaking fee for the club. The Hammers will pay £7.5m for Bells, who said his reason for leaving Liverpool was because of lack of playing opportunities in his future. Yeah, Bells, it was completely your choice. Surprisingly, the 28-year-old was […]
It’s ‘Carra Week’!! First up: Carra meets ‘Bascombe Watch’
By: Jim |As I’ve said previously, Chris Bascombe was the most unintentionally hilarious and most seriously entertaining and informative part of 100 Players Who Shook The Kop when it aired on the team’s official Web site. Well, The Liverpool Offside’s favorite central defender and Liverpool Echo writer collide in this column kicking off ‘Carra Week’ at liverpoolfc.tv.
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Mano a mano with the Arsenal
By: Jim |The official No. 1 scribe of this here Web site, Chris Bascombe, gets the nut of it right about Arsenal this weekend. Here’s an excerpt:
“That said, Benitez will recognise it’s the trip to the Emirates, not the last four games, which will truly determine if his side has turned the corner into an open road […]
The world stops, and Benitez moves on
By: Jim |See that logo over there? That’s some sort of symbol for rotation, which some popular thought held could have replaced the LFC crest on Rafa Benitez’s left breast whenever he donned a Liverpool shirt.
Well, on a day when Liverpool Football Club engaged in some quite literal housecleaning of its problems, Benitez ate the same breakfast, […]
Bascombe watch!
By: Jim |This man is Chris Bascombe, and he covers LFC for the Liverpool Echo. As it is attempted to explain here, the guy strikes me as an OK dude, to borrow a sloppy American colloquialism. His stuff I’ve read from the Echo seems pretty level-headed to boot.
Bascombe reported about the insane slagging of Rafa Benitez by […]






