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Liverpool

Liverpool emblem
Full name	Liverpool Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Reds
Founded	1892 (by John Houlding)
Ground	Anfield Liverpool, England
Capacity	45,362
Chairman	Tom Hicks (co-chairman) George Gillett (co-chairman)
Manager	Rafael Benítez
League	Premier League
2007–08	Premier League, 4th
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Liverpool Football Club r a bunch of useless pricks supported by a midget. The club was founded in 1892, and quickly became a strong force in English football, winning five league championships between 1900 and 1947. However, Liverpool spent several years in the Second Division (level 2) during the late 1950s, and did not win promotion again until the appointment of Bill Shankly as manager in 1959.

|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2006/03/26/sfgliv26.xml |date=25 March 2006 | accessdate=21 August 2006 }}</ref> It is one of the few local derbies that does not enforce fan segregation. Liverpool has a rivalry with its neighbours Manchester United. This is mostly due to the success enjoyed by the two clubs and the proximity of the two cities. The rivalry is so intense that the last player to be transferred between the two clubs was Phil Chisnall in 1964, when he moved to Liverpool from United.

The club's supporters have been involved in two major tragic events. The first was the Heysel Stadium disaster, in which 39 Juventus fans were killed. They were penned into a corner by Liverpool fans who charged in their direction, the sheer number of fans cornered caused a wall to collapse. After the final UEFA laid the blame for the incident solely on the fans of Liverpool, English clubs were banned from European competition for five years and Liverpool served an extra year, a six-year ban. The second was during an FA Cup semi-final in 1989 between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, 96 Liverpool fans died due to overcrowding in what became known as the Hillsborough Disaster. The Sun newspaper publish an article entitled "The Truth", in which it claimed that Liverpool fans had robbed and urinated on the dead and had attacked the police. Subsequent investigations proved the allegations to be false, and this led to a city-wide boycott of the newspaper. Many organisations were set up as a result of the disaster, such as the Hillsborough Justice Campaign, which represents bereaved families, survivors and supporters, who campaign for justice for the 96 people who died in Sheffield on 15 April 1989.

Ownership and finances

Liverpool is owned by George Gillett and Tom Hicks, who acquired the club on 6 February 2007 from previous chairman David Moores. The deal valued the club and its outstanding debts at £218.9 million. The pair paid £5,000 per share, or £174.1m for the total shareholding in the club, and £44.8m to cover the club's debts. Disagreements between Gillett and Hicks, and their lack of the fans' support, have precipitated rumours that Dubai International Capital (DIC), who were interested in buying the club before Gillett and Hicks took over, would bid for the club. Another group, Share Liverpool FC, also expressed interest in purchasing the club. They proposed to pay £500m, which would be funded by 100,000 fans contributing £5,000 each for a club share. However, the group have been unable to raise the required capital to make an offer for the club.

In April 2008, business magazine Forbes ranked Liverpool as the fourth most valuable football team in the world, after Manchester United, Real Madrid and Arsenal. They valued the club at $1.0bn (£605m), excluding debt. Accountants Deloitte rate Liverpool eighth in the 2008 Deloitte Football Money League, which ranks the world's football clubs in terms of revenue. Liverpool's income of £133.9m in the 2006–07 season moved them up from tenth the previous season.

Liverpool in popular culture

As one of the most successful teams in the country, Liverpool is often featured when football is depicted in British culture and has appeared in a number of media "firsts". The club appeared in the first edition of the BBC's Match of the Day, which screened highlights of their match against Arsenal at Anfield on 22 August 1964. The club was also the subject of television's first colour football transmission, which showed their match against West Ham United live. Liverpool fans feature in the Pink Floyd song "Fearless", in which they sang excerpts from "You'll Never Walk Alone. Liverpool released a song known as the "Anfield Rap" in 1988. It was the club's FA Cup anthem for the final against Wimbledon, and featured John Barnes performing a rap with other members of the squad participating.

A documentary drama on the Hillsborough Disaster written by Jimmy McGovern was screened in 1996. It features Christopher Eccleston as Trevor Hicks, whose story formed the focus of the script. Hicks, who lost two teenage daughters in the disaster, went on to campaign for safer stadia and helped to form the Hillsborough Families Support Group. Liverpool feature in the film The 51st State (also known as Formula 51). Ex-hitman Felix DeSouza (Robert Carlyle) is an avid fan of the team and the last scene of the film takes place at a match between Liverpool and Manchester United. The club was featured in a children's television show called Scully; the plot revolved around a young boy, Francis Scully, who tried to win a trial with Liverpool. The show featured prominent Liverpool players of the time such as Kenny Dalglish.

Statistics and records

Liverpool's first competitive game was an 8–0 victory in the Lancashire League against Higher Walton. Ian Callaghan holds Liverpool's overall appearance record—he played 857 matches over the course of 19 seasons from 1958 to 1978— and the record for League appearances with 640. Of the current squad, Jamie Carragher has the most appearances; he played his 500th game for the club early in 2008.

Liverpool's all-time leading scorer is Ian Rush, who scored 346 goals while at the club from 1980 to 1987 and 1988 to 1996. Rush holds the record for the most goals in a season with 47 in 1983–84. However, during his career, Rush could not surpass Roger Hunt's record number of league goals, which has stood at 245 since 1970. In the 1961–62 season, Hunt scored 41 goals, which is the club record for league goals in a single season. Gordon Hodgson, the club's third highest scorer with 240 goals, holds the club record of 17 hat tricks. The most goals scored by a player in a single match is five; John Miller, Andy McGuigan, John Evans, Ian Rush and Robbie Fowler have achieved this feat. Fowler also holds the club and Premier League record for the fastest hat trick: he scored three goals in four minutes, 32 seconds against Arsenal in the 1994–95 season. Steven Gerrard is Liverpool's all-time leading goalscorer in European competition with 29 goals.

Liverpool's biggest victory is 11–0 against Strømsgodset IF in 1974. Liverpool's 10–1 defeat of Rotherham Town in 1896 was its largest league win. This margin of victory was matched when Crystal Palace were defeated 9–0 at Anfield in 1989. Liverpool's heaviest defeat, 1–9, came against Birmingham City in 1954. Liverpool's 8–0 win against Beşiktaş J.K. in the Champions League is the largest victory in the competition's history.

Current squad

As of 2 February 2009.

First team players

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  BRA Diego Cavalieri 2 DF  ITA Andrea Dossena 4 DF  FIN Sami Hyypiä 5 DF  DEN Daniel Agger 8 MF  ENG Steven Gerrard (captain) 9 FW  ESP Fernando Torres 11 MF  ESP Albert Riera 12 DF  BRA Fábio Aurélio 14 MF  ESP Xabi Alonso 15 MF  ISR Yossi Benayoun 17 DF  ESP Álvaro Arbeloa 18 FW  NED Dirk Kuyt 19 FW  NED Ryan Babel 20 MF  ARG Javier Mascherano 21 MF  BRA Lucas Leiva 22 DF  ARG Emiliano Insúa

No. Pos. Nation Player 23 DF  ENG Jamie Carragher (vice-captain) 24 FW  FRA David N'Gog 25 GK  ESP Pepe Reina 26 MF  ENG Jay Spearing 27 DF  SUI Philipp Degen 28 MF  FRA Damien Plessis 29 FW  HUN Krisztián Németh 30 GK  FRA Charles Itandje 31 MF  MAR Nabil El Zhar 32 DF  ENG Stephen Darby 34 DF  ENG Martin Kelly 36 MF  ENG Steve Irwin 37 DF  SVK Martin Škrtel 39 FW  ENG Nathan Eccleston 41 GK  DEN Martin Hansen

Players out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 40 GK  ENG David Martin (at Leicester City until the end of 2008–09 season) –– GK  BUL Nikolay Mihaylov (at Twente until the end of 2009–10 season) –– DF  ENG Jack Hobbs (at Leicester City until the end of 2008–09 season) –– DF  ENG Robbie Threlfall (at Stockport County until the end of 2008–09 season) –– DF  ESP Miki Roque (at Cartagena until the end of 2008–09 season) 35 MF  SCO Ryan Flynn (at Wrexham until April 26 2009) 33 MF  ARG Sebastián Leto (at Olympiacos until the end of 2008–09 season) –– MF  ENG Paul Anderson (at Nottingham Forest until the end of 2008–09 season) 16 MF  ENG Jermaine Pennant (at Portsmouth Until the end of 2008-09 season) 10 FW  UKR Andriy Voronin (at Hertha Berlin until the end of 2008–09 season) 42 GK  HUN Péter Gulácsi (at Hereford United until the end of 2008–09 season) –– MF  ENG Adam Hammill (at Barnsley until the end of 2008–09 season) –– FW  NED Jordy Brouwer (at Waalwijk until the end of 2008–09 season) 38 FW  ENG Craig Lindfield (at Accrington Stanley until the end of 2008–09 season) –– DF  GHA Godwin Antwi (at Hereford United until March 21 2009)

Notable players

Reserves and Academy squad

Managers

Liverpool has had 17 permanent managers and one caretaker manager since the club's first appointed, W.E. Barclay and John McKenna as professional managers in 1892. The longest-serving manager in terms of time was Tom Watson, who managed Liverpool for 19 years from 1896 to 1915. Bill Shankly managed the club for more games than any other manager; he served for 783 matches. Kenny Dalglish was the first player-manager in English football when he was appointed in 1985. Bob Paisley, who won 19 trophies during his tenure, was the club's most successful manager.

Current coaching staff

As of 1 December 2008.

Position	Name	Nationality
Manager	Rafael Benítez	Spanish
Assistant manager	Sammy Lee	English
First team coach	Mauricio Pellegrino	Argentinean
Reserve team coach	Gary Ablett	English
Goalkeeping coach	Xavi Valero	Spanish
Fitness Coach	Paco de Miguel	Spanish
Physiotherapist	Rob Price	English
Chief Scout	Eduardo Macia	Spanish

Honours

Liverpool has won the English League Championship a record eighteen times, the FA Cup seven times and the League Cup a record seven times. The club achieved a League and FA Cup "Double" in 1986, and has won the League and European Cup double twice, in 1977 and 1984. They also won the League Cup in 1984 to complete a unique treble, a feat they repeated (albeit with different trophies) in 2001 when they won the FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup. Liverpool has won the European Cup, Europe's primary club competition, five times, which is an English record. Only Real Madrid and Milan has won the competition on more occasions. The club's fifth triumph meant that they won the trophy outright and was awarded the UEFA Badge of Honour. The club has won the UEFA Cup, Europe's secondary club competition, three times, a record they share with Juventus and Internazionale.

Domestic

League

• Football League First Division / Premier League (English football champions) (level 1)

Winners (18): 1900–01, 1905–06, 1921–22, 1922–23, 1946–47, 1963–64, 1965–66, 1972–73, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1985–86, 1987–88, 1989–90

Runners-up (11): 1898–89, 1909–10, 1968–69, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1977–78, 1984–85, 1986–87, 1988–89, 1990–91, 2001–02

• Second Division (level 2)

Winners (4): 1893–94, 1895–96, 1904–05, 1961–62

• Lancashire League

Winners (1): 1892–93

Cups

• FA Cup

Winners (7): 1965, 1974, 1986, 1989, 1992, 2001, 2006

Runners-up (6): 1914, 1950, 1971, 1977, 1988, 1996

• League Cup

Winners (7): 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1995, 2001, 2003

Runners-up (3): 1978, 1987, 2005

• FA Charity Shield / FA Community Shield

Winners (15, 10 outright and 5 shared): 1964 (shared), 1965 (shared), 1966, 1974, 1976, 1977 (shared), 1979, 1980, 1982, 1986 (shared), 1988, 1989, 1990 (shared), 2001, 2006

Runners-up (6): 1922, 1971, 1983, 1984, 1992, 2002

• Super Cup

Winners (1): 1986

International

• European Cup and UEFA Champions League

Winners (5): 1977, 1978, 1981, 1984, 2005

Runners-up (2): 1985, 2007

• UEFA Cup

Winners (3): 1973, 1976, 2001

• UEFA Super Cup

Winners (3): 1977, 2001, 2005

Runners-up (2): 1978, 1984

• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

Runners-up (1): 1966

• Intercontinental Cup and FIFA Club World Cup

Runners-up (3): 1981, 1984, 2005

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External links

• Liverpool F.C. Official Website
• Official page for Liverpool Echo and Daily Post stories covering Liverpool F.C.
• LFCHistory.net – Articles and statistics relating to Liverpool F.C.

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