Will Dalglish still be smiling in May? The players can decide

A look at the Premiership table shows Liverpool now in seventh place with 23 points after 14 games and are now having to play catch up from a five point deficit on fourth placed Chelsea. The result at Fulham was a very big loss for the reds and one they couldn't afford.

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Weekend News & Gossip Round Up @ Lampard to Spurs, O'Neil gets £20m, Untied star to Fulham

NEWS & GOSSIP:

Chelsea may offer England midfielder Frank Lampard to Tottenham as part of a deal to bring Luka Modric.

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England’s Next Manager in Waiting

Now that we all know who England will face in next summer’s UEFA European Championships following the draw at the Palace of Arts in Kiev early today, the nation will inevitably commence a pre-tournament journey mixed with uncertainty, excitement and expectation.

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Saturday Morning Round Up @ Drogba to Spurs, United starlet on the way out, plus AVB, McLeish, Magpies and more

Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp says he would be keen to take Chelsea striker Didier Drogba to White Hart Lane.

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For Liverpool perhaps every cloud does have a silver lining

Well, it's been confirmed that Lucas Leiva, arguably Liverpool's best player this season, will be out for the remainfer of the season following the knee injury he sustained against Chelsea on Tuesday.

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The biggest rivalry in... Lincolnshire!

Forget the ‘Merseyside derby’ the ‘Manchester derby’ or the ‘Derby della Capitale’, the El Classico of Lincolnshire is happening twice within this month.

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Gary Speed and the after-effects, the dignity of football fans

The idiom goes that “prevention is better than cure” but what the saying doesn’t consider is the unfortunate factors that characterise the clamour to spread the gospel of prevention. That’s one of the reasons “every cloud has a silver lining” was promoted from mere sentence to fully fledged clichéd idiom.

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Tottenham and title contenders in the same sentence? Surely not....

Ten games unbeaten, nine of them victories, the league table is looking pretty rosy for Tottenham fans at the moment. Third place, two points behind Manchester United and one game in hand has given the supporters reason to be cheerful. It feels like eons ago that we lost away to the champions 3-0 and the 5-1 capitulation to Manchester City is nothing more than a near-forgotten memory.

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Football shaking off its murky past

Documenting the decline of the football hooligan, through the tragic watershed that caused the sport to change its face.

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The Big Debate - Is Dalglish the right man for Liverpool?

Today on The Kop Times, we begin a new feature here where we discuss the burning issues, and questions relating to all things Liverpool. This week, we're begin with a question that may appear to be a no-brainer to some, but perfectly fair to others. Is Kenny Dalglish the right man to take Liverpol Forward?

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Football and depression

It’s fair to say that 99% of football fans would trade their day job for the glitz and glamour of the world’s most popular sport. The money, the fame, the worldwide recognition from every quarter of the globe is exactly what fans dream of it the modern day. Picking up a weekly pay packet that most fans would struggle to pick up over a five-year period would be enough to sway any supporter to trade in their day job.

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Support for ex-Liverpool forward

Messages on Twitter reveal that ex-Liverpool favorite Stan Collymore has been suffering from a bout of depression over the last week.

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We can only beat big clubs

After watching the fantastic match on Sunday between Chelsea and Liverpool, obviously my first thought was of jubilation and relief that we finally got a much needed three points.

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Should Dalglish support goal line technology?

Reports have come out over the last couple of days that goal-line technology may probably be introduced in time for next season.

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Probably the 100th racism article you’ve read this week

Our world of football is in a hectic state of disorder and there has been a unified call for the blood of Sepp Blatter. The problem of racism looks like it’s going to consume football and has already left FIFA’s global reputation tarnished. What Blatter said last week was reckless and ignorant, but he has raised another concern in my mind.

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