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Liverpool takes Carling Cup, aiming for bigger things

Tuesday, 28 February 2012 00:00
Written by Navid Iqbal
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It has been six years since the Liverpool fans celebrated a trophy win. But their long waiting has come to an end as they won the Carling Cup under new boss Kenny Dalglish.

The famous club has been going through a turbulent ride for the last few years. But now they are eyeing for bigger & better shots.

Manager Dalglish says that this is the first of many to arrive. He said that this trophy will give them the boost they needed.

Steven Gerrard says that Carling Cup isn’t their ultimate target and they want a fair piece of action of the Champions League and more.

But the story could’ve been very different as Liverpool had almost blown it.

Cardiff got a shocking 1st half lead thanks to Joe Mason. Getting a ball from Miller, he gave a wonderful finishing through Pepe Reina’s legs, leaving the red half stunned.

Then Cardiff put more effort into defending and overall also did a good job preventing a few handball appeals.

This brought up huge frustration among the Liverpool fans. Then Dalglish brought up Craig Bellamy, something he should have done long ago.

An equalizer was on the way shortly and had nothing to do with Bellamy. Martin Skrtel took advantage of a corner ball rerouted towards the posts by a series of bodies and gave the red’s supporters a chance to rejoice.

After that Liverpool started pushing Cardiff to its very limits as Downing and Adam kept challenging Heaton. Cardiff handled the pressure quite well and also created a massive chance to garb victory.

Striker Kenny Miller wasted a golden chance to seal the deal in the last moments. His dazzling spinning flew over the bars.

Both sides fought and restricted each other until the referee blew his whistle. At 90 minutes score was 1-1.

At the beginning of the extra time Liverpool started to dominate and also got the result as substitute Dirk Kuyt’s shot found its way to the nets in the 108th minute marking a 2-1 lead.

But the show wasn’t over yet. The game still got some surprises left. The red’s joy was short lived as Turner turned a corner into an equalizer with Kuyt’s desperate effort to prevent.

Then the match turned to the crucial penalty shootouts. Gerrard, Miller and Charlie Adam missed their chance to score, followed by Gestede. On the other hand, Cowie, Kuyt, Downing, Whittingham and Johnson didn’t waste their shots. Finally, it was up to a man named Anthony Gerrard, cousin of Steven Gerrard to bring the trophy to Cardiff.

Crucially he missed and the Carling Cup’s fate was revealed. Liverpool had won the Carling Cup.

Match result:

LivPool 2-Cardiff 2

LivPool 3-Cardiff 2 (pens)

 

Criticism of Clubs Has Already set to Finalize Recent Situation

Monday, 23 January 2012 17:37
Written by Navid Iqbal
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The scenery of global game is already set to modify dramatically with the Europe's biggest powerful clubs guaranteeing their exceptional views on exactly how this global game is run would be heard at the meeting scheduled by both UEFA and FIFA. In the last year, a report was made up on demands of European League, who then are backing that European club in pushing forward with the major reform of the world football what will obviously affect World Cup and European Championships as well as all other international football.

The Key to these reforms will actually be the point of the compensation paid accurately to the clubs for make public of their own prized internationals, actually the level of all insurance policies as well as claims for the injured players, whole structure of international calendar, along with how this impacts on devaluing of the friendlies. In addition at chance is continuation of Champions Leagues in the current guise, in addition to the present set-up of now a day’s World Cup plus European Championship.

Along with ECA (European Club Association) set to grasp its close next common assembly on the February 27th to 28th in Warsaw, major point on agenda of this assembly will be ongoing discussions along with FIFA and UEFA regarding the as usual Memorandum of Understanding just between both of the parties which then expires in the year of 2014. One source told that ECA currently is discussing with two of FIFA and UEFA matters for example insurance policies for the national team player, amount of compensation for release of the team player, international calendar as well as governance, what will form exact basis for newly arranged Memorandum of Understanding.

All of those discussions now have entered into the critical phase in the negotiations in addition to this becomes probable that there would be a main announcement at 2-day common assembly. Precise agenda of the meeting has not yet been finalized, on the other hand that source included that there is also a general understanding that international calendar need only to be arranged of the double-dates as well as no distinct friendlies, especially in the August month. Under current agreement, the football clubs will have $70 million just for 2014 World Cup; the game held in South Africa in the year of 2010, FIFA then paid out approximately $40 million. On the other hand for European Championship, the UEFA then paid out approximately €43.5 million in Switzerland.