Anton Hysen comes out

By Shourin Roy on March 13, 2011 6:03 PM | Comments | TrackBacksShare|

Anton Hysen of fourth division Utsiktens BK

This is big news. In rugby Ian Roberts and Gareth Thomas have come out and recently they were joined by cricket player Steven Davies. But gay footballers have continued to remain in the closet since the tragic death of Justin Fashanu.

Anton Hysen's father Glenn was a Liverpool defender and whilst there was involved in a homophobic incident. Six years later, Glenn Hysen was the keynote speaker in Sweden's Pride festival. Now we know why. A welcome augur towards increasing acceptance and tolerance in football? Lets hope so.

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Dream comes true for Matri

Juventus striker Alessandro Matri said it was a ‘dream’ to score the winning goal in his side’s 1-0 victory over Inter Milan on Sunday.

The 26-year-old struck for the third time since signing with Juve in January and put a serious dent in Inter’s hopes of retaining the Serie A title.

Juventus themselves are 11 points adrift of league-leaders AC Milan, but Matri said he would do everything possible to help his new club continue their title push.

“It’s one of the most important goals of my career,” Matri said. “The match against Inter was one of those beautiful ones that I used to watch at home and dream about playing in.”

“I dedicate it to my family who have always supported me. I didn’t expect to start my Juventus career this way, but I certainly hoped for it because I always believed in my abilities and the understanding I have with Luca Toni is working.”

“You need to work double for a big club and I will do that every day.”

Juventus manager Luigi Delneri thought his team’s 1-0 win against Inter in Serie A was well deserved, refuting suggestions from Inter boss Leonardo that a draw would have been a fairer result.

“We should always be honest and direct in football and I’m always direct and honest and I have to say that Juventus really deserved to win today and we could have scored more goals,” Delneri said.

“My team didn’t give Inter many opportunities. I don’t know how Leonardo could have said that we could have drawn.”

“Of course there it could have been a draw since their team is made up of many skilled players.”

Delneri was also pleased with new signing Andrea Barzagli from Wolfsburg, saying the midfielder gives Juventus greater balance in the centre of the park.

“(Andrea) Barzagli has the skills to play as centre. I think he has improved a great deal thanks to the experience he got in Germany. Now he is working very well and I’m happy for him,” Delneri said.

“Thanks to his presence, we have managed to move (Giorgio) Chiellini on the left, where we have had difficulties in the past and Giorgio is able to adapt very well in this role as if he has always played in that role.”

Mon 14 February, 2011

Here Comes the Fixture Congestion

By: Noel | December 27th, 2010
    Tweet Another holiday season leads to January bloating.

It’s been two full weeks since the last Liverpool match. Is your body ready? Because on the back of this unexpected winter break, and with the two postponed matches scheduled for January (Blackpool willing), we’re looking at some scheduling backlog and two matches a week to hold our attention for the next little while.

Which is all well and good because football. But might not be so good because an extreme aversion to squad rotation could mean multiple appearances by the “b team” or Gerrard and Torres breaking down as they are wont to do when overplayed because hamstrings and groins and two games a week on rock hard pitches in sub-zero temperatures*. Of course, that they both just unexpectedly got a few oddly low-key weeks for a Premier League player mid-season might let them survive this stretch and not break down until it catches up with them when the weather starts to get warmer.

In any case, seven top flight fixtures and that FA Cup draw at Old Trafford loom, and it might be enough to sort out just where Liverpool’s final resting place is under Hodgson. On paper, at least, despite the frequency of the games, there are a great deal of points ahead that any Liverpool side should expect to take–twice against lowly Wolves, worst in the league on current form; the rescheduled Blackpool and Fulham matches, even if the home showing against the Seasiders wasn’t an acceptable display from a side loaded with internationals; not to mention Bolton and Blackburn lining up for their second go rounds, again offering examples of games that in theory should see Liverpool gunning for three with a high probability of success. That just leaves a tricky local derby in the league and United in the cup as matches one might not reasonably expect Liverpool to take all the points from, even if they’re likely the matches one would want to see won the most.

And of course all that ignores that what we can “reasonably expect” has been driven hard into the ground by Hodgson & co. in an attempt to lower our expectations to levels that are, quite frankly, unrealistically pathetic for this club and, perhaps more importantly, the actual squad in question.

How long he feels he needs to be given before people can properly judge him has kept accordioning out as he keeps failing to pass muster at each mile marker he’s set, and I think we’re mostly all in agreement that the sooner we get a good, long-term replacement the better. Still, this next packed month, with so many winnable matches, may settle once and for all Liverpool’s ambitions for the year, because if January ends with more draws than wins it will all but guarantee the mid-table finish we’ve been wobbling towards all season. If there is a chance of Hodgson “steadying the ship” and giving us a chance at Champions League football, then as cliched as it sounds, this next stretch will either make it or break it:

Dec 29 – League – Liverpool v. Wolverhampton
Jan 1 – League – Liverpool v. Bolton
Jan 5 – League – Blackburn v. Liverpool
Jan 9 – FA Cup – United v. Liverpool
Jan 12 – League – Blackpool v. Liverpool
Jan 16 – League – Liverpool v. Everton
Jan 22 – League – Wolverhampton v. Liverpool
Jan 26 – League – Liverpool v. Fulham

So, are you ready for some football?

*Yes, I said “rock hard,” “groin,” and “Fernando Torres” in one sentence there. You’re welcome.

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