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Win signed Saints gear

TO celebrate St Helens Saints winning the Challenge Cup final at Wembley last weekend, Pilkington have teamed up with the Liverpool Daily Post to offer one lucky reader the chance to win a rugby shirt or or rugby ball, both signed by the Saints rugby league team. Read

Fellaini delight

ABSOLUTELY delighted to see that we have signed a quality player in Fellaini. Read

Blue watch: Let’s wake up to some Everton victories

JUST be thankful that the transfer window is closed now and we can all get on with the more straightforward business of trying to win some football matches. Read

Fans have to be realistic over St James’ soap opera

THE managerial hokey-cokey at Newcastle United is only waiting for Kevin Keegan to shake it all about. Read

Barry Horne: Reactive transfers may still pay off

CRITICS of football have long insisted that the game has become divorced from reality and the events of the last few days have certainly added weight to their argument. Read

Ryder golfers will be self-reliant

BOXING has Team Calzaghe to support its protagonist, Joe, and there was Team GB at the Olympics, despite the team having its members competing in different sports at different venues. Read

Challenge of re-igniting spark

ST HELENS’ third consecutive Challenge Cup victory at the weekend was a tremendous achievement and testament to the efforts and skill of the players and coaching staff. Read

Red watch: Manchester City showing takeover style

NOW that’s what I call a takeover. Read

Mark Lawrenson: A|bert Riera appears miles better than in his Manchester City days

I REMEMBER watching Albert Riera playing for Manchester City a couple from times. Read

Mark Lawrenson: Stretched Everton seem to be running out of chances

THE last few days of the transfer window were supposed to provide some hope for Everton. Instead, they have just deepened David Moyes’s worry lines. Read

Everton punished after missing chances

I MUST admit that 0-3 was about 25th on the list of possible results considered before the game on Saturday. Read

Nervy opening leads to change in expectations

IF IT wasn’t painfully obvious before Saturday then it certainly is now. As David Moyes feared before this campaign even kicked off, Everton will have to seriously revise their ambitions this season. Read

Jim Bonner, editor of Portmsmouth fanzine Fratton faithful

What are the expectations of Portsmouth fans this season? Read

Tom Vickers, editor of astonvilla-mad.co.uk

What are your expectations for the season? Read

Barry Horne

Barry Horne: Off-field inactivity striking fear in fans

DESPITE Everton gaining their first three points of the new season last weekend, the gloom around Goodison Park has not yet completely disappeared. Read

Red watch: Wide areas are cause for concern

ONE of the frequent maxims trotted out by fan and pundit alike is that, in order to win a championship, you have to win while playing badly. Read

Transfer window dealings only favour the top four

EVERTON obviously don’t want the transfer window to end next week – they need it to go on forever in their current predicament. Read

Benitez men due to maintain winning standard

YOU’D rather emerge from the first two games of the season saying ‘we didn’t play well but we won’ rather then ‘we played well but didn’t get anything out of it’. Read

BRITAIN’S top Olympians have urged the Government to get behind British sport and maintain the record-breaking success of UK athletes for 2012.

Triple gold medal winner Chris Hoy called for continued backing for elite athletes, but also facilities for the nation as a whole. Read

Rafael Benitez

COMMENT: Benitez should put the accent on local lads

WHEN Liverpool launched their new home kit over the summer, advertisement boards across the city proclaimed that the Liver Bird emblem across the heart was not a badge but a ‘family crest.’ Read