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THE FAR POST: A sideways look at Spurs v Liverpool

LIVERPOOL’S haul of 26 points from their first 10 games is the equal third best start to a Premier League season. Read

We need to reap dividends from challenging Cup clash

THE draw for the first round of the FA Cup certainly gave us a tie to look forward to. The trip to Accrington Stanley should be a cracker; it has all the ingredients of a proper cup tie. Read

NEIL SPRINGATE and PETER GRINHAM of the Fulham Supporters Trust

What represents a good season for Fulham this year – 17th?? Read

Dire display can’t take away from huge result

I WAS at the Reebok Stadium on Wednesday night to watch what was one of the worst games of football I have seen in a long, long time. Read

Cup ‘tedium’ as Australia’s domination continues

THE sight of the Scottish rugby league team gathered together with the players were all decked out like extras on Brigadoon with the constant noise of live bagpipe music wailing in the background marked a new low in the sport’s expansion attempts. Read

Hungry for victory not prize, key to sport’s value

THE face of cricket will change forever this weekend – or so the hype surrounding the Stanford Super Series would have us all believe. Read

’Appy ’Arry follows Marx’s lead

THE late, great Groucho Marx – the comedian not the radical economist – was once asked by an eager young actor what the greatest gift of them all was for a professional performer. Read

Andrew Johnson

BLUEWATCH: Andy Johnson will get better receiption than Rooney

IT’S AMAZING what one tackle, one goal and one point can do for a football club. Read

Xabi Alonso

REDWATCH: Chelsea victory was more than just the three points

OH THAT was so, so sweet. Read

Mark Lawrenson

MARK LAWRENSON: Rotation is a distant memory for Benitez

NOBODY at Liverpool wants to talk about them winning the title yet and rightly so. Read

Mark Lawrenson

MARK LAWRENSON: Phil Neville made a ‘season-adjusting tackle’

I’VE already touched on the impact of Phil Neville’s tackle on Cristiano Ronaldo elsewhere on this page. Read

Liverpool and Everton fans

LIVERPOOL FAN COLUMN: Doubts blown away at the Bridge

IF Liverpool came into the Chelsea fixture with any doubts about their pedigree, they were emphatically answered at Stamford Bridge. Read

Moyes refuses to be drawn on Ronaldo’s theatrics

DAVID MOYES leapt to the defence of Phil Neville after his booking for a tackle on Cristiano Ronaldo during the 1-1 draw against Manchester United on Saturday. Read

TOURING CARS: Yvan Muller extended his lead in the World Touring Car championship to 14 points after rival Gabriele Tarquini failed to pick up points in both races of the penultimate round at Okayama in Japan.

Rickard Rydell won the opening 14-lap contest to seal the Manufacturer’s Championship for SEAT Sport, while Tom Coronel claimed his first WTCC victory in the second. Read

GRIDIRON: The NFL got exactly the sort of advert it was looking for as the New Orleans Saints beat the San Diego Chargers 37-32 in a shoot-out at Wembley Stadium.

In the second of a series of regular-season games to be played in London as part of the NFL’s bid to boost the popularity of the game overseas, the two teams thrilled a sell-out crowd of 83,226 with an exchange of offensive firepower. Read

IF ANYONE had told us at the start of the season that beating Chelsea on October 26 would take us three points clear in the table we would have been in dream land.

Yet here we are a couple of days prior and it is most definitely a possibility. This season we have seen a side to Liverpool sadly lacking over the last 15 years, the ‘don’t know when they’re beaten’ mentality. Read

Speaking with the enemy - Everton v Manchester United

DAVID PYE, United We Stand fanzine Read

Everton boss David Moyes on the Blues' Premier League trip to Arsenal

Blue watch: This Everton team can’t be dismantled yet

HAVE we learned anything in the past week or so? Read

Liverpool and Everton fans

RED WATCH: Rafa Benitez makes a point by putting brakes on rotation

FIRST UP, a postscript to Saturday’s dramatic victory over Wigan; though if drama implies the unexpected, then perhaps we could call this win mundane, so common are such comebacks becoming. Read

MARK LAWRENSON: Nothing risky about luring Emile Heskey back

BRINGING back players who were discarded in the past is always a risky business in football – but one Liverpool should take with Emile Heskey. Read