Football

As legendary Liverpool midfielder James Milner received an MBE for his services to football and charity the organisations he has supported expressed their delight and thanks. Alongside his two-decade expanding football career, James Milner set up the James Milner Foundation to...

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A big game awaits under the lights at Anfield tonight as Liverpool are to face previous Champions League winners Real Madrid in the last-16 tie.  It is a repeat of last year’s final, just nine months after Madrid's 1-0...

It was a blustery day outside Goodison Park as Everton prepared to welcome Leeds United in a big clash at the foot of the Premier League table - but gusts do not deter Dave Kelly and his now-iconic purple...

Liverpool Football Club’s longest season ticket holder, Ken Hirst, has died at age 99. Tributes to the long-term fan poured in, including tweets from former footballer Robbie Fowler and 2016 Paralympian Ryan Crouch. Born in Anfield in the summer of 1923,...

Liverpool fans have condemned UEFA’s report on the Champions League Final havoc as an ‘empty gesture’. Reds fans have waited eight months for answers from the football governing body on how and why the horrific events they experienced in May...

A man who was quoted £194 to hire a football pitch sparked a debate about the cost of local football. Neil Gregson took to Twitter after he tried to hire an 11-a-side pitch at The Jeffrey Humble Hub in Aintree. The...

Everton in the Community has launched the first of four Forest School projects in its partner primary schools across the city. Ahead of Everton in the Community's (EITC) 35th birthday, four Everton under-21 players joined the charity and Everton Free...

Leaders from the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) and the College of Policing have today issued an apology to the Hillsborough families for the failures of the police during the disaster and in the years since. NPCC Chair Martin Hewitt...