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Sami Hyypia

Sami Tuomas Hyypiä (born October 7, 1973 in Porvoo) is a Finnish footballer who plays for Liverpool F.C. in the English Premiership. Hyypiä is considered one of the best central defenders in Europe. He played for the Finnish teams Pallot-Peikot, KuMu and MyPa Anjalankoski, and in 1992 he won the Finnish Cup with MyPa. In 1995, Hyypiä was bought by the Dutch club Willem II. He had a successful time at the club and soon became a fan favourite there. In 1999, Hyypiä departed the Netherlands for the UK when he was bought by Liverpool, the team he supported as a boy, for £3 million, and would soon prove to be a bargain buy. His height of 1.92 m has helped Hyypia become known as the towering figure of the Liverpool team, and he has also scored a number of times from the head. He has been a highly composed and competent defender for Liverpool, though has been shown lacking at time due to his slow pace, but has proven to be arguably one of the best defenders in Europe. He had a successful partnership in the centre of defence with his former teammate Stephane Henchoz, but has not faired well with other players in the center, such as Igor Biscan. Alongside Jamie Carragher however, a solid and consistent defensive partnership has once again emerged for Liverpool. He is an inspirational figure for the Liverpool team, and in the 2000-01 season, Hyypiä shared the captaincy of Liverpool with striker Robbie Fowler while Jamie Redknapp, the then full-time captain, was suffering from a long-term injury. During that season, Hyypiä and Fowler helped lead the team to an historic treble: winning the Worthington Cup, FA Cup, and UEFA Cup. In 2002, Hyypiä became the full-time Liverpool captain after Redknapp, who had been blighted by long-term injuries, left the club. In 2003, Hyypiä was replaced as Liverpool captain by the English international Steven Gerrard, which drew no anger, at least publicly, from Hyypiä; indeed, after some poor performances as captain, Hyypiä's performances improved upon the captaincy change. As of 2005, he has seemingly been relegated to third-choice captain after Jamie Carragher's ascent as Gerrard's deputy on the field. Hyypia had also contributed in the victory of the UEFA Champions League final against AC Milan with his teammates at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey on Wednesday May 25, 2005. Hyypiä has made over 200 appearances for Liverpool, and has also scored over 20 goals in the process. On 10 August, 2005 it was reported that Hyypiä had agreed to a new three-year contract after weeks of talks with the Reds which will keep him at Anfield until 2008. Hyypiä made his debut for the Finnish national team against Tunisia in 1992. As of 2005, he has played 74 times for Finland, and scored 4 goals. He is the leader of Finland's defence, and is also the second choice captain of the team. Hyypiä has been chosen Finland's player of the year 4 times (1999 and 2001-03), and was also the Finnish Sportsperson of the Year in 2001.

Honours


- 1992 Finnish Cup
- 2000/01 League Cup
- 2000/01 FA Cup
- 2000/01 UEFA Cup
- 2001/02 Charity Shield
- 2001/02 European Super Cup
- 2002/03 League Cup
- 2004/05 UEFA Champions League
- 2005/06 European Super Cup

External links


- [http://www.footballdatabase.com/site/players/index.php?dumpPlayer=745 FootballDatabase provides Sami Hyypiä's profile and stats] Hyypiä, Sami Hyypiä, Sami Hyypiä, Sami Hyypiä, Sami ja:サミ・ヒーピア

1973

1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday.

Events

January


- January 1 - United Kingdom, Ireland, and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, now known as the European Union.
- January 3 - Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sells the New York Yankees for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led by George Steinbrenner.
- January 15 - Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President of the United States Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
- January 17 - Ferdinand Marcos becomes President for Life of the Philippines.
- January 22 - Supreme Court of the United States rules on Roe v. Wade.
- January 22 - George Foreman breaks Joe Frazier's professional career undefeated heavyweight world boxing champion status.
- January 22 - Nigerian Airlines passenger plane from Mecca crashes in Kano, Nigeria - 176 dead.
- January 23 - The eruption of Eldfell on the Icelandic island of Heimaey begins.
- January 23 - President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
- January 25 - Derren Nesbitt convicted of assaulting Anne Aubrey
- January 27 - U.S. involvement in Vietnam War ends with the signing of peace pacts. See Paris Peace Accords.

February


- February 11 - Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place.
- February 12 - Ohio becomes the first U.S. state to post distance in metric on signs. (See: Metric system in the United States)
- February 21 - Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down a Libyan Arab Airlines jet killing 100.
- February 22 - Sino-American relations: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to mainland China, the United States and the People's Republic of China agree to establish liaison offices.
- February 27 - The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

March


- March 1 - The New York Joffrey Ballet's Deuce Coupe Ballet opens. The ballet is set entirely around music by The Beach Boys.
- March 7 - Comet Kohoutek is discovered.
- March 8 - IRA bombs explode in the Whitehall and the Old Bailey.
- March 16 - Queen Elizabeth II opens the New London Bridge.
- March 29 - The last United States soldiers leave Vietnam.
- March 31 - Paramount's Carowinds opens for the first time.

April


- April 2 - Launch of LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
- April 4 - World Trade Center officially opens in New York with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
- April 6 - Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
- April 17 -German GSG-9 group formed officially

May


- May 5 - Shambu Tamang becomes the youngest person to climb to the summit of Mount Everest.
- May 8 - A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement who were occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, ends with the surrender of the militants.
- May 10 - Polisario formed.
- May 14 - Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
- May 17 - Watergate scandal: Hearings begin in the United States Senate and are televised.
- May 27 - By the virtue of non-retroactiveness of the copyright laws of the USSR, all works published before this date are public domain. This applies worldwide.

June


- June 1 - Greek military junta abolishes the monarchy and proclaims a republic.
- June 3 - Tupolev Tu-144 crashes at the Paris air show - 15 dead.
- June 4 - patent for the ATM granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
- June 9 - Secretariat wins the Belmont Stakes becoming the first Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing winner since 1948.
- June 10 - Grandson of J. Paul Getty is kidnapped in Rome.
- June 22 - William Mark Felt retires from the FBI.
- June 25 - Erskine Hamilton Childers is elected the fourth President of Ireland.
- June 26 - On Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 persons were killed at an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
- June 30 - Very long total solar eclipse. During the entire Second Millennium, only seven total solar eclipses exceeded seven minutes of totality.

July


- July 1 - US Drug Enforcement Agency founded.
- July 5 - Isle of Man begins to issue its own postage stamps
- July 10 - The Bahamas gain full independence within the British Commonwealth.
- July 12 - A major fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri. The disaster comes to be known as the 1973 National Archives Fire.
- July 16 - Watergate Scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate committee investigating the scandal that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.
- July 20 - France resumes nuclear bomb tests in Mururoa Atoll over protestations of Australia and New Zealand.
- July 25 - Soviet Mars 5 space probe launched.
- July 28 - Watkins Glen Summer Jam, a massive rock festival featuring The Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers Band and The Band attracts over 600,000 music fans.
- July 30 - An 11-year legal action for the victims of Thalidomide ends.
- July 31 - Militant protesters of Ian Paisley disrupt the first sitting of the Northern Ireland Assembly

August


- August 2 - Flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
- August 5 - Black September members open fire at Athens airport - 3 dead, 55 injured.
- August 8 - 1973 Kidnapping of Kim Dae-Jung
- August 13 - The film of Jesus Christ Superstar is released.
- August 15 - The U.S. bombing of Cambodia ends, marking the official halt to 12 years of combat activity in Southeast Asia.
- September 22 - Henry Kissinger, United States National Security Advisor, starts his term as Secretary of State.

September


- September 11 - Chile's democratically-elected government is overthrown in a military coup after serious instability. President Salvador Allende dies, and General Augusto Pinochet heads a military junta that will govern Chile for the next 16 years.
- September 15 - Sweden's king Gustav VI Adolf dies. Carl XVI Gustav becomes king.
- September 18 - The two German Republics, the BRD and the DDR, are admitted to the United Nations.
- September 20 - Billed as The Battle of the Sexes, Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs 6-4, 6-4, 6-3.
- September 28 - ITT was bombed in New York City as a protest of their involvement with the Coup in Chile.

October


- October 6 - Yom Kippur War - Fourth and largest Arab-Israeli conflict begins as Egyptian and Syrian forces attack Israel as Jews mark Yom Kippur.
- October 10 - Spiro T. Agnew resigns as vice president of the United States and then, in federal court in Baltimore, pleads no contest to charges of evasion of income taxes on $29,500 he received in 1967 while he was governor of Maryland. He is fined $10,000 and put on three years' probation.
- October 17 - Arab Oil Embargo against several countries which gave support to Israel, triggerring the 1973 energy crisis.
- October 20 - The Saturday Night Massacre.
- October 20 - Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II.
- October 26 - Yom Kippur War ends.
- October 27 - The Canyon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite struck earth in Fremont County, Colorado.

November


- November 1: Watergate scandal, acting Attorney General Robert Bork appointed Leon Jaworski as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
- November 3 - Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury (on March 29, 1974 it became the first space probe to reach that planet).
- November 7 - The U.S. Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
- November 11 - Egypt and Israel sign a United States-sponsored cease-fire accord.
- November 14 - In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries a commoner, Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey (they divorced in 1992).
- November 16 - Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
- November 16 - US President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
- November 17 - Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
- November 17 - Student uprising against the military regime in Athens, Greece.
- November 21 - President Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Bushardt, revealed the existence of an 18-and-a-half-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate.
- November 25 - Greek Dictator George Papadopoulos is ousted in military coup led by Lieutenant General Phaidon Gizikis.
- November 27 - The United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on December 6, the House confirmed him 387 to 35).

December


- December - Chile breaks diplomatic contacts with Sweden.
- December 1 - Papua New Guinea gains self government from Australia.
- December 3 - Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
- December 15 - Gay rights: The American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its DSM-II.
- December 23 - The OPEC doubles the price of crude oil.
- December 30 - Terrorist Carlos fails in his attempt to assassinate British businessman Joseph Sieff.
- December 31 - In the UK, as a result of high coal and oil prices, the Three-Day Week officially comes into force.

Unknown dates


- The National House Building Council was formed in the United Kingdom.
- The COSC The Swiss Official Chronometer testing Institute was founded in Switzerland by 5 Watch Cantons & FH, Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry.
- Title Queen of Australia created

Fictional events


- December 6 - Susie Salmon murdered, in Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones.

Births

January


- January 1 - Danny Lloyd, American actor
- January 8 - Sean Paul, Jamaican singer
- January 11 - Rahul Dravid, Indian cricketer
- January 13 - Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian hockey player
- January 14 - Giancarlo Fisichella, Italian race car driver
- January 15 - Tomás Galásek, Czech football player
- January 17 - Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Mexican football player
- January 18 - Crispian Mills, British musician (The Jeevas and Kula Shaker)
- January 19 - Karen Lancaume, French actress (d. 2005)
- January 29 - Jason Schmidt, baseball player

February


- February 4 - Oscar De La Hoya, American boxer
- February 11 - Varg Vikernes, Norwegian musician (Burzum)
- February 14 - Steve McNair, American football player
- February 16 - Cathy Freeman, Australian athlete
- February 17 - Amy Van Dyken, American swimmer
- February 20 - Kimberley Davies, Australian actress
- February 22 - Shota Arveladze, Georgian football player
- February 24 - Jordan Jovtchev, Bulgarian gymnast
- February 26 - Marshall Faulk, American football player
- February 26 - Jenny Thompson, American swimmer
- February 28 - Eric Lindros, Canadian hockey player

March


- March 1 - Ryan Peake, Canadian guitarist (Nickelback)
- March 9 - Aaron Boone, baseball player
- March 13 - Edgar Davids, Dutch football player
- March 17 - Caroline Corr, Irish musician (The Corrs)
- March 23 - Jason Kidd, American basketball player
- March 29 - Marc Overmars, Dutch football player
- March 30 - Adam Goldstein, American DJ

April


- April 1 - Stephen Fleming, New Zealand cricket captains
- April 4 - David Blaine, American magician
- April 5 - Pharrell Williams, American musician and producer (The Neptunes)
- April 6 - Rie Miyazawa, Japanese actress and singer
- April 8 - Bobby Ologun, Nigerian television performer and martial artist
- April 10 - Roberto Carlos, Brazilian football player
- April 11 - Jennifer Esposito, American actress
- April 24 - Sachin Tendulkar, Indian cricketer
- April 28 - Elisabeth Röhm, American actress

May


- May 1 - Oliver Neuville, German football player
- May 3 - Michael Reiziger, Dutch football player
- May 10 - Dario Franchitti, Scottish race car driver
- May 14 - Natalie Appleton, Canadian singer (All Saints)
- May 16 - Tori Spelling, American actress
- May 30 - Leigh Francis, British comedian
- May 31 - Dominique van Roost, Belgian tennis player

June


- June 1 - Fred Deburghgraeve, Belgian swimmer
- June 1 - Heidi Klum, German model
- June 1 - Derek Lowe, baseball player
- June 8 - Lexa Doig, Canadian actress
- June 9 - Tedy Bruschi, American football player
- June 9 - Iain Lee, British comedian and radio and television presenter
- June 10 - Faith Evans, American singer
- June 12 - Darryl White, Australian footballer
- June 13 - Sam Adams, American football player
- June 22 - Carson Daly, American talk show host
- June 26 - Gretchen Wilson, American singer
- June 28 - Adrian Annus, Hungarian athlete
- June 30 - Chan Ho Park, Korean Major League Baseball player

July


- July 4 - Gackt, Japanese singer
- July 9 - Kelly Holcomb, American football player
- July 11 - Konstantinos Kenteris, Greek athlete
- July 15 - John Dolmayan, Lebanese-born drummer (System of a Down)
- July 17 - Eric Moulds, American football player
- July 20 - Peter Forsberg, Swedish hockey player
- July 20 - Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway
- July 23 - Nomar Garciaparra, baseball star
- July 23 - Fran Healy, British singer (Travis)
- July 23 - Monica Lewinsky, White House intern
- July 23 - David Mitchell, British comedian
- July 26 - Kate Beckinsale, English actress

August


- August 1 - Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress
- August 6 - Asia Carrera, American actress
- August 8 - Scott Stapp, American singer (Creed)
- August 12 - Richard Reid, English terrorist
- August 14 - Kieren Perkins, Australian swimmer
- August 19 - Mette-Marit Tjessem-Høiby, Crown Princess of Norway
- August 20 - Todd Helton, baseball player
- August 24 - Inge de Bruijn, Dutch swimmer

September


- September 4 - Jason David Frank, American actor
- September 5 - Rose McGowan, American actress
- September 12 - Darren Campbell, British athlete
- September 14 - Nas, American rapper
- September 18 - Mark Shuttleworth, South African entrepreneur
- September 19 - José Azevedo, Portuguese cyclist
- September 22 - Craig McRae, Australian footballer

October


- October 3 - Neve Campbell, Canadian actress
- October 10 - Mario López, American actor
- October 22 - Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player
- October 24 - Levi Leipheimer, American professional cyclist
- October 26 - Seth MacFarlane, American voice actor
- October 29 - Gabrielle Union, American actress
- October 30 - Silvia Corzo, Colombian newsreader

November


- November 1 - Aishwarya Rai, Indian actress
- November 5 - Johnny Damon, baseball player
- November 12 - Martin M. Weiss, American author
- November 14 - Lawyer Milloy, American football player
- November 14 - Dana Snyder, American voice actor
- November 28 - Jade Puget, American guitarist (AFI)
- November 29 - Ryan Giggs, Welsh footballer
- November 29 - Raphael Smith, South African screenwriter and songwriter

December


- December 2 - Monica Seles, Yugoslavian-born tennis player
- December 3 - Holly Marie Combs, American actress
- December 7 - Terrell Owens, American football star
- December 15 - Surya Bonaly, French figure skater
- December 14 - Thuy Trang, Vietnamese-born actress (d. 2001)
- December 17 - Paula Radcliffe, British athlete
- December 29 - Theo Epstein, baseball general manager
- December 30 - Ato Boldon, West Indian athlete

Deaths

January-April


- January 22 - Lyndon Johnson, President of the United States (b. 1908)
- January 23 - Kid Ory, American musician (b. 1886)
- January 24 - J. Carrol Naish, American actor (b. 1897)
- January 26 - Edward G. Robinson, American actor (b. 1893)
- January 31 - Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
- February 11 - Hans D Jensen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
- February 15 - Wally Cox, American actor (b. 1924)
- February 23 - Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)
- February 19 - Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (b. 1892)
- March 6 - Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
- March 8 - Ron Pigpen McKernan, American musician (Grateful Dead) (b. 1945)
- March 14 - Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (b. 1907)
- March 14 - Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
- March 26 - Noel Coward, English composer and playwright (b. 1899)
- April 8 - Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist (b. 1881)
- April 16 - Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian conductor (b. 1929)
- April 19 - Hans Kelsen, Austrian-born legal theorist (b. 1881)
- April 21 - Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
- April 26 - Irene Ryan, American actress (b. 1902)

May-August


- May 2 - Alan Carney, American actor and comedian (b. 1909)
- May 11 - Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919)
- May 12 - Art Pollard, American race car driver(b. 1927)
- May 14 - Jean Gebser, German author, linguist, and poet (b. 1905)
- May 18 - Jeannette Rankin, first U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1880)
- June 18 - Roger Delgado, English actor (b. 1918)
- July 2 - Swede Savage, American race car driver (b. 1946)
- July 6 - Otto Klemperer, German-born conductor (b. 1885)
- July 7 - Veronica Lake, American actress (b. 1922)
- July 8 - Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (b. 1877)
- July 20 - Bruce Lee, American martial artist and actor (b. 1940)
- July 29 - Roger Williamson, British race car driver (b. 1948)
- August 1 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (b. 1882)
- August 11 - Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
- August 12 - Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
- August 16 - Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1888)
- August 17 - Conrad Aiken, American writer (b. 1889)
- August 17 - Jean Barraqué, French composer (b. 1928)

September-December


- September 2 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (b. 1892)
- September 11 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile (b. 1908)
- September 19 - Gram Parsons, American musician (b. 1946)
- September 23 - Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
- September 29 - W. H. Auden, English poet (b. 1907)
- October 2 - Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b. 1897)
- October 17 - Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (b. 1926)
- October 22 - Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (b. 1876)
- November 11 - David "Stringbean" Akeman, American banjo player (b. 1915)
- November 11 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
- November 27 - Frank Christian, American musician (b. 1887)
- December 1 - David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886)
- December 3 - Emile Christian, American musician (b. 1895)
- December 20 - Bobby Darin, American singer (b. 1936)
- December 20 - Luis Carrero Blanco, first minister of Spain (assassinated) (b. 1907)
- December 25 - Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (b. 1880)
- December 26 - Harold B. Lee, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)

Unknown date


- Friedrich Panse, German psychiatrist (b. 1899)

Nobel Prizes


- Physics - Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian David Josephson
- Chemistry - Ernst Otto Fischer, Geoffrey Wilkinson
- Medicine - Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen
- Literature - Patrick White
- Peace - Henry A. Kissinger, Le Duc Tho
- Economics - Wassily Leontief

Templeton Prize


- Mother Theresa Category:1973 Category:1973 als:1973 ko:1973년 ja:1973年 simple:1973 th:พ.ศ. 2516

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Liverpool F.C.

Liverpool Football Club (also known simply as Liverpool), an English football club based in the North-West of England, are the current champions of Europe and the most successful team ever to have played in English football. Since being founded in 1892, Liverpool have won five European Cups, and 18 Football League titles on top of being the English club to have won the most number of UEFA Cups, European Supercups and English League Cups. The club's home ground is the 45,362 capacity Anfield stadium, which is about three miles from the centre of Liverpool. The club was founded on March 15 1892 by John Houlding, the owner of Anfield. Houlding decided to form his own team after Everton left Anfield in an argument over rent. The original name was to be Everton F.C. but was changed to Liverpool F.C. (after the F.A. refused to recognise the team as Everton). The club was present at two of the biggest tragedies in European football — at Heysel in 1985 and Hillsborough in 1989. After Heysel, English clubs were withdrawn from European competition for a period of five years, six in the case of Liverpool. Liverpool Football Club is not to be confused with Liverpool (Rugby) Football Club which was formed in 1858 and is now known as Liverpool St. Helens.

History

Main article: History of Liverpool F.C. Liverpool F.C. were formed by John Houlding in 1892, being elected to the Football League alongside Woolwich Arsenal two years later. In 1901 Scottish international Alex Raisbeck was the first Liverpool captain to collect the Football League Championship, and Liverpool were league champions again in 1906. In 1914,Liverpool made their first appearance in the FA Cup final but lost to Burnley. In 1922, and again in 1923, captained by England full back Ephraim Longworth, Liverpool won the league. In 1946-7, the first season after World War 2, Liverpool were surprise league champions. Over a decade of mediocrity was to follow. Bill Shankly is largely credited with bringing Liverpool from relative obscurity to the forefront of English football. He was appointed manager of Liverpool before the start of the 1959-60 season when they were in the Football League Second Division. Promotion to the First Division was achieved in 1962 when Liverpool won the Second Division championship. Liverpool won the First Division Championship in 1964 and regained it two years later (1966), winning their first FA Cup in the season between their two title triumphs (1965). Liverpool won their first European trophy, the UEFA Cup, in 1973. 1973 Bob Paisley, Liverpool's most successful manager, succeeded Shankly from the 1974-75 season. In the nine seasons until his retirement in May 1983, Liverpool won six Football League Championships, three European Cups, one UEFA Cup, three successive League Cups, one European Super Cup and three Charity Shields - a total of 21 trophies. Paisley's number of trophies won remained unsurpassed in English football until Sir Alex Ferguson won his seventh Premiership title with Manchester United in 2001. Success continued under Joe Fagan whose first season (1983-84) saw Liverpool set some of the most impressive records in English football. They won their fourth successive League Cup and their third successive League Championship as well as winning the European Cup for the fourth time in eight seasons. Joe Fagan's second and final season as Liverpool manager had a traumatic ending when 39 supporters attending the European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus were killed in the Heysel Stadium disaster. Kenny Dalglish succeeded him, clinching a Football League Championship/FA Cup double success in his first season, only the fifth team in English football to achieve such a feat. Two seasons later, Liverpool regained the League Championship, before a shocking 1-0 FA Cup final defeat against minnows Wimbledon. Despite his successes, Dalglish's stint as manager was overshadowed by the tragic death in 1989 of 96 Liverpool supporters at the FA Cup semi final against Nottingham Forest, commonly referred to as the Hillsborough disaster. That season Liverpool dramatically lost the League Championship to Arsenal in the final match of the season. Liverpool's most recent league title was won in 1989-90, Dalglish's last full season in charge. Dalglish was succeeded by Graeme Souness at the helm, but ensuing changes in both the English game (the advent of the marketing boom era of the FA Premier League), and under Souness' management saw the club move into a period of transition. Nonetheless, Liverpool still managed to win the FA Cup in 1992, beating Sunderland 2-0 in the final. In 1995, Liverpool won the Football League Cup, beating Bolton Wanderers 2-1 in the final with a young side assembled under Anfield stalwart Roy Evans, who took over from Souness in 1994. Evans brought the club renewed hopes of glory by the mid-1990s but the Liverpool team had become labelled as underachievers who played well but never enough to consistently see themselves through to title glory, proving to be 'nearly men' in the challenge for honours by the late 1990s. That failure meant inevitable changes at the club, and in November 1998, Liverpool appointed France's World Cup 1998 winning technical director, Gerard Houllier as the club's first foreign manager. In 2001, Houllier led a new, more continental and cosmopolitan Liverpool side to the cup treble of League Cup, FA Cup and UEFA Cup and in 2003, they defeated Manchester United to win a record seventh League Cup, but a continued inability to win the League eventually led to Houllier parting company with the club in 2004. The 2004-05 season was a season which was filled with joy for millions of Liverpool supporters worldwide, when they won the European Cup under new and current manager Rafael Benítez, who had begun a revolution at the club, adding to the club's record as one of the most successful clubs in Europe. The future looks bright for Liverpool as the blend of continental flair with English hardwork and shrewd management looks to take Liverpool to renewed success in the years ahead, and surely the coveted League Title is not far away from returning to the most successful English club.

New Stadium

On July 30, 2004, Liverpool City Council granted the club planning permission to build a new 60,000 seat stadium, nearby at Stanley Park. Despite pressure from Governmental and funding bodies, Liverpool refused to share the new ground with their local rivals Everton and "final" talks on a groundshare failed in January 2005. At that time the club was hoping to start construction in summer 2005 and open the ground in 2007, but finance has not yet been obtained and the likely completion date is not currently known. The old stadium will become a public plaza surrounded by apartments, offices, bars, restaurants and a hotel, and possibly including a memorial garden. Treatment of the old stadium requires sensitivity as a number of deceased fans have had their ashes officially scattered on the pitch over the years.

Honours


- First Division titles 18
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  - 1901, 1906, 1922, 1923, 1947, 1964, 1966, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990
- Football League Second Division Champions 4
  - 1894, 1896, 1905, 1962
- Lancashire League Champions 1
  - 1893
- UEFA Champions League 5
-
  - 1977 3-1 vs. Borussia Mönchengladbach
  - 1978 1-0 vs. Club Brugge
  - 1981 1-0 vs. Real Madrid
  - 1984 1-1 (4-2 in penalty shootout) vs. AS Roma
  - 2005 3-3 (3-2 in penalty shootout) vs. AC Milan
- UEFA Cup Winners 3
-
  - 1973, 1976, 2001
- FA Cup Winners 6
  - 1965, 1974, 1986, 1989, 1992, 2001
- FA Youth Cup Winners 1
  - 1996
- League Cup Winners 7
-
  - 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1995, 2001, 2003
- FA Community Shield Winners 14
  - 1964+, 1965+, 1966, 1974, 1976, 1977+, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1986+, 1988, 1989, 1990, 2001
- European Super Cup Winners 3
-
  - 1977, 2001, 2005
- Super Cup Winners 1
  - 1986
- Reserves Division One Winners 16
  - 1957, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1990, 2000
- More than any other English club + Title shared

Miscellaneous Facts and Figures

Match statistics


- Liverpool's first ever competitive game was in the Lancashire League against Higher Walton. They won 8-0. Their side did not have one English player.
- FA Cup debut: September 1892 4-0 v Nantwich
- League debut: 2-0 v Middlesbrough Ironopolis F.C. on September 2 1893 (Division 2)
- First Honour: in the 1893/94 season they became the Second Division champions.
- Liverpool played against Blackburn Rovers F.C. on September 5th 1896. Rovers won 1-0, but six goals were disallowed during this game.
- December 1909 Newcastle United led 5-2 at Anfield, but the reds rallied to win 6-5.
- In 1910 Liverpool won the first match at Old Trafford beating Manchester United 4-3.
- Biggest defeat: 0-8 v Huddersfield in 1935 and 1-9 Birmingham City F.C. on 11 December 1954 in Football League Division 2.
- Roger Hunt has the most league goals for one season - in the 1961/62 season he scored 41 goals.
- First European match: on August 17th 1964 they played against KR Reykjavik, Iceland, for the European Cup, and won 5-0 away.
- Only 14 first team players were used in the 1965/66 season, when Liverpool won the League.
- Biggest win: 11-0 v Strømsgodset I.F. on September 17th 1974.
- Ian Rush holds the record in Liverpool FC for most goals in all competitions for one season - he scored 47 goals in the 1983/84 season.
- Biggest league win: 9-0 v Crystal Palace F.C. on September 12th 1989.
- Only four people have scored 5 goals in one match. These are:
  - Andy McGuigan, 1901/02
  - John Evans, 1954/55
  - Ian Rush, 1983/84
  - Robbie Fowler, 1993/94
- Most career hat tricks: Gordon Hodgson 17 (1926-36)
- 3 consecutive hat tricks: Jack Balmer 1946-7 (his only hat tricks)

Club culture


- The song "You'll Never Walk Alone", originally from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel and famously recorded by Liverpool musicians Gerry & The Pacemakers, is the anthem of Liverpool FC (and is included in their crest), and has become almost synonymous with the club.
- Other popular chants include "Fields of Anfield Road" (to the tune of "Fields of Athenry"), "Poor Scouser Tommy", "Liverbird Upon My Chest", "We've Won It Five Times" and "Ring of Fire".
- Celebrity fans of the club include the late DJ John Peel, Ian McCulloch, Elvis Costello, Cherie Blair. The late Pope John Paul II, who played as goalkeeper in Poland like keeper Jerzy Dudek, also professed a fondness for Liverpool, amongst other clubs.
- Under Benitez, today's Liverpool F.C. has a strong Spanish influence. As well as having a Spanish manager, there are 7 Spaniards in the current squad and 10 players in total brought to Liverpool directly from La Liga. The three English players he has brought in are Peter Crouch, Scott Carson and youth player Hobbs

Reserve squad


- Liverpool's reserve team plays its home games at the Racecourse Ground, the home stadium of Wrexham A.F.C.. Reserve Squad Players:
- David Raven
- Ramon Calliste
- Neil Mellor
- Robbie Foy
- Danny O'Donnell

Other


- First broadcast of BBC TV's Match of the Day: on the 22nd August 1964, playing against Arsenal; the BBC 2 broadcast was presented by Kenneth Wolstenholme [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/match_of_the_day/3135723.stm].

Current First Team squad

Liverpool squad as of 31 August, 2005:

Players out on loan


- 2005 Bruno Cheyrou (on loan to Bordeaux)
- Bordeaux Salif Diao (on loan to Portsmouth F.C.)
- Portsmouth F.C. Robbie Foy (on loan to Wrexham A.F.C.)
- Wrexham A.F.C. Chris Kirkland (on loan to West Bromwich Albion F.C.)
- West Bromwich Albion F.C. Anthony Le Tallec (on loan to Sunderland A.F.C.)
- Sunderland A.F.C. Carl Medjani (on loan to FC Metz)
- FC Metz Zak Whitbread (on loan to Millwall F.C.)

Reserve players


- Millwall F.C. Paul Anderson
- Charlie Barnett
- Paul Barrett
- Millwall F.C. James Frayne
- Millwall F.C. Danny Guthrie
- Millwall F.C. Adam Hammill
- Millwall F.C. Jordon Holmes
- Michael Nardiello
- Millwall F.C. Danny O'Donnell
- Millwall F.C. Lee Petier
- Millwall F.C. Conal Platt
- David Roberts
- Millwall F.C. James Smith
- Millwall F.C. Paul Willis
- Millwall F.C. Calum Woods See Also: List of Liverpool FC players

Staff

Stars

1892 to 1959:
- Alan A'Court - Matt Busby - Sam Hardy - Gordon Hodgson - Billy Liddell - Jimmy Melia - Bob Paisley - Alex Raisbeck - Elisha Scott - Cyril Sidlow - Albert Stubbins 1960 to 1990
- Gary Ablett - John Aldridge - John Barnes - Peter Beardsley - Jim Beglin - David Burrows - Gerry Byrne - Ian Callaghan - Jimmy Case - Ray Clemence - Peter Cormack - Kenny Dalglish - Alun Evans - Roy Evans - David Fairclough - Howard Gayle - Gary Gillespie - Bruce Grobbelaar - Brian Hall - Alan Hansen - Steve Heighway - David Hodgson - Mike Hooper - Ray Houghton - Emlyn Hughes - Roger Hunt - Glenn Hysen - David Johnson - Craig Johnston - Joey Jones - Kevin Keegan - Alan Kennedy - Ray Kennedy - Chris Lawler - Tommy Lawrence - Mark Lawrenson - Sammy Lee - Alec Lindsay - Larry Lloyd - Terry McDermott - Kevin MacDonald - Steve McMahon - Mike Marsh - Ronnie Moran - Jan Mølby - Phil Neal - Steve Nicol - Michael Robinson - Ronnie Rosenthal - Ian Rush - Ian St. John - Tommy Smith - Graeme Souness - Nigel Spackman - Steve Staunton - Peter Thompson - Phil Thompson - John Toshack - Barry Venison - Paul Walsh - John Wark - Ronnie Whelan - Ron Yeats 1990 to present
- Patrik Berger - Stig Inge Bjørnebye - Jamie Carragher - Robbie Fowler - Brad Friedel - Steven Gerrard - Paul Ince - Rob Jones - David James - Harry Kewell - Jari Litmanen - Jason McAteer - Gary McAllister - Steve McManaman - Danny Murphy - Michael Owen - Jamie Redknapp - Ronnie Rosenthal - Neil Ruddock - Dean Saunders - Michael Thomas - Sander Westerveld - Mark Wright - John Arne Riise - Djibril Cisse - Fernando Morientes - Steve Finnan - Jerzy Dudek - Xabi Alonso - Jamie Carragher - Sami Hyypia - Milan Baros. See also: List of Liverpool FC players

Managers

Statistics

Main article: Liverpool F.C. - Statistics

Famous Liverpool fans

Alex Roberts

External links


- [http://www.liverpoolfc.tv Liverpool F.C. official site]
- [http://soccernet.espn.go.com/team?id=364&cc=5739 Soccernet's Liverpool coverage]
- [http://lfcwallpapers.com Liverppol F.C. wallpapers]

Unofficial


- [http://www.soccer24-7.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=35 Soccer 24-7 Liverpool]
- [http://www.anfield-online.co.uk Anfield Online]
- [http://www.anfieldroad.com Anfield Road]
- [http://www.lfc-news.co.uk Lfc-news]
- [http://www.lfcgoals.com Lfcgoals.com]
- [http://www.lfcstreams.com LFCStreams.com]
- [http://www.lfconline.com LFC Online]
- [http://www.liverpoolfc-newkit.co.uk LFC Fans Forum]
- [http://www.lfchistory.net LFCHistory.net]
- [http://www.lfc.pl LFC.PL]
- [http://www.lfcbootroom.net Liverpool FC Bootroom]
- [http://www.liverpool.no Liverpool.no] (in Norwegian)
- [http://www.liverweb.org.uk Liverweb]
- [http://www.raotl.co.uk Red All Over The Land]
- [http://www.redandwhitekop.com Red and White Kop]
- [http://www.shanklygates.co.uk Shankly Gates]
- [http://www.talklfc.com TalkLFC]
- [http://www.thisisanfield.com This Is Anfield]
- [http://www.lfc365.com LFC 365]
- [http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/liverpoollife/exhibitions/thekopslaststand The Kop's Last Stand]
- [http://www.liverpoolway.co.uk The Liverpool Way]
- [http://www.theroadend.co.uk The Road End]
- [http://www.ttwar.net Through The Wind And Rain]
- [http://www.ynwa.tv You'll Never Walk Alone.tv]
- [http://www.liverpoolfc.se www.LiverpoolFC.se] (in Swedish)
- [http://www.walkonlfc.com Official Website of Liverpool Supporters Malta]
- [http://www.liverpoolfanclub.org.sg Official Website of Liverpool Fan Club (Singapore)]
- [http://www.lscm.com.my Official Website of Liverpool Supporters Club (Malaysia)] Category:English football clubs
- Category:FA Premier League ko:리버풀 F.C. ja:リヴァプールFC simple:Liverpool F.C. th:สโมสรฟุตบอลลิเวอร์พูล

FA Premier League

and John Terry as they celebrate being the Champions of the 2004/2005 campaign.]] The FA Premier League (which, for sponsorship/legal reasons, is often referred to as the Barclays Premiership in the UK and the Barclays English Premier League internationally) is a league competiton for English Football clubs located at the top of the English football league system (above The Football League), making it England's main football competition.

Overview

The FA Premier League comprises the top 20 football clubs in the league system of English football. It was created in 1992, when the top division football clubs broke away from the Football League after securing a greatly improved TV rights deal with the then fledgling satellite television company BSkyB. The new name was simply a commercial restructuring and a rebranding exercise as there was no innovation in competitive terms; an identical first tier league had existed the previous season. The Premiership boasts some of the best players in the world, including many from outside England. The Premier League is the most lucrative football league in the world, with total club revenues of over £1.3 billion in 2003–04 according to Deloitte, more than 50 percent above its nearest competitor, Italy's Serie A . It is currently second in the UEFA rankings of European leagues based on their performances in European competitions over a five year period, behind Spain's La Liga, and was the best performing league in 2004–05.

The competition

There are 20 clubs in the Premier League. During the course of a season each club plays the others twice, once at their home stadium and once at that of their opponents for a total of 38 games for each club and a total of 380 games in Premier League play. At the end of each season the three lowest placed teams are relegated into the Football League Championship and the top two teams from the Championship, together with the winner of a play-off involving the 3rd to 6th placed clubs, are promoted in their place. The top four teams in the Premiership qualify for the UEFA Champions League, with the top two teams directly entering the group phase. The third and fourth placed teams enter the competition at the third qualifying round and must win a two-legged knockout tie in order to enter the group phase. The fifth placed team automatically qualifies for the UEFA Cup, and the sixth and seventh placed teams can also qualify, depending on what happens in the two domestic cup competitions. If the FA Cup champions and runners-up both finish in the top 5 of the Premier League, the FA Cup's UEFA Cup spot goes to the sixth placed team in the League. If the League Cup is won by a team that has already qualified for Europe, the League Cup's UEFA Cup spot also goes to the next highest placed team in the League (unlike with the FA Cup spot, it is never transferred to the losing finalist).

Sponsorship

Since 1993, the FA Premier League has been sponsored. The sponsor has been able to determine the league's sponsorship name. So far, all the sponsors have referred to the competition as the 'Premiership'. The list below details who the sponsors have been and what they called the competition:
- 1993–2001: Carling (FA Carling Premiership)
- 2001–08: Barclays (Barclays Premiership; from 2001-2004, it was known as the Barclaycard Premiership)

Worldwide reach

Barclaycard Promoted as "The Greatest Show On Earth", the FA Premier League is the world's most popular and most watched sporting league, followed worldwide by over a billion people. Over 260 foreign players compete in the league, and 101 stars from England's domestic leagues competed in the in Korea and Japan. It is widely watched overseas, with matches being shown in over 150 countries. Premier League teams such as Manchester United and star players over the years such as Eric Cantona, Ryan Giggs, David Beckham, Alan Shearer, Gianfranco Zola and subsequently Thierry Henry, Steven Gerrard or Ruud van Nistelrooy have become worldwide sporting icons. The Premier League is particularly popular in Scandinavia, with ferry operators offering "football ferries" to Norwegian football fans wishing to see their favourite teams in action.

Number of foreigners

In 2000–01, the number of foreign players (players hailing from outside of the United Kingdom) participating in the Premiership was 36%. In the 2004–05 season the figure had increased to 45%. Arsenal's 85% figure (rising from 64% in 2000–01) is the highest of any club over the period. Chelsea, who were purchased in 2003 by Roman Abramovich, have been overtaken in terms of the number of foreign born players by Liverpool (72%).

History

The FA Premier League was formed on 20th February 1992 and played its first season in 1992–93. This meant a break-up of the 104-year-old Football League that had operated until then with four divisions. A number of events during the mid and late Eighties had sent clear signals that fundamental changes were needed to the structure of professional football. The English game was at possibly its lowest ebb ever. Stadiums were crumbling, supporters were faced with poor facilities, hooliganism was rife and English football was banned from European competition. The old First Division became a selling league as many top players were lured by the financial attractions of the continent. A radical restructuring was required if English football was to prosper. A proposal for the establishment of the league was tabled that would bring more money into the game overall. The Founder Members Agreement, signed on 17th July 1991 by the game's top-flight clubs established the basic principles for setting up the FA Premier League. The newly formed top division would have commercial independence from the Football Association and the Football League, giving the FA Premier League license to negotiate its own broadcast and sponsorship agreements. In 1992 the First Division Clubs resigned from the football league en masse and on 27th May 1992 the FA Premier League was formed as a limited company, which worked out of an office at the then Football Association's headquarters, Lancaster Gate. The league originally comprised of 22 clubs, however, owing to FIFA insistance on domestic leagues reducing the number of games clubs played, the number was reduced to 20 in 1995, when 4 teams were relagated from the league and only 2 teams were promoted. There have at times been discussions of reducing the number further to 18, however there are no known plans to do so.

Premier League clubs, 2005–06


- Played in every Premier League season.
† Founding member of Premier League

Premier League Standings 2005–06

As of Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Europe

:This article is about the continent. For other meanings, see Europe (disambiguation). Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula or subcontinent, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. It is conventionally considered a continent, which, in this case, is more of a cultural distinction than a geographic one. It is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and to the south by the Mediterranean and Black Seas and the Caucasus. Europe's boundary to the east is vague, but has traditionally been given as the Ural Mountains and Caspian Sea to the southeast: the Urals are considered by most to be a geographical and tectonic landmark separating Asia from Europe. :See also Continent, Bicontinental country, and Table of European territories and regions. Table of European territories and regions Table of European territories and regions Europe is the world's second-smallest continent in terms of area, covering around 10,790,000 km² (4,170,000 sq mi) or 2.1% of the Earth's surface, and is only larger than Australia. In terms of population, it is the third-largest continent (Asia and Africa are larger) with a population of more than 700,000,000, or about 11% of the world's population.

Etymology

Africa.]] In Greek mythology, Europa was a Phoenician princess who was abducted by Zeus in bull form and taken to the island of Crete, where she gave birth to Minos. For Homer, Europé (Greek: Ευρωπη; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was a mythological queen of Crete, not a geographical designation. Later Europa stood for mainland Greece, and by 500 BC its meaning had been extended to lands to the north. The Greek term Europe has been derived from Greek words meaning broad (eurys) and face (ops) -- broad having been an epitheton of Earth herself in the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European religion; see Prithvi (Plataia). A minority, however, suggest this Greek popular etymology is really based on a Semitic word such as the Akkadian erebu meaning "sunset" (see also Erebus). From the Middle Eastern vantagepoint, the sun does set over Europe, the lands to the west. Likewise, Asia is sometimes thought to have derived from the Akkadian word asu, meaning "sunrise", and is the land to the east from a Mesopotamian perspective.

History

Europe has a long history of cultural and economic achievement, starting as far back as the Palaeolithic, although this is true for the rest of the Old World as well. The recent discovery at Monte Poggiolo, Italy, of thousands of hand-shaped stones, tentatively carbon-dated to 800,000 years ago, may prove to be of particular importance. The origins of Western democratic and individualistic culture are often attributed to Ancient Greece, though numerous other distinct influences, in particular Christianity, can also be credited with the spread of concepts like egalitarianism and universality of law. The Roman Empire divided the continent along the Rhine and Danube for several centuries. Following the decline of the Roman Empire, Europe entered a long period of changes arising from what is known as the Age of Migrations. That period has been known as the "Dark Ages" to Renaissance thinkers. During this time, isolated monastic communities in Ireland and elsewhere carefully safeguarded and compiled written knowledge accumulated previously. The Renaissance and the New Monarchs marked the start of a period of discovery, exploration, and increase in scientific knowledge. In the 15th century Portugal opened the age of discoveries, soon followed by Spain. They were later joined by France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom in building large colonial empires with vast holdings in Africa, the Americas, and Asia. After the age of discovery, the ideas of democracy took hold in Europe. Struggles for independence arose, most notably in France during the period known as the French Revolution. This led to vast upheaval in Europe as these revolutionary ideas propagated across the continent. The rise of democracy led to increased tensions within Europe on top of the tensions already existing due to competition within the New World. The most famous of these conflicts was when Napoleon Bonaparte rose to power and set out on a conquest, forming a new French empire that soon collapsed. After these conquests Europe stabilised, but the old foundations were already beginning to crumble. The Industrial Revolution started in the United Kingdom in the late 18th century, leading to a move away from agriculture, much greater general prosperity and a corresponding increase in population. Many of the states in Europe took their present form in the aftermath of World War I. From the end of World War II through the end of the Cold War, Europe was divided into two major political and economic blocks: Communist nations in Eastern Europe and capitalist countries in Western Europe. Around 1990, with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Eastern bloc disintegrated.

Geography and extent

Eastern bloc Geographically Europe is a part of the larger landmass known as Eurasia. The continent begins at the Ural Mountains in Russia, which define Europe's eastern boundary with Asia. The southeast boundary with Asia isn't universally defined. Most commonly the Ural or, alternatively, the Emba river can serve as possible boundaries. The boundary continues with the Caspian Sea, and then the Araxes river in the Caucasus, and on to the Black Sea; the Bosporus, the <