After the Portugese training camp, where a karaoke session ended in a scuffle you would have thought that Rafa would have been steering away from team bonding sessions.

Liverpool travel to Villa Park for a 1.35pm kick off tomorrow (Sunday 18th March 2007) and the reds will be looking for three vital points after Arsenal moved ahead us to 3rd in mid-week.

Liverpool and AC Milan have been kept apart in today’s UEFA Champions League draw and could possibly meet in Athens after the quarter final and semi-final draws were made today.

Just as the transfer window was finally getting ready to slam shut, Liverpool have completed the signing of Javier Mascherano, the Argentinian World Cup star, who has been rotting away out of sight at Premiership strugglers West Ham United.

We are giving away Liverpool’s first shirt unveiled this summer in our latest competition on the site.

Rafael Benitez today insisted that the doom and gloom merchants are wrong, and that the reds still have plenty left to play for, as he added another Spanish-speaking South American to the Liverpool ranks.

The morning after the night before. A great atmosphere at Anfield for the Hillsborough 96 but alas the reds went out of this season’s competition to an Arsenal side who simply had that little bit more individual genius.

Steve Finnan has been speaking about the disappointment of the weekends game and how the Liverpool players are keen to get back on the winning trail