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Watch Arsenal vs Liverpool LIVE!
The Premier League continues on Sunday when Arsenal travel to Anfield to take on Liverpool. Catch all the action LIVE on Supersport 3. Kick off is at 6:00pm SA time, with the build up starting at 5:30pm.
Liverpool Football Club is a professional association football club based in Liverpool, England. The club plays in the Premier League, and it is one of the most successful clubs in the history of English football; the club has won more trophies than any other English club. Liverpool Football Club has won a record eighteen First Division titles, and seven League Cups. The club has won five European Cups, which is an English record and the FA Cup seven times.
The club was founded in 1892, and quickly became a strong force in English football, winning five league championships between 1900 and 1947. However, Liverpool spent several years in the Second Division (level 2) during the late 1950s, and did not win promotion again until the appointment of Bill Shankly as manager in 1959. The club traditionally played in red and white, but this was changed to all red in the 1960s.
Under Shankly's management, Liverpool won three League Championship titles, two FA Cups and a UEFA Cup; the club's first European trophy. In the past 30 years, they have been one of the most successful clubs in English and European football; they won four European Cups between 1977 and 1984. The club experienced a lean period during the 1990s, but saw a revival when they won a cup treble in 2001 and the club's fifth European Cup in 2005.
The Heysel Stadium disaster made the club infamous in Europe; 39 Juventus fans died after a wall collapsed as they fled from charging Liverpool fans. The club was involved in a worse disaster four years later—the Hillsborough Disaster— which saw the death of 96 Liverpool fans in a crush against perimeter fencing. Both disasters have had wide-ranging impacts on English and European football, and the club to this day.
Liverpool F.C. has played at Anfield since its formation, but plans to move to a new stadium in Stanley Park, which was due to be completed by 2011 but has been put on hold until economic conditions improve. Liverpool has a large and diverse fan base, which holds long-standing rivalries with several clubs. The most notable of these is their rivalry with Manchester United, and Everton, with whom they regularly contest the Merseyside derby.
In Johannesburg, The Arsenal SA club will be meeting at ‘Blandford Manor’ to watch of the game.
Blandford Manor
106 Hyperion Drive
Northriding
Randburg
Sat-Nav co-ordinates are as follows: 26°02'36.30"S 27°57'51.00"E
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On this day in 1931
1931 - Centre forward Jimmy Brain moved to Tottenham Hotspur. He scored 125 times in 204 League games for the Gunners.
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