THEY say that a fish rots from the head down – and the fishy stench emanating from Anfield at present is overpowering. Out of the Champions League. Out of the FA Cup. Out of the Carling Cup. Their best two players now out of action. http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-fc/liverpool-fc-news/2010/01/15/david-prentice-liverpool-fc-is-a-club-in-crisis-100252-25605332/ 2010-01-15 06:30:00 Liverpool FC A week that began badly for Liverpool with the resignation of a director for abusing a fan got even worse when the team upset thousands more fans by being knocked out of the FA Cup by lowly Reading. http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/14012010/2/liverpool-coach-benitez-facing-new-crisis.html 2010-01-14 12:43:00 Liverpool FC Rafael Benitez confirmed Liverpool's concerns over Steven Gerrard, revealing he has held talks with the midfielder to discuss his dramatic loss of form this season. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1238138/Rafa-Benitez-Liverpool-crisis-talks-sinking-skipper-Steven-Gerrard.html?ITO=1490 2009-12-24 01:33:29 Liverpool FC News • 'Steven knows he has to improve' says Liverpool manager• Alberto Aquilani set for first league start against WolvesRafael Benítez has revealed he has held talks with Steven Gerrard over the midfielder's struggle for form as he looks to the Liverpool captain and Fernando Torres to end the club's alarming slump.Liverpool host Wolves on Boxing Day having won only four times in 17 matches, with two rivals for a Champions League place, Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur, to follow. A miserable campaign reached what Benítez hopes will prove its nadir at Portsmouth last Saturday, with Gerr http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/dec/24/rafael-benitez-steven-gerrard-liverpool 2009-12-24 00:10:02 Liverpool FC Rafael Benitez confirmed Liverpool's concerns over Steven Gerrard, revealing he has held talks with the midfielder to discuss his dramatic loss of form this season. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1238138/Rafa-Benitez-Liverpool-crisis-talks-sinking-skipper-Steven-Gerrard.html?ITO=1490 2009-12-23 22:50:27 Liverpool FC News Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres took a private jet to Zurich yesterday for the FIFA World Player of the Year awards and a brief respite from the crisis engulfing Anfield. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1237619/Steven-Gerrard-Liverpool-crisis.html?ITO=1490 2009-12-22 12:49:21 Liverpool FC News Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres took a private jet to Zurich yesterday for the FIFA World Player of the Year awards and a brief respite from the crisis engulfing Anfield. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1237619/Steven-Gerrard-Liverpool-crisis.html?ITO=1490 2009-12-22 07:42:50 Liverpool FC News Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres took a private jet to Zurich yesterday for the FIFA World Player of the Year awards and a brief respite from the crisis engulfing Anfield. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1237619/Steven-Gerrard-Liverpool-crisis.html?ITO=1490 2009-12-22 01:29:12 Liverpool FC News Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres took a private jet to Zurich yesterday for the FIFA World Player of the Year awards and a brief respite from the crisis engulfing Anfield. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1237619/Steven-Gerrard-Liverpool-crisis.html?ITO=1490 2009-12-21 22:14:11 Liverpool FC News Rafael Benitez struggling to lift player spirits after Liverpool suffer sixth league defeat against Arsenal at Anfield. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/liverpool/6807849/Liverpool-suffering-from-confidence-crisis-says-Rafael-Benitez.html 2009-12-14 11:26:22 Liverpool FC News From the world’s oldest football club in League Two to the Premier League champions, an institution until recently onsidered the richest in the world game, the cracks in the smooth financial façade of English football widened this week to reveal a little more of the ugly truth lurking beneath. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1235387/Football-brink-Liverpool-Manchester-immune-financial-crisis.html?ITO=1490 2009-12-12 22:16:30 Liverpool FC News David Moyes' eyes blazed with anger and indignation as he reflected on Everton's sixth Barclays Premier League defeat of the season and admitted: 'We could be dragged into a relegation battle at this rate.' http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1231296/David-Moyes-set-sights-overtaking-Liverpool--injury-crisis-left-Everton-near-drop-zone.html?ITO=1490 2009-11-27 00:25:19 Liverpool FC News It would normally be unthinkable -- but it is just possible that holders Barcelona will become the first winners since the 1993 introduction of the Champions League format not to survive the group stages. http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/24112009/3/injury-crisis-gnaws-barca-liverpool-face-exit.html 2009-11-24 10:20:00 Liverpool FC • Rafael Benítez: 'We have a better squad than people think'• Yossi Benayoun and Albert Riera the latest casualtiesRafael Benítez believes his Liverpool squad is better than the critics think, despite a mounting injury crisis that has further threatened their faltering campaign.The manager has been hamstrung by the biggest set of injury problems in his five and a half years at Anfield. The striker Fernando Torres has a hernia problem that will keep him out for at least another three weeks while Liverpool's captain, Steven Gerrard, is nursing a groin problem.The England right-back Glen http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/nov/13/liverpool-rafael-benitez-injuries 2009-11-13 10:59:05 Liverpool FC • Spanish midfielder says Liverpool must scale mental barrier• 'We need everybody helping each other to be stronger'Albert Riera has spoken of Liverpool's torment at their failure to arrest a run of one win in nine matches and fears they will have to overcome a mental barrier to revive their faltering campaign.The Spanish midfielder is braced for another month on the sidelines after aggravating a hamstring injury on his return to the side for Monday's 2-2 draw with Birmingham City at Anfield. After the game, dominated by the fallout from David Ngog's dive for the penalty that earned L http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/nov/11/liverpool-albert-riera-rafael-benitez 2009-11-11 00:10:02 Liverpool FC