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A quick look back at some of our home results emphasises why a title challenge failed to materialise last season. Birmingham City, Tottenham, Aston Villa and Wigan all came away from Anfield with a draw - that's eight points dropped in what many would consider "home bankers" in a season that saw us finish 11 points off the top. Therefore, it was absolutely vital we got our home campaign off to a winning start against a Boro side who will surprise a few people this season, and what a way to clinch it!
LIVERPOOL boss Rafa Benitez has called on his players to step up a gear and turn Anfield into a fortress.
The Reds entertain Middlesbrough in their first Premier League home game of the season this afternoon and the Spaniard is desperate to see them build on last weekend's unconvincing 1-0 win at Sunderland.
Dropped points at home cost the Reds the chance of maintaining a title challenge last season as they drew six and lost one of their 19 home games.
AS the Reds travel to Sunderland for tomorrow's season opener, Liverpool writer Tony Barrett takes a close look at their chances of mounting a title challenge, and examines the key issues off the pitch as well as on it which must yet be overcome.
AT the start of every season, football fans up and down the country check their fixture lists for the most important dates of the coming season.
For Liverpool supporters this has usually meant looking out for games against Everton and Man United and whichever club has assumed rival status over the previous 12 months.
But as important as meetings with David Moyes' and Alex Ferguson's men undoubtedly are, it is arguable the most important dates for Liverpool in the 2008/09 season have nothing at all to do with what is happening on the pitch.
Story by Mary Murtagh
TODAY the ECHO can unveil the biggest Liverpool fans "bar nun".
They have never roared on the Kop, waved a banner or sung along to a rousing rendition of You'll Never Walk Alone.
But Sister Catherine and Sister Nora both do their bit to will their beloved Reds on to victory.
WHILE Rafa Benitez plots an overhaul of his squad, certain parts of Anfield are being given a facelift at present which will impact on stadium tours next week.
Due to essential rebuilding work on the dressing rooms, tours between this Monday, June 16, and Sunday, June 22 will be shortened to miss out both these and the 'This is Anfield' sign.
A club spokesman said: "We apologise for the disappointment this may cause, but the work is essential and cannot be done at any other time.
So Tom Hicks' latest stadium-building venture in the United States has gone belly-up. (Read here)
Cue lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth no doubt about how this means we're further than away than ever from our all-singing, all-dancing new stadium.
Well pardon me for not donning sackcloth and ashes but I'm made up.
Apart from the fact this may mean Tom the Texan's dream of a golden goose stadium on Stanley Park from which he can keep milking money seems as likely to materialise in the near future as another open-house invite to Glasgow Rangers fans from the city of Manchester, it might just put the whole issue of whether we actually need a new ground back on the agenda.
IF Manchester City exist for any reason at all, it is surely to prove the old adage that no matter how bad things are there is always someone worse off than yourself.
Manchester's longest running soap opera rolled into town yesterday in a timely reminder that while Liverpool have had more than their fair share of off field drama this season they still have some way to go before they can consistently hit the heights of the nation's favourite footballing basket case.
With Sven Goran Eriksson repeating the role of the condemned man played by Rafa Benitez before Christmas and an absentee foreign owner making mischief, City currently have more in common with Liverpool than anyone at Anfield would care to admit.
Even their fans don't know whether they should support or protest. Ring any bells?
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