A 1-0 victory in the second leg semi-final gave Liverpool a place in the Champions League final.
he has nothing but praise for the Lancashire club which in many ways represents the backbone of English football.
Chelsea had goalkeepers Petr Cech and Carlo Cudicini taken to hospital after both were knocked unconscious in the champions' 1-0 win at Reading on Saturday
A round-up of action in Europe's main leagues over the weekend.
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran move into joint fifth spot after the fourth round of the Master's section of the Gibtele.com chess festival.
'I am suspicious of the Democratic Party in the US; two, that I fear that Obama is all style and no substance; and three, that I believe his war-cry of 'change!' is no more than election rhetoric, because there is no way anybody is going to turn the battleship that is America except very, very slowly.'
Sturla Gunnarsson's powerful film on the Kanishka bombing, Air India 182, premiered at the Hot Docs Festival recently. Vancouver-based Gunnarsson, who is originally from Iceland and whose wife is Punjabi, has put a number of members of the victims' families in front of the camera, sharing their pain and anguish with the viewers.
Viswanathan Anand and National champion Surya Shekhar Ganguly were held in a 2-2 draw in the fifth round of the Chess Olympiad.
India posted an emphatic 4-0 victory over Mongolia in the third round of the 37th Chess Olympiad.