Liverpool FC is also known as The Kop. What does 'The Kop' actually mean?
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Anfield, Hillsborough, Elland Road and other grounds have a Kop.  \nThey were all originally just mounds of earth,  and got the nickname after the Battle of Spion Kop in the Boer War in 1900.  \n\nKop is Afrikaans for a small hill. \n\nMore info at: \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Spion_Kop
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Liverpool Football Club (usually known simply as Liverpool) is an English football club that is based in Liverpool, Merseyside; current holders of the English FA Cup (2006), they are the most successful English football team of all time. Since being founded in 1892, Liverpool is the only English team to have won the Champions League five times. The club also has 18 Football League titles to its name, as well as being the English club to have won the most number of UEFA Cups, European Supercups and English League Cups. The club's home ground is the 45,400 capacity Anfield stadium, which is about three miles from the centre of Liverpool and situated on Anfield Road.\n\nThe club was founded on March 15, 1892 by John Houlding, the owner of Anfield. Houlding decided to form his own team after Everton left Anfield in an argument over rent. The original name was to be Everton F.C. but was changed to Liverpool F.C. (after the F.A. refused to recognise the team as Everton). Liverpool were elected to the Football League alongside Woolwich Arsenal two years later.\n\nThe club was involved in two of the biggest tragedies in European football — at Heysel in 1985 in which 39 spectators were crushed, and Hillsborough in 1989 in which 96 people died and 766 were injured. After Heysel, English clubs were banned from European competition for a period of five years, six in the case of Liverpool.\n\nLiverpool Football Club is not to be confused with Liverpool (Rugby) Football Club which was formed in 1858 and is now known as Liverpool St. Helens. The club has always had a strong Scottish link.
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The word "soccer" is a colloquial abbreviation of association (from assoc.) and first appeared in the 1880s. The word is sometimes credited to Charles Wreford Brown, an Oxford University student said to have been fond of shortened forms such as brekkers for breakfast and rugger for rugby football. In the late 19th century the word soccer tended to be used only at public schools; most people knew the game simply as football.\n\nFootball is more commonly known as soccer in certain English-speaking nations where the word "football" refers to a rival code of football developed within that nation, specifically Australia, Canada, Ireland and the United States, and also in areas where Rugby football is more popular than association football, such as Australia, New Zealand and the white communities of South Africa. In these countries "football" was often included in the names of the earliest leagues and governing bodies of the sport, but as that word became increasingly associated with other domestic forms of the game, soccer became more widely used.\n\nFootball, in its modern form, was exported by Britons to much of the rest of the world and many of these nations adopted this common English term for the sport into their own language. This was usually done in one of two ways: either by directly importing the word itself, or by translating its constituent parts, foot and ball. Most Romance languages use the word football, albeit with a different pronunciation and occasionally a different spelling: the (Spanish fútbol, Portuguese: futebol, and the French, le football is often shortened to le foot. \n\nIn Germanic languages (other than English), the term is usually translated (for example, German: Fußball, Norwegian: fotball, Swedish: fotboll, Danish: fodbold and the Dutch: voetbal. \n\nIn Italy, football is called calcio, from calciare meaning to kick.\n\nAnd Kick-Off, Field Goal and Punt are all terms to describe American Football whereby a player uses his foot to make the ball go in a certain direction.  So, American Football is played with the feet but it is played with the feet about as much as world football/futbol is played with the hands via the goal keeper or other players on a throw-in.  My question would be why is it termed football (in the rest of the world) when the goalie can use his hands all the time (provided he is in the 18 yard box) and other players use their hands to make a throw in?  It is a mixture of both hands and feet as well as your head, chest, thigh etc.  In my opinion soccer/football should be called "body ball" taking in the total amount of your body that actually touches the ball, unlike rugby and american football...just a thought.
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It's a contraction of 'Association Football.' The term originated in England in 1863, because there were already other forms of football at the time. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and South Africa also call it 'soccer' or 'association football.' Italy calls it 'calcio.'
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Cup-tied is an adjective, used primarily in football (soccer), used to describe a player who is ineligible to play in a knockout cup competition after transferring from another club during that competition.\n\nIn virtually all domestic and international cup competitions, any player who makes an appearance for a club at any stage of the competition is "tied" to that club for all future matches during that season in the same competition. This prevents a strong team from gaining an unfair advantage by signing a talented player from a club that has lost in an earlier round. A team that wishes to transfer a player may deliberately choose to keep that player off its cup roster to ensure that he is not cup-tied, increasing his usefulness to a club that may be involved in the same competition. A recent example of this was Liverpool manager Rafael Benítez' decision to keep Milan Baroš off Liverpool's roster for their 2005-06 UEFA Champions League ties in order to retain his value to clubs interested in purchasing the Czech striker's services. (Baroš eventually moved to Aston Villa, which was not involved in the Champions League.) Similarly, although far less often, a team may deliberately cup-tie a player to discourage a transfer during that season. Note, however, that this does not restrict most international transfers; cup-tying is only an issue internationally if both teams involved in the transfer have participated in a continental cup competition such as the UEFA Champions League or UEFA Cup.
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Liverpool FC's official web site has the list of Association of International Branches (formerly known as International Supporters Club), which you can view at\n\nhttp://www.liverpoolfc.tv/club/aib/
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You forgot one more football league\n\nEnglish Premier league and in influx of foreign players who's main contribution to the beautiful game has been the 'art' of diving\n\nA certain German (Mr Klinsmann) started the ball a rolling on his initial term with spurs (tottenham hotspur)
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The famous Treble is what Manchester United achieved with the FA Cup, Premiership and European Cup (Champions League).\n\nHowever it can be any 3 trophies - so Liverpool had the UEFA Cup, Fa Cup and League Cup for example.\n\nIn other countries it could be other trophies.
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Liverpool are anything but boring! They got some stunning players and actually deserve to win unlike west ham who although quite talented aren't the better team.
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Caps - the number of times a player has represented his country (It doesn´t mean career appearances for that country)\n\nA cap is an appearance for a select team, such as a school, county or international team. The term can be applied to any sport and any nationality of player. The term dates from the practice in the United Kingdom of awarding a cap (meaning an item of headgear) to every player in an international match, however, the act of awarding a cap is now international. The practice was first approved on May 10, 1886 for Association Football, after a proposal made by N. L. Jackson, an Old Corinthian:\n\n"That all players taking part for England in future international matches be presented with a white silk cap with red rose embroidered on the front. These to be termed International Caps."\n\nActual caps are not usually given anymore (caps for friendly matches still exist, and each player gets one cap per international competition), but the term "cap" for an international appearance has been retained. Thus, a cap is awarded for each game played and so a player who has played x games, for the team, is said to have been capped x times or have won x caps.
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In 1989,liverpool were running away with the leagur title. The hillesborough disaster happened that year and as a result the game against arsenal was rescheduled to the last of the season. It was played at anfield and arsenal needed to win by 2 clear goals The first goal was dubious and the winning goal was in the final minute,to lose the title in that fashion along with the pain of the deaths of their supporters must of been huge. But if you ever see the reception arsenal got that evening when they recieved the trophy you'll know that liverpool dont only sing when they are winning. Plus the liverpool team sent the champagne they had cooling on ice into the arsenal dressing room afterwards. Now thats class.
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A cap isn't an acronym for any word. It simply means anytime a player has worn a jersey representing their country on the field. Like anytime Ronaldinho wears a Brazil jersey he recieves one cap and the same thing when David Beckham wears a England jersey. Back in the day players in England would actually recieve real caps (hats) just for memorbillia purposes but they don't hand them out anymore. I don't know why.....
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I'm a Luis Garcia fan. Generally, I love Liverpool and I consider them the best football club in the world. Forget it that they recently lost to Sao Paulo last FIFA World Club Championship! To me, Sao Paulo was just lucky! As for Luis Garcia, he's amazing with that chest trap of his. I don't see a lot of players being able to control a long ball with a chest trap!
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They are from Liverpool and huge soccer fans (actually they used to play) and that is their "fight song."
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It may sound racist against the spanish. I watch La Liga games most weeks and it is a part of their game. Benitez and four of the Spanish squad play at Liverpool. They have brought the style of play to Liverpool.  The worst for it in the Premiership is Drogba, dirty cheating scum he is.
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It was pretty simple actually . They have a history of meeting in the Engilsh premiership where shaka has been undone by Gerrard a few times . Their last meeting was in the FA cup finals between Liverpool and West Ham United where Gerarrd beat him with a long  range shot during the game and then with a penalty shot during the shootout.
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Experience mate, simple as that and that's why Liverpool will be up in the top three for years to come. And that's not from a Liverpools supporter either./