Football

Liverpool Women's FA Cup tie against Arsenal has been rearranged to avoid clashing with the Carabao Cup final between Liverpool and Chelsea. Liverpool, who won 6-0 against Lincoln City on Sunday, will face Women's Super League side Arsenal at home in the fifth round of the FA Cup.

Everton Ladies face a tough challenge when they come up against Reading in the FA Women’s Super League at Walton Hall Park, the home of Everton Women. Chris Roberts and Claire Ditchburn will be looking for all three points on Sunday (February 6) in their first game in charge as interim managers.

Tranmere put their promotion challenge back on track last night as League Two’s best defence returned to impenetrable ways. Prenton Park welcomed a Stevenage side who were unbeaten in five as Tranmere looked to respond to their 4-0 loss to league leaders Forest Green Rovers on Saturday.

Everton announced 'Big Dunc' Duncan Ferguson will take charge of the first team for their 'upcoming games'. The news comes after the club sacked Rafael Benitez on Sunday.

With the sacking of Rafa Benitez, Everton find themselves with a lot of unsatisfactory issues around the club. After a defeat to lowly Norwich, and without a win in four, the Toffees sit 16th in the table, and are massively underachieving in terms of the expectations of the fans.

When Marine began their FA Cup journey in 2020 against Barnoldswick Town, nobody could have imagined what took place just four months after. Seven rounds later, they faced Tottenham Hotspur, top of the Premier League. Merseysportlive reporter Sam Millne looks back at the impact of that game a year on.

Liverpool's request to postpone their Carabao Cup semi-final tie with Arsenal tomorrow has been approved by the EFL. It comes after the club closed its training facilities on Merseyside amid rising positive Covid cases among staff and players.

Former Liverpool striker Stan Collymore has suggested Sean Dyche could be a good fit to manage Everton amid mounting pressure on current boss Rafa Benitez. Dyche, manager at Burnley since 2012, has enjoyed six consecutive seasons in the Premier League after gaining promotion back to the top flight from the Championship in 2016.

The new year was welcomed in with another win for Marine who continue to sit pretty atop the Northern Premier League West tree thanks to their 0-1 win at Prescot Cables, which attracted almost 1,000 spectators – the division’s biggest crowd of the day.

Non-league football proved it’s alive and kicking in Sefton as more than 2,000 people turned out to watch Bootle beat Marine 0-3 in the Northern Premier League West - the eighth tier of English football. The match, which sold out well in advance, was the first league meeting between the sides for 70 years and lived up to expectations, for the visiting supporters at least, as Bootle stunned The Mariners by scoring three without reply.