Live Europa League Football
THERE'S disappointingly scant information on Wikipedia about Dutch side FC Utrecht, Liverpool’s opponents tonight.
Pity, because, as regular readers will know, I like to use these European football nights to dig out some facts about the clubs our British sides face.
What it does say is they were founded just 40 years ago from a merger of three local sides, that they play at the Stadion Galgenwaard, that their colours are red and white, that they’re the only club outside Holland’s traditional top three – Ajax, Feyenoord and PSV – never to be relegated, and that their manager is a reindeer called Malcolm (not really – I just wanted to make sure you hadn’t nodded off).
Anyway, Jim Rosenthal hosts Channel 5’s coverage, with kick-off at 8.05pm.