Jerry Douglas' Blog

Liverpool foorballer Luis Suarez is in trouble again but this time he is the victim and not the bad guy. The police in Liverpool are investigating death threats sent to Luis Suarez. The threats are coming from suspected Liverpool fans who do not want to see the Uruguayan striker leave Merseyside for  Arsenal . Arsenal has placed a mouth watering bid for Suarez and despite Liverpool’s attempts to make him stay he is keen on joining Gunners. Most of the threats have been online, some of them via  Twitter . "If by any chance Liverpool do accept a bid, and you move, I will find you and I will kill you,"  read one tweet aimed at Suarez. " Can Arsenal just f*** off. If Luis Suarez leaves I’ll hunt him down and kill him,"  read another. The police have confirmed that they are aware of these threats and are looking into it. " People should be aware they can be held accountable to the law for anything they write on social networking sites,"  said a Pol

Goal has ranked Sunday Mba as the 24 best player of the 2013 football year ahead of the likes of Ibrahimovic, Suarez, Isco, Mata and Lampard. Hazard and Oscar didn't even make the list. This is a first time ranking for Mba in the annual goalcom top 50 after he became a revelation for the super eagle's in the recently concluded AFCON which he scored to clinch the title. When Keshi decided to take Mba along with five other home based players to the AFCON tournament he had a lot of raised eyebrows but the 24-year-old played better than many of the nation’s more heralded foreign contingent. Having started the tournament on the bench, Mba was Nigeria’s hero in the knockout stages. He scored the winner in the quarter-final against Cote d’Ivoire to spell the end for Didier Drogba’s trophyless ‘golden generation’. Then in the final itself, Mba fired home the only goal against Burkina Faso to gift Nigeria their first Afcon title since 1994. The 24-year-old was also one of Niger