1.   How can new Liverpool bludgeon United into mediocrity yet take only one point from their previous league fixtures against Leicester and Derby?

2.   Swindon travel to Belle Vue for their first league fixture of the season.

3.   Bangor City have tabled a request to the annual meeting that they should be allowed to host all their league fixtures at Farrar Road under the lights in midweek.

4.   Third-place Feyenoord had no Easter league fixtures but lost Sunday to crosstown Rotterdam rival Sparta in the semifinal of the Dutch Amstel Cup knockout competition.

5.   Houllier said Owen should be fit and rested as Liverpool had no league fixture at the weekend.

6.   Houllier said England striker Michael Owen, who was disappointing in the first leg, should be fit as Liverpool had no league fixture at the weekend.

7.   Boro face Leicester in the League Cup final next month, but the players see the league fixture against them as just as important.

8.   Both sides were without several regular players for the postponed Sunday league fixture.

9.   The other nine French league fixtures take place on Friday evening.