Peter Crouch leads Liverpool FC into the UEFA Champions League tournament. Bodog.com has Liverpool FC at 22 to 1 (Bet $1.00 to win $22.00) to win the UEFA Champions League. Liverpool Football Club is an English football club based in Liverpool. They play at Anfield but are currently awaiting finance for a new stadium approximately 200 meters away in neighboring Stanley Park.
They play in the FA Premier League and in terms of trophies won are the most successful club in the history of English football. Liverpool has won eighteen First Division titles, seven FA Cups, seven League Cups, five European Cups and three UEFA Cups. Liverpool is also a member of the G-14 group of leading European football clubs.
The club was involved in two of the biggest tragedies in European football at Heysel in 1985 when thirty nine Juventus fans died and at Hillsborough in 1989 where ninety six people lost their lives.
After the Heysel disaster, English clubs were banned from European competition for a period of five years while Liverpool was excluded for six years. The Hillsborough tragedy led to a review of ground safety at all top English league clubs, and paved the way for legislation necessitating all-seater stadiums in the top-flight.
Bodog.com has Liverpool FC at 22 to 1 to win the UEFA Champions League.
Liverpool’s man to beat now is Peter Crouch. At 1.98m tall, striker Peter Crouch has always stood out for his touch and ability as well as his height.
A Queen's Park Rangers FC and then Tottenham Hotspur FC trainee, Crouch was loaned to Swedish side IFK Hässleholm and then rejoined first division QPR for €98,000 in 2000. Still 19 at the start of the season, he impressed and although the west London club was relegated, Crouch stayed in the division, moving to Portsmouth FC for €2.2m.
Fine form earned a €7.5m move to Aston Villa FC but his form dipped and having spent three months on loan to Norwich City FC, Crouch joined Southampton FC for €3m. He began to blossom midway through 2004/05 and although Southampton was relegated, European champions Liverpool FC paid €10.1m to sign Crouch. It still took until December for Crouch to score but proved to be a popular player for his all round game and ended with a double figure goal tally.
On England's squad for the 2002 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squad, he scored the winner in their opener against hosts Switzerland. He also made a promising senior debut in summer 2005 in a 3-2 win against Colombia and Crouch's sudden rise continued as he played four times in England's run to the 2006 FIFA World Cup quarter finals, scoring against Trinidad and Tobago.
