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but far more concerning than sitting underneath their great rivals is the gap between themselves and league leaders chelsea . | en |
victory for jose mourinho 's men at anfield took them 15 points clear of steven gerrard and co and the gap looks certain to increase . | en |
liverpool stars ( from left to right ) joe allen , rickie lambert and steven gerrard look dejected against chelsea manager brendan rodgers shakes hands with emre can during his side 's 2-1 defeat by chelsea on saturday chelsea striker diego costa ( second from right ) blasts home his side 's winner at anfield games played ( all competitions ) : 17 wins : 7 ( one on penalties ) at the same stage last season , rodgers had led his side to second place in the table , had beaten david moyes ' united side and had seven wins . | en |
but having already lost to the likes of newcastle and west ham this time around , liverpool are nine points off the pace they set last term . | en |
perhaps even more worrying for fans of a red persuasion is an unwelcome comparison to roy hodgson 's unsuccessful spell as boss during the 2010-11 season . | en |
after working wonders at fulham , hodgson arrived to oversee an anfield revolution but ended up being sacked just over six months into his three-year contract . | en |
despite his failings - both in the transfer market and on the pitch - the ex-inter milan manager actually managed to accumulate more points after 11 fixtures than rodgers has now . | en |
hodgson masterminded a 2-0 win over chelsea and respectable 1-1 draw with arsenal during liverpool 's start to the 2010-11 campaign , earning 15 points , leaving them in ninth spot in the table . | en |
roy hodgson covers his face during a 2-1 defeat by blackburn during his brief spell as liverpool boss liverpool players react after gary cahill 's equaliser in front of the kop at anfield on saturday liverpool had a better record under roy hodgson in the 2010-11 season than they do under rodgers this term but having failed to win any of their last three top-flight clashes , rodgers ' side have only 14 points and are below west ham , stoke , swansea and high-flying southampton . | en |
they have n't fared much better in europe either , having made their return to champions league action following a five-year absence brought about by below-par performances in the premier league . | en |
two defeats by real madrid - the second of which came at the bernabeu after rodgers decided to rest seven first-team players - and another away at basle means liverpool have now lost eight games in all competitions this season - the same amount as in the whole 2013-14 season ( 43 games ) . | en |
real madrid striker karim benzema ( right ) celebrates after scoring his side 's winning goal against liverpool steven gerrard , glen johnson and jordan henderson ( left to right ) started on the bench at the bernabeu their soft defence and lacklustre attack has left their hopes of reaching the knockout stages hanging by a thread , with wins against the swiss side and bulgarians ludogorets almost certainly required if they 're to reach the last 16 . | en |
as well as needing his back four to tighten-up considerably , rodgers also needs his attack to become more potent - and fast - if liverpool are to turn around their nightmare start . | en |
the reds have scored just three goals in their last six games in all competitions , with emre can 's strike against chelsea coming courtesy of a hefty deflection . | en |
they failed to find the back of the net in four of those games . | en |
injured striker daniel sturridge watches from the stands at anfield as liverpool lose to chelsea liverpool are struggling for goals after selling striker luis suarez ( right ) to barcelona during the summer the sale of last season 's top-scorer luis suarez to barcelona has undoubtedly had a huge impact on the liverpool 's ability to unlock opposition defences , while two injuries to daniel sturridge has left summer signings mario balotelli and rickie lambert toiling up front . | en |
sturridge is set to return against crystal palace after the international break as rodgers ' men aim to gain a measure of revenge on the eagles following their capitulation at selhurst park at the end of last season . | en |
fail to take three points in south london and rodgers ' record this season will be even worse than hodgson 's was four years ago . | en |
time will tell if the same fate befalls him . | en |
( cnn ) -- sebastian vettel is so dominant in formula one right now that his rivals must be hoping for help from the heavens , but even the weather seems unlikely to stop the red bull driver from a fourth successive win at sunday 's korean grand prix . | en |
a typhoon had been forecast to hit this week in yeongam , but conditions have died down -- although there is still a possibility of rain during the race . | en |
vettel , however , was unconcerned after clinching his sixth pole position of 2013 with another commanding performance in saturday 's qualifying at the korean international circuit . | en |
the german headed off mercedes ' lewis hamilton , who was fastest in friday 's second practice , while red bull teammate mark webber was third fastest -- though the australian will start 13th on the grid after his third reprimand of the season at singapore . | en |
interactive : f1 gears up for more gangnam style " it 's not a disaster if it starts to rain , " vettel told reporters after setting pole for the third successive race , at a venue where he has won the past two years . " | en |
same as usual we have rain tires in the garage but obviously they 're talking about heavy wind . " | en |
i arrived on wednesday and it was very , very windy . | en |
since then the wind seems to have died down and i think the typhoon has changed direction . | en |
i think tomorrow should be fine in terms of conditions -- whether it is dry or wet . " | en |
if we get some of the rain from the typhoon is n't 100 % clear at the moment but , as i said , it does n't matter . | en |
most important is that we did the job . " | en |
hamilton also had five pole positions going into qualifying , but was just over two-tenths of a second slower than vettel -- who leads the championship by 60 points as he seeks a fourth successive world title . " | en |
we did as good a job as we could , " said 2008 world champion hamilton . " | en |
i felt like i got the most out of the car and perhaps there 's always a little bit of room to improve but in general it 's been a good weekend so far , so i really hope that tomorrow we 're able to fight with them . " | en |
webber is paying the price for receiving a lift from ferrari 's fernando alonso following his car 's late failure in singapore , an act of friendship that left both drivers in trouble with the race stewards . " | en |
we had to take a bit of pace out of the car for qualifying . | en |
not much but just looking at how we would compromise qualifying a little bit more for the race , " said the 37-year-old , who has six races left before quitting f1 to drive for porsche in the world endurance championship . " | en |
i think the race will be interesting . | en |
obviously well and truly out of position but we will fight and come back through . " | en |
lotus ' romain grosjean will head the second row after qualifying fourth , followed by mercedes ' nico rosberg and alonso -- who criticized tire supplier pirelli after being more than 0.8 seconds slower than vettel . " | en |
it 's a tire that can not do five kilometers . | en |
if you push them , you finish them -- which is not normal , " said the two-time world champion , who won the inaugural korean race in 2010 . " | en |
i 'm sure all the cars , if they pushed 100 % from the start of a lap , they would not do five kilometers . | en |
so it is not very helpful and not very nice to drive like this , at 95 % of the lap . " | en |
we are getting used to them being unable to last one lap , getting used to these marbles ( rubber debris on the track ) so you have two meters of racing line . | en |
three or four years ago no-one would have thought this was possible . " | en |
alonso 's teammate felipe massa will start sixth ahead of sauber 's nico hulkenberg and esteban gutierrez . | en |
kimi raikkonen , who will replace massa at ferrari next year , will be ninth ahead of the mclaren duo of sergio perez and jenson button . | en |
a 4.2-metre crocodile has been put down after it pounced at two visitors walking along a highway in kakadu national park . | en |
the monster creature attacked the walkers - who were near a waterway - on arnhem highway , about 30 kilometres from jabiru , in the northern territory about 10am on tuesday . | en |
following the incident , it was killed and then rangers fished it out of the water with a tractor . | en |
the monster creature is thought to have attacked the walkers - who were near a waterway - on arnhem highway in the northern territory a parks australia spokeswoman said in a statement to daily mail australia the two people were making their way through long grass near a culvert when the crocodile ` lunged ' at them . | en |
fortunately , they were able to get away uninjured and went to report the incident to rangers . | en |
the spokeswoman said the pair were ' a bit shaken up ' . | en |
` our rangers headed straight out to the scene , and they could clearly see large croc tracks in the grass , heading into the water , but no sign of the croc , ' the spokeswoman said . | en |
the rangers then returned to the site under the cover of night to try and spot the animal when its eyes reflected the search lights . | en |
` they quickly located a crocodile fitting the description , a 4.2-metre croc that was missing a portion of its tail and appeared underweight , ' the spokeswoman said . | en |
the two people were walking in kakadu national park ( above ) when the crocodile ` lunged ' at them ` the animal was shot and removed in the interest of public safety . | en |
` we never take this decision lightly , but public safety is paramount . ' | en |
nt parks and wildlife commission 's tommy nichols told the abc waterways in kakadu ran into major river systems and people had to be on alert in case a crocodile appeared . | en |
the senior ranger for crocodile management estimated the crocodile to be at least 16 years old because it was four metres in size . | en |
this comes after a horror year in crocodile attacks in the top end . | en |
last year , the northern territory had its highest number of crocodile-related deaths on record . | en |
following the incident , it was killed when rangers fished it out of the water at this culvert with a tractor the pair were 60 kilometres from jabiru while on the arnhem highway in the northern territory saltwater crocodiles killed four territorians last year , which is almost one-fifth of the total 21 people killed since 1974 . | en |
in january 2014 , a 12-year-old boy was snatched by a croc while swimming with friends at a billabong in kakadu on australia day . | en |
six months later , while washing out a bucket off the back of his boat , a 62-year-old man was killed on the south alligator river in kakadu in august of the same year on the tiwi islands , a 22-year-old man 's remains were found by police in the stomach of a crocodile that was shot a short time later . | en |
then tran van lanh , 57 , waded into the adelaide river to unsnag a fishing line and was fatally attacked by a rare , well-known albino-headed crocodile called michael jackson as his wife witnessed in horror . | en |
20:12 est , 10 april 2012 20:13 est , 10 april 2012 colombian authorities have been frustrated in their attempts to file criminal charges against the young father of a baby born to a 10-year-old ethnic wayuu girl . | en |
the wayuu people have their own justice system and rarely co-operate with agents of the colombian state in such matters , maria gladys pabon , chief prosecutor in riohacha , the regional capital , said yesterday . | en |
under colombian law , any sexual relations with a child age 14 or younger is a crime punishable by at least nine years in prison . | en |
frustrated : the colombian authorities say they are not getting any co-operation from members of the wayuu tribe as they investigate the young father of this baby born to a 10-year-old girl mother : the girl , a member of the northern indigenous wayuu tribe in the la guajira peninsula , was 39 weeks pregnant when she underwent a caesarean but legal and indigenous affairs experts say that under colombia 's 1991 constitution the wayuu have jurisdiction . | en |
the girl , who can not be identified by law , gave birth on march 29 via caesarean section and is one of the youngest mothers on record . | en |
the father , who authorities say is 15 , also can not be identified . | en |
the baby weighed 5.6 lbs ( 2.6 kg ) and measured 14.5 ins ( 47cm ) , said dr fabio gonzalez , who delivered the child in a private clinic in riohacha , on the guajira peninsula in colombia 's northeast coast . | en |
dr gonzalez said ` she barely understood what was happening ' at the moment of birth . | en |
he added he had to operate because at that age the pelvis is still growing ` and it 's too small for the fetus to pass through the vaginal canal . ' | en |
home : the town of manaure is in the northern la guajira peninsula of colombia he said the mother , who was discharged from the clinic in good health , is also relatively short at 4ft , 7ins ( 142cm ) . | en |
when nurses took the newborn to her mother ` it was as if a doll was being given to her , ' said dr gonzalez . | en |
` she has no idea . | en |
she does n't understand anything and that 's normal , ' he added . | en |
the doctor said it was not the first time he had delivered the baby of a 10-year-old girl . | en |
he said he had a similar case last year . | en |
in the latest case , the girl 's parents took her to the clinic from their hometown of manuare . | en |
shame : the birth has been painful for the wayuu ( file picture ) , who mostly live on the colombia-venezuela border . | en |
but they do not believe she was raped a wayuu tribal leader , rosa iguaran , said the parents were refusing to speak to the media out of shame . | en |
she said the incident was also painful for the wayuu , who number about 350,000 and mostly live in the colombia-venezuela border region . | en |
they do n't consider that the girl was raped but rather that the baby was conceived in consensual sex . | en |
it will be up to the parents of both the boy and girl to decide whether the two should be married and what the boy 's family owes the girl 's family , whether it be ` necklaces , cows , goats , whatever the family agrees on , ' said iguaran . | en |
pabon , the prosecutor , said the family of the girl has refused to co-operate with her in her investigation . | en |
she said she would not seek to arrest the father of the newborn without speaking with wayuu leaders . | en |
colombian constitutional law experts say such cases are always very complicated . | en |
former constitutional court magistrate rodrigo escobar said that ` what the indians ca n't do is submit a defendant to degrading treatment or the death penalty . ' | en |
the world 's youngest mother in a medically documented case was lina medina of peru , who in 1939 produced an infant at the age of five years , eight months , according to the guinness book of records . | en |
07:38 est , 3 october 2013 07:49 est , 3 october 2013 two muslim tesco workers have won a discrimination case against the supermarket after bosses kept their prayer room locked . | en |
abdirisak aden and mahamed hasan , both aged 27 , were among a number of devout muslim employees who had lobbied for a prayer room since 2006 . | en |
in 2008 managers agreed to set aside a security office at the distribution depot in crick , northamptonshire , as a prayer room for muslims . | en |
abdirisak aden and mahamed hasan were among a number of muslim employees who had lobbied for a prayer room at the distribution depot in crick , northamptonshire ( pictured ) but in 2012 bosses set new restrictions on the use of the room which included keeping it locked when it was not in use . | en |
muslim workers were forced to tell managers when they were going to pray and had to ask for the key and fill in their names in a book every time the entered the room . | en |
they also claimed they were forbidden to worship in groups and were only allowed to pray one at a time . | en |
mr aden and mr hasan took the supermarket giant to a tribunal claiming discrimination on the grounds of their religion . | en |
bedford employment tribunal found tesco was guilty of indirect discrimination and awarded the men an undisclosed sum for ` injury to their feelings ' . | en |