Liverpool notched up another 3 points in the race for the premiership this weekend, but the victory can only be regarded as bittersweet, as two key players left the field with broken bones, and are out till next year at least.

Milan Baros - was injured after being tackled by Markus Babbel, who ironically is on loan to Balckburn from Liverpool. The Czech striker supreme broke his ankle and has already has surgery, he had a plate inserted. Gerrad Houllier however said he did not hold Babbel responsible.

Jamie Carragher - was tackled by Lucas Neil, a two-footed tackle that was so reckless and X-rated, Neil received a straight red card. Houllier is angry with Neil and Souness, for the tackle and for not apologising immediately.

When the game had finished I wish Graeme Souness had come up to me and said ‘sorry, it was a bad tackle’,” Houllier told the Liverpool Echo.

Lucas Neil was actually angry with the ref for sending him off !! Souness waited till Monday to apologize. For a tackle to break the leg of a player wearing shin pads is crazy to say the least. Neil has been called a coward for the tackle in some sections of the media. But the irony is that while Carragher is out for 6 months at least, Neil only has to face a three match ban. Carragher has even said “I hope I’m walking again before my ten-month old son”. (How sweet!)

In a similar case in France where a player injured another with a bad tackle, which forced him out of the game for two months, the French FA banned the player responsible for the same length of time. Maybe the English FA should look at this. But then if they did, Roy Keane would not yet be playing after his no infamous, vicious (and delibrate!) tackle on Alf Inge-Halaand a couple of years ago!

But the trouble didn’t even end after the whistle ! Houllier became embroiled in a heated exchange with Blackburn’s ex-Liverpool midfielder David Thompson and with Graeme Souness during the game after Thompson seemed to aim a punch at John Arne Riise when the referee wasn’t looking. Riise needs to go and do something about this, just last week he got into a fight with John Carew while training for the NOrway game and got sent home after the scuffle (and since Riise didn’t, I guess that means he was not at fault!!).

So we won, but at a terrible price. But the battle continues……with Diouf, Heskey, Mellor and even Le Tallec available to partner Owen up front, we don’t seem to have too much of a problem. Finnan will finally be able to prove his worth after his transfer from Fulham with Carragher out for 6 months. What’s left is for Liverpool to recall Babbel from loan as cover. It’s only fair…….

The eldest sister of Venus and Serena Williams was shot dead late last night in Compton, Los Angeles. I was very surprised to find out that she has a Nigerian(Yoruba) name – Yetunde Price. ‘Yetunde’ means that ‘Mama (an elderly woman in the family) has come back’. Usually, when a female child is born shortly after an elderly woman in the family dies, the girl is named ‘Yetunde’. When an elderly man dies and a boy is born he is called ‘Babatunde’. This is a common practice in Africa, and different tribes have their own version of this. (For example, we have ‘Nnanna’ for males and ‘Nena’ for females in the Igbo tribe)

How she came to be called ‘Yetunde’, I’m not quite sure. She is the daughter or Mr. & Mrs. Williams, although she took her mother’s maiden name just before their parents bitterly divorced a few years ago. The mother of three herself has recently divorced her own husband.

Yetunde has been described as the Williams’ sisters ‘Rock’ and ‘Role Model’. Some new reports say she was ‘left in the ghetto’ while her sisters ‘lived the life’ in their Beverly Hills mansion. Some claim she has paid the ultimate price for growing up in Compton.

What is clear is that while her sisters were making millions playing tennis around the world, she was working a $7 an hour nursing job in Compton. Several times, she refused to take handouts from her sisters, deciding to pay her own way and only taking money for airline tickets when going to watch the play. Recently, she took a job as a part time Personal Assistant to her sisters, which gave her some capital to start a salon in Compton.

A man has since been arrested in the hunt for her killer.