“WE hate Nottingham Forest, we hate Everton too. We hate Man United, but Liverpool we love you.” It’s song sang season after season without question. Manchester United and Everton, understandable. But Nottingham Forest? We haven’t played them...
“WE’VE seen a fiesta of goals tonight, but that was the gem; that was the Daddy of them all.” Words exhorted by the late BBC Radio Two commentator, Peter Jones describing the last of three Graeme Souness missiles for an Anfield hat-trick that propelled Liverpool to...
MIKE NEVIN on an emotional day in Liverpool’s history – and the home-made video that captured the magic. AS the standing Spion Kop embarked on its final voyage, I watched from the same Kemlyn Road quayside when it first sailed into my view in the late 1970s. The...
I WAS leaving this opening salvo on Portugal’s Euro hopes until after their first game. It would come as a piece of triumphalism, after the slaying of international minnows Iceland in ‘our’ Group F opener. Without the need for patronising the tiny...
THIS week marks 29 years since Liverpool paid Watford £900,000 for the services of John Charles Bryan Barnes, a player who proved to be one of the finest ever to pull on the red of our club. The Jamaican-born winger clocked up 407 appearances for Liverpool in 10 years...
“SPINELESS. Shithouses. Where are the leaders?” The dust has firmly settled on the misery of that second half in Basel last week, but the familiar refrains, which have accompanied each defeat last season, still ring in the ears. An eighth place finish and...
I DON’T want to add to the nerves, but… Wednesday’s Europa League Final against Sevilla is about as big as they come. Forget about the old UEFA Cup being the poor relation; this is all about timing for Liverpool FC. Whisper it, but we’ve lost our last two...
A TWELFTH European Final for Liverpool FC. And it’s been a right laugh along the way; well at least since the draw paired us with Manchester United in the last 16. The word that keeps springing to my mind this fine Friday is enjoyment. Perhaps the cheaper currency of...
I DIDN’T want to write about Hillsborough this week. I’ve found the right words in short supply. How can you ever do the 96 JUSTICE? But, equally, how can you write about football during such a momentous, emotional week? Never have I felt the build up so low key...
RAFAEL Benitez and Jürgen Klopp are cut from the same cloth. Both are football obsessives; passion at their managerial core, but pragmatism at the root of their approach. As Liverpool embark on a new era under the open, charismatic extrovert Klopp, the more guarded...
