RECORD breaking? There is one record I want breaking – the 30 years it would be between league titles. Liverpool Football Club have never gone as long between winning the league since the establishment of the club in 1892 than the gap currently is. When they ran...
FOURTEEN heroes. Fourteen grafting and giving and offering. Fourteen committed to a way of playing and committed to each other. Committed to us. Fourteen heroes. A game on paper they should never have won, a game they found their way through and gave everything they...
A YEAR unbeaten in the league. A night unstoppable in the league. As constant as a northern star. This is a hymn about a year. This is a love song about tonight. In the league. Every minute, every second irresistible again and again. In the league. They show...
WELL, I mean, Christmas is a thing, isn’t it? On the one hand, the most wonderful time of the year. On the other hand, is everyone fucking knackered? Emotionally and physically? I mean, I am. And certainly the footballers are. We’ll get to the referee. You...
LEICESTER City came into the game second in the table. They are undoubtedly one of the three best sides in the division so far this season. They were decimated by Liverpool on their own ground. They were taken to the cleaners by The Reds. The Champions of Europe, the...
LITTLE legs. Look at him give it little legs. World champions. The best in the world. I mean, you knew it anyway. You had it in your back pocket. You took it home, you polished it up. You hoped it and prayed it as well as believing and knowing. The best in the world...
LIVERPOOL had a fight on their hands today. A fight against the conditions, a fight against a team fighting for their lives. The weather. There was ever so much of it. Hail before kick off. Loads and loads of wind. It had a massive impact on the game for both sides,...
THEM and us. Us and them. Hearts unbroken. Far from it. No one wanted to wake up in the Europa League on Wednesday morning. There should be rules against this sort of thing. I don’t know: Adults only? It isn’t that RB Salzburg and their manager...
THERE it is. The comfortable away win with the clean sheet. It can’t get much more comfortable and it probably won’t for the rest of the campaign. We’ve been waiting for this, waiting to see it. When it occurred it was like a warm bath on a cold day....
The sea was large today, Just as any other day, Something broke in me, Watching on this winter’s eve… THERE is a point in a season where Liverpool are good when sheer desperation for the league title kicks in. It shouldn’t have been today. Today...
