by Neil Atkinson | Dec 30, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
WHAT winning feels like. Soul soaring. Heart pounding. Vaguely nauseous. Made of fists, made of hips, made of fuck off. Just fuck off. It should always feel like that but so often it doesn’t. A combination between great football and a great scrap. Tonight these...
by Neil Atkinson | Dec 26, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
NOT dissimilar to the aftermath of Bournemouth 0 Liverpool 4, what’s really important here is that 5-0 home wins don’t feel mundane. Shouldn’t feel mundane. Not now, not ever. To put it in context, in the whole of the 2006-7 season only once did...
by Neil Atkinson | Dec 22, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
QUITE the achievement a 3-3 draw against top six rivals where both sides come away disappointed. But Liverpool and Arsenal are second to none in delivering disappointment to their supporters in new and innovative ways. Fair play to them. A Merry Christmas to them and...
by Neil Atkinson | Dec 17, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
LIVERPOOL’S intensity was exceptional as they beat Bournemouth 0-4 this evening. Nil-four is a really rather rare scoreline and rightly so. To score four at any Premier League ground without reply takes a very good performance and that is exactly what Liverpool...
by Neil Atkinson | Dec 15, 2017 | Footie
LIVERPOOL’S centre midfield drove me mad on Wednesday night. But let’s start by saying this: At least you remember Emre Can played. One of the big pluses of Can is that you always remember him, you always know he was there. He might do your head in, but he is there...
by Neil Atkinson | Dec 13, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
LIVERPOOL were fucking crap tonight. Immediately after typing that the realisation hits that this is exactly the sort of writing which means that yours truly isn’t about to be offered Barney Ronay’s column at The Guardian. We could find a wry way around...
by Neil Atkinson | Dec 10, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
A WIN always helps. And Liverpool didn’t get one. A win always helps because it helps you shrug off what doesn’t go well; what you disagree with, who didn’t have their best game, what wasn’t right. It’s another edgy team selection from...
by Neil Atkinson | Dec 6, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
LIVERPOOL were downright irresistible. I’m not interested in messing about; I’m interested in the facts. The facts are that there is a gulf between these two sides. I was in The Kop for the second. Shall we have a chat about it? It looked, from where I...
by Neil Atkinson | Dec 2, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
WHAT a win that is under the circumstances. It’s a manager backing himself, his staff and his team, and them standing up for themselves and for him. They had to be switched on, aggressive and good. They nailed all the above. Imagine getting the teamsheet in the...
by Neil Atkinson | Nov 30, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
THEY flit. Sadio Mane comes across and Mo Salah sees him. Goes the other side and fills the space. No one sees this because right in front of all of us, the Stoke players, the Liverpool end, everyone is fixated on Mane. How can you not be? The pace and the power of...
