LIVERPOOL qualify for the next round. They progress. Without progress. Repeatedly Liverpool should put the football match to bed. Repeatedly they don’t do so. Many passages of play have some glorious touches but only Milner’s early penalty offers us a...
THE Daniel Sturridge v Fernando Torres cold stats are in Sturridge’s favour; slightly better total goals to total appearances ratio, significantly better total goals to starts ratio. But I don’t want stats. I want to slay some dragons and move on. Torres...
THERE is a myth that football is entertainment, or that it was once entertaining. We can wear rose-tinted specs when we look at the past — spectacles that are so often false. When I was about 22, Liverpool played Vitesse Arnhem in two games of football...
I’VE always been more of an ambitions man than a resolution man. I like to sit down and contemplate what would be good to do in any 12-month period. What would you fancy over the next 12 months? Try to keep them plausible and reasonable. Actionable. This year I...
HEARTBREAKING. And I didn’t expect to be writing that tonight. Absolutely heartbreaking to see that happen to these lads after the performance they put in. Liverpool deserved the lot insofar as either side did. Liverpool deserved to go to Blackburn; deserved to...
IN the act of planning the next Well Read show — our TAW Player show about football books — I thought to myself, why not make it easy for people to buy the books discussed in previous shows? By, you know, writing something for the website and then putting...
LIVERPOOL 2 Sunderland 0: Black flags before kick off. A foreboding atmosphere around Anfield. Black flags waving, banners conspicuous by their absence and a large gathering of the disaffected. Large groups congregated in a place is one of the things history is made...
ALBERTO MORENO could maybe do better from where I am. Could maybe do better. Riyad Mahrez sends him. The keeper could maybe come. But then Jamie Vardy does that. And that is that. That is that. Goals from nowhere. Magic in the boots. Liverpool are done and Leicester...
A PERFORMANCE to be genuinely proud of from Liverpool but a result that is fundamentally frustrating. Another game the Reds need to prepare for, another gratification deferred. It’s the deferred gratification that hurts the most. Celebrating a goal is a...
WEST Ham United come to Anfield and it all feels very 2001 all of a sudden. I was 20 years old on January 21, 2001 and on January 27, 2001 I was a wreck. Liverpool kicked off against Leeds United at 12 noon and I had been out in Leeds the night before, got lost, fell...
