I’VE written and rewritten the introduction to this piece several times so far. That is a reflection of the difficulty I’m feeling over the discussion around Loris Karius. After the Champions League final, some are happy to declare him as completely shit and move on....
THE Anfield Wrap’s Paul Cope wrote an article about Simon Mignolet on Wednesday which raised some interesting points. One particularly interesting point raised was that you can simultaneously think that Liverpool could do with a better number one but also not think...
THERE’S nothing more I want than for Liverpool Football Club to win the Premier League. Sure, world peace would be great and there are any number of political circumstances around the globe I wouldn’t mind being sort out in a manner I judge to be favourable, but if I...
THE season is over, the season is done. After 38 league games, a handful of cup matches and numerous moments of panic, the Premier League has come to its conclusion for another year. For some it will be seen as something of a disappointment, believing that we were in...
WHEN it comes to stealing a living, few people pull it off as well as certain football pundits. I’m not talking about the ones who make predictions about particular football matches that end up going spectacularly wrong — that can happen to the best of us. I’m...
AT some point between the advent of the Premier League and today, it was decided that footballers in England’s top division weren’t human. Obviously they’re human in the sense that they’re made of flesh and blood, yet somehow they’ve ceased to be seen and judged in...
EVER since Adam Lallana signed for Liverpool I’ve considered him to be a decent player. I wasn’t blown away by him initially, believing that he was ‘feeling the weight of the shirt’ and considering him to be a little like another Joe Allen. He was good,...
WHEN I was younger I used to love the moment at the start of the second half when the opposition goalkeeper ran towards The Kop, The Kop applauded him and he’d applaud back. It struck me as a moment of real sportsmanship, a signal that Liverpool fans were indeed the...
BEFORE this season began I speculated that Liverpool would challenge for the title. My logic was that Arsenal always finish fourth, Tottenham would be heartbroken at not taking Leicester to the wire last season — much as we were in 2014-2015 — and...
I’VE got a real bee in my bonnet about something at the moment: the refusal to accept that nuance might be relevant when discussing football stories. Just because the sport that we all love seems to be edging towards entertainment more and more with each passing year...
