JUDGING by the reaction on Twitter, Liverpool’s local ticket sale, a plan first announced in February to distribute a limited number of tickets for home games to members with an ‘L’ postcode, hasn’t pleased everyone. Do those upset by the idea...
FIRST off, I’m a big fan of Daniel Sturridge. He’s the most naturally gifted player in our squad, the best finisher and he comes across very well in interviews. I should also point out that there’s an extent to which some of the things I’m going to talk about...
BEFORE I get too heavily into what’s on my mind this week, there’s some background information I need to give you about my friends from school. In short, I was always the stupid one. As adults, one of my school friends has gone on to work for a bank, one has become a...
ONE of my favourite things about being a sports fan is the ability to watch any given thing for a short period of time and very quickly feel as though I’m an expert. I remember being in a sports bar in Nottingham once when tobogganing was on the TVs. As you...
THAT’S it then. All of the summer preparation has been building to this. Arsenal. Sunday. 4pm. The season begins. What kind of year will it be? A brilliant one, obviously. Liverpool’s league form left a lot to be desired last time out but, much like under Rafa...
I LOVE Jürgen Klopp. There, I said it. I completely understand those who believe adulation should be saved until he actually wins something with the club. I can absolutely appreciate that there are those who feel he hasn’t done anything yet and that the overt...
LET’S be blunt: Criticism of Liverpool’s much-maligned Transfer Committee has been bang on the money quite a lot of the time. Although most modern-day clubs have something similar to the set-up FSG put in place when they axed Damien Comolli in 2012, none of them...
MY palms were really sweaty. That’s the first thing I remember. And my mouth felt incredibly dry. It wasn’t that the room was spinning, exactly. More like it was swaying side-to-side in quite a violent fashion. As though I was on a rope bridge in the middle of a...
WHEN it comes to everyday life, I’m broadly pessimistic. When the referendum result was announced, for example, I didn’t shrug my shoulders and think, “we’ll make it work”. Instead, I slipped into a rather dark state, fearing what the future will...
ON the rare occasions that my dad and I discuss international football he always talks about Brazil. You see, according to my old fella, when Brazil were at the height of their success in the past they would lose virtually every friendly they played in the build-up to...
