by Ben Johnson | Jan 16, 2017 | Footie
AT what point will I calm down? It is 9pm as I write this, the game finished over three hours ago and I still feel like I want to walk to Manchester with a ‘The Stone Roses are shit’ banner in one hand and a taser in the other. That might be a bit of an exaggeration...
by Ben Johnson | Jan 9, 2017 | Footie
AS unlikely as this sounds, I normally do a bit of research before I write this weekly column. At the very least I have watched the previous match at least once, read up on the general consensus and had an all-round good old think before I start writing. I know it is...
by Ben Johnson | Jan 4, 2017 | Footie
HAS everyone calmed down yet? It was heavy that, wasn’t it? It was always going to be a graft that game. Sunderland away, in the freezing cold, about half an hour after the Manchester City game finished, against a manager who is so negative in everything he does he...
by Ben Johnson | Dec 19, 2016 | Footie
1995: It’s ages ago that, isn’t it? I mean really, think about it. What were you doing in 1995? How old were you? I was 15 and I was a bit of a farce. Britpop hadn’t really taken hold, New Labour was in its infancy — two years away from government. That...
by Ben Johnson | Dec 5, 2016 | Footie
I’M typing this before kick-off on Sunday morning on the hottest train in Europe to watch the Mighty Reds in town. You forget that during a season like this one every game becomes massive. A must win game. The nerves creep up on you from nowhere. On Saturday I...
by Ben Johnson | Nov 28, 2016 | Footie
BIG seasons, league championship seasons are built on consistency first and foremost. Scattered through them there are defining moments that are looked back on time and again. Moments in time where your watch seems to stop and the actual consequences and gravity of...
by Ben Johnson | Nov 21, 2016 | Footie
YOU see, the thing is, I haven’t seen a single second of Premier League football this weekend. In fact, why stop at the Premier League; I haven’t seen any football at all. The closest I have come to footy this weekend is my lad throwing a bouncy ball at my head,...
by Ben Johnson | Nov 16, 2016 | Footie
WOKE up on Sunday morning after 600 pints of Guinness with 99 problems. The previous nights 600 Guinness being one of them and the subsequent brain demagogue playing the headache drums another. Prising open my eyes I stumble across a photo on Twitter of two auld...
by Ben Johnson | Oct 31, 2016 | Footie
AT some point we are going to play a game without something to overcome. At some point, there won’t be a special kind of misfortune, a special kind of diddle waiting to derail these Reds. It was Tony Pulis and his set-pieces last week, Jose Mourinho and his alehouse...
by Ben Johnson | Oct 24, 2016 | Footie
HOW many times have we been through this before? How many times are we going to sit in Anfield, agog, staring at the pitch in disbelief? How has this happened? How has this been allowed to happen? Someone somewhere is going to need to get a grip of this, stop it in...
