I LIKE footballers but they don’t half tell fibs. They obey the laws of the game like I stick to the speed limit — when they think someone is watching. We each draw our own red lines across the game’s rule book. It’s no more than a guideline, a paper for...
LIVERPOOL and Manchester City will not play Premier League football at the same time again until the last day of this season. That’s a prediction rather than a fact at the moment, but Sky and BT have not paid £5billion to miss a second of this title race now. If you...
DANIEL Sturridge and Divock Origi have scored the two most important goals of Liverpool’s Premier League season so far. However, they may prove to be their parting shots. Sturridge’s stunning late equaliser at Chelsea in September rolled away a stone. It was the...
IT is not like it’s the first game Liverpool have lost this season. The defeat in Paris was more damaging at the time and they survived it. This result was bad but the performance wasn’t. It will be dissected in finger-pointing detail elsewhere but it was certainly...
THE tipping point came at Molineux. Or the Molineux car park to be more precise. It was there that Gary Neville conceded that The Anfield Wrap had a pundit better than him. Pep, Poch and the rest knew they were in trouble then. Neil Atkinson’s elevation to Carra...
SO Jose Mourinho was right after all. Liverpool are the “lucky ones”. A late, late winner in the derby, an offside goal at Bournemouth, a fluky save to deny Napoli, then, to cap it all, two spawny deflections to beat Manchester United. Jammy Jürgen. Yeah right. It is...
SO, now I can reveal it was all my fault. Lauren Dalglish must be 30 now. Sorry, but I’m afraid that fateful journey you made in your father’s arms was down to me. Anfield, April 1988. Liverpool 3 Manchester United 3. A cracking, crackling match full of all of the...
THE Premier League title race will not be won by a tactical system. The numbers that count are not 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 (or whatever combination that was at Burnley), they are the digits in the far right-hand column of the league table. Liverpool’s tally is a record 39...
THE 1986 FA Cup final may just be the biggest football match I ever commentated on. It certainly seemed like it at the time. Yes, there was Istanbul — and didn’t someone else win the Champions League in dramatic circumstances a few seasons before? Just this...
DEJAN Lovren has always been an accident waiting to happen at Liverpool, yet this season we are still waiting for the next one to happen. And it’s November. I am not suggesting Lovren is a totally changed man. An international week spent baiting Sergio Ramos, England...
