I’M not sure where Jermaine Jenas has been for the past year. Joe Cole – on the other hand – I can hazard a guess at snazzy tailors which specializes in maroon-tinted suits, or maybe a gastro pub on the West End, telling people how “The Chels” ruled...
IT is a fabled story. May 26, 2005. The day after Liverpool have triumphed in the most adverse and unimaginable Champions League final in history, winning on penalties after being 0-3 down at half time to AC Milan in Istanbul. So improbable, in fact, that on the day...
ARE you not having fun? How can you not be? This isn’t the current state of mind. I’m on a train from Madrid to Barcelona the morning after watching Liverpool win their sixth European cup. The trophy is intoxicating in its sheer presence. It engulfs you, it is a...
WHAT is momentum? Well, I know what it means in definitive terms. “The quantity of motion of a moving body, measured as a product of its mass and velocity.” Yet in its social format its scope is much broader. Momentum can be a call to arms, the start of an ethical...
THERE are some things you should never look back on. This is a mantra I have embedded as a coping mechanism when it comes to football. There are things I have witnessed in stadiums that I point-blank refuse to watch on a screen in acknowledgement of their gravitas....
HISTORY will define Liverpool’s 2-0 victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers as one of gallant accomplishment which just fell short of the stratospheric bar set. Anfield will also be remembered for being emotive, defiant and ever so slightly melancholic as it gave...
MAYBE there are lessons. Maybe we will be forever young. Maybe, the hope for the future lies in the eyes of our youth. Effervescence: in Anfield on Tuesday night while nursing a frenetic three-goal advantage against a body which claims to be more than a club, I was...
THE hope doesn’t kill you. It is the sense of entitlement in every single football fan which makes you feel so vehemently wronged and ultimately makes you wonder for a split second if it is all worth it. It is. Liverpool’s season is on a knife edge, this is nothing...
IT happened for the first time on Wednesday night. Not Manchester United being predictably devoid of the physical or mental sturdiness to compete at the levels they once set. Not Manchester City showing a glimmer of their fragility before becoming an overpowering...
OH, how far we’ve come. As this season evolves, I find myself often referencing how far we’ve come in these pieces of writing. Thinking back to Gerard Houllier’s cup-conquering machine of 2000-01, and to last season’s rollercoaster of a side. It feels as though this...
Are Liverpool Too Stubborn For Their Own Good?: The Gutter
In your first Gutter of the week, and with only just 11 days left of the transfer window, we look at Liverpool’s dogmatic approach to both transfer business and contract negotiations, even if the cost of lack of compromise means short and potentially long term pain on the pitch as key players enter the critical periods of their contracts.
Rob Gutmann hosts Jay Kavanagh, Beth Lindop and Sean Rogers.
