YOU play out scenarios in your head. You don’t want to but you can’t help it. What if this happens? What if that happens? How will you feel? How will you react? One thing this Liverpool team does better than anybody, though, is surprise you by coming up with a...
IT is the end of days. The faceless masses who have survived gather near the wreckage that remains of what used to be civilisation. Scared and confused, they approach the steps with caution. At the top is a figure. He turns to reveal himself as their hero. The one who...
“FOURTH place isn’t a trophy.” A common phrase used to denigrate any team that finishes fourth and has the temerity to be happy about the fact. On an entirely related note, I’d like to wish the best of luck to Arsene Wenger in all his future endeavours. What an...
IT’S been a pretty low-key week for Liverpool. Mohamed Salah wins the PFA and Football Writers’ Player of the Year awards. Zeljko Buvac leaves his position as assistant manager, apparently temporarily. The Reds qualify for the Champions League final, and are...
AS a child, I was a big fan of the Asterix books; a series of French comics about a village of Gauls that continually keeps the invading Romans at bay. It’s all a lot more light hearted than it sounds. Asterix and his friends would take a magic potion brewed by their...
I DON’T know about you, dear reader, but I am struggling to think about anything else. A passerby says “good morning” and I hear “happy Champions League semi final first leg eve”. A work colleague asks me to put an action plan together, so I have a go at picking the...
WHAT a strange week of football that was. Manchester United beating Manchester City with a second-half turnaround, Roma coming back from 4-1 down to beat Barcelona, Juventus nearly doing similar to Real Madrid, Red Bull Salzburg coming from 5-2 down on aggregate with...
THERE are games. There are big games. There are iconic games. On Tuesday, Liverpool Football Club takes part in its most iconic game in years. It wasn’t that long ago that people would talk about The Reds as a former force, as a team that was somewhere between the...
THE three points collected by Liverpool at Selhurst Park have been described as “workmanlike” by pretty much everyone. But as Jürgen Klopp said in his post-match interview: “It’s maybe a dirty three points, but for us very important. The dirty ones are very...
YOU may have noticed how sinfully boring an international break is when you’re a fan of a Premier League team. Imagine how dull it must be if you’re a Premier League player, or at least one who doesn’t go on international duty. Jürgen Klopp gave his players a break...
