IT was inevitable really, wasn’t it? How many times have Sky Sports built up to a big game by labelling it the most important human occurrence since the Renaissance, or Anthony Joshua’s last fight, only for it to peter out into a damp squib? ‘Red Monday’ was dull. It...
TRANSFER deadline day always reminds me of Camelot in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Going into it hoping that your team will be the one to make the headline-grabbing big money move that will have the fans gathered outside the training ground, tipping ice...
SAT in bored on a Sunday evening patiently waiting for the football season to start, I decided to watch an old episode of The Simpsons. It was the one where Homer is forced to go to college to get a degree in nuclear physics and includes Mr Burns offering a...
THERE have been many divisive figures at Liverpool down the years, including several in Jürgen Klopp’s current squad. One man’s Dalglish is another man’s Dundee, and at this time of year when transfers are treated as the be all and end all of everything, the options...
YOU get moments where the absurdities of modern football just smack you right between the eyes. It happens when you realise all the talk around the Championship play-off final is about the astronomical amounts of money the winner gets in a sort of ‘Dr Evil’ style, and...
TWO years ago I decided to start writing a book. It was to be a work of fiction and would centre around a lowly football club that would defy the odds to win the league title. They would be a team of misfits brought together by an inspirational manager to overcome the...
THURSDAY brings with it Liverpool’s biggest European game since the 2010 UEFA Cup semi-final with Atletico Madrid. Little did we know when Diego Forlan was denying us the chance to batter Roy Hodgson’s Fulham in the final that it would be the last time the Reds would...
IT’S not even April and silly season is already upon us, it seems. Transfer-mongers are weaving their webs and agents are attempting to get their clients their 2016-17 contracts sorted before they’ve even entered the last month of this campaign. Where Liverpool...
IT IS a question that many were asking themselves as recently as the New Year. Admittedly, it’s rather a misleading headline as Bobby Firmino was always for me, as this previous TAW article will confirm. FIRMINO: NOW THAT’S MORE LIKE IT, LIVERPOOL The loudest...
IT wasn’t particularly surprising. Boring is what Liverpool do in European aways. Always have done, and in a two-legged affair it usually works. It’s also evident what they do these days following massive wins. They bring you to a point where you say: “These...
