IT’S the game everyone’s been talking about this week. A “did you see it last night?” moment in work. Barcelona’s unlikely comeback in Europe had grown men leaping around TV studios like overwhelmed children unwrapping the present of their dreams on Christmas Day...
OCTOBER 17, 2010. What a time to be alive. Mediocre Liverpool managed by a mediocre manager resided in the relegation zone — floundering in an unthinkable 19th place in the Premier League with just six points won from eight games played. A depressing figure of...
I READ a piece this week by a Liverpool fan having a pop at other Liverpool fans for overreacting to The Reds’ form over the last month or so. It was over the top, he said. Too much. What about how The Reds started the season? The points accrued? The goals scored? How...
JÜRGEN Klopp’s team selection for Saturday’s match versus Wolves was much discussed this weekend, with Gary Lineker’s tweet providing the springboard for much of the debate. I’ll defend The FA Cup with the best of them; some of my most enjoyable moments as a Red have...
LIKE anything in life, so much of football is played out in the head. We expect miracles from players every time they take to the pitch but there are a million and one reasons why that can’t always be the case. Top of the list: footballers are human. Just like...
A SHITE weekend then, all told. The Reds doing what they did in a manner that seemed all so preventable. A must-win, had-to-win, surely-will-win…lost. A real sickener. A gut punch. A game lost twice. The pain has been predictably piled on today. Arsenal winning with a...
IT was one of those moments when a stadium falls silent and the action seems to unfold in front of your eyes in slow motion. An understrength Liverpool side had battled and fought in a game that always demands those qualities by the bucketload. Manchester United v...
AS the media questions began to arrive thick and fast about Ben Woodburn, now officially Liverpool’s youngest goalscorer at 17 years and 45 days, a weary-looking Jürgen Klopp tried to deflect and dampen to no avail in the post-match press conference. Like everyone in...
ANFIELD hosted an international Rugby League match on Sunday between Australia and New Zealand. The Aussies won the game 34-8. While the action unfolded, anyone legally old enough among the 40,042 crowd could sip from a beer while sitting in their seat if they so...
JÜRGEN KLOPP has given Liverpool gravitas, reach and respectability. In one fell swoop, his appointment as manager made the football world take notice. It was a statement that Liverpool meant business again — no longer a project and instead aiming to be a...
