by Gareth Roberts | Apr 4, 2012 | Footie
THERE’s a lot of gleeful handrubbing and told-you-sos flying around at the moment. Journalists that said Kenny Dalglish should never have been given a second chance are nodding sagely and grinning with delight…even the one who wanted Jamie Carragher to get...
by Gareth Roberts | Mar 18, 2012 | Footie
ROB JONES is rightly hailed as one of Graeme Souness’s success stories. Plucked from the obscurity of Fourth Division Crewe, 48 hours after signing for Liverpool in October 1991 the defender from Ellesmere Port was marking Ryan Giggs out of a televised game at...
by Gareth Roberts | Feb 29, 2012 | Footie
WE’VE won a cup. I’m happy. Genuinely, I am. It’s good for fans. It’s good for the club. It’s good for Dirk Kuyt and it’s good for Kenny Dalglish. Like I say, happy. But some things about Sunday’s final are still gnawing away...
by Gareth Roberts | Feb 12, 2012 | Footie
THE media have made a big deal out of it. Alex Ferguson has blown it out of all proportion. Rival fans have pointed the finger. Rent-a-quotes have fallen over themselves to comment. And absolutely none of it – not one little bit of it – is surprising. It’s what...
by Gareth Roberts | Jan 29, 2012 | Footie
IT’S boring now – the self-righteous indignation. The moral high ground. The preaching. The finger pointing. The inaccurate claims and ill-informed representations. Boring. It’s gone on for weeks. It’s still going on. To what end? Point...
by Gareth Roberts | Dec 2, 2011 | Footie
IT was great to see Martin Kelly head home that cracking ball from Craig Bellamy for his first goal in the famous red the other night. Just as good was the genuine delight plastered across his face and those of his team-mates. Kelly is obviously a well-liked lad, and...
by Gareth Roberts | Oct 30, 2011 | Footie
“If I ever wrote an autobiography – and I won’t – it would be called Don’t Google Me.” So once said Craig Bellamy, who at 32, sealed a transfer-deadline day return to Liverpool. Some fans are overly concerned that the Welshman could upset the mood...
by Gareth Roberts | Sep 12, 2011 | Footie
KENNY DALGLISH’S questioning of decisions – or lack of them – benefiting Liverpool in the first four Premier League games of the season has caused much debate. On the podcast earlier today, we discussed whether this tactic – a favourite of Alex Ferguson’s...
by Gareth Roberts | Sep 6, 2011 | Footie
FOOTIE and music go hand in hand for me, simply because both have the ability to excite, energise and create that spine-tingling surge of joy that only a small number of life’s pleasures can bring. A great goal, a sublime bit of skill, a stunning riff or an...
by Gareth Roberts | Aug 14, 2011 | Footie
FOUR consecutive top-four finishes, a genuine title challenge, a League Cup in the trophy cabinet and an FA Cup final. It’s a quartet of campaigns that would have fans of clubs from across the land in raptures. Add an exciting brand of football, arguably some of the...
