ALL week it had never been far away from the lips of pundits and the fingertips of football writers. The Reds, so the oft-repeated line went, were facing a living nightmare by heading for a tough-looking away at Brighton with only one senior centre back at full...
ULTIMATELY it was only three points. However, it was also much more than three points as the smiles, the hugs and The Kop’s impromptu rendition of Wonderful Christmastime proved. Manchester United – and Jose Mourinho – had long since cemented a place in the...
HERE we are again. The crucial Christmas period. When the games come thick and fast, and when every squad, no matter how strong or deep, is tested to the limit. It’s a time when some of the less-heralded traits of elite footballers come to the fore. How fast can they...
THE Kop was transformed into a living picture of flailing limbs. Screaming faces and a wild outpouring of raw emotion that only an injury time winner against your rivals can paint, but few will have thought of the man responsible for that moment of beauty at the time....
DESPITE a seemingly unstoppable march towards predictability at the top level of the game, it’s the unknown that keeps us interested. We might see eye-popping odds offered by bookies that say a team has next to no chance of achieving a result, or winning a trophy, yet...
SOMETIMES one of the greatest motivations is being told no. You can’t do that. You won’t do that. You haven’t got the skills. You haven’t got the talent. It will never work. You won’t see it through. We’ve all had it in one way or another during our lives, and...
A SUNDAY 12pm kick off has got to be one of football’s worst ideas. We’ve heard Jürgen Klopp continually gripe about it in the past, including last season when The Reds played Everton at 12.30pm. “I would at least like to have seen it put on at a normal time and not...
IT’S the nightmare so many Reds have been whispering about. The idea that this Liverpool side – which has been showing for 12 months or more now that it can clock up consistent results and compete at the top of the Premier League – ends up with a record points total...
THERE’S a pattern of thought that can dog human beings seeking peak performance that has been identified by psychologists as “Imposter Syndrome”. Despite evidence to the contrary, those suffering from it doubt their competence at certain tasks and fear being exposed...
EXACTLY one year ago, if you picked up the papers as a Red, or clicked on something about Liverpool online, it didn’t make for easy reading. The Reds had been on the end of a 4-1 defeat away to Tottenham Hotspur and the boots were flying in on a side that sat ninth in...
