by Joel Rabinowitz | Oct 31, 2016 | Footie
The Reds are brilliant. They’re playing the best football in the country at the minute, tearing sides apart with consummate ease. Teams try to park the bus against us. We just play through them, simple as that. Teams take advantage of our poor set-piece defending....
by Joel Rabinowitz | Oct 26, 2016 | Footie
JÜRGEN’S wild boys; a lethal attacking force who run like crazy and take opposition sides apart with fluid, dynamic, heavy-metal football. If only Klopp could fix Liverpool’s defence, then they could be serious title challengers. This has become the stock...
by Joel Rabinowitz | Sep 27, 2016 | Footie
WHILE still managing Borussia Dortmund, Jürgen Klopp spoke of how he wanted his teams to play “heavy-metal football” — a catchy soundbite summing up the full-throttle style he likes to impose on players he takes control of. Yet this much-referenced phrase...
by Joel Rabinowitz | Sep 15, 2016 | Footie
THE Reds have scored 50 Premier League goals in 2016 — that’s more than any other side. 101 goals have been scored under Jürgen Klopp in 57 games, with 22 different scorers. Already this season Liverpool have hit four or more goals on three separate occasions....
by Joel Rabinowitz | Sep 1, 2016 | Footie
WHEN Jürgen Klopp arrived at the club just over one year ago there was much talk about the “mass exodus” he oversaw in his first summer transfer window at Borussia Dortmund as he revamped the squad with ruthless efficiency to create a squad capable of playing his...
by Joel Rabinowitz | Aug 9, 2016 | Footie
IDENTITY. It’s a word which is often tossed around when speaking about football clubs and football managers — and it’s something Liverpool were totally devoid of by the time Brendan Rodgers came to the end of his tenure at the club. No-one really knew what kind...
by Joel Rabinowitz | Aug 5, 2016 | Footie
JUST minutes after Liverpool’s Europa League final defeat in Basel at the hands of Sevilla, Jamie Carragher sent the following tweet: Deleted tweet by @Carra23 He's absolutely right. pic.twitter.com/WH2r7EWgUw — Taintless Red (@TaintlessRed) May 18, 2016 It...
by Joel Rabinowitz | Jul 22, 2016 | Footie
THERE we have it. Dutch midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum becomes Jürgen Klopp’s sixth permanent signing for Liverpool, completing a £25million transfer from Rafa Benitez’s Newcastle to join up with the Reds on their pre-season tour in the USA. After what seemed like an...
by Joel Rabinowitz | Jul 18, 2016 | Footie
PROMISING youth prospects departing for pastures new in order to play regular first-team football and further their career after struggling to establish themselves at their first major club is nothing new. We’ve seen it at Liverpool on numerous occasions. Dani...
by Joel Rabinowitz | Jul 3, 2016 | Footie
AS if Leicester City winning the Premier League wasn’t bizarre enough, it has become quite clear of late that 2016 is simply not a normal year in the football sphere (and otherwise, for that matter). The usual rules do not seem to apply any more. Iceland and Wales...
