THE day after the night before it is still hard to comprehend what we saw last night. That Liverpool came back from a three-goal deficit from the Nou Camp to knock out the mighty Barcelona. That a cobbled together side and a few walking wounded destroyed one of the...
GREETINGS from Barcelona. Where the sun is shining, and the weather is sweet, yeah. Football aside, we’ve had a lovely time of tapas, sangria and cerveza. The city was hospitable and we were very open to hospitality. Between rooftop bars, beaches and tavernas,...
WE’VE been in Porto since Monday and finally the promised wet weather has arrived. I’m sat in my hotel room looking across a rainy city rather than the one baked in sunshine that we have been enjoying for the last couple of days. We were warned, though....
ROBERTO Firmino’s goal last night took him to 15 for the season in all competitions. He’ll have to go some way from now on to match the 27 he got last season, but it is still his second highest total since joining Liverpool, his third highest in his...
JÜRGEN Klopp did his pre-Southampton press conference a day early today. He was inevitably asked about the form of Mo Salah. That’s what happens I suppose when your superstar forward hasn’t scored in eight games. It’s going to get attention. As ever,...
THE international break seems to have gone well for Liverpool… Touch wood. No one seems to have exerted themselves too much. Sadio Mane had the furthest to travel, but even he was left out the starting 11 in the second game before coming on for the last 15...
SUNDAY was a good day. Considering it started with me dry heaving in the shower after over-excessing at a wedding the day before, the rest of it represented a great turnaround we can all be proud of. I left the house at around 8am, grabbing a dozen or so beers I...
WE’VE been in Munich since Monday night and very much enjoyed what it has to offer. I’m on pretzels, many. Sausages, many. Beers as big as my head, very, very many. Sleep, not so much. But today the serious business starts. It can be possible on a European...
I RECENTLY relistened to the interview we did with Trent Alexander-Arnold back in April 2018. It was partly sad. It was just before the Champions League quarter final against Manchester City and we were all full of hope and a touch of expectation that we could go on...
I FEEL sorry for defensive football players. They rarely get the credit they deserve. For example, the last defender to win the PFA Player of the Year was John Terry in 2005, a season which Chelsea conceded just 15 goals all season. And Everton finished fourth with a...
