IT was nice to see Fernando Torres this week, wasn’t it? Thought he was looking well. Japan seems to suit him. If you missed it he’s been talking about how he has “feelings” for both Liverpool and Chelsea and wants them both to win games, but...
I ENJOY an unlikely part of the internet. Not the mad 4chan, alt-right, hate the world stuff. But the lighter madness. Flat earthers on YouTube, teenagers writing fan fiction about popstars, vloggers with millions of followers for no obvious reason. That sort of...
LIVERPOOL face Arsenal on Saturday with the rare benefit of a full week to prepare for the game. That, and the fact that it’s second versus fourth in the table, means Jürgen Klopp will likely pick what he believes to be his strongest side for the game, odd...
IT’S been an interesting start to Xherdan Shaqiri’s Liverpool career. In one way, low key. In another, full of incident. He missed half of pre season due to his World Cup exploits, and then scored an amazing acrobatic goal in a 4-1 win against Manchester...
ONE of the funny things about growing up is that you realise everyone’s dad basically tells the same jokes. I don’t know if there was a joke book that they passed out at Oxford Street Maternity Hospital back in the ’80s — “here you go,...
OF all the numbers involved in Liverpool’s first eight games of the league campaign — 20 points, no losses, 15 goals scored — perhaps the most eye-catching is three goals conceded. It is the joint lowest in the league, along with Manchester City, and...
LAST night wasn’t good, was it? Why couldn’t anyone in a red shirt pass to anyone else in a red shirt? I know Napoli’s pitch looked like it had been dug up, but still. We should have managed at least one shot on target. It’s really hard to...
I AM currently reading, and very much enjoying, Damian Hughes’ new book The Barcelona Way, which is all about understanding the winning DNA built at Barcelona. Damian is a psychologist who specialises in the development of high-performance cultures, and has...
I HOPE you used the international break wisely. Got some sleep in, spoke to the family, rested the liver. Because the next period is going to be relentless for us all. There are 13 games in less than two months. Not just games, but big ones too. Massive opponents in...
NEWS that Adam Lallana’s injury sustained during international break isn’t as bad as first feared is positive news for player and club. That said, it does rather feel like injury timescales, especially in the case of Lallana, now 30 years old, need to be...
