SINCE August 2008, Manchester City’s ownership have had designs on becoming the best in the world. Their guerrilla strategy involved getting the best minds in place from the top down and using their wealth to get whatever and whoever they wanted. What they perhaps...
I’M gonna have to apologise. Firstly, I apologise that Neil Atkinson can’t bring you these words. That you don’t get to read the absolute poetry he could conjure up in the aftermath of a whirlwind of football like that. I apologise if these words don’t do that for...
SO is this just what we do now? Thousands of scousers taking over a European city, painting it red, drinking it dry and making it dance to the tune of Dirty Old Town or one of the other modern classics. The lads on the pitch doing the business. Them doing it for us....
THIS is nice, isn’t it? With the intensity of a league title challenge threatening to push us all to breaking point, it’s nice to get chance to breathe, take a step back and appreciate the scale of what this team is achieving. Most supporters would tell you they want...
“EVERYONE was looking around as if to say, ‘Is he fucking serious?’,” Glen Johnson would later reflect. For some, it’s up there as the watershed moment of Brendan Rodgers’ Liverpool career. Captured in the untimely, fly-on-the-wall documentary Being: Liverpool,...
WHEN Steven Gerrard was appointed Liverpool under-18s manager ahead of the 2017-18 season, all eyes were feasted on The Academy. It was a move that brought about great interest from the outside, as well as a lot of good feeling on the inside. Jürgen Klopp had said...
THERE’S a strong sense that we’ve been here before with Liverpool, at the moment. In my football-conscious life at least, The Reds have mounted two serious title challenges; 2009 and 2014. In both those years there were questions, more so with the benefit hindsight in...
IT’S January 2019. Nathaniel Clyne, signed for £12.5m from Southampton in July 2015, has already made two appearances for his new club Bournemouth — in which they’ve conceded five goals. Those two consecutive starts are his first back-to-back games since May...
MICHAEL Edwards is a name on a lot of Liverpool supporters’ lips. You’d find it hard to argue that praise for him and his crack team of transfer gurus — with manager Jürgen Klopp in tow — is undeserved. When Dominic Solanke was sold to Bournemouth for £19m...
THAT is one of the maddest 1-0s I’ve ever seen. When fate seemed to want to conspire against The Reds on the night, they stood up in the face of adversity and every single one of them were absolutely accounted for. Tonight they made the impact which counts most of...
