GOALKEEPERS seem to be all the rage at the moment. With the World Cup knockout stages getting off to a flyer, Sunday’s action left two Premier League ‘keepers with questions to answer. For Manchester United’s David de Gea those questions have mostly come from back in...
FOOTBALL can be so cruel. I’m finding it hard to be disappointed in any member of this Liverpool side after last night. These lads were the best team in the Champions League this season, but come away from the final without the trophy to show for it. For a team that...
IT’S hard to put your finger on it. For whatever reason, The Reds have been so lacklustre in games against the top six this season. While the general intensity around league games has dropped off with Liverpool’s surreal run to the final of the Champions League, there...
IT’S pretty hard to put into words what this trip to Rome has been like. For all the concerns beforehand, all the well wishes from friends and family, you’d have to be made of wood to not let a percentage of the fear seep into your psyche. Instead, what has greeted us...
THE eve of Liverpool’s Champions League semi final second leg in Rome. It was all action in Rome yesterday. Post breakfast, a few of us made our way to a small off licence just outside Campo de Fiori where we would be speaking to a couple of Roma fans about their...
DAY one in Rome. For all the buildup to Liverpool’s semi final second leg, it would be easy to worry about the worst-case scenario that potentially greeted the 5,000 Reds who will be descending on the Stadio Olimpico on Wednesday. By contrast, what we have found so...
FIFTY-six minutes in at the Etihad and Mo Salah is the coolest person in the ground. The away end had barely finished appealing for a penalty to be given for a foul on Sadio Mane when the Egyptian king deftly lifted the ball over a collapsing Nicolas Otamendi, to put...
“IT was a good performance, it was not brilliant, but maybe the most mature we’ve played since I was in.” There was a point in the game in which Virgil van Dijk stepped into midfield, though probably still in front of Everton’s striker, and lashed a...
THERE was so much talk going into this game. So much talk that it almost felt like the buildup to this Champions League quarter final first leg against Manchester City wouldn’t live up to its own hype. Champions League first legs can be drab affairs, focus laid...
THERE are fewer things in football that better the sight of a local lad pulling on the colours of his hometown club. Liverpool are lucky enough to have been blessed by some pretty special scousers down the years. Lads who, no matter how much their reputation grows,...
