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,...
THE 200th meeting between Liverpool and Manchester United was a huge step towards deciding who would be “best of the rest” in the Premier League. A win for The Reds would have put them a point ahead of their north-west rivals, but it was Jose Mourinho’s side who came...
“THERE’S only two things for a full back; you’re either a failed winger or a failed centre back. “No one wants to be a full back as a kid, no one wants to grow up and be a Gary Neville.” It’s hard to argue with the latter part of that statement made by Jamie...
OCTOBER 1, 1995. Manchester United 1 Liverpool 1. Michael Thomas picks up the ball inside his own half. He plays a weighted through ball on the outside of Gary Neville. Neville chases but Robbie Fowler comes on the inside and shrugs him off. Fowler looks up at the...
“HE’S been the most professional person I’ve seen all season. “He’s been top quality from the start and every time he gets on the pitch he does his all for the club and that’s the most important thing right now. “It’s not fair to ask those kind of questions I don’t...
