THERE are times when the very existence of a debate is more embarrassing than the issue itself. A time when you seriously have to scratch your head and wonder why someone has a problem with what seems like a straightforward development. It’s 2019. The most advanced...
“A SELF-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true.” Cojones is a Spanish word, and a loan word in English, that can mean: Testicles, in profane slang. Courage or boldness, as in the expression “tener...
WE’RE here again… That magical time of the year when big teams travel to far-flung muddied fields and fight for the next round and their dignity. That wonderful weekend when minnows can dream and names can be made. The great leveller. FA Cup third round...
SOMETIMES defeats are excusable. An unbeaten run is a wonderful thing. Another three points at the final blast of the ref’s whistle, even if you’ve had to hold on a bit. After a while though, there’s a marked difference between that first unbeaten result and the...
EARLIER this week, a Swiss research group called CIES Football Observatory announced that Andy Robertson, the magnificent left back and Scottish captain, is now worth £72.12m. The organisation, which provide “technical analysis of player performance and the scientific...
WELL, what a week that was. The Reds picked themselves off the Parisian floor (no doubt finding a writhing Neymar there) and met two difficult games head on. Both went to the wire and needed as much “stugots” as skill to see them off. We also saw the...
IF there’s such a thing as a bipolar group of fans, surely it’s at Liverpool. Our mood swings between optimistic fervour, characterised by the swagger of European encounters where we beat Manchester City home and away, and the hapless pessimism experienced recently by...
“THAT’S not too cool for a manager. “If it works then it’s cool. I had a few centre halves who were able to do things a centre half should not do, like Mats Hummels constantly doing things which made no sense but he was really good in there. “Alisson is obviously a...
“ENJOY the game.” Those were the last words my mum text me following a conversation on Saturday afternoon. Enjoy the game? Sounds so simple, doesn’t it? Everyone is different, but some of us supporters tend to enjoy pretty much everything about matchdays apart from...
LAST night on BT Sport, Michael Owen told the story of the collapse of his dream return to Liverpool in the summer of 2009. It was the tale of promises — both kept and broken — and the unfortunate concatenation of circumstances which saw him unable to return to the...
