by Melissa Reddy | Feb 15, 2017 | Footie
JÜRGEN Klopp, wide-eyed, puffed his cheeks and exhaled. He couldn’t find the words to articulate what he was seeing on the Maloney Field at Stanford University, but he didn’t need them. Later that evening, at the Four Seasons Hotel in East Palo Alto, Liverpool’s...
by Melissa Reddy | Jun 9, 2016 | Footie
HAVE you ever been in the presence of greatness? Everything looks different, everything seems different, everything feels different. You cannot escape or ignore the enormity of a person whose aura taps you on the shoulder and follows you around. Have you ever been in...
by Melissa Reddy | May 18, 2016 | Footie
THERE are times when a piece of information creeps up on you, and then controls you. It consumes your every thought. It bends your emotions. I’m sat in front of my laptop, scrabbling for an intro on a Jürgen Klopp piece while scratching around in a bowl of fiery...
by Melissa Reddy | May 4, 2016 | Footie
THE fury on social media could not match the fume on the team plane. Margins. The smallest of margins. One minute away from an accomplished European away performance against a Villarreal side incredibly formidable in front of their own fans, the final 60 seconds at...
by Melissa Reddy | Apr 21, 2016 | Footie
“HOW on earth was that only 4-0?” As I exited the press box after the final whistle on Wednesday night, those were the first words I heard. And indeed, how exactly did not Liverpool better the 6-0 scorching of Everton recorded at Anfield in September 1935? It, and...
by Melissa Reddy | Apr 13, 2016 | Footie
THERE is always a then and now. Regardless of the ever-changing landscape of the game, that juxtaposition is one of football’s constants. Even the profession of covering the sport has its sepia-tinted throwback and high-definition reality. Journalists reporting on a...
by Melissa Reddy | Mar 31, 2016 | Footie
STEVEN Gerrard used to have a template text to turn to ahead of every summer. Before silly season entered full swing, the former Liverpool captain was instructed to message the club’s priority targets to convince them to join him at Anfield. Often, he felt daft as he...
by Melissa Reddy | Mar 24, 2016 | Footie
IT has been 113 days since Steven Gerrard posted an image of the Liverpool starting line-up that scorched Real Madrid 4-0 at Anfield in March 2009 on Instagram, simply captioned “spine.” It was clumsily cropped and of low quality, but the picture smacked you square in...
by Melissa Reddy | Mar 17, 2016 | Footie
THERE is chocolate cake at Old Trafford, and some really good coffee. What else? Well, plenty of security, so much so it makes you feel like you’re at an airport rather than a football stadium. Oh, and they have boss grass. Thank goodness Mario Balotelli is no longer...
by Melissa Reddy | Mar 10, 2016 | Footie
LIVERPOOL versus Manchester United. In Europe. For the first time in history. In the 195th meeting between the giants. Steven Gerrard will be gutted he is not lacing up for it. Jamie Carragher will provide analysis on the game, but that is no substitute for getting...
