IT felt thrilling, building to this one. It felt like an event. All the urgency was back, the undertow of the journey was suddenly there. This wasn’t just the idea of Liverpool playing and winning. Not the idea of setting a standard. But the idea of making a...
SAY what you want, you don’t get many 2-7s. Say what you want, that was bananas. And say what you want but that was an enormous amount of fun. Liverpool may well be looking to lighten all of our autumns and that is a fantastic ambition from The Reds. There is...
ROBERTO Firmino starts smiling before he has even taken the shot. Roberto Firmino knows things are about to get emphatic. Sadio Mane wins the ball off the keeper, who must be a wreck, and Firmino is beaming and Liverpool have won the game, won the game of games. Won...
THERE is something that is so, so true. Wherever you were, however you thought, whatever your mindset, you are all in now. You now know, now remember, what it is to be alive. You felt that. You lived that. You found yourself there. For a lot of us the buildup to this...
IT’S the best final to lose. But it still becomes losing. Losing is OK in a sense. You get beat from time to time. How you get beat and what you do next matters. This one, a penalty shootout and the width of a crossbar, offers us some positives, some questions...
SO that is that then. Thirty-eight done. This is how it feels. Liverpool top of the league. You spend your life looking in the mirror brushing your teeth and thinking about the title. You catch yourself jogging and thinking of what hasn’t been. Stare out of...
WE aren’t unbearable. Unbearable was nonsense. But we have been unbreakable. That’s what has been astonishing about the enterprise. They lose in Kyiv. They win in Madrid. They lose out on 97 points. They go played 27 won 26 drawn one. They refused to be...
NEVER liked playing Arsenal, these days more away than anything. Most people reading this will be too young for 1971 at Wembley but the video of it used to be everywhere. Some too young probably for 1989 at Anfield. But let me fill in the gaps. North London Arsenal...
GOD, that had me up the wall. That had me on pins. Where I sit at Anfield I always remember punching the concrete of the stairs during the second leg of the semi final against Southampton. My seat is at the end of the row and I remember throwing myself, twisting and...
THERE were people who didn’t want football to come back until we could be certain it was safe to play in stadia with supporters present. There were people who wanted to null and void this season. Others who just wanted to stop the season and look at points per...
