by Neil Atkinson | Aug 15, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
ON the one hand it’s the stuff dreams are made of. On the other the dreams can be bigger, better, bolder and can be realised this season. Trent Alexander-Arnold should be delighted with his goal, should go to bed with a smile on his face, should be overjoyed. He...
by Neil Atkinson | Aug 12, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
THERE should be a word for the pain of a draw which feels like a defeat. In fact, there should be a word for the pain of a draw which feels like a defeat, after snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. Because that word is the word. That word is the most the...
by Neil Atkinson | Aug 9, 2017 | Footie
THERE’S a tension knocking about. I am happy to accept that Liverpool have tried to spend over £120million on two players and would have gladly done so. I will take that at face value. Some might not but I will. The tension comes at the point where Liverpool may...
by Neil Atkinson | Jun 2, 2017 | Footie
THERE is something about doing shows that concentrates the mind. Yesterday we recorded our transfer show, The Gutter, and had a big chat about Virgil van Dijk, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Mohamed Salah among others. The most bullish I got was about van Dijk. I’m...
by Neil Atkinson | May 21, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
“BE kind. In the first place try to be nothing but kind.” My mental note where I start all of these things. Seasons are fractured. Shall we do our best, one last time? Let’s go, Reds… — As a city Liverpool only makes complete sense in an...
by Neil Atkinson | May 14, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
WE can and will talk about all of it but let’s start with the second half. From the outset, when Liverpool could sit on a one-goal lead, they throw the kitchen sink at West Ham. They demonstrated enormous superiority over West Ham. Liverpool didn’t sit in...
by Neil Atkinson | May 7, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
DAMN these Reds. Damn them to hell. They love looking a gifthorse in the mouth. They’ve not been short of gifthorses. Gifthorses coming out of their ears. They can’t look at a gifthorse without looking at it in the mouth. Today the most direct. 12 yards....
by Neil Atkinson | May 1, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
INNER Chimp everywhere. Inner Chimp may never get back in. Inner Chimp could be out for days off the back of this. When will my heart stop racing. When Sebastian Prodl’s effort bounces off the bar it felt like the start and the end of everything. Heart attack as...
by Neil Atkinson | Apr 23, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
LIVERPOOL find themselves defeated today, missing an opportunity to gain real ground in the race for third or fourth. No matter what happens from this point, in what will probably prove Liverpool’s second best league points haul this decade, the season will...
by Neil Atkinson | Apr 16, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
SOMETIMES, I feel like I can’t even sing. When they get their first corner in injury time this thing hit me — I’d been stood in the away end watching the game and I suddenly wondered if I could manage to defend the corner. My legs were jelly. My head...
