by Neil Atkinson | Jan 2, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
THERE is a scene in Paul Thomas Anderson’s best film Punch Drunk Love when the lead character played by Adam Sandler is embarrassed in a restaurant and then goes to the bathroom and absolutely kicks fuck out of it. He wallops it from pillar to post. He...
by Neil Atkinson | Dec 31, 2016 | Footie, Match Review
WEEKS before this. This: What a game this will be. Two sides who will want to play and be able to play without fear. First vs second or third. A close affair to see in the New Year. Can’t wait to take it to them. Stick it to them. Show them who is better. Should...
by Neil Atkinson | Dec 27, 2016 | Footie, Match Review
CHELSEA played. And won. Merry Christmas. Manchester City played. And won. Merry Christmas. Arsenal played. And won. Merry Christmas. For those of you still mildly concerned Manchester United played and won. Merry Christmas. (Quietly United are genuinely playing very...
by Neil Atkinson | Dec 20, 2016 | Footie, Match Review
SECOND half Liverpool remembered they were Liverpool. Everton were left with the stark reality of being Everton. Redshite that sentence? Perhaps. But this is what happened. One football side expressed superiority over the other and that superiority drained and drained...
by Neil Atkinson | Dec 14, 2016 | Footie, Match Review
BOUNCING. Absolutely bouncing. Everyone around me, bouncing out of the Riverside after Liverpool scored three goals against Middlesbrough and conceded none. Afterwards, the Liverpool squad came over and showed their appreciation and had that appreciation returned to...
by Neil Atkinson | Dec 4, 2016 | Footie, Match Review
THERE are nights when I am jealous of those who can come to massive conclusions. I just don’t have it in me after that. If you want big bold criticisms, I probably have this one: Liverpool aren’t aggressive enough at 0-2 and 1-3. They don’t do enough...
by Neil Atkinson | Nov 30, 2016 | Footie, Match Review
ONE of my favourite Liverpool stories — and it really does come up over and over again — is the number of people whose dad said that Ian Rush wouldn’t make it at Liverpool. No-one is saying that about Ben Woodburn. Nor though, and the Liverpool...
by Neil Atkinson | Nov 26, 2016 | Footie, Match Review
HUNG on at the whistle. Hung on to give one more ‘is right’ and one more ‘cop for that’ and one more ‘up the Reds’. Hung on to see the manager and the captain in the middle of the pitch and to see them give it the big one, and I...
by Neil Atkinson | Nov 23, 2016 | Footie
THAT time of year again. Nice people put us forward for awards and we ask more nice people to vote for us. It’s a little different this year — The FSF have decided to nominate us for Radio Show of the Year. It’s an interesting decision; we’re...
by Neil Atkinson | Nov 19, 2016 | Footie, Match Review
WELL well. The inevitable points dropped. They were going to be dropped somewhere. And they couldn’t be dropped better than that; couldn’t be dropped with greater elan and panache. That’s the strange thing. Process and outcome. We have a manager in...
