by Neil Atkinson | Nov 1, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
NIL-nil half time. Three-nil full time. The first half is turgid. Are you surprised? Were you angry? Don’t be angry. You are better than that. Regardless, if you are a half-decent football team and you got carved apart time and again — it’s worth...
by Neil Atkinson | Oct 31, 2017 | Footie
WE’RE nearly there. Can you feel it? The weather getting colder, the clocks have gone back. Not Christmas, but madness. Fixture madness. It comes ever closer. Within 37 days ending on January 1st, every Premier League team is playing 10 league games....
by Neil Atkinson | Oct 25, 2017 | Footie
TALK of Liverpool being in crisis overstates the current predicament, but there are two things that are true in the aftermath of Sunday’s defeat to Tottenham Hotspur: Liverpool’s domestic season is in danger of slipping away from us all. Jürgen Klopp now...
by Neil Atkinson | Oct 22, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
THEIR manager has had our manager’s kecks down there. I am going to talk about this for a while so brace yourselves. Their manager has absolutely had our manager’s kecks off. And that’s OK from the point of view of criticising our manager. That...
by Neil Atkinson | Oct 17, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
A STROLL? A side put to the sword? An enjoyable game for Liverpool? It’s the last thing I hope that Liverpool focus on in the dressing room, on the plane, on the training pitch. How enjoyable it was to play, and create, and score. And score. We can want them to...
by Neil Atkinson | Oct 14, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
I’D have taken it. Before a ball was kicked I would have taken it. Both the manner of it and the eventual result. I’m not going to be mad about the fact that your Manchester United seemingly offered it. That is their business, not mine, and they will be...
by Neil Atkinson | Oct 1, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
THERE are days when it just gnaws and gnaws and then suddenly kills. There have been existential masterpieces which cannot match the sheer profound sense of desolation that last 10 minutes had for Liverpool and the worldwide diaspora of supporters. Feeling both young...
by Neil Atkinson | Sep 26, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
WIN or die, the banner read before kick off. Win or die. Liverpool, endlessly contrary, chose neither. They come away from Moscow the better side but not the winning side; they come away from Moscow a side that has failed to win but one unlikely to die in the...
by Neil Atkinson | Sep 23, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
THAT. The Lads. They are The Lads. Getting to be The Lads. It’s something that happens to a football team, something that happens to any decent enterprise, ignore the gendered language or anything else you like, you’ve knocked round here long enough and...
by Neil Atkinson | Sep 19, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
IT suddenly all looked so hard. When it had looked easy. At least relatively easy. Too often this is a Liverpool side on top until they aren’t. And too often a Liverpool side failing to make hay when the sun shines. The sun shone on Liverpool against Leicester....
