LIVERPOOL AND FSG: STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU

I’M away. In Fes, Morocco. Been quite the culture shock. Everywhere I look it is full of fellas sitting around arguing and talking shite, not doing much else. Massive, massive culture shock obviously. Anyway. It’s good being away. You get your news in...

HEYSEL 30 YEARS: THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY

GARETH Roberts told me he had access to accounts and documents around Heysel. He had spoken to a senior lecturer at Manchester University, Geoff Pearson, and Geoff had said we could come over and have a look at everything. We turned up and were surprised by the amount...

MATCH REVIEW: STOKE CITY 6 (SIX) LIVERPOOL 1

In our book about last season I discussed mad results. That mad results were a thing these days. It was in the context of Spurs 0 Liverpool 5. Villas Boas got sacked after that game. Rightly. My argument was that some sides have mad results in their DNA and others...

MATCH REVIEW: LIVERPOOL 1 CRYSTAL PALACE 3

YOU turn up vaguely unsure. Because it is a football match and it is an occasion. Football matches are occasions you believe but this is different. The occasion and the match are separate entities. The occasion will be the occasion regardless. Despite not because. You...

MATCH REVIEW: CHELSEA 1 LIVERPOOL 1

TERRY’S header hits the net and Steve Graves turns to me and says: “What next?” What next indeed. What the hell next? What could be next? A wrecking ball sweeping through the boozer. A personalised rainstorm like in The Truman Show following you...

MATCH REVIEW: LIVERPOOL 2 QPR 1

COUTINHO swings it in and he rises resplendent, red resplendent, and he nods it across goal and it is there, it is there, and we are there and I surge forward and fall backwards and I am seven and I am just in awe of this hero; of this man who has gone and done the...
HULL CITY v LIVERPOOL: MATCH REVIEW

HULL CITY v LIVERPOOL: MATCH REVIEW

IT OCCURS to me that this is an example of a game where a match review might need to be that bit more of a match report. We have a non-televised game in the UK where around half of Liverpool’s travelling support have chosen to stay away in protest at ticket...
MATCH RATINGS: WEST BROM v LIVERPOOL

MATCH RATINGS: WEST BROM v LIVERPOOL

I’M in a car with five men (or I was, then my phone battery died). Gibbons is in Lisbon with his wonderful wife. Laura really is brilliant. Like if she wasn’t I’d gloss over this like a snide. Make it go as quick as I can. Instead I want to dwell and...