YOU have had nothing else in your head for days. You have had nothing else in your head for weeks. You watched them do the lap of honour and you thought of this. Normally you think it comes too soon. Normally you want one more week. More of a break before the tyranny...
I SAW TONY EVANS two nights ago. Pint in Cask. You know the drill – loads of talking, mostly done quickly. I tried to explain my issues around Suarez going. I don’t think I was doing it very well. He said I was too concerned about entertainment. Winning,...
HAD A PINT with Steve Graves last night. He is fuming. Fuming about Hodgson. He can’t stop talking about Hodgson. Had a phone call from Daniel Fitzsimmons yesterday. We’re making our debut feature film next week. Imagine that! Making a film. It’s...
OOOOOOH. A Suarez has bit someone think piece. Easy these. There might as well be a billion of them; at the time of writing there is at least a million. But let’s make it a million and one. On the off chance it means or adds anything. Here’s the gist of my...
I’VE BEEN MEANING to write this for a while. But I’ve been busy. Now we have a catalyst. In a sentence: Liverpool FC need to keep their head and their hierarchy in the market this summer. Going round the houses and in approximately one thousand words: I think Iago...
THEY’VE played the season out in Lisbon. Angel Di Maria marvellous, Diego Simeone magnificent, Diego Godin’s hairline a thing of minimalist beauty. I can’t stop thinking about Godin. The receding hairline the Spanish equivalent of Derek Mountfield’s moustache. I...
“LET’S go and sing songs with our friends.” My words to Marjo at the foot of the stairs outside the ground. I’ve spent too much of the last five years not singing songs with my friends. I intend to do it all night tonight. Brendan. I am amazed...
WORSE than a defeat. Come here Luis. Talk to me. Worse than a defeat. But. Blaming the centre-halves is basic. Beyond basic. A deflection. A break. And then Skrtel pushes out because no one is holding mid. Why is no one holding mid? Martin Skrtel was brilliant...
IT’S HEARTBREAKING, IT REALLY IS. Liverpool pushed all they had but sometimes you can be shut down and stopped. Football is about choices, a series of choices, made by footballers and by football managers. Football isn’t moral. We get far too hung up on...
A LOT has happened since I last wrote one of these. Sunderland have happened. Twice. And we opened a poll for goal of the season among other things. Naive. There will always be more goals. There will always more great goals. Sterling obviously. The second. Christ the...
