FOOTBALL — perhaps more than any other industry — loves its heroes. It loves creating them, it loves rewarding them, it loves showing them off and, ultimately, it loves to destroy them. Fuelled by a combination of supporter adulation, media hype and...
IN an age of entrenched opinion and polarised viewpoints, I think we can all agree that the worst person ever to have lived is Jessie J. Jessie J, with her faux humility and her emotional hollowness and her hair and her pants. Look at me, she insists. Look at me, as I...
IT’S Kevin Keegan’s birthday today. He’s 64. A quick question for you: What’s the first thing that comes into your head when you hear the name, Kevin Keegan? I’m guessing that, for some, the first image springing to mind is of a rain-lashed England...
TO be quite honest, I’m in two minds about statues at football grounds. Of course, in isolation they act as a lasting tribute to a much-loved servant, an acknowledgement of an individual’s impact on a club and, by extension, the wider football community. We have our...
I’VE no desire to tempt fate or anything but, unless he sprains a wrist rehearsing his goal celebration or arm-wrestling Jose Enrique, we will soon welcome Daniel Sturridge back into the Liverpool first team. God, it’s been a long time. As eagerly-awaited returns go,...
I KNOW that, technically, it’s a different club. I know that, technically, the Wimbledon of Fashanu and Jones, of prototype geezerdom and unbridled thuggery, came to a messy end in 2004 when it relocated to the exotic climes of Milton Keynes and became known as MK...
IT had been coming. Week by week, as Liverpool toiled to recapture even a hint of the form that brought a title so tantalisingly close, and as each dropped point saw pre-season expectation give way to a reality of spiralling bleakness, you could sense the frustration...
HOW many times have we heard it? A new high-profile signing arrives and the heightened expectation kicks in. We don’t mean to get carried away, not again. But we can’t help ourselves. Before we know it, the words have escaped and we’re back once more in that old...
