I REMEMBER a time when a Liverpool manager suggesting that players within a squad should be rotated was met with incredulity. The masses mocked, the media scorned and the ex-professionals screamed from the hilltops “WE DIDN’T NEED A REST IN OUR DAY”. It seems...
“I SUPPOSE it’s your year again, is it?” “Yes.” “Haha, you say that every year and you haven’t won the league for ages.” “We know, we just like to have lots of fun and be optimistic about watching our boss football team.” I could just leave it there this week. I’ve...
I’VE developed a new app that’s going to be bigger than Facebook, Instagram and Twitter combined. It was a flash of inspiration during The Anfield Wrap’s weekday video Talking Reds with host Neil Atkinson last week, and I’ve already got investors from around the...
“I THINK it’s fair to say that the Premier League is a tough league.” They were the words of Naby Keita, talking to the official Liverpool FC magazine this week, discussing the difficulties of adapting to a new team in a new league, and a new home in a new country....
WHAT is a captain? Is he someone who scores goals no matter where he plays? Is she a player who never shuts up, constantly barking orders at her team mates? Maybe someone who calmly, but quietly, leads by example? Or can it be any combination of the above and more,...
WE’RE a difficult bunch to please, aren’t we? Even when at most of us seem pretty happy to be sitting on the top of the early season pile, with three clean sheets out of as many games, some of us are still bemoaning the fact that our once totemic trio at the business...
THE bar has moved. Once upon a time, supporters of Liverpool Football Club would worry when we dropped points because they imagined that every point was more important than it actually was. In reality, we could have won a title in 2015-16 with 82 points, allowing 32...
I’M excited. Excited and a little bit afraid, if I’m being completely honest. Excited that this could well be the best Liverpool team and squad that I have ever had the pleasure of watching in my entire adult life (which I count as 1998 onwards, for those who aren’t...
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill THE start of another journey. Thirty-eight games. One match, one step at a time. Week by week, month by month. Slowly building. Walking...
I feel duty bound to write this. I hoped my last piece would be the end. The article I could retire on after a European Cup win. The movie didn’t go the way I hoped, or expected. I’ve not long woken up and wandered into Twitter. It’s an incredible scene and completely...
