I’VE always measured out my happiness in points and prizes. If Liverpool are winning, things are generally more right than wrong with the world. As a young man I supported a Liverpool team that broadly kept us in a state of perpetual bliss, but down the decades...
THE divide has become a chasm. Where once we nipped and tucked with them, but always emerged top dog, now we are as estranged cousins rather than warring brothers. Everton are not our business and we should not be theirs. Most of my mates though, just can’t let go of...
THE run in starts here. Just 25 games to go. We’ve built the foundations of a title-winning season, now let’s go and complete the thing. Here’s a bold prediction – if Liverpool win their next four in the league they will be champions. Which makes Brighton at...
AS well as being a very good football team, this Liverpool are also a fascinating case study. Klopp’s side are changing appreciations of what is required to win. Liverpool are winning without money. Liverpool are winning frequently in adversity. Winning when below...
THE weeks before the game that follows the international break fortnight are nervy affairs. Continuity, for better or for worse, is broken. The season, pre Christmas, is like watching a movie with numerous, needless, elongated intermissions. They would make little...
I’M in a difficult moment. Still struggling to live in the here and now. I simply cannot wait for this epoch-defining game to be over and simultaneously for it to never happen. Same for this season as an entirety. Liverpool being good again is forcing me to wish my...
Y’ALL ready for this? I’m not ready for this. I’m still in Villa Park, hugging strangers, dancing in the aisles and the concourses, giving it the wanker hand gestures to retreating home fans, belting out about us having conquered all manner of shit. We all slept...
THE game before the game is a dangerous game. Liverpool have eyes only for Aston Villa, legs ready to run through brick walls in Birmingham on Saturday, but hearts that are surely beating faster knowing that the day of reckoning with Manchester City is ebbing ever...
NO one is worried about getting knocked out of the League Cup. We’ve all had the memo. The main event is trying to win the title, to pair with the Champions League, and for this to be the season we came to see as one, where we realised Liverpool were truly at the dawn...
WE’RE at one of those junctures already. One of those proverbial fork-in-the-road moments. Last season we built a lead on City but once we allowed it to slip, the margin just withered as if it had all been so illusory. Liverpool had two spells last campaign in which...
