by Steve Graves | Nov 12, 2011 | Footie
Many Liverpool fans have little interest in the England side. The jingoism, lack of perspective, media cheerleading and dread presence of John Terry all conspire to make Ingerlund a pretty unappealing proposition. Among the many things that have made me proud to live...
by Steve Graves | Nov 2, 2011 | Footie
ANYONE who’s visited the Clove Hitch on Hope Street (two-word review: decent value) will no doubt have chuckled along at some amusing reading in the restaurant’s toilets. In the men’s, and for all I know the ladies’, there’s a board on the wall full of ‘Big Ron-isms’,...
by Steve Graves | Oct 30, 2011 | Footie
The noise was tinnitus-inducing. ‘Give it Steeeeerlin’, they screeched again and again and again until the cumulative effect reached something like a pre-pubescent version of Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound. On the pitch Liverpool under-19s laboured on their NextGen...
by Steve Graves | Oct 11, 2011 | Footie
UNBEATEN at home, safely through two rounds of the League Cup, Merseyside Derby winners and well within reach of fourth place. By any objective measure Liverpool are on the up, with the prospect of being three points off the top of the table after the coming weekend’s...
by Steve Graves | Oct 6, 2011 | Footie
IT’S EASY to mock Tony Hibbert. It’s also very, very tempting. But let’s face it – partisan dislike apart, there’s something weirdly admirable about Hibbo. In Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby described the tragedy of the career of Gus Caesar. Gus, Hornby reasoned, had...
by Steve Graves | Sep 28, 2011 | Footie
A lot of things have been pissing me off lately. Allow me to share. It might help. As I write this I’m veering between a right old rage and a fit of the giggles at Conservative blogknob Iain Dale’s attack on ‘ghastly’ Liverpool. Let’s save that for another day. Lots...
by Steve Graves | Sep 28, 2011 | Footie
LIVERPOOL is a football city. Few could argue with the assertion, but what does that really mean, and how are Liverpool and its people different from, say, Manchester or Newcastle in their relationship with the game? Sociologist John Williams is the author of Red Men,...
by Steve Graves | Sep 20, 2011 | Footie
AS the hedge fund managers using Twitter to gauge the public mood have realised, social media offers a window into our collective hive mind, with all the horrors that entails. While the online environment can distort some ideas, giving undue prominence to the...
by Steve Graves | Sep 13, 2011 | Footie
AMONG the seemingly positive phrases in football’s lexicon, ‘versatile’ is one many fans treat with trepidation. ‘Morale-boosting win’ is another – superficially good news but more pregnant with subtext than Demi Moore watching season four of The Wire. A...
by Steve Graves | Sep 13, 2011 | Footie
HERE’S a question for you – who does the best tapas in Liverpool? Now a few years ago that might have been like pondering over the identity of Everton’s current best striker or the least annoying cod-reggae shitburst by East Coast George Osbornes Vampire Weekend...
