CUP OF COCK-UPS RIGHTLY BELONGS AT ANFIELD

“If cups were awarded for cock-ups then you would not be able to move in City’s boardroom” — Francis Lee It was appropriate that Liverpool played Manchester City last night, hours after they attempted to draw a line under the Luis Suárez-Patrice Evra incident. The...

RETURNING TO THE NIGHTMARE OF HILLSBOROUGH

I wrote this in The Times in 2009. A lot of people will not have seen it. I’m not sure I can say anything to add to it. Nothing has changed since I wrote it. I still go back there, too often. God knows what the people who really suffered go through. THE last time I...

THE GOOD (SCOUSE) BEER GUIDE

BEER and football go together. Both have been demonised and sneered at over the years. And some people have fallen for it. Wine drinkers. Two of the worst trends in British society over the last 25 years have been football’s move upmarket and the creeping...