Despite ongoing injury issues in defence, David Segar believes Liverpool fans can still be confident of success thanks to the presence of Alisson Becker… THERE is a famous scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller The Birds. Tippi Hedren is sat smoking...
David Segar writes that Jürgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola are right to ask other Premier League clubs to reconsider their stance on the five substitutes rule… THERE has been a lot of talk about greed and injustice in football lately. The bullies of the...
Dave Segar looks ahead to Liverpool FC’s trip to Atalanta B.C., and in particular the showdown between the two managers Jürgen Klopp and Gian Piero Gasperini… THE Champions League is just the best. With talk of a breakaway European Super League once...
With Van Dijk out injured Joe Gomez has had to step up in more ways than one, but Dave Segar suggests the shift in position may just be the making of Gomez… HUMAN beings are very odd. That’s not the start of my article, just something that I feel needs...
JÜRGEN Klopp didn’t want to talk about it. After everything that occurred at Goodison Park on Saturday, the Liverpool manager did not want the deserved praise of one of his star player’s achievements to be overshadowed by the other talking points. Now that the dust...
THERE is an old cliché that goalkeepers are like drummers. They sit at the back, keep everything in check and go largely underappreciated by fans. They’re also usually a bit weird. I mean, you’d have to be. Trying to find weird people isn’t usually a problem, not for...
IT is not particularly original to say that 2020 has been a strange year. However, it’s no wonder that football in particular has been told that it needs to go home because it’s drunk, as seemingly after every new bizarre score, the next game requests that you hold...
I FELT tremendously guilty yesterday. There was a wasp in my kitchen. I opened the windows in the hope he’d fly out, but despite about 20 per cent of the room being open windows, he managed to miss every time and an hour later, was still there. As he sat on the...
BEFORE the win over Chelsea on Sunday, Jürgen Klopp was asked if new signing Thiago Alcantara would be starting. The German dismissed the idea as laughable. The player had only just arrived from Bayern Munich, who play a completely different system, and he had barely...
“PREDICTION is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” This quote from Danish physicist Niels Bohr feels particularly pertinent at this time of year (I know that’s a bit highbrow but don’t worry, there’ll be a smutty joke along in a...
