NINETY minutes of sheer hell, John Barnes said years ago. The words echoed through today. Liverpool 0 Manchester City 0. Unbelievable we pay good money to be made to feel like that. If it wasn’t hell it was purgatory. The prospect of losing loomed large, the...
LIVERPOOL lost and they deserved to lose. The good thing about being good is being able to say: “That isn’t good. That isn’t what good looks like.” Before a ball was kicked I would have taken a point. Firstly, due to the group scenario but...
“DON’T shoot,” says Ben Johno. The ball goes to Daniel Sturridge. “Don’t you fucking shoot either,” I say. The “r” of either leaves my mouth as the ball hits the back of the net and even in Head Of Steam in town...
GETTING beat, then. That’s new. That’s new. We could do without it. But then we could do without Eden Hazard every week. Liverpool supporters overrate Hazard because every time we see him he verges on unplayable. He’s carrying Kryptonite. If Hazard...
LAST season Liverpool came back from this international break and lost heavily away to rivals Manchester City. In midweek, they drew a home European game they had dominated against Sevilla after Roberto Firmino missed a key penalty which drove his form into the...
WHAT about that? What about it? Go fuck yourselves, you fucking cowards. They are good, you know. They are good Paris Saint-Germain. Better than good. I will remember watching Angel Di Maria tonight. I will remember being impressed. I will remember being more...
BATTERED them 1-2. No idea how well we played. Mad this sport of ours, at times. Quick things: First half, I was livid with our midfield. Couldn’t see what they were about, what they were doing. Felt all three of them looked just off, but felt the Wembley...
LIVERPOOL got away with murder at the King Power this afternoon. Liverpool — top of the league. Liverpool were poor. Liverpool deserve their win. You get to defend well. You get to do the business without having the ball. That is the hardest thing at times to...
JAMES Milner tackles their lad. James Milner tackles their lad this morning when he has his breakfast. James Milner tackles their lad while he packs his oversized wash bag. James Milner tackles their lad from the minute he was born to the second the freekick is given....
THE season starts. God, you felt that, didn’t you? God you lived that, didn’t you? God you loved that, didn’t you? Didn’t you? What it is to be alive. Liverpool gave us that tonight. Being fair, so too did Crystal Palace. It was visceral...
Press Conference Extra looks at the wider context around Arne Slot’s media briefing before Liverpool’s Champions League tie against Real Madrid at Anfield.
