by Neil Atkinson | Aug 12, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
THERE should be a word for the pain of a draw which feels like a defeat. In fact, there should be a word for the pain of a draw which feels like a defeat, after snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. Because that word is the word. That word is the most the...
by Neil Atkinson | May 21, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
“BE kind. In the first place try to be nothing but kind.” My mental note where I start all of these things. Seasons are fractured. Shall we do our best, one last time? Let’s go, Reds… — As a city Liverpool only makes complete sense in an...
by Neil Atkinson | May 14, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
WE can and will talk about all of it but let’s start with the second half. From the outset, when Liverpool could sit on a one-goal lead, they throw the kitchen sink at West Ham. They demonstrated enormous superiority over West Ham. Liverpool didn’t sit in...
by Neil Atkinson | May 7, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
DAMN these Reds. Damn them to hell. They love looking a gifthorse in the mouth. They’ve not been short of gifthorses. Gifthorses coming out of their ears. They can’t look at a gifthorse without looking at it in the mouth. Today the most direct. 12 yards....
by Neil Atkinson | May 1, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
INNER Chimp everywhere. Inner Chimp may never get back in. Inner Chimp could be out for days off the back of this. When will my heart stop racing. When Sebastian Prodl’s effort bounces off the bar it felt like the start and the end of everything. Heart attack as...
by Neil Atkinson | Apr 23, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
LIVERPOOL find themselves defeated today, missing an opportunity to gain real ground in the race for third or fourth. No matter what happens from this point, in what will probably prove Liverpool’s second best league points haul this decade, the season will...
by Neil Atkinson | Apr 16, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
SOMETIMES, I feel like I can’t even sing. When they get their first corner in injury time this thing hit me — I’d been stood in the away end watching the game and I suddenly wondered if I could manage to defend the corner. My legs were jelly. My head...
by Neil Atkinson | Apr 8, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
HIS shirt in the air. His shirt in the air and the ball has catapulted back from the net. His shirt in the air after the truest moment of quality in the game. His shirt in the air and he is absolutely roaring, he is giving it the big one in front of the travelling...
by Neil Atkinson | Apr 6, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
WAKING up and it doesn’t feel much better. Liverpool’s 2-2 draw was the most disappointing of likely outcomes, not least because of the substitution which saw Liverpool shift to a back three/five, saw Liverpool take a backwards step, saw Liverpool yield...
by Neil Atkinson | Apr 1, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
NIL Satis Nisi Optimum. Long been my favourite of the football mottos. Only the best will do. Dwell on it. Roll it round your mouth. You can build any organisation around that. You can build a football club around it. Only the best will do. There wasn’t a lot of...
