AFTER the glory of lifting European Cup number six in Madrid in June – coupled with gathering a club-record 97 points in the Premier League – many predicted Liverpool would turn to the transfer market with the star shining so brightly. Use the position of strength as...
DECEMBER is the cruellest month. Not everyone likes Christmas. Some love it, but for many it’s a painful time to negotiate. Maybe it’s like the final frames of It’s A Wonderful Life for you. I hope so, but I prefer to compare it to the main section of the film where...
JÜRGEN Klopp will tell you it means nothing. That’s where we and he differ. While the manager will be looking at the next three points rather than where Adama Traore’s late salvo puts the title race, we can’t stop looking at the league table and wishing it was early...
WHEN the EFL Cup third-round tie between MK Dons and Liverpool began last night in the Stadium MK, it didn’t take long for the song book to open. Yet despite all the things you would expect from the tie — a feverish home crowd who are hounding their Goliath opponent...
I HAVE a theory about football fans. We have all convinced ourselves, no matter who we support, that no-one goes through more stress in games than we do. It doesn’t seem to matter whether a person follows relegation candidates, mid-table mediocrity or runaway league...
I’M starting to go off Sundays, to be honest. The last two have produced the same bright mornings and shiny optimism of what may lie ahead, only to be doused by the waters of disappointment as Liverpool fail to win away to a bitter rival, allowing said rivals – and...
THE 1986 FA Cup final may just be the biggest football match I ever commentated on. It certainly seemed like it at the time. Yes, there was Istanbul — and didn’t someone else win the Champions League in dramatic circumstances a few seasons before? Just this...
LIVERPOOL v Chelsea in the third round of the League Cup. An unwanted and destined to be unloved child of a game. We all want to win a trophy, this one even, but we don’t want to have to win it now. Neither ourselves or Chelsea are in the frame of mind to be viewing...
“FOURTH place isn’t a trophy.” A common phrase used to denigrate any team that finishes fourth and has the temerity to be happy about the fact. On an entirely related note, I’d like to wish the best of luck to Arsene Wenger in all his future endeavours. What an...
THREE at the back. It’s not something that’s particularly popular in football now is it? It’s very 1990s, writes PHIL BLUNDELL. Roy Evans was a big fan of it — it nearly won us a title in the mid 90s and England had a crack at it at Euro 96 and the 1998 World...
How Liverpool Fans Reacted to Being Top Of Everything: The Wrap Up
The latest edition of The Wrap Up features a look back at Liverpool’s in which the Reds find themselves top of both The Champions League and The Premier League.
