AS usual, Germany is leading the way. The Bundesliga returns at the weekend, with all eyes not just on how they manage as the first major football league to resume following the (almost) worldwide halt of the sport, but to give the rest of us something to watch other...
SO the time has come. Well, sort of at least. Football is set to make its grand return this weekend as the Bundesliga gets back underway, just this time without a single fan in attendance, as we all watch on from our respective ‘isolation stations’ with baited breath....
Emilia Bona is joined by Neil Atkinson, Dan Morgan, Rob Gutmann and Adam Melia to discuss Philippe Coutinho, Liverpool’s best game of ’19-20, the league’s most overrated player and lockdown quizzes… If you're already subscribed, click here to...
I’M a big fan of Villa Park. It’s a proper, traditional football ground. It looks great and it’s got some soul, unlike some stadiums these days. It’s a good away, too, not least because in normal circumstances it’s easy enough to get to from Merseyside and, more often...
I SUPPOSE the question for me is which game this season did I know I was watching champions? Wherever this season eventually leads and whatever asterisk opposition supporters will try to place on it, Liverpool played out almost eight months of football in which they...
BOXING Day football is a staple of every English season. Your guts may be stuffed to overflowing and your head might be a bit fuzzy or throbbing, but the Boxing Day programme will usually sort all that out. It’s even better if we’re at home. You simply stumble to the...
‘BEAT everyone, and once you’ve done that, beat them again’. That’s been the theme of Liverpool’s season so far. After playing the other 19 teams in the Premier League once, Liverpool had beaten 18 of them. There was just one outlier. One stubborn opposition that was...
AGAINST modern football? Not really mate, no. However, there are a long list of things about the coverage football gets now that has become tiresome over time. Much of that list has become a problem off the back of the introduction of social media and the fact...
In the latest edition of our ‘From The Vault’ series we go back to 2017, where we wanted to get the inside track about transfers and what goes into making them happen. Gareth Roberts was joined by journalist Paul Joyce, agent Neil Sang, former player...
THE Bobby Duncan situation which exploded on social media yesterday was surprising in a number of ways. From questioning how the situation managed to get to the point it did, to reading words and phrases so unbelievably unprofessional and bordering on farcical you’d...
