“PETER Thompson was my first footballing hero. “When Peter played football, he was me. When I played football, I was Peter Thompson.” These words are from lifelong Liverpool follower and renowned banner maker, Peter Carney. “Peter was the magician in Shankly’s...
WHATEVER club you support, we all have our pre-match routines: attire adorned, stomach lined, bets placed, mates met, ale sank, turnstile clicked, adrenaline pumping, form forgotten, writes JOEL ROOKWOOD. With kick off imminent you become consumed by the impending...
SO, Liverpool and Newcastle this weekend. Without question, the starkest, most aesthetically-pleasing collision of football colours. The statement flamboyance of all red against the sterner but similarly striking black and white stripes. A dream for the fantasist and...
LAST Thursday the transfer window closed, or “slammed shut” if you prefer to use Sky’s exaggerated term (I’m not sure that a deadline can “slam” as such), with Liverpool making some pretty decent purchases in the allotted time. The signing of...
ONE of the things about a birthday, a thing no-one really warns you about as you surf the waves of youth, is the feeling of existential dread it can trigger. The more birthdays you have, the greater the sense of impending doom. Mortality becomes a series of fading...
IT exists to win trophies. A bastion of invincibility, the league its bread and butter. A holy trinity made up of the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors? They don’t come into it. We’re part of a family. People who can hold our heads up high and say,...
LIVERPOOL 5 Everton 1 – September 26, 1925 IT was this week, some 89 years ago, that Liverpool smashed rivals Everton 5-1 in front of 49,426 fans in attendance at Anfield. Matt McQueen’s side were 3-0 up by half time before Dick Forshaw added to his first...
TODAY, September 2, marks 103 years since legendary Liverpool boss Bill Shankly was born in Glenbuck, East Ayrshire. Shanks took charge of Liverpool in 1959 with the Reds in the second division. Fifteen years on, he had transformed the club, having racked up three...
I REALLY do not want to be writing this piece. Let me say that first, to get it out of the way. If I had my way — if we all had our way — Liverpool would be cruising at the top of the league and we would all be huddled together talking about the majesty of...
