BRENDAN Rodgers — just lay off him, yeah? It’s a timeless one, isn’t it? Being fickle about a manager. Like the slag-off recidivists that we are, we love to lump it all at his door the very moment things look a little bit dodgy. Yet, as day follows...
HUMANS are a funny bunch. By nature, we tend to expect the worst. The train will be late or cancelled, that girl/boy we fancy won’t like us back, and they will never replace that boring tosser on The One Show with Gordon the Gopher. The glass is invariably ¼ empty. We...
POOR old Brendan Rodgers. He’s gone from being within two points of winning Liverpool their first title in over 20 years one season, to having some fans call for his head with at least eight games still to play the next. It’s not just season on season that fans change...
EVERY community has ways of using labels to damn individuals into loathing, suspicion or worse. In inner city areas, daubing “so-and-so is a grass” on a wall has long been a particularly effective weapon; in the middle ages ordinary people held responsible for crop...
ACCORDING to the back page of The Mirror today, there has been a falling out. Grown men have disagreed about how and why the wheels fell off in the last couple of games involving Liverpool, it is alleged. The newspaper describes the apparent incident as “a major...
IT seems like something’s been triggered by yesterday’s game. Buckets of pent-up frustration, simmering nicely since August, have been kicked over and the consequences are thrashing around like fish dumped on the pavement. It feels like a tipping point. I’m in...
“NEVER write angry. Always leave it a day to get your argument straight.” I was told that a few years ago. As an argument it has merit. Nobody wants to read spit, so it’s best to relax, gather your thoughts and throw them out to anyone who wants to listen....
I DID one of those personality tests at work once. You know, where you answer loads of innocuous questions on what seem like loads of innocuous topics and, at the end of it, someone tells you EXACTLY what you’re like. So what am I like? Well it turns out I like...
THEY look like they’d given up. Heads had gone. Fate was accepted. The tactics, the choices, the set up and the changes — all that will be assessed here, there and elsewhere in the hours and days to come. The manager, the owner and the transfer policy; you can...
FIRST of all, Brendan Rodgers is NOT “a fraud”. It seems madness that after a first defeat since December in the league many have reverted to levelling this at the manager once again. Constructive criticism, discussion and analysis is fine, but some of the...
