WITH another goal under his belt for The Black Cats in Saturday’s Tyne-Wear derby, on-loan Fabio Borini is certainly making an impression at Sunderland. But just how good has the Italian been during his spell at The Stadium of Light? We asked ADAM DELICATE from...
“(the) long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is past the ocean is flat again.” John Maynard Keynes...
During the Anfield Wrap transfer committee special there was one thing both groups agreed on (actually there were a few, but let’s pretend otherwise). Iago Aspas had to go. In the case of the committee I, as a blag Dave Fallows, sat on, it wasn’t necessarily because...
Grim is the word. Liverpool-Swansea was grim. Unrelentingly, teeth-grindingly, appallingly grim. There was, this time, no leeway to claim the opposition were too direct or the officials blinkered. It was a simply, starkly, awful performance. The shambling figures on...
When Brendan Rodgers joined Liverpool most fans were impressed by the vision he laid out for the club in his early press conferences. The emphasis on possession, tactical awareness, positive yet responsible football. The talk of hard work bringing rewards, the need to...
BRENDAN RODGERS held court in the press room at Melwood on Thursday with representatives from a range of LFC fan sites, blogs, fanzines, podcasts and other ‘non-traditional’ media groups. The full audio of the session is available to download in all the usual places...
Problems. Jay-Z dealt with his by emphasising the positive. He’s a glass half-full kind of guy. Notorious B.I.G. was more downbeat, seeing the kind of causal link between the accumulation of capital and the emergence of personal challenges with which Rosie Redknapp,...
IT’S ONLY a press conference. But as press conferences go, this was mightily impressive from Brendan Rodgers. Can he handle the pressure? Deal with the expectations? Handle the egos? Is he experienced enough? Is he the right man? Only time will tell – and it...
