BUYING A NEW LIVERPOOL STRIKER: THE KNOWLEDGE GAP

MOST conversations between footie fans end up boiling down to the same thing: the aspiration, the reality and the unexplained gap that lies in between. What fills that gap — the knowledge of what really happens behind walls, in boardrooms, on training pitches,...

LIVERPOOL AND FSG: STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU

I’M away. In Fes, Morocco. Been quite the culture shock. Everywhere I look it is full of fellas sitting around arguing and talking shite, not doing much else. Massive, massive culture shock obviously. Anyway. It’s good being away. You get your news in...

BRENDAN RODGERS: ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE

NEGATIVITY — like love in the Wet Wet Wet song, is all around me, writes BEN McCAUSLAND. I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes. It’s washing around the city, rampaging through the streets like a CGI tidal wave in an action movie. Every time you pick up a...
LIVERPOOL: WINNERS NEVER QUIT AND QUITTERS NEVER WIN

LIVERPOOL: WINNERS NEVER QUIT AND QUITTERS NEVER WIN

I LIKE the summer. And I love a pre pre-season when there’s no football on. Non-tournament summers are like paradise for me. Why? Because I can put Liverpool away for a bit. I don’t have to worry about them. At this moment I’ve no idea who Liverpool’s next opponents...
LIVERPOOL: WHERE ARE WE NOW?

LIVERPOOL: WHERE ARE WE NOW?

AS the dust settles on a dismal campaign, fans are left wondering what’s next, writes PAUL McCABE. The wounds of a terrible conclusion to the season remain raw but, instead of finger-pointing, name-calling and blame-shifting, it might be the ideal time to rationally...

LIVERPOOL: THERE ARE BIGGER PROBLEMS THAN RODGERS

AFTER a game like that, you want to see a reaction. A change. Something. It’s not acceptable for Liverpool to lose 6-1 at Stoke. But before Liverpool do anything it is vital the people running the club have a conversation with Brendan Rodgers and ask him two...