FIRST, a little history lesson, writes REY MASHAYEKHI. Yankee Stadium, October 2003. The Boston Red Sox are playing their hated rivals, the New York Yankees, in the semi-finals of the Major League Baseball playoffs. It’s game seven of a seven-game series to determine...
PLAYER contracts: worth the paper they’re written on? In the modern game they are there to serve a triple purpose — remunerate the player, provide him with an exit strategy (release clause) and to help the owning/selling club ‘protect’ the...
IT’S getting sorted in the summer. They’ll talk about it in the summer. What if the summer is too late? Hands up, I don’t know anything about negotiating contracts. I haven’t sat in a room with an agent and a player and got down to the nitty gritty of salaries,...
IN mid January, I wrote an article on here entitled “Don’t piss on our backs and tell us it’s raining”. In it I stated my belief that, despite rhetoric to the contrary, Liverpool has grown into a Director Of Football-based structure by stealth,...
LIVERPOOL have played great teams many times, writes PETER FURMEDGE. Quite a few times we have been behind illustrious opponents in terms of what we can put on the pitch. Sometimes quite a distance behind. What always prevailed, something that brought grudging...
Dear John W Henry and FSG, I’m writing to express my sadness at the announcement of 2015-16 season ticket prices, and in particular the absence of any concession for 17-21 olds. My son, Sam, turned 17 in December last year and is now being asked to pay £725...
“I am confident we will improve the team further and will be stronger for this coming season, when we will be competing on all fronts; domestically and in the greatest club competition in the world, the Champions League.” Brendan Rodgers 11th July 2014 “We lost a...
IT’S been four long years since Christian Purslow pumped his fist and bared his gnashers in triumph outside the High Court in London. Four long years since Liverpool Football Club passed from one set of American owners to the next. Four testing years since the club...
I MIGHT as well tell you now – this isn’t going to be popular. Four years ago today, Fenway Sports Group/New England Sports Ventures took over Liverpool Football Club and delivered us from evil. For many it was like the last few minutes of Return of the Jedi....
By David Lynch I DIDN’T WORRY at all last summer. Nope. The ‘Great Spurs Splurge of 2013’ never once raised even mild trepidation in me. Back then, we were regularly informed that Tottenham had constructed a team to end Liverpool’s top four...
