WE’VE been here before. Perhaps not as poisonousness, perhaps not as omnipresent. But this is a familiar juncture, a well-known walkway. Brendan Rodgers should be sacked to save Liverpool. There are petitions. There are campaigns. There are banners and there are...
PARTNERSHIPS is a word I have heard a lot on our shows in the last week or two, to the extent that I realised it has somewhat slipped out of vogue. This week on part 1 of the 85-86 version of What We Call History, Mike Nevin spoke as eloquently as ever on the strength...
BILL Shankly once likened the pain in the wake of an important defeat to cutting your finger: “It’s very sore to start with. After a few days it heals up. And then after a week you’ve forgotten, until the next match.” One of the great man’s less-heralded quotes, and...
LUCKY packets. Remember them? Bags of sugary pleasure, pumped full of treats with the added attraction of a surprise. The mystery gift you got made them unmissable; the excitement of the unknown was addictive. As an inquisitive child, I’d tear through at least one a...
LAST season ended badly, writes NEIL POOLE of the We Are Liverpool fanzine. Very badly. It seemed like the manager was sinking with along with his team. Yet FSG have given Brendan Rodgers a second chance. Something that — in the modern game at least —...
“I’M not just talking about winning games, but the way we do things and the way we conduct ourselves. The class and dignity this club was renowned for. It’s the way Liverpool used to be seen by people and we should be aiming to recreate that.”...
UNWRAPPED goes hard and heavy on the processes of identifying and buying players within a football club. Who does what? Who should do what? Is scouting dead? What is the ideal model? Just some of the questions Rob Gutmann, Paul Senior, Neil Atkinson and John Gibbons...
OF all the days in the club’s recent memory, the 30th of January, 2011 — or, as it’s known to keen Jim White fans: ‘THE MADDEST TRANSFER DEADLINE DAY’ — represents a strange turning point in Liverpool’s history, writes KIERAN MORRIS. The club was in the...
AFTER four starts without a goal, Emile Heskey scored the first of his Liverpool career as The Reds won 3-0 away at Coventry City on this day 15 years ago. The striker — an £11million buy from Leicester in March 2000 — had fired blanks against Sunderland,...
EVERYBODY talks about 1988. They’re right to. It was a joyous time to be a Red. The double was still in the memory and we made two enormous signings the previous summer to go alongside John Aldridge and the curious Irish-Scottish crossbreed of Ray Houghton, who...
