MOHAMED Salah is the best player in the world right now. We can all be precious about such statements in football, especially when it doesn’t align with the impounding truisms we hold as fans of our respective clubs. Judging by the current mood of some Everton fans...
SOMETIMES one of the greatest motivations is being told no. You can’t do that. You won’t do that. You haven’t got the skills. You haven’t got the talent. It will never work. You won’t see it through. We’ve all had it in one way or another during our lives, and...
TWO-three or not two-three? That is the question to ask about Liverpool’s new 4-2-3-1 formation, or at least it is when you’re struggling to come up with a wittier opening. It is, though, a question Jürgen Klopp has been asking himself lately, albeit probably in...
FOOTBALL is a fickle sport, not for the faint of heart. There will be highs, Liverpool’s scintillating ride to Kyiv last season was one. There will be lows, such as the dreary Roy Hodgson era that tested even the most optimistic supporters. It’s the heartbreak that...
IT HARDLY counts as all that perceptive to point out that there are elements of fickleness when it comes to football analysis. Indeed, as someone who writes a weekly article about one football team, I am reliant on a certain fickleness to continue to produce talking...
FIRSTLY, let’s start by getting them all out of the way… Mo Salah was devastated Liverpool scored an injury time Champions League winner on Tuesday against Paris Saint-Germain, and in his clear repulsion he unmasked his disdain for both his teammates and the...
WE’RE a difficult bunch to please, aren’t we? Even when at most of us seem pretty happy to be sitting on the top of the early season pile, with three clean sheets out of as many games, some of us are still bemoaning the fact that our once totemic trio at the business...
HAS it all stopped yet? I really want it to have all stopped. If I want one side jumping on any tiny thing a man does and calling him a disgrace, whilst the other side blindly refuses to accept their hero can do anything wrong, I’ll just search for Jeremy Corbyn...
HIS face is everywhere. On billboards across the world, on the side of planes, even in Times Square in New York City. Mo Salah is a world-renowned superstar. Twelve months ago, to many outside of Egypt and Rome, he was still that Chelsea reject who cost too much and...
LIVERPOOL have reached their eighth European Cup final, and with all the stories we’ve been told for years about the club’s illustrious history in the competition, the younger generation now have their own to tell. The chance to experience the delirious highs of...
