by Gareth Roberts | Nov 16, 2015 | Footie
THE chief executive of Liverpool Football Club, speaking to anyone, anywhere, ever in public in the internet age is news. It will be picked up by someone, somewhere and arrive back on the doorstep, neatly packaged in soundbites, ready to digest. Or, in the case of Ian...
by Michael Nevin | Nov 13, 2015 | Footie
IN the wake of Jürgen Klopp’s moment of feeling “alone” last Sunday, when disappointed Liverpool fans exited Anfield with a full 10 minutes plus stoppage time to play, there has been plenty more comment on these pages — and elsewhere — about the Anfield...
by Rob Gutmann | Nov 10, 2015 | Footie
OH, Jürgen. What have you gone and done? “Eighty-two minutes — game over. I turned around and I felt pretty alone at this moment. We have to decide when it is over.” Rarely has a manager’s theme been warmed to so gleefully. He’s saying what loads of...
by The Anfield Wrap | Nov 9, 2015 | Footie
ON current form, if the once famous Anfield roar really was our “Twelfth Man”, he would have been ignominiously hauled off before half-time never to pull on a red jersey again, writes DAVID WEBBER. Blame for his decline is usually attributed towards the...
by Gareth Roberts | Nov 9, 2015 | Footie
IF he didn’t know it already, Jürgen Klopp discovered yesterday that he’s got a job on his hands in more ways than one. Not only did Liverpool cave in to opposition that ambition dictates they should be beating on home turf, hinting again at a fragile mindset among...
by Michael Nevin | Nov 6, 2015 | Footie
THE return to Merseyside this week of former skipper Steven Gerrard, at first sparking speculation that a Reds reunion of some sort was on the cards, brought some thoughts to mind of the short and long-term issue of the Liverpool captaincy. The idea that Gerrard would...
by Neil Atkinson | Oct 31, 2015 | Footie
“I CANNOT, just cannot, begin to describe the size of the hook I’d give Coutinho at half time. I don’t have the vocabulary to do so.” Neil Edward Atkinson, 13:25, 31st October 2015 Makes fools of all of us, the football. One of its most...
by Neil Atkinson | Oct 29, 2015 | Footie
ONE to us and nil to them. Not one to them. One to us and nil to them. Astonishing scenes, these. The youngish Reds doing the business. The youngish Reds hugely buttressed by Lucas Leiva second half and constantly lit up by Roberto Firmino. Firmino had a ton of...
by John Gibbons | Oct 29, 2015 | Footie
A WIN! Not the best, or prettiest, but we’ll take it. We weren’t great in the middle of the park, but in the final third we looked more alive than we have for a while, and could actually have scored more than one goal. But that utopia will wait for another...
by Neil Atkinson | Oct 25, 2015 | Footie
PAUL Senior hangs on for me as I wait for The Pink show to bounce. I’ve no idea what bouncing is or what bouncing entails, but anyway. We have a chat and he says he’s maybe watched too much football. He hasn’t missed a domestic game since West Ham...
