SO here we stand, blinking in the cold light of day, the mind whirring as it attempts to compute exactly what happened over the course of the last nine months. How we came from relatively nowhere to somewhere completely different, somewhere so close to our ultimate...
“If you are first you are first, if you are second you are nothing.” ONE of Bill Shankly’s most famous quotes. It has adorned many a dressing room wall, inspiring hundreds if not thousands of people, not just athletes, to achieve their goals of being...
I DON’T know. I haven’t worked it out yet. I might be hungover. I may well still be drunk, I’m not entirely sure. Everything’s a bit fuzzy, everything aches, things hurt. And at the moment I wouldn’t swap this feeling for the world. You...
LOOKING back at this season, it’s hard to shake the feeling of ‘what could have been’, writes PAUL McCABE. The Chelsea defeat and the surrender of a three-goal lead to Crystal Palace prompted many to accuse Liverpool of bottling it; of coming up short when it mattered...
ALMOST four years ago to the week, I wrote a blog post on my old Well Red blog entitled ‘Why I’m sick of being a Liverpool FC fan’. I wasn’t sick of the club – after a lifetime supporting it you can’t turn that off. It was just the actual being a match-going fan bit....
AS The Kop poured into the streets with leaden shoulders and a collective stooped gait, a lone voice roared above the hubbub. ‘Libpool, Libpool – top of the league. Libpool – top of the league.’ It was an act of defiance. It spoke of a heart...
WE woke this morning to headlines alternately heralding a tactical masterclass from Mourinho, alongside claims that Brendan Rodgers had thrown bitter barbs in Mourinho’s direction, highlighting his ‘two buses parked’ comment. The reality is different...
by Ian Salmon RIGHT. Put this off for long enough now, time to do it. Consider what follows an open letter of apology to Brendan Rodgers on behalf of, well, me basically but I’m sure that there were others with similar thoughts. It seems ridiculous now and stands to...
THIS isn’t just about one game. It’s about two – let’s go crazy. Maybe even three – let’s go nuts. Because: And then there were three. Arsenal are now three and insurmountable goal difference behind Liverpool. To finish ahead of...
by NEIL SCOTT PERSPECTIVE. Something we’re always being told we must maintain a sense of, yet no-one can definitively state what it does or doesn’t entail. An unflinching optimist’s perspective will differ wildly from that of a committed misery-guts and it seems...
