by Neil Atkinson | Jan 20, 2016 | Footie
A LIST of things to start. Benteke’s performance was mad. Enrique really enjoyed himself in the end. And should have been slipped in during that final attack. He’d have buried it and run into the Kop and just got off. Oh Captain my Captain. Feels like...
by John Gibbons | Jan 20, 2016 | Footie
WELL that was enough for that. Our young lads might not have proved they were good enough for Liverpool’s first team, but they proved they were better than League Two. They passed Exeter off the park and then kicked it in the goal three times. The Grecians (oh...
by Ian Salmon | Jan 20, 2016 | Footie
AS a writer, I have an ego. You can tell from the fact I’ve started with the words “as a writer”. Reeks of ego. I’m looking for engagement, some kind of response. I don’t care if it’s agreement or sheer outrage, I just want that...
by Neil Atkinson | Jan 19, 2016 | Footie
THE best thing that has happened to the Reds since New Year’s Day which doesn’t involve Joe Allen is the side Jürgen Klopp selected against Exeter City on a Friday night. It acted as a reminder of two basic points for us all: a) Gang of lads wearing the...
by Ben Johnson | Jan 11, 2016 | Footie
THE FA Cup is great, isn’t it? Dead romantic. “The Romance of the Cup” is accepted as standard and is lashed about all over the place. By journalists, by commentators and by the boring arse in everyone’s work who doesn’t really follow footie but...
by Gareth Roberts | Jan 8, 2016 | Footie
THE expectation and the reality there. Billed as a cup cracker, in theory it seemed at the very least intriguing. Even more so given the Frankenstein’s monster of a Liverpool team, thrown together from a pool of recent loanees, kids and a forgotten man that should...