Liverpool 0 FC Porto 0: Match Ratings

Liverpool 0 FC Porto 0: Match Ratings

Pre Match THIS is all but sorted, isn’t it? The amount of spares knocking about you would think these aren’t bothering sending a team tonight and are putting out 10 bottles of Superbock with a piri-piri chicken in goal. Let me take you back, circa 2003, to a...
Liverpool v FC Porto: The Big Match Preview

Liverpool v FC Porto: The Big Match Preview

IS it just me or do you feel like we might just have slightly cheated ourselves out of a proper Champions League night out? Doing Porto 5-0 in the first leg was the best and all that but we could have kept it to two or three. We’d still have been supremely confident...
FC Porto 0 Liverpool 5: Match Review

FC Porto 0 Liverpool 5: Match Review

IT’S a magnificent Liverpool victory. An historic one and one which signposts exactly where Liverpool stand in Europe’s current reckoning. Imagine this was Barcelona or Real Madrid or Bayern Munich going to somewhere like Porto and doing this. Imagine...
FC Porto 0 Liverpool 5: Match Ratings

FC Porto 0 Liverpool 5: Match Ratings

SO The Reds are in the European Cup knockouts for the first time since we were all either a) kids, b) optimistic, or c) less baldy. These are what proper nerves are all about. Apparently, the last time we had one of these was that mad Chelsea one where Javier...

FC Porto v Liverpool: The Big Match Preview

IT’S Feb and it’s fab. The Reds are back in the knockout stage of the European Cup for the first time since 2009. Those were heady days. I was nine years younger for start. My youngest, Rafael, wasn’t even alive. Well, he was about to be alive. I remember the draw...