Neil Atkinson is joined by Melissa Reddy, Gareth Roberts and Paul Machin to have a lovely chat about Liverpool’s demolition of Middlesbrough. The three of them explore which individuals played well as well as the way the whole side functioned. There is also a...
All football fans know Kenny Dalglish as a legend of Liverpool FC. But his time at Celtic is less talked about. Author Stephen Murray would argue this is unfair, Kenny played with many great players at Celtic Park in a wildly successful team. Stephen talks to us about...
I DON’T like it when players leave. I don’t mean any specific player either. I mean just any player. It saddens me that something hasn’t worked out and whoever it is lacked what we need to win things. Well, okay that may not be completely honest – I did breathe a sigh...
YET another international break and heightened irritation at not seeing the Mighty Reds light up our weekend. Of course, we’ve been here before – being the third occasion already this season – but in the wake of Liverpool’s dazzling, free-scoring shows since the last...
APRIL 12, 1986. It was 30 years ago today. There were many things wrong with this day and they were all my fault. Every single one. No one else’s. I could point to many things – maybe my feng shui was all over the place or my chakras weren’t balanced or something, but...
HERE’S how this starts: In football, as in life, you’re surrounded by hindsight. It’s everywhere, colouring your outlook, shaping your views. You can’t move for the stuff. All the opinions, all the analysis, all the outrage. All formed with hindsight. All the...
[WARNING: WE’VE TAGGED THIS SHOW NSFW BECAUSE OF THE HONEST AND FORTHRIGHT NATURE OF THE DISCUSSION AROUND JOHN BARNES AND THE CULTURE OF FOOTBALL AT THE TIME.] ONE of Liverpool’s greatest ever teams, one of Liverpool’s greatest ever managers, one of...
LIVERPOOL won — and won well, coming back from a goal down to the champions — at Stamford Bridge on Saturday. Not that you’d know it looking at some of the mainstream media ever since. It’s been Jose Mourinho this, Jose Mourinho that, Chelsea’s mistakes...
STATISTICS in football is becoming one of the hottest topics around, especially around Liverpool ways in recent times. What do they all mean? How much can you read into them? Which ones tell us something important and which ones don’t? On a basic level, they...
IN this weeks look at the back pages, host Gareth Roberts is joined by sidekick Rob Gutmann, Liverpool Echo’s Neil Docking and handsome Paul Senior to talk about the things real journalists are writing about in the press. They discuss what the papers have made...
