DALGLISH: THE DAY KENNY CAME TO WORK

DALGLISH: THE DAY KENNY CAME TO WORK

Goalkeeper DAVID PREECE, who has played for a string of clubs including Sunderland, Aberdeen and current employers Lincoln, recalls the time a Liverpool legend turned up for training I’VE had my brushes with greatness. Some of them brief, some of them painful; some of...
LIVERPOOL: ALL YOU NEED IS RUSH

LIVERPOOL: ALL YOU NEED IS RUSH

It’s 26 years to the day since Ian Rush returned to Liverpool after his short spell at Juventus. NEIL SCOTT remembers it well. AS anyone with a cursory knowledge of the football landscape will tell you, the transfer window has its own unique lexicon.   “Sources...
DALGLISH – THE KOP GETS ITS KING

DALGLISH – THE KOP GETS ITS KING

LIVERPOOL manager Bob Paisley paid a British record £440,000 to bring Kenny Dalglish south from Celtic. As a player at Anfield, Kenny won six league titles, two FA Cups, four League Cups, three European Cups and one Super Cup. It’s widely recognised as the best...

SEVEN HEAVEN

SUNDAY’S 4-0 drubbing of Spurs made it 9-0 on aggregate for the season and sent the Reds back to the top of the table with the title in their own hands – but it’s not the first time Tottenham have been on the wrong side of a thrashing from Liverpool....
LIVERPOOL: LOSING MY PERSPECTIVE

LIVERPOOL: LOSING MY PERSPECTIVE

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...
LEARNING AND UNLEARNING

LEARNING AND UNLEARNING

SOME people have never recovered from June 2010. Barely a year since Liverpool’s most ferocious title challenge in years, five years since Istanbul, six years since a period which brought us trophies, belief and Luis Garcia – it was over. At the stroke of a private...

LFC Greatests – Scottish Players

Great Scot! Our ‘LFC Greatests’ theme which randomly dips into our unique club history has rolled the dice on the finest Scottish footballers to grace our club. You tend to forget how many there’ve been; the Liverbird and the flower of Scotland have become...

THE LAST OF THE MOHICAN

Wise move from Raul. The Mohican who was all tats and no trousers was always likely to suffer from Bellamy’s Golf Bag Of Justice and find himself on the wrong side of a long iron. He’d managed to take Reece’s place in the squad of looking hard but being really, really...