THE hardest thing to take about the final was that it seems to be a wasted opportunity. We’ll never know if our starting 11 would be good enough to claim the European crown. We’ll never know what we could have done had the game ended at 1-1 and gone into extra time. A...
Our last look back on a game for 2017-18 is the biggest game of the season — the Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid. How well did Liverpool do in the contest prior to Mo Salah going off and prior to Gareth Bale’s overhead kick? Do...
KYIV, the capital of Ukraine. An almost Orwellian-like civilisation steeped in tradition yet still evidently bearing the scars of past troubles. The suburban communities that surround the more familiar European city ambience near the Olympic Stadium were amassed in...
YOU play out scenarios in your head. You don’t want to but you can’t help it. What if this happens? What if that happens? How will you feel? How will you react? One thing this Liverpool team does better than anybody, though, is surprise you by coming up with a...
FOOTBALL can be so cruel. I’m finding it hard to be disappointed in any member of this Liverpool side after last night. These lads were the best team in the Champions League this season, but come away from the final without the trophy to show for it. For a team that...
I feel duty bound to write this. I hoped my last piece would be the end. The article I could retire on after a European Cup win. The movie didn’t go the way I hoped, or expected. I’ve not long woken up and wandered into Twitter. It’s an incredible scene and completely...
RIGHT now I am taking it badly. All things pass. This will too. But Liverpool have managed to find a way to make this defeat hurt when it never should have. They found a way to be less than their full selves. There is an argument that they managed this due to Mo Salah...
It hurts. Nobody is saying it didn’t hurt. In fact everyone is talking about exactly how it hurts and how disappointed they are on our post match show. Liverpool were defeated by Real Madrid but more so defeated by themselves. They failed to perform on the...
THIS is it, then. The biggest week of our lives, the only thing in any room you’re ever in. I’ve thought about many ways to write this piece. But ultimately it has written itself, a shot from the hip aimed in the direction of Eastern Europe. Now that you’ve opened...
With the Kiev final looming ever larger on the horizon and the focus on both teams intensifying, who better to speak to about the experience and what to expect than Liverpool’s former assistant manager and La Liga coach Pako Ayestarán. Also in the show, Pako...
