// THE MATCH REVIEW
Neil Atkinson’s post-match thoughts which reflect the emotions of following Liverpool Football Club…
Liverpool 1 Arsenal 1: The Match Review
IT'S the best final to lose. But it still becomes losing. Losing is OK in a sense. You get beat from time to time. How you get beat and what you do next matters. This one, a penalty shootout and the width of a crossbar, offers us some positives, some questions and a...
Newcastle United 1 Liverpool 3: The Match Review
SO that is that then. Thirty-eight done. This is how it feels. Liverpool top of the league. You spend your life looking in the mirror brushing your teeth and thinking about the title. You catch yourself jogging and thinking of what hasn't been. Stare out of train...
Liverpool 5 Chelsea 3: The Match Review
WE aren't unbearable. Unbearable was nonsense. But we have been unbreakable. That's what has been astonishing about the enterprise. They lose in Kyiv. They win in Madrid. They lose out on 97 points. They go played 27 won 26 drawn one. They refused to be denied. So did...
Arsenal 2 Liverpool 1: The Match Review
NEVER liked playing Arsenal, these days more away than anything. Most people reading this will be too young for 1971 at Wembley but the video of it used to be everywhere. Some too young probably for 1989 at Anfield. But let me fill in the gaps. North London Arsenal...
Liverpool 1 Burnley 1: The Match Review
GOD, that had me up the wall. That had me on pins. Where I sit at Anfield I always remember punching the concrete of the stairs during the second leg of the semi final against Southampton. My seat is at the end of the row and I remember throwing myself, twisting and...
// THE MATCH REVIEW
Neil Atkinson’s post-match thoughts which reflect the emotions of following Liverpool Football Club…
Liverpool 1 Arsenal 1: The Match Review
IT'S the best final to lose. But it still becomes losing. Losing is OK in a sense. You get beat from time to time. How you get beat and what you do next matters. This one, a penalty shootout and the width of a crossbar, offers us some positives, some questions and a...
Newcastle United 1 Liverpool 3: The Match Review
SO that is that then. Thirty-eight done. This is how it feels. Liverpool top of the league. You spend your life looking in the mirror brushing your teeth and thinking about the title. You catch yourself jogging and thinking of what hasn't been. Stare out of train...
Liverpool 5 Chelsea 3: The Match Review
WE aren't unbearable. Unbearable was nonsense. But we have been unbreakable. That's what has been astonishing about the enterprise. They lose in Kyiv. They win in Madrid. They lose out on 97 points. They go played 27 won 26 drawn one. They refused to be denied. So did...
Arsenal 2 Liverpool 1: The Match Review
NEVER liked playing Arsenal, these days more away than anything. Most people reading this will be too young for 1971 at Wembley but the video of it used to be everywhere. Some too young probably for 1989 at Anfield. But let me fill in the gaps. North London Arsenal...
Liverpool 1 Burnley 1: The Match Review
GOD, that had me up the wall. That had me on pins. Where I sit at Anfield I always remember punching the concrete of the stairs during the second leg of the semi final against Southampton. My seat is at the end of the row and I remember throwing myself, twisting and...