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Liverpool 2 Tottenham Hotspur 1: The Match Review

Liverpool 2 Tottenham Hotspur 1: The Match Review

THE beginning of the game is mad. Flip it. It's the final in silhouette. And bear that in mind. Bear in mind that game, what they then do and what we do in a boiling Madrid. Half the ground misses it, still sitting down as their number 17 Sissoko dashes forward. This...

KRC Genk 1 Liverpool 4: The Match Review

KRC Genk 1 Liverpool 4: The Match Review

THREE of the goals are gorgeous. Drop dead gorgeous. Language struggles for the other, for Oxlade-Chamberlain and Liverpool's second. There isn't an aesthetic plus point it doesn't score double in. There are two or three Shakespearean sonnets where he compares the...

Manchester United 1 Liverpool 1: The Match Review

Manchester United 1 Liverpool 1: The Match Review

"DRAG them down to our level and kill them." The words of Jürgen Klopp when he was asked how he would deal with better sides, more expensively assembled sides facing his Liverpool just after he was appointed. Today Manchester United did an excellent job of dragging...

Liverpool 2 Leicester City 1: The Match Review

Liverpool 2 Leicester City 1: The Match Review

THERE is this time between when he gives it, when James Milner picks the ball up and when the penalty is going to be taken. Notice Kasper Schmeichel protests around the penalty spot with all his studs. Notice some players surround the referee. Drag the time out. The...

Liverpool 4 Red Bull Salzburg 3: The Match Review

Liverpool 4 Red Bull Salzburg 3: The Match Review

CHRIST alive we were good. It goes 3-0 and then christ alive they were scary. And we seemed scared. It was a pleasure to be at tonight, you know. It was the essence of sport in a way it shouldn't have been. It became the best of the best against one another. It was...

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Neil Atkinson’s post-match thoughts which reflect the emotions of following Liverpool Football Club…

Liverpool 2 Tottenham Hotspur 1: The Match Review

Liverpool 2 Tottenham Hotspur 1: The Match Review

THE beginning of the game is mad. Flip it. It's the final in silhouette. And bear that in mind. Bear in mind that game, what they then do and what we do in a boiling Madrid. Half the ground misses it, still sitting down as their number 17 Sissoko dashes forward. This...

KRC Genk 1 Liverpool 4: The Match Review

KRC Genk 1 Liverpool 4: The Match Review

THREE of the goals are gorgeous. Drop dead gorgeous. Language struggles for the other, for Oxlade-Chamberlain and Liverpool's second. There isn't an aesthetic plus point it doesn't score double in. There are two or three Shakespearean sonnets where he compares the...

Manchester United 1 Liverpool 1: The Match Review

Manchester United 1 Liverpool 1: The Match Review

"DRAG them down to our level and kill them." The words of Jürgen Klopp when he was asked how he would deal with better sides, more expensively assembled sides facing his Liverpool just after he was appointed. Today Manchester United did an excellent job of dragging...

Liverpool 2 Leicester City 1: The Match Review

Liverpool 2 Leicester City 1: The Match Review

THERE is this time between when he gives it, when James Milner picks the ball up and when the penalty is going to be taken. Notice Kasper Schmeichel protests around the penalty spot with all his studs. Notice some players surround the referee. Drag the time out. The...

Liverpool 4 Red Bull Salzburg 3: The Match Review

Liverpool 4 Red Bull Salzburg 3: The Match Review

CHRIST alive we were good. It goes 3-0 and then christ alive they were scary. And we seemed scared. It was a pleasure to be at tonight, you know. It was the essence of sport in a way it shouldn't have been. It became the best of the best against one another. It was...