by Roy Henderson | Jul 29, 2013 | Footie
Ever buy a book and realise half way through you’ve been given another one for free? Dave Usher’s “Like I Say” is a bit like that. You set out thinking it’s a compilation of match reports and editorials from Dave, who as most know, is...
by Roy Henderson | Apr 27, 2013 | Footie
IT’S been a long time since I put the needle to the broken record, but with a half hour to kill and a momentous, context-obliterating week behind us (at least according to some), it’s maybe time to dust off a golden oldie and return to what, for me, is the...
by Roy Henderson | Feb 21, 2013 | Footie
IT was truly a delight to open this morning”s papers to the news that “Bayern Munich are a bit good, aren”t they?”, with balanced and reasonable commentary of both the game, and of what it means for Arsenal”s standing in the European...
by Roy Henderson | Dec 28, 2012 | Footie
IN the summer, the owners of Liverpool Football Club, FSG, sacked Kenny Dalglish. It was, for me, a seizmic event. It shook my whole view of what the game meant. And it left me having a rethink over how I ought to personally relate to the game. My wife once said to...
by Roy Henderson | Nov 24, 2012 | Footie
SO Xavi Valero has gone and gone to London, taking his merry band of hired coaching guns with him in his wake, with the little matter of one Rafael Benitez Maudes nestling his prodigious footballing cojones in the blue plastic Recaro Chaise Longue of the Chelsea...
by Roy Henderson | Sep 30, 2012 | Footie
IN recent years, supporting Liverpool FC has been a bit like visiting your dominatrix and realising she’s forgotten your safe word.* “BANANA!”, you whimper. Nobody hears. The ball rebounds off the woodwork for the umpteenth time. A referee denies a...
by Roy Henderson | Sep 20, 2012 | Footie
IT’S “Year Zero” so we’re told. The tag to some extent absolves those who run Liverpool Football Club from harsh judgement as we’re encouraged to ‘give them time’, and ‘let them learn from their mistakes’, and...
by Roy Henderson | Aug 29, 2012 | Footie
One of the happy by-products of this summer’s changes at Liverpool Football Club is that I find myself completely at ease as we near the end of the summer transfer window. Commolli is gone, half-assed statistical notions of what constitutes ‘good’...
by Roy Henderson | Aug 19, 2012 | Footie
The modern day Liverpool supporter is not unlike Private Joker in Full Metal Jacket. Born to fight for the collective cause, but with a peace sign on the side of his helmet. We want Liverpool to grow, and to win, and to dominate, but we’re not so sure we want to...
by Roy Henderson | Jul 16, 2012 | Footie
LAST Friday, the Chairmen of the senior clubs in Scotland’s lower tier leagues did what most media commentators and pundits told us would be akin to turkeys voting for Christmas – they demanded that the club formerly known as Glasgow Rangers –...
