TIME to turn the lights out. Exit, The Reds, stage left. What a performance. The boards drenched in floral tributes. The bows could go on all night. No dry eyes on Wednesday evening after that trophy lift. What a season. What a team. So, the point of Newcastle,...
MY city, my people, my heart. I was OK, I’d held it together last night until a certain point. It wasn’t the lift, Kenny or seeing them on The Kop. It was when Jamie Webster’s latest single, This Place, played out in a special video from Sky. It made me stop, it made...
OK, told Josh I would live blog this cunt of a lift. There’s Souey, there. Love him, you know. Made mistakes, genuine remorse. Kelly’s rig is 🔥 The lights have gone out. Imagine the blues. Hahaha. Look at them ribbons. I would like them to drape over my naked...
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...
THERE’S a line in the film Shadowlands which has always stuck with me. The film concerns the friendship between the writer C.S Lewis and the American poet Joy Davidman Grisham. While Lewis (played by Anthony Hopkins) is the model of repressed and proper Oxford...
THE most successful teams in football have been underpinned by great captains. Paolo Maldini’s AC Milan, Franz Beckenbauer’s Bayern Munich, Johan Cruyff’s Ajax, Carlos Puyol’s Barcelona and Steven Gerrard’s Liverpool. The list goes on. In each instance, they pieced...
HERE’S to Liverpool, the Champions of England. Here’s to the team that never knows when it’s beaten, that could never accept that it was futile to try and find a way to muscle past an infinitely greater resourced adversary. Here’s to the lads who can never be...
YOU always remember your first football shirt. Mine was the 1993-95 away. Green sleeves, white torso with three black lines up each side. Now, I can appreciate that it was a pretty awful kit, but it was my first, so I loved it. What made it extra special was my dad...
ALL goalies are crazy. That’s what we’ve always been told; reading the books by Rob Childs as a kid, growing up with curtain-sporting keepers wearing tops that looked like that mad rug in your nan’s. Perhaps that’s why a large number of football fans are prepared to...
IT’S only a few days away now. On Wednesday evening Jordan Henderson will get his hands on the Premier League trophy, all wrapped in red, and lift it high above his head to mark the end of an agonising wait. The title will once again reside at Anfield. It will be...
Arsenal Head To City With A Title In Mind: Friday Show
Fan previews ahead of the Premier League weekend, with Manchester City facing Arsenal in what promises to be a massive game in the race for the Premier League title at the Etihad.
Neil Atkinson hosts John Gibbons and Mo Stewart also on the show, Neil speaks to Sophie from Highbury Squad, Andy Middleton on West Ham and Robbie Scotcher on Crystal Palace.