by Steve Graves // 2 November 2012
Grim is the word. Liverpool-Swansea was grim. Unrelentingly, teeth-grindingly, appallingly grim. There was, this time, no leeway to claim the opposition were too direct or the officials blinkered. It was a simply, starkly, awful performance. The shambling figures on the … Continue reading
by Neil Atkinson // 11 July 2012
PART one in this was about Steven Gerrard’s potential usefulness to Liverpool as a 23rd man in the squad. But Liverpool’s actual number 23 is potentially at a crossroads. Jamie Carragher’s spent the summer demonstrating what we thought – he’s … Continue reading
by Steve Graves // 13 September 2011
AMONG the seemingly positive phrases in football’s lexicon, ‘versatile’ is one many fans treat with trepidation. ‘Morale-boosting win’ is another – superficially good news but more pregnant with subtext than Demi Moore watching season four of The Wire. A versatile … Continue reading