by Michael Nevin | Nov 24, 2017 | Footie
THE Mersey wind sweeps across the school playground, the rain puddles testimony to the darkening evening as another year approaches its end. Huddles of parents and grandparents gather their hats and coats against the wind, waiting expectedly for their young charges to...
by Michael Nevin | Nov 17, 2017 | Footie
“GOT, got, need. Got, got, got, got, need!” Or was it: “got, got, got haven’t”? I’m sure that was what we said doing our swapsies in Liverpool. These were the excitement-filled staccato sentences heard in every school playground and boys’ clubs in the late...
by Michael Nevin | Nov 10, 2017 | Footie
EVEN in the impatient world of modern football, Liverpool supporters around the world are still famed for their loyal, unswerving support. Those of us who go to the game however, know a different side to Anfield and as recently as half time against Huddersfield Town a...
by Michael Nevin | Nov 3, 2017 | Footie
IF, for once, the “European night” atmosphere was lacking on Wednesday it was because there was a strong whiff of déjà vu mixing with pre-Bommie Night sulphur in the November air. There was a sense, predominantly in the crowd, that the evening – despite a whole 12...
by Michael Nevin | Oct 27, 2017 | Footie
“WHO are you giving the job to? No, let me tell you. It’s Graeme fucking Souness, isn’t it?” Phil Thompson and Souness never really saw eye to eye and here was ruthless Bob Paisley bestowing the gnarly Scot with the Liverpool captaincy so cherished by Kirkby’s finest....
by Michael Nevin | Oct 20, 2017 | Footie
FOR all Liverpudlians it has already been an exhausting season. The football has been mostly breathless but we’re actually tired of working this team out and it’s still only October. Rampant, attacking football but a glut of missed chances placed incongruously...
by Michael Nevin | Oct 13, 2017 | Footie
AM I going a bit soft, I thought this week, as I found myself glued, gushingly sympathetic and admiring of the life of Sir Bobby Charlton as brilliantly portrayed by the BBC? While watching, even my wife observed, “It’s a bit too United for me”, adding to her concerns...
by Michael Nevin | Oct 6, 2017 | Footie
IS it just me, or does the Liverpool FC song repertoire feel a bit tired? Without falling victim to the notion “it was better in my day”, when you regularly hear The Fields of Anfield Road rolled out thrice before half time on a European night, it does make you wonder...
by Michael Nevin | Sep 29, 2017 | Footie
SO, Liverpool and Newcastle this weekend. Without question, the starkest, most aesthetically-pleasing collision of football colours. The statement flamboyance of all red against the sterner but similarly striking black and white stripes. A dream for the fantasist and...
by Michael Nevin | Sep 22, 2017 | Footie
ALL of a sudden, after Burnley and Leicester followed familiar scripts, Liverpool FC is the prime critical focus of the sports media. The notion of a “Crisis Club” has been around for as long as I can remember, albeit in a different guise. Once upon a time, the...
