by Neil Atkinson | Sep 14, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
STOP it, Liverpool. Just stop it. I have had enough of the nonsense around Liverpool lacking ruthlessness at both ends of the pitch; had enough of the nonsense inviting ruthlessness from opponents who deserve credit for hanging in but too often little else. Stop it....
by Neil Atkinson | Aug 27, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
THE first big league occasion of the season. The first big win. Talking in general terms? Not quite. Last season last year’s champions beat last season’s runners-up but this feels like a north west kind of a season, a north west kind of a campaign. I could...
by Neil Atkinson | Aug 23, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
BRING. Bring on. Bring on your. Bring on your Internazionale. Liverpool are not immovable, never entirely not irresistible but good lord were they very good indeed at times this evening. The key times were these: 0 – 22. During that time they took the whole tie...
by Neil Atkinson | Aug 19, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
LIVERPOOL’S victory against Crystal Palace felt like a run-of-the-mill win but threw up this question: Is it run of the mill if it actually doesn’t happen very often? It felt like we as supporters had actually forgotten what this sort of thing was like...
by Neil Atkinson | Aug 15, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
ON the one hand it’s the stuff dreams are made of. On the other the dreams can be bigger, better, bolder and can be realised this season. Trent Alexander-Arnold should be delighted with his goal, should go to bed with a smile on his face, should be overjoyed. He...
by Neil Atkinson | Aug 12, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
THERE should be a word for the pain of a draw which feels like a defeat. In fact, there should be a word for the pain of a draw which feels like a defeat, after snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. Because that word is the word. That word is the most the...
by Neil Atkinson | Aug 9, 2017 | Footie
THERE’S a tension knocking about. I am happy to accept that Liverpool have tried to spend over £120million on two players and would have gladly done so. I will take that at face value. Some might not but I will. The tension comes at the point where Liverpool may...
by Neil Atkinson | Jun 2, 2017 | Footie
THERE is something about doing shows that concentrates the mind. Yesterday we recorded our transfer show, The Gutter, and had a big chat about Virgil van Dijk, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Mohamed Salah among others. The most bullish I got was about van Dijk. I’m...
by Neil Atkinson | May 21, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
“BE kind. In the first place try to be nothing but kind.” My mental note where I start all of these things. Seasons are fractured. Shall we do our best, one last time? Let’s go, Reds… — As a city Liverpool only makes complete sense in an...
by Neil Atkinson | May 14, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
WE can and will talk about all of it but let’s start with the second half. From the outset, when Liverpool could sit on a one-goal lead, they throw the kitchen sink at West Ham. They demonstrated enormous superiority over West Ham. Liverpool didn’t sit in...
