by Adam Smith | Jan 26, 2017 | Footie
LET me make this absolutely, 100 per cent, crystal clear: Southampton deserved to win last night. They deserved to win at Anfield, they deserved to win at St. Mary’s and they definitely deserved to make it through to the final over the course of two legs. That doesn’t...
by Adam Smith | Jan 19, 2017 | Footie
AS I write this it’s 9.30am on Wednesday. The Liverpool team and coaching staff will be on their way to Plymouth for tonight’s match, but I don’t care. I know loads of people do and that’s fine. I didn’t want us to actively lose, I just didn’t care one way or the...
by Adam Smith | Jan 12, 2017 | Footie
‘LIVERPOOL Football Club exists to win trophies’. That’s the old adage, first espoused by Bill Shankly back in the 1960s. I completely agree. I also agree with a lot of what Phil Blundell wrote in his piece yesterday. Jürgen Klopp was right to go with a strong line-up...
by Adam Smith | Jan 5, 2017 | Footie
THESE days, there seems to be a common tendency to want something to go a certain way just so people can say they were right, even if it has a negative impact elsewhere. Anybody waiting to be proven right ‘when’ Liverpool ‘inevitably’ miss out on the league title, for...
by Adam Smith | Dec 29, 2016 | Footie
AFTER significant cameos against Everton and Stoke resulting in an assist and a goal, a fit and firing Daniel Sturridge is again a topic of conversation among Liverpool fans. For a variety of reasons, it’s clear that the Reds’ number 15, signed from Chelsea for...
by Adam Smith | Dec 22, 2016 | Footie
IT’S easy to have fun when the sun’s shining. There’s nothing better than having a pint in a beer garden when the sun’s beating down on you, having a laugh with your mates. I’ve got no idea if it was actually bright and sunny when Liverpool last won a trophy, but in...
by Adam Smith | Dec 15, 2016 | Footie
The Reds, then. Are you excited about the Reds yet? Neil wrote in his match review that this Liverpool side was all about winning the league and I think that’s true. Last night was a demonstration of ambition. Of determination. More than that, though, it was a...
by Adam Smith | Dec 8, 2016 | Footie
I’M not a fan of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. As disappointing as our loss to Bournemouth was at the weekend, I’m not convinced it merited the reaction it got. There were hugely frustrating aspects to our performance but I’m not sure we need to buy-in an...
by Adam Smith | Dec 1, 2016 | Footie
ONE of my mates is a Manchester United supporter. I’ve been giving him a bit of banter over WhatsApp recently, sending him stats about José Mourinho’s start at to life at Old Trafford. If you’re on Twitter you’ll have seen the same sort of things: he’s won just 35...
by Adam Smith | Nov 24, 2016 | Footie
IN the wake of Liverpool’s draw with Southampton at the weekend predictable rumours began to emerge that Jürgen Klopp was interested in signing Virgil van Dijk at the earliest opportunity. Just as predictable were the moans that followed: “Can’t we sign players from a...
