I CAN’T wait to get back to Anfield. I can’t wait to watch Liverpool play football again. To see this team in the flesh again is a joy to behold. To get to do it another 20 or so times this season, while absorbing the waves of positivity around the place, is a...
ALL goalkeepers are mad. Let’s get that out of the way, first and foremost. They are all in some form absolutely insane and, in many ways, need to be for the occupation they have. A position which is the most isolated, in terms of a team game, ‘keepers by their...
“I LOVE the first day, man, everybody all friendly and shit.” Namond Brice in The Wire had it right. School is in as of this weekend and we all get to go back to an environment where fun and enjoyment is just as fundamental as the learning process we continue to go...
“IF you are in the relegation zone, then you are in a relegation battle” Good old Roy Hodgson, eh? The manager who will always provide a post-2010 barometer for where Liverpool Football Club once very recently stood; sullen and soaked in dark matter with the prospect...
THIS is it, then. The biggest week of our lives, the only thing in any room you’re ever in. I’ve thought about many ways to write this piece. But ultimately it has written itself, a shot from the hip aimed in the direction of Eastern Europe. Now that you’ve opened...
THERE are fewer long-standing social cliques in the city of Liverpool than those who are or have been allied in some form to the amateur football scene. Liverpool, in many ways, is a city which very much acts in the form of a community. There would be no night out...
COMPARISONS in football are commonplace. Every one of us are prone to making them from the minute we become wise enough to hold up any form of reference point as fans of the game. There are positives and negatives to making comparisons in football. As a Liverpool fan...
AT the beginning of writing this I am somewhere above the Atlantic Ocean on route to New York City. Liverpool’s Champions League semi final second leg against AS Roma is being played out below the clouds on a miniscule patch of earth, a mere dot on the circumference...
CAST your mind back to Brendan Rodgers’ time at Liverpool Football Club. What abiding memory jumps out at you? For most it would be 2013-14 season, when the Northern Irishman harnessed and developed a talented, yet threadbare Liverpool side to the point of title...
THE city of Liverpool is alive right now. There is currently an energy and magnetism in the city which makes it feel like an epicentre of admiration across Europe’s cultured landmarks and beyond. Liverpool Football Club has awoken something that carries with it a...
Salah’s future, summer exit talk, and inside insight from Lewis Steele, plus January pressure on Liverpool to add bodies. Guehi, Branthwaite, Wharton, Konaté’s contract, and who’s really on the radar.
Rob Gutmann hosts John Gibbons, Josh Sexton and Mike Kearney…
