JÜRGEN Klopp didn’t want to talk about it. After everything that occurred at Goodison Park on Saturday, the Liverpool manager did not want the deserved praise of one of his star player’s achievements to be overshadowed by the other talking points. Now that the dust...
THERE is an old cliché that goalkeepers are like drummers. They sit at the back, keep everything in check and go largely underappreciated by fans. They’re also usually a bit weird. I mean, you’d have to be. Trying to find weird people isn’t usually a problem, not for...
IT is not particularly original to say that 2020 has been a strange year. However, it’s no wonder that football in particular has been told that it needs to go home because it’s drunk, as seemingly after every new bizarre score, the next game requests that you hold...
I FELT tremendously guilty yesterday. There was a wasp in my kitchen. I opened the windows in the hope he’d fly out, but despite about 20 per cent of the room being open windows, he managed to miss every time and an hour later, was still there. As he sat on the...
BEFORE the win over Chelsea on Sunday, Jürgen Klopp was asked if new signing Thiago Alcantara would be starting. The German dismissed the idea as laughable. The player had only just arrived from Bayern Munich, who play a completely different system, and he had barely...
