by Karl Coppack | Oct 14, 2020 | app, Featured Writing, Footie
I’VE just finished reading George Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying. Set in the 1930s, it concerns a poet called Gordon Comstock who declares war on the ‘money god’ which dominates the world. He refuses a well-paid job writing ludicrous advertising copy and instead...
by Karl Coppack | Oct 7, 2020 | app, Featured Writing, Footie
HOW’S your therapy going? It’s Monday night as I write this so you’re ahead of me. I’m still somewhere between fury, nonchalant acceptance and utter confusion. My state changes every couple of minutes. That might be reflected here. 7-2 though. 7-2! And not to a fully...
by Karl Coppack | Sep 30, 2020 | app, Featured Writing, Footie
IN October 1986, Liverpool travelled to Craven Cottage to play Fulham in the second leg of a Littlewoods Cup tie. The Double winners sat third in the league having seen off Wimbledon at Plough Lane three days earlier. There wasn’t much interest in the tie and that was...
by Karl Coppack | Sep 23, 2020 | app, Featured Writing, Footie
LIVERPOOL were ruthless on Sunday. Absolutely ruthless. A ball through from the captain, a red card when their lad had little choice but to bring Sadio down once their keeper ‘A Reasonable Aga’ (©Adam Melia) legged it into No Man’s Land and then the systematic...
by Karl Coppack | Sep 16, 2020 | app, Featured Writing, Footie
OVER the weekend the press reported that our first game of the season had everything. It had goals, disallowed goals, defensive howlers, a hat-trick, two charismatic managers and more to and fro action than your average basketball game. That’s not true though. It...
