by Karl Coppack | Apr 19, 2019 | app, Featured Writing, Footie
This game never gets old. Never ceases to amaze. While the world was trying to get its head around VAR and its impact on the City-Spurs game, I was pondering the strange situation in Northern Portugal where Liverpool were resting players in a European Cup...
by Karl Coppack | Apr 2, 2019 | app, Footie
LUCK is not chance, It’s toil, Fortune’s expensive smile, Is earned… I know what you’re thinking and you’re right. There just aren’t enough football articles opening with Emily Dickinson quotes these days. I doubt anyone leaving Anfield on Sunday would have had Em on...
by Karl Coppack | Feb 20, 2019 | app, Footie
IT’S funny how people see games so differently. As the teams left the pitch on Tuesday, the BT Sport commentator exclaimed “advantage Bayern Munich!” Like it was practically a fait accompli. That was strange. I felt the opposite. The German’s played well at Anfield —...
by Karl Coppack | Feb 14, 2019 | app, Footie
THERE are times when the very existence of a debate is more embarrassing than the issue itself. A time when you seriously have to scratch your head and wonder why someone has a problem with what seems like a straightforward development. It’s 2019. The most advanced...
by Karl Coppack | Feb 5, 2019 | app, Footie
“A SELF-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true.” Cojones is a Spanish word, and a loan word in English, that can mean: Testicles, in profane slang. Courage or boldness, as in the expression “tener...
