Karl Coppack writes that Liverpool’s ability to just get on with it, in the face of all number of setbacks, is what makes them one of English football’s greats… YOU probably wouldn’t call it a highlight as such, but there was a moment near the...
Ray Clemence’s life and the reaction to his passing reminds us that our Liverpool heroes are humans too, writes Karl Coppack… THE hardest thing about losing another legend is the reminder that they’re only human after all. Of course we know that...
All the best players suffer from bad form, but Karl Coppack asks how we solve it in the case of Roberto Firmino given the current circumstances at Liverpool? FIRSTLY, I’m not calling him ‘Bobby.’ No. My dad was ‘Tommy’ as was his dad before him. He liked it...
Karl Coppack writes that Jürgen Klopp’s home league unbeaten run not only matches a record set by Bob Paisley, it cements him as one of the greatest we’ve seen… ON November 8, 2015, Jürgen Klopp strode out onto the Anfield pitch and stared...
Liverpool have had their fair share of bad luck this season but, as Karl Coppack suggests, The Reds can use that adversity to fuel their fire… THERE’S a scene in an episode of The Simpsons where Mr Burns weighs up the chances of his company’s softball...
I’D forgotten all about anger. The aftermath of the Villa game had nothing to do with being angry. In my house at least it was met with confusion. How did we manage to fail so spectacularly? We’d still have been battered even if we discounted their spawny deflected...
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...
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...
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...
A victorious Monday Anfield Wrap after Liverpool came from a goal down to swat Newcastle United aside with, in the end, aplomb with electric performances from Hugo Ekitike and Florian Wirtz supported by an encouraging performance from the boys in Red.
Also in the who, we profile Liverpool’s late deadline day bid for Jérémy Jacquet from Rennes as Liverpool head off interest from Chelsea for the promising French central defender.Neil Atkinson is joined for the show by Beth Lindop, Ian Ryan and Adam Melia.
