THERE was a moment at the end of the game where someone from BT Sport came onto the pitch, shoved a microphone under Sadio Mane’s nose and asked him a question. His response will live with me forever. He mumbled a few half-formed words then he went quiet. Then he...
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...
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...
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 —...
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...
“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...
WE’RE here again… That magical time of the year when big teams travel to far-flung muddied fields and fight for the next round and their dignity. That wonderful weekend when minnows can dream and names can be made. The great leveller. FA Cup third round...
SOMETIMES defeats are excusable. An unbeaten run is a wonderful thing. Another three points at the final blast of the ref’s whistle, even if you’ve had to hold on a bit. After a while though, there’s a marked difference between that first unbeaten result and the...
EARLIER this week, a Swiss research group called CIES Football Observatory announced that Andy Robertson, the magnificent left back and Scottish captain, is now worth £72.12m. The organisation, which provide “technical analysis of player performance and the scientific...
WELL, what a week that was. The Reds picked themselves off the Parisian floor (no doubt finding a writhing Neymar there) and met two difficult games head on. Both went to the wire and needed as much “stugots” as skill to see them off. We also saw the...
