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...
IF there’s such a thing as a bipolar group of fans, surely it’s at Liverpool. Our mood swings between optimistic fervour, characterised by the swagger of European encounters where we beat Manchester City home and away, and the hapless pessimism experienced recently by...
“THAT’S not too cool for a manager. “If it works then it’s cool. I had a few centre halves who were able to do things a centre half should not do, like Mats Hummels constantly doing things which made no sense but he was really good in there. “Alisson is obviously a...
“ENJOY the game.” Those were the last words my mum text me following a conversation on Saturday afternoon. Enjoy the game? Sounds so simple, doesn’t it? Everyone is different, but some of us supporters tend to enjoy pretty much everything about matchdays apart from...
LAST night on BT Sport, Michael Owen told the story of the collapse of his dream return to Liverpool in the summer of 2009. It was the tale of promises — both kept and broken — and the unfortunate concatenation of circumstances which saw him unable to return to the...
LOOK, I’m not falling for this again. An almost fully fit Liverpool squad, battering all and sundry in pre-season, major acquisitions made and no one of note leaving (sorry, Emre) and things look rosier than ever. I’m still not buying it though. As The Charlatans once...
THERE was a moment in the England v Colombia match last week which really got under my ribs. It was one of those moments where you sense an inevitable doom which will colour the coming months in a very negative light. My stomach fell away like an open lift shaft and,...
THE hardest thing to take about the final was that it seems to be a wasted opportunity. We’ll never know if our starting 11 would be good enough to claim the European crown. We’ll never know what we could have done had the game ended at 1-1 and gone into extra time. A...
A FEW years ago a few newly promoted clubs adopted the song “we’re not really here” to the tune of Knees Up Mother Brown. This was also the case with a side who found themselves at the top of the league but knew it couldn’t last. The significance was that they...
