SOMETHING’S happening here. For all of us who are used to false dawns, missing pieces of the jigsaw and good runs ending with terrible results and performances this is all becoming a bit worrying. We can’t win at Southampton. 0-3. Well alright, the wheels will...
TO be honest, I still haven’t got over Stoke away. Stoke was the season. It was 0-0s and defeats only prior to the current insanity. Stoke is Jon Walters, long throw-ins, getting smacked all over the park, always cold and that nervous walk back to the car across...
THE latest application from the South Yorkshire Police to receive public funds to meet legal costs of the new Hillsborough inquest has been met with disdain amongst Liverpool fans. The families themselves received no such monies during their long fight for justice so...
This has been an extraordinary season. Logic and order have taken a back seat as we’ve rode the steepest of roller coasters. A flying start, a rival bested early on, the routine hammering of the dross, two narrow defeats against title contenders and the utter...
THIS is not The Old Trafford Wrap. I appreciate that. Yes, I know there’s the ‘who is obsessed with who’ thing going on but this is a special case. It’s not often you get to write about United having a poor season so I’m grasping the nettle while it’s available. I...
THE old saying is true. Never meet your heroes. For every Titan from your youth who you’d watch week in, week out and wondered just how they could cope with being in their own skin, there’s the embarrassment of idiotic pundits, casual racists or those possessing...
I’LL come clean. I’m writing this after a good couple of hours with Red or Dead, David Peace’s behemoth novelisation of Shankly’s life. It’s a remarkable piece of work. Some say it highlights the constant repetition of football life. From game to day...
THERE’S a danger in getting carried away with things. In January 2006 Everton released a DVD to commemorate their strong start. They called it ‘Off To A Flyer’. This was not to herald a decent return for the beginning of the season, mind. Oh no. This was the beginning...
THERE’S scene in the film ‘In The Name of the Father’ where a government official leafs through the prison file of wrongly convicted Guildford Four member Giuseppe Conlon. Conlon is dying while incarcerated and has appealed for compassionate leave...
ONE of the saddest times in the recent history of the club was the day that Kenny Dalglish became a divisive character to Liverpool fans. It’s hard to put your finger on the actual day – possibly the day Carroll signed or maybe Downing and Henderson but...
