by Karl Coppack | Nov 22, 2012 | Footie
By Karl Coppack SOMETIMES great players have graceless exits. Robbie Fowler ended his first tenure by being substituted at half time thanks to Didi Hamann being sent off at Sunderland, Fernando Torres skulked off with two goals at Molineux but without a smile and...
by Karl Coppack | Oct 17, 2012 | Footie
by Karl Coppack FOR twenty three years the events of 15th April 1989 have, until recently, been wrapped in vicious fiction and group factions. The cover-up, the smearing of the supporters who barely made it off those terraces and those who didn’t and the...
by Karl Coppack | Jun 12, 2012 | Footie
by Karl Coppack A noble sentiment and one that’s tattooed on Daniel Agger’s back in Latin. Denmark will need that spirit to get them through the Group of Standard Tournament Cliched Term. Long regarded as also-rans, Danish football has seen a definite rise over the...
by Karl Coppack | May 27, 2012 | Footie
By Karl Coppack Moving on. It’s been over a week and I still haven’t come to terms with it. I’m still furious, disappointed and, as melodramatic as it seems, feel betrayed. Elsewhere the Red world happily discusses Martinez, Villas Boas, Capello, Redknapp, Twiggy etc....
by Karl Coppack | Apr 19, 2012 | Footie
By Karl Coppack A thread on a Liverpool forum recently asked if LFC are becoming hated. The opening post read… “Ahead of today’s game Moyes had been saying that neutrals want Everton to win. Now I know he’s playing games but it got me thinking, I...
by Karl Coppack | Apr 3, 2012 | Footie
by Karl Coppack IT’S best not to write angry. A settled mind with a clear idea of your argument and intentions is usually the right way to go about things but sometimes you just have to let your passion speak. It’s even more difficult when your anger is mixed...
by Karl Coppack | Mar 29, 2012 | Footie
By Karl Coppack YOU can’t beat the summer. Driving round with the windows open, wearing shorts that would put Tony Soprano to shame and enjoying a light breeze coming off the sea with a Cornetto within easy reach. After months of overcast drudgery, of sleeting rain...
by Karl Coppack | Mar 19, 2012 | Footie
By Karl Coppack WHEN Guy Mowbray mentioned the Ray Kennedy goal in the 1981 League Cup semi at Man City recently he became a bit muddled, his mind caught between expressing a point and wrapping up the night’s events and inadvertently referred to him as...
by Karl Coppack | Mar 8, 2012 | Footie
by Karl Coppack If you look hard enough there’s a positive in everything. I left the Arsenal game angered, disappointed, frustrated and sickened but as the vinegar of the sheer injustice washed over me I realised that I wouldn’t have to hear Clive Tyldesley...
by Karl Coppack | Feb 24, 2012 | Footie
by Karl Coppack ‘Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, cars, sidewalks, stores. Everywhere. There’s no escape. I’m God’s lonely man’ – Travis Bickle 1976 saw the longest drought in decades, a ladybird invasion and the peak of the...