by Karl Coppack | Sep 24, 2013 | Footie
WEDNESDAY night sees another Cup tie against ‘our friends from the other end of the M62’ (George Sephton, under P.R duress, April 1988) and the continuation of the Scouse-Manc bunfight. It’s the League Cup so no one should be ‘that’ arsed...
by Karl Coppack | Aug 29, 2013 | Footie
“No Scot ever made a bigger impact on a club than Bill Shankly. Others may claim an equal share of trophies and Matt Busby comes to mind with his wonderful record crowned by the European Cup, but not even Matt would claim the kinship with the fans that Bill...
by Karl Coppack | Aug 12, 2013 | Footie
It’s October 2006 and I’m stood outside of an Irish bar in Bordeaux. This is the wine capital of the world and I’m here with about twenty of my mates outside of a ramshackle Irish bar because they sell John Smiths. I have been outvoted. I shake my...
by Karl Coppack | Aug 4, 2013 | Footie
IT’S not easy being a Liverpool fan. We’re given all too brief glimpses at genius and lots of pillow talk from footballing geniuses before they’re whisked away by promises of trophies, wages or ‘better prospects’. The symbiotic...
by Karl Coppack | Jul 14, 2013 | Featured Writing, Footie
In February 1987 Liverpool played an everyday bog standard home game with Southampton. As with many Liverpool/Soton games it didn’t have much to recommend it. Peter Shilton was in goal so the game was automatically relegated to an undercard as the Kop preferred...
by Karl Coppack | Jun 17, 2013 | Footie
By Karl Coppack On a recent Citytalk Neil brought up the subject of the new away kit, the one that looks like a piece of paper warped in the dying throes of a toner cartridge error, and the ‘values’ and ‘brand’ of the club or, to be specific, what those things are....
by Karl Coppack | Apr 24, 2013 | Footie
By Karl Coppack YOU can’t not enjoy a last minute equaliser. They’re glorious things and are great in either category – the deserved and the ‘how did we get away with that.’ Sunday’s helping was nice (thanks for doing your bit, Nando) and it arrived to give us a brief...
by Karl Coppack | Apr 19, 2013 | Footie
By Karl Coppack NOT again. Not another cheap overly romanticised article about how great football was when people drank mild and every away game came with a free sprint to the station to avoid bovver boots and Stanley knives. Well, nostalgia may well be the last...
by Karl Coppack | Mar 20, 2013 | Footie
By Karl Coppack ‘There can be no true beauty without decay.’ FIRSTLY, an apology. If you haven’t seen ‘Withnail and I’ then none of the following will make much sense. Maybe you’ve seen the odd scene but never managed to sit through the entire thing. Well,...
by Karl Coppack | Mar 10, 2013 | Footie
By Karl Coppack IN any piece concerning prejudice it would be unfair and inequitous not to announce my own. No one can be completely objective in most walks of life unless they don’t really care in the first place (Bobby Fischer v whoever it was always left me...
