by Neil Atkinson | Jul 26, 2020 | app, Featured Writing, Footie
SO that is that then. Thirty-eight done. This is how it feels. Liverpool top of the league. You spend your life looking in the mirror brushing your teeth and thinking about the title. You catch yourself jogging and thinking of what hasn’t been. Stare out of...
by Neil Atkinson | Jul 23, 2020 | app, Featured Writing, Footie
WE aren’t unbearable. Unbearable was nonsense. But we have been unbreakable. That’s what has been astonishing about the enterprise. They lose in Kyiv. They win in Madrid. They lose out on 97 points. They go played 27 won 26 drawn one. They refused to be...
by Neil Atkinson | Jul 16, 2020 | app, Featured Writing, Footie
NEVER liked playing Arsenal, these days more away than anything. Most people reading this will be too young for 1971 at Wembley but the video of it used to be everywhere. Some too young probably for 1989 at Anfield. But let me fill in the gaps. North London Arsenal...
by Neil Atkinson | Jul 11, 2020 | app, Featured Writing, Footie
GOD, that had me up the wall. That had me on pins. Where I sit at Anfield I always remember punching the concrete of the stairs during the second leg of the semi final against Southampton. My seat is at the end of the row and I remember throwing myself, twisting and...
by Neil Atkinson | Jul 8, 2020 | app, Featured Writing, Footie
THERE were people who didn’t want football to come back until we could be certain it was safe to play in stadia with supporters present. There were people who wanted to null and void this season. Others who just wanted to stop the season and look at points per...
