Liverpool: An evening with Gerard Houllier

I’VE always been more of an ambitions man than a resolution man. I like to sit down and contemplate what would be good to do in any 12-month period. What would you fancy over the next 12 months? Try to keep them plausible and reasonable. Actionable. This year I...

West Ham United 2 Liverpool 1 (aet): Match review

HEARTBREAKING. And I didn’t expect to be writing that tonight. Absolutely heartbreaking to see that happen to these lads after the performance they put in. Liverpool deserved the lot insofar as either side did. Liverpool deserved to go to Blackburn; deserved to...

LIVERPOOL 2 SUNDERLAND 2: 77TH-MINUTE MATCH REVIEW

LIVERPOOL 2 Sunderland 0: Black flags before kick off. A foreboding atmosphere around Anfield. Black flags waving, banners conspicuous by their absence and a large gathering of the disaffected. Large groups congregated in a place is one of the things history is made...

LEICESTER CITY 2 LIVERPOOL 0: MATCH REVIEW

ALBERTO MORENO could maybe do better from where I am. Could maybe do better. Riyad Mahrez sends him. The keeper could maybe come. But then Jamie Vardy does that. And that is that. That is that. Goals from nowhere. Magic in the boots. Liverpool are done and Leicester...

LIVERPOOL 0 WEST HAM UNITED 0: MATCH REVIEW

A PERFORMANCE to be genuinely proud of from Liverpool but a result that is fundamentally frustrating. Another game the Reds need to prepare for, another gratification deferred. It’s the deferred gratification that hurts the most. Celebrating a goal is a...

LIVERPOOL v WEST HAM UNITED: GET THE CHAMPAGNE ON ICE

WEST Ham United come to Anfield and it all feels very 2001 all of a sudden. I was 20 years old on January 21, 2001 and on January 27, 2001 I was a wreck. Liverpool kicked off against Leeds United at 12 noon and I had been out in Leeds the night before, got lost, fell...

NORWICH CITY 4 LIVERPOOL 5: MATCH REVIEW

YOU’VE got to score the second goal in the game. You’ve got to score the eighth goal in the game. Fuck it. Score the ninth goal in the game. I don’t know where my Saturday goes from here. I don’t know where your Saturday goes from here. Football...

LIVERPOOL 3 EXETER CITY 0: MATCH REVIEW

A LIST of things to start. Benteke’s performance was mad. Enrique really enjoyed himself in the end. And should have been slipped in during that final attack. He’d have buried it and run into the Kop and just got off. Oh Captain my Captain. Feels like...