LIVERPOOL 1 SOUTHAMPTON 1: MATCH REVIEW

PAUL Senior hangs on for me as I wait for The Pink show to bounce. I’ve no idea what bouncing is or what bouncing entails, but anyway. We have a chat and he says he’s maybe watched too much football. He hasn’t missed a domestic game since West Ham...

LIVERPOOL AND THE COUTINHO DILEMMA – FRIDAY COLUMN

MICHAEL T Nevin is away. Words which should strike fear into the heart of hoteliers around the world. Michael T Nevin is away. He is drinking your booze. Swimming in your sea. Wearing your slippers. Instead you’ve got me, Neil Atkinson, writing more about the...

LIVERPOOL 1 RUBIN KAZAN 1: MATCH REVIEW

WALKING out. Walking along. Me, Ben Jono, Mike Girling, Sam Brockle. “Don’t really know what you say about that one.” Walking down towards the brow. “One of them. Got to write a match report.” “About that?” asks Ben Jono....

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 0 LIVERPOOL 0 – MATCH REVIEW

FIRST half here and there has been a ton of excitement. Being excited because the change of manager should make The Reds immune to taking setbacks such as late injuries to Sturridge too much to heart. The Reds on the pitch broadly have been up to the break. The Reds...

JÜRGEN KLOPP’S FULL THROTTLE APPEAL

GETTING it out the way. Getting it all out the way immediately. You need transfer committees because no one is a genius and knows everything. But I have the first say and the last say and so now you know. That is that. That’s that boxed. This history stuff is...
BRENDAN RODGERS SACKED: A REACTION

BRENDAN RODGERS SACKED: A REACTION

Brendan Rodgers has been sacked as manager of Liverpool – this is Neil Atkinson’s reaction in the immediate aftermath of the news breaking…   AFTER Liverpool beat West Ham United 2-1 at Upton Park on 6th April 2014 I recorded a show at the top...

LIVERPOOL 1 FC SION 1 – MATCH RATINGS

I AM composing this latest staggering insight into Liverpool Football Club from my spec in Hustlers Cocktail Bar in Hisaranu. Therefore it may well be flawed but then it is names followed by numbers followed by sentences. My arbitrary figures will almost all be wrong....

LIVERPOOL 3 ASTON VILLA 2 – MATCH REVIEW

SHALL we just talk about Lucas Leiva? Or just about Daniel Sturridge? Or do we need to address the big holes? For big holes there were. Too many of them too often again. Liverpool are trying to do clever things — Emre Can as a split defender midfielder. Philippe...

MATCH REVIEW: LIVERPOOL 1 NORWICH CITY 1

SUNDAY 20th, 1646: Three quick peeps from the referee call time on a first half Liverpool have shaded. The sort of first half where, if a team has been playing well for a few weeks, you settle down for half time expecting the job to be done second half. Liverpool...