MATCH REVIEW: LIVERPOOL 1 BOURNEMOUTH 0

BOURNEMOUTH started the game like there had never been a bigger league game for them. They were right to do so. Because there hadn’t. For 20 minutes they were all over The Reds, runners everywhere, one more man, one more ball. But it was 0-0 and they never quite...

LUCAS LEIVA: SHOULD HE STAY OR SHOULD HE GO NOW?

LUCAS  has been a Liverpool player who has always had more meaning attached to him than many that he has shared the pitch with. He’s a footballer with signifiers. You can probably tell the story of this football club through him over the last 10 years far better...
STOKE CITY 0 LIVERPOOL 1 – A MATCH REVIEW

STOKE CITY 0 LIVERPOOL 1 – A MATCH REVIEW

THE MORNING AFTER. Insides blackened, sweat cascading, kidneys begging for relief. The morning after and the toll feels too great, the day felt too long. There is a burden. There is a cost. How many more of these have I got left in me? It’s only August the...

LIVERPOOL AND FSG: STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU

I’M away. In Fes, Morocco. Been quite the culture shock. Everywhere I look it is full of fellas sitting around arguing and talking shite, not doing much else. Massive, massive culture shock obviously. Anyway. It’s good being away. You get your news in...

HEYSEL 30 YEARS: THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY

GARETH Roberts told me he had access to accounts and documents around Heysel. He had spoken to a senior lecturer at Manchester University, Geoff Pearson, and Geoff had said we could come over and have a look at everything. We turned up and were surprised by the amount...

MATCH REVIEW: STOKE CITY 6 (SIX) LIVERPOOL 1

In our book about last season I discussed mad results. That mad results were a thing these days. It was in the context of Spurs 0 Liverpool 5. Villas Boas got sacked after that game. Rightly. My argument was that some sides have mad results in their DNA and others...

MATCH REVIEW: LIVERPOOL 1 CRYSTAL PALACE 3

YOU turn up vaguely unsure. Because it is a football match and it is an occasion. Football matches are occasions you believe but this is different. The occasion and the match are separate entities. The occasion will be the occasion regardless. Despite not because. You...