MATCH REVIEW: CHELSEA 1 LIVERPOOL 1

TERRY’S header hits the net and Steve Graves turns to me and says: “What next?” What next indeed. What the hell next? What could be next? A wrecking ball sweeping through the boozer. A personalised rainstorm like in The Truman Show following you...

MATCH REVIEW: LIVERPOOL 2 QPR 1

COUTINHO swings it in and he rises resplendent, red resplendent, and he nods it across goal and it is there, it is there, and we are there and I surge forward and fall backwards and I am seven and I am just in awe of this hero; of this man who has gone and done the...
HULL CITY v LIVERPOOL: MATCH REVIEW

HULL CITY v LIVERPOOL: MATCH REVIEW

IT OCCURS to me that this is an example of a game where a match review might need to be that bit more of a match report. We have a non-televised game in the UK where around half of Liverpool’s travelling support have chosen to stay away in protest at ticket...
MATCH RATINGS: WEST BROM v LIVERPOOL

MATCH RATINGS: WEST BROM v LIVERPOOL

I’M in a car with five men (or I was, then my phone battery died). Gibbons is in Lisbon with his wonderful wife. Laura really is brilliant. Like if she wasn’t I’d gloss over this like a snide. Make it go as quick as I can. Instead I want to dwell and...
MATCH REVIEW: WEST BROM 0 LIVERPOOL 0

MATCH REVIEW: WEST BROM 0 LIVERPOOL 0

HEY! Hey! Everyone! The Reds are impotent again. Impotent. All the ball. Endless ball. The Reds are mooching round the hill boys. They all laugh at us, they all mock at us, they all say our goals are numbered. Our goals are numbered. In the car on the way home. 212 is...

FA CUP MATCH RATINGS: LIVERPOOL v ASTON VILLA

RIGHT. Dreadful collectively. A reminder that this is: a) Subjective. And 5 is alright. b) Done in the immediate aftermath of the game and all I’ve seen is in the ground. c) Not a discussion of formation(s) or set up but just the 12 lads who played more than...
MATCH REVIEW: LIVERPOOL v NEWCASTLE UNITED

MATCH REVIEW: LIVERPOOL v NEWCASTLE UNITED

AS a contest it was hard to know to expect from Liverpool vs Newcastle. One side which has been inconsistent and a little impotent against poorer opposition at home and the other side one which appears to have downed tools for the campaign insofar as they ever had...