by Neil Atkinson | Jun 25, 2014 | Footie
OOOOOOH. A Suarez has bit someone think piece. Easy these. There might as well be a billion of them; at the time of writing there is at least a million. But let’s make it a million and one. On the off chance it means or adds anything. Here’s the gist of my...
by Neil Atkinson | May 30, 2014 | Footie
I’VE BEEN MEANING to write this for a while. But I’ve been busy. Now we have a catalyst. In a sentence: Liverpool FC need to keep their head and their hierarchy in the market this summer. Going round the houses and in approximately one thousand words: I think Iago...
by Neil Atkinson | May 28, 2014 | Footie
THEY’VE played the season out in Lisbon. Angel Di Maria marvellous, Diego Simeone magnificent, Diego Godin’s hairline a thing of minimalist beauty. I can’t stop thinking about Godin. The receding hairline the Spanish equivalent of Derek Mountfield’s moustache. I...
by Neil Atkinson | May 11, 2014 | Footie
“LET’S go and sing songs with our friends.” My words to Marjo at the foot of the stairs outside the ground. I’ve spent too much of the last five years not singing songs with my friends. I intend to do it all night tonight. Brendan. I am amazed...
by Neil Atkinson | May 5, 2014 | Footie
WORSE than a defeat. Come here Luis. Talk to me. Worse than a defeat. But. Blaming the centre-halves is basic. Beyond basic. A deflection. A break. And then Skrtel pushes out because no one is holding mid. Why is no one holding mid? Martin Skrtel was brilliant...
by Neil Atkinson | Apr 27, 2014 | Footie
IT’S HEARTBREAKING, IT REALLY IS. Liverpool pushed all they had but sometimes you can be shut down and stopped. Football is about choices, a series of choices, made by footballers and by football managers. Football isn’t moral. We get far too hung up on...
by Neil Atkinson | Apr 20, 2014 | Footie
A LOT has happened since I last wrote one of these. Sunderland have happened. Twice. And we opened a poll for goal of the season among other things. Naive. There will always be more goals. There will always more great goals. Sterling obviously. The second. Christ the...
by Neil Atkinson | Apr 18, 2014 | Footie
I RECOGNISE a lot of you might not have seen this game. So this won’t be like the review things I’ve been doing. However, for the full nuts and bolts of “things that happened” you can read this on the official Liverpool site. Our friend Joel...
by Neil Atkinson | Apr 13, 2014 | Footie
WALKING out the ground there is loads of singing. Loads of harassed faces. I bump into Ben Jono. Collapse on to his shoulder. This is overwhelming. Everyone is exhausted and exhuberant. This is the essence of tired and emotional. I was terrified for Arsenal. A wreck....
by Neil Atkinson | Apr 6, 2014 | Footie
THE gauntlet. I love the word “gauntlet”. I guess 2 perfect weekends in a row was too much to ask. Gauntlet thrown down. Tomorrow the response. — Craig Rimmer (@Craig_Rimmer) April 5, 2014 West Ham United felt like a gauntlet. Won six from the last...
