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...
WHEN the final whistle went in The Excelsior last night after City/Arsenal all I heard was people saying to each other: “It’s in our hands. It’s in our hands.” Today we grabbed it. Seized it. Knuckles white, grip tight. In our hands. We are Top...
AND on we go. And on we fucking go. That wasn’t nice. That wasn’t fun. That wasn’t Brendan Rodgers’s Tricky Reds. That wasn’t the People’s Champions. That was the Champions Elect. They didn’t play well. It wasn’t pretty....
THIS isn’t just about one game. It’s about two – let’s go crazy. Maybe even three – let’s go nuts. Because: And then there were three. Arsenal are now three and insurmountable goal difference behind Liverpool. To finish ahead of...
THAT’LL teach those bastards for building the ship canal. Samuel Greg and Daniel Adamson, your boys took one hell of a beating. I’m writing this in Legends Bar in New York after doing 90 minutes commentary. Thanks to them and NY Kopites for the maddest...
I HATE “I might not know art, but I know what I like.” I hate that. “I might not know art, but I know what I like.” But also – you do know art. You might not know all the words around it but you are sentient and it is happening around you all the time. What you are...
BROCKLE (Neil’s girlfriend – Ed): “Your articles are horrible.” People seem to like them. Came as a surprise to me, actually. “Sentences without subjects. Subject. Verb. Object. That’s how the English language works.” It’s malleable. And it’s fascinating to make...
THE music stopped. Liverpool had scored more goals than Swansea. Don’t ask me how many more. Just more. More is enough but this manner of enough is exhausting. Andi Thomas recently wrote that no one is having any more fun than Liverpool supporters. That...
DEMONS. All day. Demons. They won’t shut up. Fulham away. I hate Fulham away as a fixture. Hate it. The formbook goes out the window. For every Yossi there is Lee Mason sending a billion of ours off. All day the demons. Rory Smith saying Liverpool won’t...
WOKE up. Got out of bed. Realised it was 0515. Fucking hell I am a bag of nerves. Checked my phone. Text from Gibbo received late last night. He was in a bar. It was badly wool. Name redacted to protect the innocent. Drank some water. Pondered this. Champions elect or...
