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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
With Manchester City on the very near horizon and the number of games in the season fast running out, Liverpool enter a run of fixtures that could make or break their aim of automatic qualification for next seasons Champions League.
Rob Gutmann hosts Adam Melia, Joel Penny and Ian Salmon…
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