THEY’RE too soft. They crumble too easily. There are too many nice lads who don’t know what it really takes to win. All accusations levelled at various Liverpool teams over recent years and, often, justifiably so. But, for the first time in a long time, something...
A QUESTION I often ask myself is how much someone needs to be paid before people in general, and football fans in particular, stop treating them like humans and, instead, act as though they are robots with none of the same weaknesses and flaws that the rest of us...
WHEN talking about the difficulties of dominating English football in the modern era, John O’Shea seems an unusual reference point for my brain to use. However, I find myself thinking about him and mentioning him in conversations about winning far more than I ever...
SADIO Mane is crap. That was it. That was the conclusion. We’d been drinking together on a stag do in Hamburg for three days and were now sitting in the darkest pub in the middle of the city, half watching Liverpool beat Southampton. We’d spent about 10 minutes...
I LOVE magic. Since I was a young boy I’ve been captivated by someone’s ability to make things disappear or to make something materialise from nowhere. I was always amazed by how even the most hardened of grown ups around me were astounded by these magical moments,...
LIVERPOOL Football Club operates at its supreme best, from top to bottom, when it exerts controlled aggression in all aspects of its operations. The lack of controlled aggression in all parts of the club, from top to bottom, is, in my view, currently the difference...
IT’S been another depressing few days in the world of Liverpool FC. From the massive high of ruining Manchester City’s unbeaten run to the predictable defeat by the side currently sitting bottom of the league, it has all felt typically Liverpool in a way we’d all...
I LOVE it when a plan comes together. I love it slightly less that many of you will be too young know where that line comes from, but I’ll take the negative with the positives at this point. Jürgen Klopp’s “Plan A” came together in spectacular fashion against...
I’ve got a conundrum for you which, if you can solve, wins you a dream job that pays around £5million per year with bonuses, plus a legacy as one of the most important men or women in the history of association football. It goes like this: How can you combine having a...
IT’S that time of the year again when, depending on your personality type, you’re either signing up for the latest celebrity diet, resolving not to drink any more alcohol for a month, deciding in what ways the next 12 months will be completely different to the...
Talking through the latest Liverpool FC news from the heart of the city centre, as the fixtures for 25/26 season are released.John Gibbons and Neil Atkinson discuss…
