by Paul Cope | Mar 28, 2017 | Footie
IF I asked you which is the biggest football club in the city of Liverpool, would you say it’s Liverpool or Everton? Easy, that one, isn’t it? What if I then asked which football club contributes more to the local community, what would be your instinctive reply? I...
by Paul Cope | Mar 21, 2017 | Footie
JAMES Milner was asked by Jamie Redknapp this week whether he likes playing left-back. “Honestly? No, I don’t,” was his frank reply. “It’s what the manager wants and what’s best for the team and if he thinks it’s best for the...
by Paul Cope | Mar 14, 2017 | Footie
“THERE is no truth. There is only perception.” (Gustave Flaubert) Before the Burnley post-match analysis started and the usual new statistics started coming through, if you’d asked me for my perception of this Jürgen Klopp Liverpool team I’d have told you that it’s...
by Paul Cope | Mar 7, 2017 | Footie
THE debates are raging again about Emre Can. As soon as you read that you’ll instantly know what you think of him. Your unconscious mind will access the ‘Emre Can File’ and remind your conscious mind of what you’ve decided following a few years of watching this...
by Paul Cope | Feb 28, 2017 | Footie
“IF he was not good and a few others were not good then we could not win against Tottenham.” The words of Jürgen Klopp during his pre-match press conference for the Leicester game when answering a question about Gini Wijnaldum and how well he had played against Spurs....
by Paul Cope | Feb 21, 2017 | Footie
I CHANGED my mind on something this week. I know it’s not the done thing these days to think about something then change your mind. The trend seems to be that we should all pick an opinion on something then stick to it rigidly, closing our eyes and sticking our...
by Paul Cope | Feb 14, 2017 | Footie
“THE team has a bad attitude.” The team loses against a so-called lesser side and the so-called pundits are queueing up to say that the defeat was caused by the “team” having a bad attitude. The same team then draws with the league leaders, coming very close to...
by Paul Cope | Feb 7, 2017 | Footie
MY mates would tell you I’m too much of a knob to be a full-back, they’re usually a quiet bunch who keep themselves to themselves and keep things ticking along, not causing any trouble or getting drunk. I think my dark side comes from always wanting to be a centre...
by Paul Cope | Jan 31, 2017 | Footie
IT was May 3, 2005. I was 24, about to turn 25, and had spent my whole life being regaled with stories told by older Liverpool fans about great league and European Cup victories down the years. I was 10 when we last won the league and remembered nothing of it. I was...
by Paul Cope | Jan 24, 2017 | Footie
I’VE seen this movie before, Reds, and it was shit the first three times. For those of you who have read the nonsense I’ve written on these pages for a while now, you might agree that it’s probably fair to say I’m generally at the upper end of the optimistic supporter...
