by Rob Gutmann | Dec 4, 2017 | Footie
THE Reds are looking dangerously good at the moment. Scarily potent. Now everything seems possible again. We are very much on the up curve of the bi-polarity that is our supporter life. Coming out of that weird Amex Stadium on Saturday afternoon you could see chests...
by Rob Gutmann | Nov 30, 2017 | Footie
IT’S beginning to rock along a lot like Christmas. Games coming thick and fast. Away trips to towns in the dark with cosy pubs with fires. Freezing your bollocks off at places like Stoke. Never feeling warmly dressed enough but not giving a fuck because The Reds...
by Rob Gutmann | Nov 28, 2017 | Footie
I LIKE Jürgen Klopp. You can’t really know a “celebrity” but I think I’m not miles away with Jürgen. I’ve watched, I’ve listened, I’ve learned. He’s exactly the same age as me — give a take a month — and I feel I’ve got a decent...
by Rob Gutmann | Nov 23, 2017 | Footie
IT’S been a fuzzy week. I think it’s going to take a while to make sense of what happened to us all in Spain and around the Sevilla game. I think I’ve experienced new things this week, although it has been through a fog of too much beer, wine, cheese and things fried...
by Rob Gutmann | Nov 16, 2017 | Footie
“FOOTBALL is fantastic when it’s a morning match. Football is fantastic when it’s an evening match. But football, is most fantastic when it’s played in the afternoon.” (Football Is Really Fantastic. Frank Sidebottom, 1984.) I’m unnaturally excited about Saturday. All...
by Rob Gutmann | Nov 3, 2017 | Footie
I DON’T think I’ll ever quite get over what I witnessed when I travelled to the London stadium for the first time in May. I’d been quite looking forward to it. I’d envisaged something of an architectural gem of a stadium nestled in a futuristic meadow, where just a...
by Rob Gutmann | Oct 31, 2017 | Footie
IMAGINE if Liverpool won the European Cup again. It seems such a far off possibility as we contemplate not turning makeweights Maribor into a bad season-defining banana skin of an opponent. We don’t trust our Reds much these days. We’re not sure which incarnation...
by Rob Gutmann | Oct 26, 2017 | Footie
IT’S been a joyless week. Calamitous defeats don’t aid restful sleep. Saturday can’t come too soon and yet simultaneously may just make things worse. I’ve been arguing on social media, but mainly in my head, with good friends about the manager. I like the manager and...
by Rob Gutmann | Oct 20, 2017 | Footie
CONFIDENCE is a funny thing, isn’t it? We’ve just turned a Slovenian team over by seven goals and now everything seems possible again. Even the bony-arsed cynics can start to use their imaginations again a bit now. Anybody saying The Reds can’t go to Wembley and knock...
by Rob Gutmann | Oct 17, 2017 | Footie
WE’RE not back but we will be soon. A bit of trust is required. Liverpool are a good team playing as well as it can, absent the confidence and concentration that only winning brings. One win in eight games sounds bad. It is bad. But if there’s a way to be as good as...
