by Rob Gutmann | Oct 12, 2017 | Footie
I’VE properly parked Liverpool FC for the past fortnight. The usually dreaded international break has provided welcome respite this time. It all feels a bit unnecessarily cruel at the moment and I’m just not enjoying it at all. Emerging from this mini hibernation...
by Rob Gutmann | Sep 29, 2017 | Footie
I’M not sure I can quite recall a spell like this. The performances from the start of the season up until now have been fairly consistent. 10 games that Liverpool have dominated, bar one (at Manchester City where we had to play with 10 men for most of the...
by Rob Gutmann | Sep 25, 2017 | Footie
WORD is that Spartak Moscow are a bit rubbish. Champions of all Russia after 16 years of winning bugger all, the mardy Muscovites have celebrated their Premier League homecoming by turning to jelly. They aren’t so much defending their crown as pawning it to pay...
by Rob Gutmann | Sep 21, 2017 | Footie
MY granddad on my mum’s side had only a passing interest in football. He would never go to a game with me but he would drive me and my brother down to Anfield on weekdays to hang round the old Main Stand car park waiting for the Liverpool team coach to bring the...
by Rob Gutmann | Sep 18, 2017 | Footie
WIPE away all your tears… Liverpool haven’t won a trophy since 2012. Getting on for six years. We murder The Blues for their aversion to winning silverware. We even join the sneering at Arsenal for their perennial fourth-placed finishes. But Arsenal win...
by Rob Gutmann | Sep 15, 2017 | Footie
THE thing about the football that never fails to surprise me is how it never fails to surprise me. My relentless, forever recurring amnesia. That year on year, season upon season, decade upon decade, I never remember to treat those twin imposters — victory and...
by Rob Gutmann | Sep 13, 2017 | Footie
NICE of Liverpool to warm up for this special night with a tonking. The kind of tonking that makes all of Europe sit up, take notice, and scoff. The beating of Arsenal and the euphoria that followed stylish Champions qualification, seem a while ago now. The...
by Rob Gutmann | Sep 8, 2017 | Footie
THIS one has come around again a bit swiftly for my tastes. The “game of the season” could have waited a bit. You can stick your Tottenham Hotspur best 11 and ye “champions elect” Manchester United up your arseholes. You can push champions Chelsea up there with them...
by Rob Gutmann | Aug 25, 2017 | Footie
THERE has been an adage since 2014 that Arsenal represent gift opponents for Liverpool. It is true that the 5-1 dismantling of Arsene Wenger’s team in that year was so comprehensive that the after-shock of that event can still be felt. On the day it felt epoch...
by Rob Gutmann | Aug 22, 2017 | Footie
LIVERPOOL haven’t played in a bigger football match than the upcoming second-leg tie against Hoffenheim at home since the Europa League final 15 months ago. It has all been building towards this moment. In the aftermath of the debacle of that final in Basel in May...
