by Rob Gutmann | Aug 18, 2017 | Footie
ANFIELD can’t come quickly enough. It’s been a frenetic start to the season, with goals and tension in abundance, but it isn’t a new season until the first ball has been kicked at home. I could go on endlessly about how much and why I love Anfield....
by Rob Gutmann | Aug 14, 2017 | Footie
I’M penning this on a plane. You may never get to read it. If Hoffenheim knock Liverpool out of the European Cup you won’t hear from me again either. The stakes, they are high. I’m looking down on you but we’re in this together. Just right now,...
by Rob Gutmann | Aug 11, 2017 | Footie
MAYBE it’s just me but last season doesn’t feel like it ever really finished. The event that’s about to technically herald the start of the 2017-18 season — Liverpool’s game at Watford on Saturday — feels like a part two for...
by Rob Gutmann | Aug 3, 2017 | Footie
THE clock is really ticking now. The transfer window is done for in four weeks’ time. The league campaign starts in less than 10 days and potentially the new season’s most important game — the first leg of a Champions League playoff — is scheduled...
by Rob Gutmann | Jul 27, 2017 | Footie
THERE’S a conspiracy theory doing the rounds that Liverpool’s owners have secretly known all along that they would be selling Phil Coutinho this summer. It follows that Liverpool’s care-free £70million level bidding for the likes of Virgil van Dijk...
by Rob Gutmann | Jul 21, 2017 | Footie
NABY Keita is not Philippe Coutinho. Coutinho is not Keita. There is a glee abounding that Liverpool are about to get a taste of the medicine they’ve been pushing Southampton and RB Leipzig’s way all summer. That just as Liverpool have turned the heads of...
by Rob Gutmann | May 19, 2017 | Footie
THE last day of term, then. Always a strange feeling. The sense that something is ending, changing, and that life is going to be a bit different from here on in. I’ll locate the season tickets – cleverly hidden at the back of a drawer no burglar would ever think to...
by Rob Gutmann | May 12, 2017 | Footie
I’M really not enjoying this. It feels like a road much travelled and one that tends not to lead to the happy place. Flashbacks coming at me. Bradford in 2000. A win and we were in the Champions League. We lost and we were not. Stamford Bridge in 2003. Victory...
by Rob Gutmann | May 5, 2017 | Footie
AND we’re back. I’m back. Liverpool are back. This is a status that needs constant updating. From the low of losing grumpily at home to Crystal Palace to the unbridled ecstasy of our thrill ride of a victory over Watford. What a roller coaster ride the...
by Rob Gutmann | Apr 30, 2017 | Footie
I HAD the falling dream again last night. The one where I’m grabbing at thin air as I hurtle towards the ground and certain death. It seems to take a surprisingly long time, broken only by vain attempts to break the plummet. I always wake up before I hit the...
