Rob Gutmann’s match preview ahead of the visit to Manchester City to Etihad, where the manager has a decision to make over Diogo Jota and Roberto Firmino… IT’S a strange thing how our perception of a football team can change so comprehensively...
Rob Gutmann’s match preview ahead of the visit of West Ham to Anfield, as he anticipates the return of Thiago to Liverpool’s midfield… I’VE always thought of football seasons as each having their own idiosyncratic personalities. Some full of...
A SECOND successive Champions League group stage win over Midtjylland would be no small thing for Liverpool. The diminutive Danes may not have the stature of most we encounter in the competition, but any kind of win at this level is no minor achievement. Other...
WHAT are you doing Satdee evening? Yeah? Me too. Cannot think of a better Saturday night out/in/out/shake-it-all-about than one spent watching Liverpool. Especially in the wake of a win. May the game itself never start, but the anticipation of it last for all time....
HOW the nights are creeping in. It’s suddenly so very dark. Two and a bit weeks is a fairly long time as autumn begins to give way to winter, but it’s been like a lifetime of purgatory in the Liverpool-supporting world. How did the light that burned so brightly...
I DON’T take Liverpool losing very well. Most draws involving The Reds bring me down. Getting tonked 7-2 by a side as mediocre as Aston Villa didn’t sit well. If it hadn’t been for the need to become ever more immersed in my day job and the ‘fire fighting’...
IT shouldn’t matter but it does. It shouldn’t hurt but it does. Liverpool lost their first football match of the season on Thursday night, and it didn’t feel good. First the mitigations: it was ‘only’ the League Cup. The team was full of kids and reserves. It was...
AT the time of writing, Everton are top of the league and Liverpool are playing like a team that has been the dominant force in the game for as long as anyone can remember. It’s almost as if I’m a kid that’s fallen asleep in an ’80s movie, only to awaken and...
WE’RE just a game into the new campaign and already we’ve got a season on our hands. Liverpool opened with a wild 4-3 win over Leeds in a game that provided ample ammunition for whatever opinion anyone could choose to hold about this current Liverpool team. What...
LET me be weak, let me sleep and dream of sheep,Oh I’ll wake up to any sound of engines,Every gull a seeking craft,I can’t keep my eyes open,Wish I had my radio…(‘Dream of Sleep’ – Kate Bush 1985) IF you can sleep tonight, you’re a fridge. No backs....
Getting stuck into big talking points within the world of football finance discussing Liverpool’s spending, the Club World Cup’s value to clubs, and what the Asia tour means for the Reds’ finances.
John Gibbons is joined by Dave Powell, Chief Business of Football Writer for Reach PLC.
