Marcus Rashford is doing so much to fight food poverty off the pitch, football fans often only worry about what’s happening on it – is it time for us to stop and reflect? IN the midst of the madness, there is always cause for at least one calm head....
WHAT happens when a city needs its football clubs more than ever before? We should know, right? It was at the time I was born in the midst of an economic and industrial crisis in the mid 1980s, oblivious to the turmoil of Thatcherism that left Liverpool teetering on...
THE leaving of Liverpool, then? There was always going to be an exodus, a balancing of books of some kind. In truth, both Xherdan Shaqiri and Rhian Brewster’s inevitable departures may just be the starting pistol of a weekend of goodbyes. Jürgen Klopp doesn’t like big...
WHAT an away end that would have been last Sunday. West London, awash with red smoke, Nike 110s and Scousers jiving hips to their new cuban beat. You didn’t have to be there. You could be in Liverpool on a Sunday evening or Melbourne on a Monday morning, either way...
AND just like that, Liverpool are active in the transfer market. In time, Thiago Alcantara will come to represent so much more than merely being the man who lifted spirits, but for now we can simply thrive off the endorphin release that making such a move provides to...
THERE is an episode of Frasier replaying in my head. It’s the final episode of season one, 24 episodes in (a quite ridiculous achievement really considering they maintained that pace over 11 series). Mispronounced, cliched English accents and Kelsey Grammer’s...
