TAKE a breath. Be angry with exterior forces later. Do that in a minute or two. But take a breath first, because your take away should be this… Everton may prove to be the third, fourth or ninth best team in England this season. They are a tidy outfit. But...
FUCKING hell, Reds. That fella in Stockley Park must have been on the biftas and playing Crash Bandicoot all game. Probably popped to the garage for a Ginsters when Henderson scored and asked the fella behind the counter what he thought. Honestly, I can’t work it out....
THAT was dead silly, wasn’t it? A ridiculous game of football with loads of things happening that made zero logical sense. Five things we deffo didn’t learn below… 1. What the fuck is a power horse? Martin Keown said the following about Virgil: “He’s a power...
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...
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’...
FEW would dispute the importance of psychology and mentality within football, but it is one of the hardest to analyse. It is complicated by the fact there is no quantifiable output, no list of characteristics or designated number that distinguishes between good...
I’VE just finished reading George Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying. Set in the 1930s, it concerns a poet called Gordon Comstock who declares war on the ‘money god’ which dominates the world. He refuses a well-paid job writing ludicrous advertising copy and instead...
THERE is an old cliché that goalkeepers are like drummers. They sit at the back, keep everything in check and go largely underappreciated by fans. They’re also usually a bit weird. I mean, you’d have to be. Trying to find weird people isn’t usually a problem, not for...
IF there was any solace to take from Liverpool Women’s relegation from the Women’s Super League, it was the opportunity it offered to regroup, restart and regalvanise the entire atmosphere around the club. Everyone associated with the club has rallied. The recruitment...
HOW’S your therapy going? It’s Monday night as I write this so you’re ahead of me. I’m still somewhere between fury, nonchalant acceptance and utter confusion. My state changes every couple of minutes. That might be reflected here. 7-2 though. 7-2! And not to a fully...
