IT is not particularly original to say that 2020 has been a strange year. However, it’s no wonder that football in particular has been told that it needs to go home because it’s drunk, as seemingly after every new bizarre score, the next game requests that you hold...
ANYTHING good on telly last night? I’ve been watching a show about competitive BBQing in America on Netflix recently. It’s aptly named The American BBQ Showdown, and to be honest I wasn’t expecting there to be as much drama as there has been on it. Twists coming out...
FOR weeks, months after Jürgen Klopp was announced as Liverpool manager, Sean Rogers would say on our Review show that we’d get whacked at some stage. That we would have a moment, a game, when the wheels came off completely and we’d have to pick up the...
1. Christ… I’d sort of forgotten what it was to feel like that, where you want to ferret around inside your own stomach and peel out your own bowels. Maybe spread them about in the garden so a big fat crow has got a nice tea. Where do you start? Shocking. And...
THE thing about retaining the league is it’s a bit like winning a pie-eating competition, only to be told the prize is more pies. And let’s be honest, we ate a shit load of pies last season, way more than we needed to. The Spanish Pie Head in second place just kept...
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...
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...
DOING the HotMic with John Gibbons and post match I say that the next round isn’t until December 22. “What? When? Fuck that.” I paraphrase but barely. No match is one you want to lose but some are better to lose than others. Liverpool have now failed...
SEE Arsenal brought back that weird Doom Metal font? I’m not saying that Arteta and his big lego head read my match ratings on Monday but someone’s tipped him off. Fucking snide that. I might have to start putting these behind a paywall. Or stop talking about fonts...
BEHIND Jürgen Klopp, lies a trusted inner circle. It is best represented by the combination of the manager and his right-hand man, an almost telepathic relationship that lends itself to success. Liverpool’s journey over the past five years has been a collective...
