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...
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 was a point in the game where I was watching Salah and I just thought, that is some player. “Four years ago, when he first came to Liverpool and he got 40-odd goals, I thought: ‘That’s a freak, he won’t be able to live with that.’ But then he consistently...
SO it’s happening then. I’ve spent most of the morning like Michael Scott in The Office US, pacing round my house telling myself to “stay fucking calm”. After spending what has felt like the best part of eight years, though it has actually been the shortest...
OVER the weekend the press reported that our first game of the season had everything. It had goals, disallowed goals, defensive howlers, a hat-trick, two charismatic managers and more to and fro action than your average basketball game. That’s not true though. It...
“PREDICTION is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” This quote from Danish physicist Niels Bohr feels particularly pertinent at this time of year (I know that’s a bit highbrow but don’t worry, there’ll be a smutty joke along in a...
THERE is something that is so, so true. Wherever you were, however you thought, whatever your mindset, you are all in now. You now know, now remember, what it is to be alive. You felt that. You lived that. You found yourself there. For a lot of us the buildup to this...
I USED to have a ritual on the first day of the season. Get down the Wimpy Bar early doors, have a big pre-season meal and then hate Leeds United for the next nine months. But then I moved somewhere that didn’t have a Wimpy and Leeds kept getting relegated. If truth...
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....
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...
