I’VE spent most of the week redecorating. To the point where the Premier League return crept up on me inexplicably, despite the fact I’ve remained working within the confines of football’s dystopian world throughout and had three months to prepare...
I’VE been doing a lot of thinking lately. Let’s be honest, we’ve all had plenty of time to do just that during the last 12 weeks or so. I got to thinking about football and what it means to me, how much of a role it plays in my life and how much it has given me over...
YOU don’t miss it till it’s gone. That’s what they always say. There comes a time when a healthy interest develops into an obsession and then, ultimately, into an addiction. I’m lucky, I can hide my own folly in plain sight, even from myself if I must, but take it...
THERE hasn’t been much to celebrate so far in 2020. However, the increasingly palpable presence of young footballers’ voices has certainly been a source of refuge in recent times. Marcus Rashford became an instant hero for Manchester United fans upon scoring on his...
TODAY is Jürgen Klopp’s 53rd birthday, but he won’t be treating it any differently to any other day. The Liverpool manager will be hard at work preparing for the resumption of the Premier League, and Sunday’s Merseyside derby against Everton. I am sure it will not...
THIS generational Liverpool side, perhaps the best we’ve ever seen and will ever see, has some great stories. Trent Alexander-Arnold, the local lad from Liverpool whose dreams came true in Madrid. Jordan Henderson: a player once considered the poster boy for the...
FIRST things first: Happy Birthday, Mo Salah. I can imagine all the lads led by his bezzie Degsy Lovren and the manager gathered round at a social distance singing a song for our Egyptian King today. I can imagine his beaming smile and the shy hands-in-the-sleeves...
“A SLUM sport played in slum stadiums increasingly watched by slum people, who deter decent folk from turning up.” That was how football, and football supporters, were described in a Sunday Times leader reacting to the Bradford City stadium fire, which...
JÜRGEN Klopp has changed tact. The language, oral and body, has strategically shifted. He is grateful, buoyant and optimistic to camera and microphone. Like an acclaimed star of the big screen he’s constantly aware, dissecting through the subconscious of the watching...
TIMO said no. Ti-no? Ah well. If there’s anything football fans like it’s idle transfer speculation. What’s more, it doesn’t even have to have any basis in truth to hold out attention. As the summer begins, names are dredged up and added to the words ‘linked with’ to...
Getting stuck into big talking points within the world of football finance, discussing FGS’s Plans for expansion…John Gibbons is joined by football writer Dave Powell.
