I HAD a blind date in Lincoln once, with a woman from Branston. We met in the cathedral, had a quick look for the Imp, found him, and then walked up a hill so steep that it was litetally called Steep Hill. We then caught our breath, had a drink and got to know each...
LIVERPOOL have set an incredible standard over the past two years, achieving near perfection since suffering heartbreak in Kyiv. Piece-by-piece, Jürgen Klopp has constructed a relentless juggernaut, one that will rank within the best in English football history....
MYSELF and John Gibbons went to the EFL Trophy game between Liverpool U21s and Wigan Athletic’s first team at the DW Stadium on Tuesday evening. It was my first experience of football inside a stadium since The Reds’ Champions League loss to Atletico Madrid just...
BEFORE the win over Chelsea on Sunday, Jürgen Klopp was asked if new signing Thiago Alcantara would be starting. The German dismissed the idea as laughable. The player had only just arrived from Bayern Munich, who play a completely different system, and he had barely...
AND just like that, normality is restored. Liverpool, while still picking up points since last season was prematurely halted, have been a club with a lot of questions being asked of them. Have they peaked now that they’ve reached the summit? Do they need to add...
IS right, the boys. The Reds are still boss, that’s good init? The Reds have bought the best centre mid in the world (let’s ignore the pen, aye) and one of Wolves lads who isn’t the one who scored at Anfield and then it got disallowed, and the old team are still...
ROBERTO Firmino starts smiling before he has even taken the shot. Roberto Firmino knows things are about to get emphatic. Sadio Mane wins the ball off the keeper, who must be a wreck, and Firmino is beaming and Liverpool have won the game, won the game of games. Won...
IN April 2010, the playwright Alan Bennett wrote… “The open mouth of Chelsea’s Frank Lampard, having scored a goal, is also the howl on the face of the damned man in Michelangelo’s Last Judgement.” As you can see below, he had a point. So who’s this...
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...
