SOMETIMES in football, your demons never leave you. It’s like being 25 points clear at the top of the Premier League and still harbouring an irrational, nagging doubt that something will go wrong. Isn’t it ironic, don’t you think? Exorcising demons has been a key...
NOTHING affects a season more than a change of manager. As the 2014-15 season ended, everything was in a state of flux. Brendan Rodgers, a hero just 12 short months earlier, had admitted that calls for his head were justified. The club had squandered their share of...
I WAS absolutely convinced that Jürgen Klopp would be a success at Liverpool. OK, it wasn’t exactly Nostradamus levels in terms of a prediction, but I was so sure that The Reds had a bright future under the German that I committed to writing a book about his first two...
THERE are certain games I wish I could just relive every single second of. Some people will tell you they’d happily relive every kick of nights like Istanbul or Madrid all over again, but I think those people are liars. They’re liars because those games took years off...
EVER wondered what it’s like to start a Merseyside derby at Anfield? How about starting a Merseyside derby at Anfield just days after returning home from a loan spell in Germany having missed the previous game through illness? Nat Phillips sat down exclusively...
WRITE about your favourite player. That should be easy enough, right? And yet, it’s not. Not for me, anyway. Because there have been ages and stages. Go all the way back, to way back when, and the kid with a big barnet and short trousers was starry-eyed about Kenny...
AT the beginning of the 2018/19 season, I was in Belfast for an Anfield Wrap live show. We were asked what one thing would bring us the most joy that season, and I replied: “I’d fucking love to see the captain of this club lift a trophy.” My answer had needle, it was...
WRITE about your favourite ever player, he said. The one you always wanted to be as a kid in the playground or admired the most. Who’s yours? That’s not always an easy question. I mean, there’s your favourite and there’s the best. My hero lined up in the same side as...
“WHO is your favourite Liverpool player of all time?” It’s that ‘all time’ bit that gets you. Immediately your mind is cast back, like your life flashing before your eyes, but just the football bits. When I was a nipper, my grandad sat me on his knee and regaled me...
YOU almost feel daft for worrying about football at a time like this. Bill Shankly joked that it was more important than life and death, but Jürgen Klopp summed it up best recently by describing it as “the most important of the least important things”. It is such a...
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.
