“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...
IT’S late November. The ankle injury endured by midfield dynamo Fabinho during the final Champions League group stage game at Anfield had all the hallmarks of being a detrimental blow to knock The Reds off their stride. Not the case. In fact, strangely, it has in some...
IT appears that Liverpool will not be signing Timo Werner. Through the cinders of social media rage from some Reds, the club carries on its business, including confirming yesterday that Harry Wilson will remain at Bournemouth for the remainder of the season. It is an...
‘THESE are unprecedented times.’ Perhaps the most overused phrase during this global pandemic, but it definitely holds merit when it comes to the position Liverpool Football Club are in. At least in my lifetime. The Liverpool teams I’ve known have mostly been nearly...
ON Friday it was confirmed. Vicky Jepson’s side, who sat at the foot of the WSL with six points from 14 games upon the suspension of football in March, would be relegated to the Championship. The FA’s decision, which used an unweighted points-per-game system to...
THE Premier League’s Project Restart has had its ups and downs, it’s fair to say. Conflicting ideas, contrasting plans, rabid self interest, understandable health concerns, leaks to the media, faceless comments and more. Even with the sport on hold, we’ve been able to...
REMEMBER days of planning trips abroad? Of gambling £90 on flights the day after Liverpool beat Bayern Munich in the Allianz Arena last year because you just never know? Good times, weren’t they? When things such as mere travel abroad now seem difficult to the...
MOST of us wanted to play Ajax. That could have been for any number of reasons. Maybe it was because of their name and the European pedigree that saw them net a hat trick of European Cups before we were even on the board. There’s always been a healthy regard between...
