THE European Cup is a strange old thing. In its autumn phase it’s more irritation than objective. Then, spring looms, and it blossoms. Our hugely complacent but justified taking of the league title for granted in turn casts the possibilities in the Champions League...
WHAT does the word ‘conspiracy’ mean to you? There was a time in my life where conspiracies usually involved getting lost down some kind of YouTube rabbit hole before realising hours had elapsed and the sun was not far from rising. You’ll probably all have a...
THE European Champions. The Champions Of The World. The team who are 25 points clear. One of the problems (if there really could be said to be any, because in reality, there are none) with Liverpool being so good, is that opponents tend to up their game. This...
THIS team. Playing against a fucking big squad of farmers and Stormy Daniels there and found a way. Not our day, no? Watch this then, you big windy cunt. Five to go or whatever. Wash your hands Reds, and don’t touch your face. Just lashed a bottle of Sol all over me...
SIX wins from a heaven so eased towards, it defies description. “What just happened”, as the kids say. Let’s spell it out. Liverpool topped a 97-point season with a 24 wins from 25 streak and stand on the precipice of immortality. Manchester City, reprised...
THERE’S not too much to connect the football clubs of Liverpool FC and Norwich City on the surface of things, or even the two cities they represent. There is a direct train between Merseyside and East Anglia if you fancy sitting through the five hours and 20 minutes...
A FOOTBALLER’S career can be thrown into the limelight in an instant. Take Michael Owen, for example. Sixteen years old, scores on his first-team debut against Wimbledon. A nobody and then a somebody. Whether it be that very first show of faith from the manager or a...
“1990 is the time for the Guru.” YOU may have allowed Guru Josh, a Jersey born musician called Paul Walden, to slip from your memory, but in late 1989 that was his message to the world. That mantra came in his hit Infinity and, credit where it’s due, it...
THERE is an old Japanese proverb about luck, along the lines of: “To wait for luck is the same as waiting for death.” Be they little or big, moments of luck are all around. On the football pitch, it can range from a fortunate throw in, to having a ball ricochet off a...
THIS is a season that promises so much. A league title wrapped up in our red bows for the first time in 30 years. A tilt at defending the Champions League. Who knows, maybe even the traditional treble to put alongside the two cups already in the bag. There’s talk too...
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.
