THE arrival of the winter break in the calendar this year has coincided with my own getaway, and I’m remaining as true to it as Jürgen Klopp and his players. I’m currently in Costa Rica, staying with family in a lovely town called Atenas. We’re seven hours behind GMT...
YEARS ago, on the old Through the Wind & Rain forum – a collection of match-going Reds with a penchant towards grumpiness and cynicism – it was popular to have a weekly predictions thread about the upcoming game. Those things are largely ridiculous,...
THERE is a variant of this piece which is just 1,000 words on everything Pedro Chirivella did after the final whistle. A thousand words on his every move, his every word. Who he hugged, when, what he was thinking and feeling. I was in the Upper Kemlyn. The final...
I’LL be honest here, lads. I pretty much presumed that I’d be getting a winter break like the rest of the first teamers. Fucking legs are tired, the mind is definitely fatigued. Nice little couple of weeks off without the distractions of the cup, rest and recuperate,...
I’M really looking forward to this. Nothing like watching The Reds disrespect the world’s oldest cup competition, at Anfield, under the lights. Many were surprised by Jürgen Klopp’s decision to rest his entire senior squad for this replay. I’m not sure he made the...
IN October 2012, a mutual friend introduced Pep Guardiola to Garry Kasparov, arguably the greatest chess player of all time. Guardiola was on a sabbatical between his job at Barcelona and his eventual move to Bayern Munich, and during their first dinner in New York,...
THERE are a plethora of reasons this Liverpool side deserves the utmost praise. There’s the obvious fact that they’re breaking records left, right and centre which will of course get the ‘stat men’ talking, but there’s a reason they’re able to do that. The praise can...
HONEST to God, the only thing that can stop The Reds now is the fucking Corona. Fucking not having it that Ferguson isn’t behind it. In the deepest fucking Wuhan forests there he is like Attenborough in Jurassic Park, splicing fucking squid blood and chicken balls...
LIVERPOOL (0) 4 – 0 (0) Southampton. I love the look of this. It has an old-school vibe. It tells a story. Like most stories worth telling, it is both true and false. There are a ton of possible interpretations. The first being Liverpool dominated first half and...
I’M managing to talk myself into believing that each and every one of Liverpool’s next opponents are the coming force in British football. That our next game will be the toughest game of our season thus far. Maybe I’m just motivating myself the way Klopp...
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.
