THIS is unchartered territory. The vagaries of our fixture schedule have all but forced Jürgen Klopp into sacrificing a competition. The League Cup is the fall guy. To be fair, it’s used to being the ugly duckling trophy in which the big clubs field their squad...
WHAT a start to the festive period it’s been for The Reds. If somebody said Liverpool would be two weeks into December having won four games – including a Merseyside derby – sitting pretty at the top of the Premier League, and qualifying for the Champions...
LIVERPOOL had a fight on their hands today. A fight against the conditions, a fight against a team fighting for their lives. The weather. There was ever so much of it. Hail before kick off. Loads and loads of wind. It had a massive impact on the game for both sides,...
The Manager: 10 Honest to God, when the news of the new contract dropped Friday morning, I could have cried. I could have and indeed did fucking cry. To suggest the city was in a low ebb is on a par in the old understatement ranks with saying Britain might now be in...
IF this Liverpool team have a nemesis, it unleashed all of its power for 30 minutes in the Salzburg arena on Tuesday night. The Austrian side are not the best team in Europe, but in bursts can do a very passable impression of it. Jürgen Klopp’s Reds will face bigger...
THERE was something about that timing, wasn’t there? Just when we (me, and everyone I know anyway) needed a bit of lift from the despair of what has unfolded in the last 24 hours, up pops Big Jürgen; a knowing look on his face, a soft smile – like he wanted to give us...
TAKUMI Minamino, then. The Red Bull Salzburg attacker has been a name on the lips of many in Liverpool for the past week, inciting feelings of fear and danger as The Reds faced a tricky tie against the Austrian’s on Tuesday. Of course, the game was negotiated with...
THE many differences between Klopp’s and Guardiola’s tactics have been spoken and written about for as long as recent memory serves. The Spanish style of tiki taka and the German gegenpressing, which define what both managers do about as well as the UK has defined its...
THERE’S a scene in the film The Commitments where Joey ‘the Lips’ Fagan, the elderly trumpet player with ‘the hardest working band in the world’, finally loses patience with his saxophonist Dean Fay. Over the past weeks Dean has refused to don the regulation tuxedo...
THEM and us. Us and them. Hearts unbroken. Far from it. No one wanted to wake up in the Europa League on Wednesday morning. There should be rules against this sort of thing. I don’t know: Adults only? It isn’t that RB Salzburg and their manager...
Turning all our attention towards the Reds’ upcoming Premier League encounter with Manchester City at Anfield. Neil Atkinson is joined by Josh Sexton, Abigail Rudkin & John Gibbons.
