YOU kind of know when you’ve seen the champions play. You just do. There is not one defining quality or trait that singles out the team that finishes top of the league, they just have an air about them — a certain demeanour, a bearing, a whiff of something...
I RECENTLY relistened to the interview we did with Trent Alexander-Arnold back in April 2018. It was partly sad. It was just before the Champions League quarter final against Manchester City and we were all full of hope and a touch of expectation that we could go on...
“EVERYONE was looking around as if to say, ‘Is he fucking serious?’,” Glen Johnson would later reflect. For some, it’s up there as the watershed moment of Brendan Rodgers’ Liverpool career. Captured in the untimely, fly-on-the-wall documentary Being: Liverpool,...
I’M starting to go off Sundays, to be honest. The last two have produced the same bright mornings and shiny optimism of what may lie ahead, only to be doused by the waters of disappointment as Liverpool fail to win away to a bitter rival, allowing said rivals – and...
ANOTHER draw. Another afternoon of misfiring in front of goal. And another draw there, which has resulted in some supporters of 10th-placed Everton having a little gloat about it all. They’ve not had too much else to shout about so fair play. I remember those days....
WELL that wasn’t a barrel of laughs. Very, very far from it. When Jürgen Klopp arrived at Anfield he said that, when coming up against stronger opponents, his aim would be to drag them down to our level and kill them. Today Marco Silva can reflect on managing...
Alisson: 7 Made a couple of half decent saves. Seen a Blue on the train with a Vanarama coat on before the game. A fucking sponsor on his coat. Fucking tramps. Trent: 7 Seemed keen to beat these Bluenose cunts. Started well, drifted out of it like all The Reds. Joel:...
FOOTBALL is a game fuelled by emotion. Whether it be the rip-roaring joy of a last-minute winner, or the heart palpitations caused by a late goalmouth scramble, we live every moment. It’s the reason why we love the game; creating moments of pure ecstasy and...
I HOPE it wasn’t bullshit. I really do. I hope there were raised voices in the visitors’ dressing-room at Old Trafford last Sunday and I hope the loudest of them belonged to the Liverpool manager. Jürgen Klopp dismissed reports of heated exchanges in the wake of the...
BABY, life’s what you make it, Celebrate it, Anticipate it, Yesterday’s faded, Nothing can change it, Life’s what you make it… (Mark Hollis, 1985) AS Anfield let out into a mild early spring night on Wednesday at about 10pm, there was a lovely...
Liverpool emerged victorious in their first visit to the Hill Dickinson stadium, overcoming Everton in their new ground thanks to a 100th minute winner courtesy of Virgil van Dijk.
Neil Atkinson is joined by Ian Salmon, Rob Gutmann,Beth Lindop and Joel Penny.
