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...
SO, them again this Sunday. Them. The chance to gather such galvanising momentum, which only victory over a rival can give, presents itself after the disappointing display at Old Trafford last Sunday. They are the worst of us as much as we are the worst of them. The...
IT could well be Liverpool’s best performance of the season. Off the back of one of the most disappointing, that is quite something, off the concern rattling around the diaspora it is everything. It is what happens when a unit is genuinely resilient, what...
THAT was fucking sound that, wasn’t it? I don’t care what you say, Big Elton is sound by me, lad. Massive rocket fella. Alisson: 8 Nothing to do apart from looking all sound and that until he has to make a point-blank bad boy. Not being funny but they are almost...
IT’S not easy to make sense of the last week at Liverpool Football Club. In about seven days’ time I think we’ll know more. Liverpool have faced significant tests, against Bayern Munich and Manchester United, but reaching firm conclusions on the state of The...
SOMETIMES, you play the game out beforehand in your head. You don’t particularly want to, but you can’t help it. You’re doing the shopping, travelling to work, pretending to listen to your boss, your mind wanders, thinking about the big game, imagining what might...
IT’S a phrase that has long since fell into cliché, and for many the name of the man that delivered it will mean little in the modern day. But retro, clichéd, or otherwise, Jimmy Greaves still had it dead right when he routinely described football as a “funny old...
WHAT did it feel like? What was it? How did it feel? It felt like two dropped. It felt increasingly frustrating. It felt like bad subs. It felt like Ferguson at Anfield. Where we are United and they are us. What it was? The point that puts us top. Four points from...
