THINGS that are blows: – The lack of chances created. – The equaliser. – The last minute missed opportunity. Things that aren’t blows: – The league table. The league table still shows Liverpool top of the pile with a healthy cushion at...
Alisson: 6 Made a good save first 15 when our midfield was getting legged for a bit. Is he shite for the goal? I think he might be shite for the goal there, which is a shame. Fuck all else to do. Milner: 6 Thought he was pretty shite first half. And didn’t manage much...
WHEREVER you turned for discussion of the Premier League title race this weekend, the P-word was never far away. Newspaper reports, websites, social media, Match Of The Day, Sky Sports — of the 170,000 or so words available in the English language —...
I WAS chatting to my nine-year-old lad about the first time I saw Liverpool win the league. It was 1979. I think I could still tell you the result of each and every single game, and probably most of the goalscorers in those matches. I’d even claim I could recall the...
BOTTLE. They love goading you with bottle. There are many things you learn when you find yourself setting the pace. The empathy you feel for those who become so invested in your club’s fate due to their own lack of stimulation being one. They make it all about bottle....
DISAPPOINTMENT, frustration, but let’s not pretend we are too surprised. Liverpool have produced that kind of passable performance on a number of occasions this season but found a way to win. Last night they didn’t. End of. It’s not too long ago that they might have...
LIVERPOOL v Manchester City — the prevailing battle. Liverpool v Leicester City — the evening’s affair. Mathematics v Feelings — the inner struggle. Had both Liverpool and Manchester City won you’d be bouncing, but we’d be as you...
ANY matchday where we increase our lead is sound by me. That said, someone hold this bevy while I twat me self over the head with this shovel. Alisson: 7 Give it away a bit first half, but so what? He’s so good at sweeping up lad, his starting position is amazing. If...
MY worst memory as a Liverpool fan isn’t a final we’ve lost, although the FA Cup in 1996 was a particularly dark day. It isn’t a player leaving, although I’m sure we all have one who broke our heart — hiya, Fernando. It wasn’t even...
I WOULD like to be looking back on these previews in the summer and laughing at my own childish anxiety and fecklessness in the face of a Liverpool title challenge. I want to be basking in the summer sun and the glow of Liverpool having been crowned champions. I’d...
