INTERNATIONAL breaks. Always there to dullen your weekend, injure your favourite players and give you one less excuse to avoid decorating the kitchen. Spain and England tried to light the fire of the UEFA Nations League with their five-goal thriller in Betis, but...
IN a world of neverending bickering and “banter”, of crisis seeking and an insatiable hunger for headlines that detail it all going wrong, perspective around football can be severely lacking at times. Bill Shankly – with tongue firmly placed in cheek, no doubt –...
SEVERAL talking points have emerged in recent weeks following Liverpool’s most difficult run of fixtures in over a decade. From the underwhelming impact of some new signings to the ponderance of the midfield axis, this was a period of football which culminated in...
OF all the numbers involved in Liverpool’s first eight games of the league campaign — 20 points, no losses, 15 goals scored — perhaps the most eye-catching is three goals conceded. It is the joint lowest in the league, along with Manchester City, and...
JIMMY Case and Ray Kennedy were best mates. The only time you could separate them was on matchdays when they patrolled opposite flanks of one of the finest midfield quartets ever assembled in English club football. The brilliant bookends to Graeme Souness and Terry...
IT was a big weekend on Merseyside. The Giants from the French arts company Royal de Luxe were drawing the crowds in the city centre of Liverpool, while two giants of the Premier League were ready to clash at Anfield. The hostile welcome Manchester City were expecting...
IN the buildup to Sunday’s match between Liverpool and Manchester City there was again much talk of a “rivalry” between the clubs and supporters. Be it “the battle bus”, as the camera-packed team coach was described by one tabloid, the bizarre song about Liverpool’s...
NINETY minutes of sheer hell, John Barnes said years ago. The words echoed through today. Liverpool 0 Manchester City 0. Unbelievable we pay good money to be made to feel like that. If it wasn’t hell it was purgatory. The prospect of losing loomed large, the...
Pre Match I DON’T know about you but my bottle has gone, here. Realised this morning that if The Reds want to win the league we probably need to win today and I now can’t function. Couple this with me reading Bruce Grobbelaar’s interview the other day where he...
I DON’T take defeat well. I don’t take not winning well. Three games of only this makes me blue. Like a Blue. They’re calling Liverpool v Manchester City a “title decider in October”. Actually, I might be the first to have dubbed it this, but what the heck. The...
