BATTERED them 1-2. No idea how well we played. Mad this sport of ours, at times. Quick things: First half, I was livid with our midfield. Couldn’t see what they were about, what they were doing. Felt all three of them looked just off, but felt the Wembley...
IT’S glorious winning at Wembley, isn’t it? We used to do it all the while y’know. Let’s do it all the while again, aye? Alisson: 8 Back to making his shit look easy, isn’t he? Loved it when that 1945 fella upfront for them tried to lob him with a header and he...
BIG deep breath… Are you ready? Here we go. A huge month of football awaits, one many have described as possibly season defining in its infancy for Liverpool. Yet this is indicative of the levels set by this season’s quest for domestic and European supremacy....
I HOPE you used the international break wisely. Got some sleep in, spoke to the family, rested the liver. Because the next period is going to be relentless for us all. There are 13 games in less than two months. Not just games, but big ones too. Massive opponents in...
THERE are no cup finals in September. No title was ever decided on game five. So why does this feel like a game of monumental importance? History may well cast this encounter into the ether, but in the here and now it’s hard to fathom a more pivotal moment. Of course,...
“I THINK it’s fair to say that the Premier League is a tough league.” They were the words of Naby Keita, talking to the official Liverpool FC magazine this week, discussing the difficulties of adapting to a new team in a new league, and a new home in a new country....
IT has been a terrific start to the season for Liverpool. With so much hype and hope in pre season, it was vital that Jürgen Klopp’s tricky Reds got off to a flyer, and they did just that with four wins out of four in the opening month of the campaign. However,...
IT’S been a long time since Liverpool could flaunt a centre-back colossus whose threat of rashness is so diminutive that any error warrants ironic wide eyes from surprised fans. Yet Virgil van Dijk’s shades on, on the beach demeanour is strangely glossed by an...
THERE are some players you just don’t worry about. From the minute they kick a ball for the club, they project an air of calmness, of reliability in many ways. There are many examples of players down the years who have emanated such an air of placidity. Yet for every...
WHAT is a captain? Is he someone who scores goals no matter where he plays? Is she a player who never shuts up, constantly barking orders at her team mates? Maybe someone who calmly, but quietly, leads by example? Or can it be any combination of the above and more,...
