IT is an oft-used analogy when a football team is not quite playing up to their usual standard that they are in “first gear”, or “have the handbrake on”, or even “are driving with one thumb on the wheel and the other thumb up their arse”. That last one may have only...
THERE was a moment during Saturday’s game at Leicester when Alisson comfortably saved an awkward-looking effort from Demarai Gray that had squirmed through Joe Gomez’s legs. Gomez, who was excellent throughout and has rightly been showered with praise for his...
LIVERPOOL got away with murder at the King Power this afternoon. Liverpool — top of the league. Liverpool were poor. Liverpool deserve their win. You get to defend well. You get to do the business without having the ball. That is the hardest thing at times to...
I TELL you what. They fucking love Kasabian in Leicester, you know. Like not just love them, proper freedom of the city shit. Like these are gods among men. The gods of the middle. Gods of skinny jeans, and silly sideys. The gods of pork chops. Fair doos to them. Any...
WATCHING it in the ground is hard, you know. There’s a reason I’m starting by saying that. For one, you simultaneously feel the pressure a lot more and also a lot less. Liverpool were under the cosh for the last 20 against Leicester City, at the very least. And yet...
UPON reflection, I think we can treat Brighton as a bit of a wake up call. The best kind. The kind where you are reminded that there’s work still to be done, but learn the harsh lesson while still winning. Hopefully that, in itself, is a mark of progress. Time may...
WE’RE a difficult bunch to please, aren’t we? Even when at most of us seem pretty happy to be sitting on the top of the early season pile, with three clean sheets out of as many games, some of us are still bemoaning the fact that our once totemic trio at the business...
WE live in a society these days that doesn’t like to admit when it’s wrong. Doubling down is the aim of the game, whether it’s in politics, football management or on social media, it seems the modern person more often than not has their side and will stick to it, no...
JAMIE CARRAGHER played 737 times for Liverpool, showing staying power that left him second only to Ian Callaghan in the list of players who have made the most appearances for the Reds. In more than 16 years of being in the first-team squad, Carra won the Champions...
JAMES Milner tackles their lad. James Milner tackles their lad this morning when he has his breakfast. James Milner tackles their lad while he packs his oversized wash bag. James Milner tackles their lad from the minute he was born to the second the freekick is given....
