by Neil Atkinson | Dec 17, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
LIVERPOOL’S intensity was exceptional as they beat Bournemouth 0-4 this evening. Nil-four is a really rather rare scoreline and rightly so. To score four at any Premier League ground without reply takes a very good performance and that is exactly what Liverpool...
by Ben Johnson | Dec 17, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
THESE took four points off us last year. You know what grates the most? Their manager’s trackie bottoms. Quite clingy, weren’t they? Remember being fuming about them. Anyway. Simon Mignolet: 7 Did well to stop a corner at the start of the second half. That was about...
by Neil Atkinson | Dec 13, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
LIVERPOOL were fucking crap tonight. Immediately after typing that the realisation hits that this is exactly the sort of writing which means that yours truly isn’t about to be offered Barney Ronay’s column at The Guardian. We could find a wry way around...
by Ben Johnson | Dec 13, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
Pre Match THERE’S you there, just lashed your phone on the deck ’cause Jürgs is playing all the boys. I think it is safe to say that he thinks we are all bellends, and in fairness he is bang on the money. That said, I can’t wait until we get beat here and...
by Neil Atkinson | Dec 10, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
A WIN always helps. And Liverpool didn’t get one. A win always helps because it helps you shrug off what doesn’t go well; what you disagree with, who didn’t have their best game, what wasn’t right. It’s another edgy team selection from...
by David Segar | Dec 10, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
TWO points dropped against the worst Premier League team to visit Anfield this season. Frustration for Jürgen Klopp and Liverpool on an afternoon where they battered Everton from pillar to post, but just forgot to win. On a weekend when rivals have dropped points, The...
by Neil Atkinson | Dec 6, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
LIVERPOOL were downright irresistible. I’m not interested in messing about; I’m interested in the facts. The facts are that there is a gulf between these two sides. I was in The Kop for the second. Shall we have a chat about it? It looked, from where I...
by Ben Johnson | Dec 6, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
LET’S cut to the fucking chase here. The Reds are too good to be fannying about with introductions. Larius Karius: 7 Boss first half. Couple of smart saves then ran into there fella full pelt like a crash test dummy on Tomorrow’s World. Got up, right away, which takes...
by Neil Atkinson | Dec 2, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
WHAT a win that is under the circumstances. It’s a manager backing himself, his staff and his team, and them standing up for themselves and for him. They had to be switched on, aggressive and good. They nailed all the above. Imagine getting the teamsheet in the...
by Josh Sexton | Dec 2, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
ANOTHER potential banana skin of an away game navigated excellently, though the overall performance today was much better than at Stoke. The Anfield Wrap’s newly-crowned king of ratings Ben Johnson is necking Lemsip with Joe Gomez to get fit for...
