by Neil Atkinson | Sep 16, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
THAT made me punch concrete and I might have broken my seat and my head throb and my Saturday night be mostly me chewing the inside of my mouth and maybe twitch. Anyway. Let’s at least try and have a chat. Football matches are two sets of 11 men and while the...
by Neil Atkinson | Sep 14, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
STOP it, Liverpool. Just stop it. I have had enough of the nonsense around Liverpool lacking ruthlessness at both ends of the pitch; had enough of the nonsense inviting ruthlessness from opponents who deserve credit for hanging in but too often little else. Stop it....
by David Segar | Sep 13, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
CAN’T help but feel the word “naivety” going round and round my head after that one. A game Liverpool could have won about six times over ends up as a draw, and could very well have been a defeat. Jürgen Klopp owed Sevilla. As he alluded to in his press...
by Gareth Roberts | Sep 9, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
DON’T know where to start, don’t know what to say. A result like that hurts — and so it should. On the fourth Emre Can was punching the turf in frustration. And so he should. Many of the travelling support had long since left and headed for home. And...
by David Segar | Sep 9, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
WELL, that hurt. If you’re going to go down to 10 men against anyone, then it’s probably best not to do so against a Pep Guardiola team. Only a few weeks ago Everton had an extra man against them and still got completely dominated in the second half. Make no mistake,...
by Neil Atkinson | Aug 27, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
THE first big league occasion of the season. The first big win. Talking in general terms? Not quite. Last season last year’s champions beat last season’s runners-up but this feels like a north west kind of a season, a north west kind of a campaign. I could...
by David Segar | Aug 27, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
LIVERPOOL absolutely tore Arsenal apart at Anfield, again. It’s becoming a regular occurrence, but no less pleasurable to witness. Yes, the Gunners had their problems with their midfielders deciding that defending was an optional extra, and Arsene Wenger’s bizarre...
by Neil Atkinson | Aug 23, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
BRING. Bring on. Bring on your. Bring on your Internazionale. Liverpool are not immovable, never entirely not irresistible but good lord were they very good indeed at times this evening. The key times were these: 0 – 22. During that time they took the whole tie...
by David Segar | Aug 23, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
LIVERPOOL are back in the Champions League. Where this club belongs. Anfield deserves to host it. Jürgen Klopp deserves to manage in it. These players deserve to play in it. We deserve to watch it. And it will, and it will, and he will, and they will… and we will. I...
by Neil Atkinson | Aug 19, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
LIVERPOOL’S victory against Crystal Palace felt like a run-of-the-mill win but threw up this question: Is it run of the mill if it actually doesn’t happen very often? It felt like we as supporters had actually forgotten what this sort of thing was like...
