by Neil Atkinson | Sep 23, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
THAT. The Lads. They are The Lads. Getting to be The Lads. It’s something that happens to a football team, something that happens to any decent enterprise, ignore the gendered language or anything else you like, you’ve knocked round here long enough and...
by David Segar | Sep 23, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
I DIDN’T see the game on Tuesday night. I was otherwise engaged, but as ever when I can’t watch the game live, I spend 90 minutes constantly refreshing Twitter to see how things are going. The first 65 minutes went like this: “Liverpool have started brightly.” “The...
by Ben Johnson | Sep 19, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
Pre Match: THERE’S something about Leicester. Sounds like the shittest ever film sequel that, doesn’t it? Where a fella pretending to have a disability, one whose face starts to melt the closer he gets to the city and a small-time crook with horrific dress sense...
by Neil Atkinson | Sep 19, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
IT suddenly all looked so hard. When it had looked easy. At least relatively easy. Too often this is a Liverpool side on top until they aren’t. And too often a Liverpool side failing to make hay when the sun shines. The sun shone on Liverpool against Leicester....
by Josh Sexton | Sep 16, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
SO that completes a week in which Liverpool got battered away from home by a close rival and twice walked away from Anfield disappointed after dominating teams they are definitely better than with only a point each to show for it. The Reds may have got what they...
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,...
