THE Reds are abject again. The Reds are abject again and it hurts. I’m very, very fond of this Liverpool team and this manager. I feel they can do a lot this season. But they can’t do that again. They can’t be that blunt. They can’t keep...
JÜRGEN Klopp previously stated that he was loathe to let anyone move to another side on a provisional basis, but the sheer numbers within the Liverpool squad and the individual needs of the many youngsters mean that it’s necessary for those that won’t...
WE’RE back then. Oh good lord we are back. The sweat is pouring off me. My heart is pounding. My legs are shaking. I have hugged a million strangers. We’ve just won but I might not make it through 37 more. I can’t wait for 37 more. I couldn’t...
THE world has gone mad. Or rather, everyone in it has gone mad. Or, possibly, everyone in this country has gone mad — the ones who voted for a nice sachet of ‘instant recession, just add water’ especially. The Tories are having another lovely game of...
AFTER a morning at the Liverpool Academy in Kirkby watching the Under-18s with Jürgen Klopp (well, ok, not WITH Jürgen Klopp) it was a short drive through the West Lancashire countryside to sunny Southport and the catchily-titled Merseyrail Community Stadium. I even...
It almost doesn’t matter who he really is. It’s what he represents that counts most. All the cliches. We don’t like losing. We don’t like being looked down upon. Forever being re-classified. We’ve been getting told for 25 years now that...
In February 1987 Liverpool played an everyday bog standard home game with Southampton. As with many Liverpool/Soton games it didn’t have much to recommend it. Peter Shilton was in goal so the game was automatically relegated to an undercard as the Kop preferred...
by Oliver Kay NOW that the lies, the smears and cruel myths about the Hillsborough disaster have been exposed once and for all, those who clung to them out of warped tribalism have but one straw left to clutch. “What about justice for Heysel?”, they plead. “What about...
Author’s note: This is not about Luis Suarez, or Liverpool, or the Football Association, or the rights and wrongs of the case which led to the striker being suspended for eight games and fined £40,000. Enough has been written on that subject by my peers and superiors...
BARCA. These days we’re reading more and more on the subject of Barca. Guardiola this, and La Masia that – every trophy they add to the cabinet comes with fresh proclamations of their righteousness – it’s not only fashionable to do so,...
