THE thing about retaining the league is it’s a bit like winning a pie-eating competition, only to be told the prize is more pies. And let’s be honest, we ate a shit load of pies last season, way more than we needed to. The Spanish Pie Head in second place just kept...
IT shouldn’t matter but it does. It shouldn’t hurt but it does. Liverpool lost their first football match of the season on Thursday night, and it didn’t feel good. First the mitigations: it was ‘only’ the League Cup. The team was full of kids and reserves. It was...
THE leaving of Liverpool, then? There was always going to be an exodus, a balancing of books of some kind. In truth, both Xherdan Shaqiri and Rhian Brewster’s inevitable departures may just be the starting pistol of a weekend of goodbyes. Jürgen Klopp doesn’t like big...
DOING the HotMic with John Gibbons and post match I say that the next round isn’t until December 22. “What? When? Fuck that.” I paraphrase but barely. No match is one you want to lose but some are better to lose than others. Liverpool have now failed...
SEE Arsenal brought back that weird Doom Metal font? I’m not saying that Arteta and his big lego head read my match ratings on Monday but someone’s tipped him off. Fucking snide that. I might have to start putting these behind a paywall. Or stop talking about fonts...
BEHIND Jürgen Klopp, lies a trusted inner circle. It is best represented by the combination of the manager and his right-hand man, an almost telepathic relationship that lends itself to success. Liverpool’s journey over the past five years has been a collective...
I WANT Liverpool Football Club to win every trophy possible. That doesn’t seem like a particularly controversial statement, as I’m sure most Liverpool supporters would also happily watch the club lift every bit of silverware in sight, while our rivals look on in envy....
IN October 1986, Liverpool travelled to Craven Cottage to play Fulham in the second leg of a Littlewoods Cup tie. The Double winners sat third in the league having seen off Wimbledon at Plough Lane three days earlier. There wasn’t much interest in the tie and that was...
I FELT tremendously guilty yesterday. There was a wasp in my kitchen. I opened the windows in the hope he’d fly out, but despite about 20 per cent of the room being open windows, he managed to miss every time and an hour later, was still there. As he sat on the...
GREAT that, wasn’t it? Five things and that… 1. Sadio’s bird might be fucking berserk Sadio started like he had had murder with his bird just before kick off. Perhaps he had. I did. Maybe he could feel my angst. Kindred spirits, blood brothers or whatever. Maybe...
