LIVERPOOL started slowly. Get used to that sentence. Liverpool started slowly but had almost complete control of the tempo, with an apparent desire to stop things going mad in order to preserve energy for the many challenges to come over the Christmas period. There...
HUGE shoes to fill today. With Ben being away I agreed to do the scores on Friday, that same night had a dream we got beat 3-0 with Zaha bagging a brace. Awful. Hope that doesn’t happen. Anyway. First half we had a load of players who won’t force it and maybe three...
THE weeks before the game that follows the international break fortnight are nervy affairs. Continuity, for better or for worse, is broken. The season, pre Christmas, is like watching a movie with numerous, needless, elongated intermissions. They would make little...
FOR as long as I can remember, making Anfield bigger and better has been a recurring debate. When Liverpool are successful, the issue intensifies further. Those days when you could walk up, pay in, and watch the match are long gone. And tickets for the aways are like...
LIVERPOOL witnessed first hand the end of Mauricio Pochettino at Tottenham, but not in the game you may think. The 2-1 win at Anfield this season was actually one of Spurs’ best performances of the campaign, giving them a slight reprieve only for more winless misery...
DECEMBER is the cruellest month. Not everyone likes Christmas. Some love it, but for many it’s a painful time to negotiate. Maybe it’s like the final frames of It’s A Wonderful Life for you. I hope so, but I prefer to compare it to the main section of the film where...
“HARRY Kane would get in the Liverpool team ahead of Firmino because he’d score more goals.” Danny Murphy there, asserting that centre forwards should be measured simply by the amount of goals they score. Indeed, it’s a huge disservice to Firmino’s considerable...
TIS the season. No, not that season. Not yet, despite the thousands of identikit Christmas adverts we’ve been subjected to already. Seeing as everyone else is at it, I’ve had an idea for a Liverpool one. A young brother and sister are waking up at obscenely early...
JUST prior to England’s 4-0 win over Kosovo on Sunday, our own Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain took centre stage. Chamberlain’s international career began seven and a half years ago, in a 1-0 win over Norway – incidentally Roy Hodgson’s first game as England manager. He...
UNLESS you’ve been living in a wi-fi wilderness, you’ve probably noticed the fall out from Liverpool’s victory over Manchester City. Away from the piss-boiling of the VAR outrage, official complaints about the referee and Raheem Sterling’s meltdown, a question can be...
