THE many differences between Klopp’s and Guardiola’s tactics have been spoken and written about for as long as recent memory serves. The Spanish style of tiki taka and the German gegenpressing, which define what both managers do about as well as the UK has defined its...
THERE’S a scene in the film The Commitments where Joey ‘the Lips’ Fagan, the elderly trumpet player with ‘the hardest working band in the world’, finally loses patience with his saxophonist Dean Fay. Over the past weeks Dean has refused to don the regulation tuxedo...
THEM and us. Us and them. Hearts unbroken. Far from it. No one wanted to wake up in the Europa League on Wednesday morning. There should be rules against this sort of thing. I don’t know: Adults only? It isn’t that RB Salzburg and their manager...
MADDEST team ever, them. Was like their manager made them all lash a load of Red Bull down their necks before the game started, watched them all run on fast forward for the first 45. They only have a few players with genuine quality but I’m sure they snuck a few...
THE evolution Liverpool have gone through under Jürgen Klopp has been remarkable. Emerging from Brendan Rodgers’ final season where the club had seemingly lost both their identity on the pitch and the collective relationship with fans off it, the German has fortified...
DEATH, taxes and Liverpool victories. They’re not the three only certain things in life, just three things that seem to be annoying the vast majority of the nation at the moment. The latter seems to be particularly annoying to former Manchester City player Trevor...
FOR an optimist, I can’t half talk myself into some negative mindsets. We’re eight points clear at the top of the league with bookies close to closing bets on us for the league. We are beating every thing that moves, and yet Salzburg away terrifies me. Perhaps...
“IN the current climate.” “The market rate.” “Inflated prices.” You might associate the following phrases with the beginnings of a political rant, but they’re in fact all increasingly common phrases used when referring to the modern day football transfer market. They...
THERE it is. The comfortable away win with the clean sheet. It can’t get much more comfortable and it probably won’t for the rest of the campaign. We’ve been waiting for this, waiting to see it. When it occurred it was like a warm bath on a cold day....
Alisson: 7 I wonder what he was thinking about all game while he had absolutely nothing to fucking do. Genuinely, I don’t care who you are, your mind is drifting there. Probably trying to remember where the Chrimbo decs are. I was in the loft twice there today looking...
