SADIO Mane wants to end the league season with 112 points. Sadio Mane wants to win a game 10-0 because Leicester City beat Southampton 9-0 last week. Sadio Mane wants to win the Carabao Cup. The Senegal forward wasn’t present at Anfield for last night’s berserk...
FOR a night, at least, let it deny serious analysis. Watching those lads there is no excuse for greybeardedness. They were popping candy in ice cream, blue bubblegum freezy pops, flying saucers. The feelgood hit of the autumn, a reminder of summer vibes. Derling...
KIDS footy, la. It’s fucking berserk week in, week out. My lad plays in the under 8s. FC Storm. Fucking hell, I know. Anyway, last week in training I was trying to talk to them about time and space. Not like yer man Prof Bri Cox, more like “lad you’ve got time,...
THERE was a golden moment in the first half that will stay with me for a long time. We were all singing Poor Scouser Tommy – the everyday story of a dying soldier pronouncing his love of Liverpool FC while lying supine and injured when you’d forgive him for...
NO one is worried about getting knocked out of the League Cup. We’ve all had the memo. The main event is trying to win the title, to pair with the Champions League, and for this to be the season we came to see as one, where we realised Liverpool were truly at the dawn...
THERE’S something a bit ‘fish in a barrel’ about writing an article on a player immediately after he’s put in an excellent performance. That’s why this is likely to be at least the fifth or sixth piece you will have read on Fabinho since his colossal showing...
A LOT of things go through the mind of a football supporter in the buildup to a game. There’s usually a cycle between complete confidence and nail-biting nervousness, in no particular order, and like it or not a lot of that can rest upon the announcement of the...
THE beginning of the game is mad. Flip it. It’s the final in silhouette. And bear that in mind. Bear in mind that game, what they then do and what we do in a boiling Madrid. Half the ground misses it, still sitting down as their number 17 Sissoko dashes forward....
IT is really lovely beating them. They are horrible to play against. Fucking arguing over everything. Time wasting after a minute. Fucking Kane bouncing round alternatively diving and twatting people left right and centre. Got a mouth like a jack in the box. Fucking...
WE’RE at one of those junctures already. One of those proverbial fork-in-the-road moments. Last season we built a lead on City but once we allowed it to slip, the margin just withered as if it had all been so illusory. Liverpool had two spells last campaign in which...
