EIGHTY eight points. I whisper things the city sings them back to you. I am my age. I can’t argue with the facts on that one. I am my age. These lads have more points than anyone since 1988, at which point it was 90 points from 40 games. The 78-79 team were a...
OH. My. God. I mean, you can’t watch that fucking match and not think The Reds are not going to somehow win the league. We are fucking spawny, la. How hasn’t that lad scored? How hasn’t he scored? How hasn’t it at least hit his massive head and gone in instead of it...
THERE’S going to be a five-day stretch that spans from this Saturday morning until next Wednesday night in which the destiny of this season’s league title will be decided. In that space of time, Liverpool will play Cardiff City, and Manchester City will play...
OH, how far we’ve come. As this season evolves, I find myself often referencing how far we’ve come in these pieces of writing. Thinking back to Gerard Houllier’s cup-conquering machine of 2000-01, and to last season’s rollercoaster of a side. It feels as though this...
THIS game never gets old. Never ceases to amaze. While the world was trying to get its head around VAR and its impact on the City-Spurs game, I was pondering the strange situation in Northern Portugal where Liverpool were resting players in a European Cup...
DID you witness the sheer, unadulterated brilliance of that Barcelona performance on Tuesday night? Were you fortunate enough to see with your own eyes the unprecedented artistry of the genius called Lionel Messi? Did the earth move for you too? Not for me, Clive. Not...
LIVERPOOL beat Porto to get to the Champions League semi finals. They beat them 6-1 on aggregate. It is the fourth time in Liverpool’s history they have made back-to-back European Cup or Champions League semi finals. The fourth time. These are the good times,...
WENT to Portugal once. Room had no hot water. Jib it. Alisson: 8 Backs himself, like, doesn’t he? First minute, I’m him getting the ball to feet and I’m fucking head down, blammo, kicking it into the Atlantic. This fella is looking to play at every opportunity. Makes...
WE’VE been in Porto since Monday and finally the promised wet weather has arrived. I’m sat in my hotel room looking across a rainy city rather than the one baked in sunshine that we have been enjoying for the last couple of days. We were warned, though....
I WAS in Sheffield on April 15, 1989. I was 22 years, four months and 10 days old. I try to think about that day as little as possible. The years have passed to become the decades that are now drifting by at pace. My memory of that April day is razor sharp. I think...
Are Liverpool Too Stubborn For Their Own Good?: The Gutter
In your first Gutter of the week, and with only just 11 days left of the transfer window, we look at Liverpool’s dogmatic approach to both transfer business and contract negotiations, even if the cost of lack of compromise means short and potentially long term pain on the pitch as key players enter the critical periods of their contracts.
Rob Gutmann hosts Jay Kavanagh, Beth Lindop and Sean Rogers.
