YOU know what I love about Anfield? Every time I go there I feel like a child. I was a kid when I first went there. I’m far from one now, but in that place, I will be forever. As Liverpool summoned the gods and overwhelmed Napoli on a chilled Tuesday December night, I...
MOHAMED Salah is the best player in the world right now. We can all be precious about such statements in football, especially when it doesn’t align with the impounding truisms we hold as fans of our respective clubs. Judging by the current mood of some Everton fans...
EARLIER this week, a Swiss research group called CIES Football Observatory announced that Andy Robertson, the magnificent left back and Scottish captain, is now worth £72.12m. The organisation, which provide “technical analysis of player performance and the scientific...
SO, now I can reveal it was all my fault. Lauren Dalglish must be 30 now. Sorry, but I’m afraid that fateful journey you made in your father’s arms was down to me. Anfield, April 1988. Liverpool 3 Manchester United 3. A cracking, crackling match full of all of the...
LAST night Alisson Becker had a big moment in a big week. Liverpool deserved the victory but they wouldn’t have got it had Alisson not spread himself wide and strong to deny Arkadiusz Milik from point-blank range in stoppage time. We’d be looking at the...
I WHISPER things, the city sings them back to you. Evening gorgeous. Evening handsome. I thought of you throughout. What a win. What progression. Four things: That is greatest save I have seen in me whole life. The game was mad. Mo Salah wants to be the best player in...
Alisson: 9 What can you say about this fucker? I’m fairly sure he is the best keeper I have seen play for Liverpool. Seriously. Pepe Reina was good and that — first few seasons, till his hands disappeared like a Back To The Future photo — but this fella is...
THAT is one of the maddest 1-0s I’ve ever seen. When fate seemed to want to conspire against The Reds on the night, they stood up in the face of adversity and every single one of them were absolutely accounted for. Tonight they made the impact which counts most of...
PERCEPTION is everything. For example, I thought that people had an over-the-top dislike of Loris Karius, pre Kyiv, because he was too good looking, but then Liverpool signed an even handsomer goalkeeper in the summer and everyone loves him (some a little too much)....
HERE we are again. The crucial Christmas period. When the games come thick and fast, and when every squad, no matter how strong or deep, is tested to the limit. It’s a time when some of the less-heralded traits of elite footballers come to the fore. How fast can they...
Heartbreak For Congo & Glasner To Forest | The Breakfast Wrap LIVE
On your Thursday ‘Breakfast Wrap’ on the morning after England broke Congolese hearts and Belgium staged a late comeback against Senegal.
Neil Atkinson is joined by Teza Simukulwa and John Gibbons to reflect on yesterdays fixtures before trying to make sense of what’s going on at Nottingham Forest.
