OF all the numbers involved in Liverpool’s first eight games of the league campaign — 20 points, no losses, 15 goals scored — perhaps the most eye-catching is three goals conceded. It is the joint lowest in the league, along with Manchester City, and...
JIMMY Case and Ray Kennedy were best mates. The only time you could separate them was on matchdays when they patrolled opposite flanks of one of the finest midfield quartets ever assembled in English club football. The brilliant bookends to Graeme Souness and Terry...
IT was a big weekend on Merseyside. The Giants from the French arts company Royal de Luxe were drawing the crowds in the city centre of Liverpool, while two giants of the Premier League were ready to clash at Anfield. The hostile welcome Manchester City were expecting...
IN the buildup to Sunday’s match between Liverpool and Manchester City there was again much talk of a “rivalry” between the clubs and supporters. Be it “the battle bus”, as the camera-packed team coach was described by one tabloid, the bizarre song about Liverpool’s...
“IF it is an open game at Anfield, you don’t even have one chance, not even one per cent of a chance. “Up and down I’m pretty sure they are the best team in the world in these transitions, offensive, defensive. It is built for that. In that situation, they are...
NINETY minutes of sheer hell, John Barnes said years ago. The words echoed through today. Liverpool 0 Manchester City 0. Unbelievable we pay good money to be made to feel like that. If it wasn’t hell it was purgatory. The prospect of losing loomed large, the...
Pre Match I DON’T know about you but my bottle has gone, here. Realised this morning that if The Reds want to win the league we probably need to win today and I now can’t function. Couple this with me reading Bruce Grobbelaar’s interview the other day where he...
I DON’T take defeat well. I don’t take not winning well. Three games of only this makes me blue. Like a Blue. They’re calling Liverpool v Manchester City a “title decider in October”. Actually, I might be the first to have dubbed it this, but what the heck. The...
THE realisation of having to feel defeat again has been a sobering one over the past week or so. I had rid myself of it, exorcised it from my very being, positively reinforced by the sight of Liverpool winning games of football. Sometimes at a canter, other times on a...
THIS time last year, Liverpool’s first-choice full-backs were Joe Gomez and Alberto Moreno. Turn the clock forward five years from now and it wouldn’t be a surprise if Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson were still the men in possession. It already feels like...
With Arne Slot under further pressure after another disappointing result at Anfield, dropping points again to promoted opposition and with certain candidates now available, if LFC do decide to make a change, who would they look to bring in?
Rob Gutmann hosts Ste Evans, Lola Katz-Roberts and Neil Atkinson.
