THE celebrations in those closing minutes at Stamford Bridge on Saturday tea time, were full blooded, defiant and maybe will come to be seen as disproportionate. We are apt to do this. I was part of an away end at Villa Park in Brendan Rogers last season that properly...
IT HARDLY counts as all that perceptive to point out that there are elements of fickleness when it comes to football analysis. Indeed, as someone who writes a weekly article about one football team, I am reliant on a certain fickleness to continue to produce talking...
IT HAPPENED down at Anfield not so long ago. Well, two years, eight months and 16 days previous to be precise. Liverpool under Jürgen Klopp, trailing to Arsenal 3-2 after some questionable goalkeeping from Simon Mignolet, were desperate to save a point in a game they...
“DON’T shoot,” says Ben Johno. The ball goes to Daniel Sturridge. “Don’t you fucking shoot either,” I say. The “r” of either leaves my mouth as the ball hits the back of the net and even in Head Of Steam in town...
LAD. I know, lad. The wrigglies are back. Alisson: 7 Made three great saves there dressed as a massive big pink fella. What a kit. Might be at fault for there’s, maybe? I don’t know. Can do what he wants in that kit in fairness, can’t he? Trent: 7 Few sloppy balls in....
IN a game which felt like a throwback to a decade ago, what a contest between two very modern football teams. Back in those days it was Rafa Benitez and Jose Mourinho locked in enthralling tactical battles, with players of supreme quality all over the pitch. Chelsea...
THERE was a lovely moment during Jürgen Klopp’s Match of the Day interview last Saturday when he banished his final fear about managing Liverpool. As his team breezed past the club record for season-opening victory runs, Klopp admitted that he liked the idea of...
I’M fascinated by time. Well, space time to be more specific. I recently attended a talk centred around Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity and general musings about string theory and time travel, something that has had me hooked for years. Without becoming too...
IT’S something of a shame that we had to dilute the anticipation of this titanic contest by prefacing it with that midweek rumble in the League Cup. Wednesday night’s was a decent game, even if we were ultimately left utterly frustrated by it. It would have been nice...
GETTING beat, then. That’s new. That’s new. We could do without it. But then we could do without Eden Hazard every week. Liverpool supporters overrate Hazard because every time we see him he verges on unplayable. He’s carrying Kryptonite. If Hazard...
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.
