IT has been a terrific start to the season for Liverpool. With so much hype and hope in pre season, it was vital that Jürgen Klopp’s tricky Reds got off to a flyer, and they did just that with four wins out of four in the opening month of the campaign. However,...
DURING the Leicester game, a stat popped up on Sky Sports which surprised me more than it should have done. Roberto Firmino has scored more goals than any other player since Jürgen Klopp became manager, netting 51 times. What’s more, he’s contributed to 60 Premier...
IT’S been a long time since Liverpool could flaunt a centre-back colossus whose threat of rashness is so diminutive that any error warrants ironic wide eyes from surprised fans. Yet Virgil van Dijk’s shades on, on the beach demeanour is strangely glossed by an...
NEWS that Adam Lallana’s injury sustained during international break isn’t as bad as first feared is positive news for player and club. That said, it does rather feel like injury timescales, especially in the case of Lallana, now 30 years old, need to be...
THERE are some players you just don’t worry about. From the minute they kick a ball for the club, they project an air of calmness, of reliability in many ways. There are many examples of players down the years who have emanated such an air of placidity. Yet for every...
WHAT is a captain? Is he someone who scores goals no matter where he plays? Is she a player who never shuts up, constantly barking orders at her team mates? Maybe someone who calmly, but quietly, leads by example? Or can it be any combination of the above and more,...
IT is an oft-used analogy when a football team is not quite playing up to their usual standard that they are in “first gear”, or “have the handbrake on”, or even “are driving with one thumb on the wheel and the other thumb up their arse”. That last one may have only...
THERE was a moment during Saturday’s game at Leicester when Alisson comfortably saved an awkward-looking effort from Demarai Gray that had squirmed through Joe Gomez’s legs. Gomez, who was excellent throughout and has rightly been showered with praise for his...
THIS is the third article I’ve written about Andy Robertson for The Anfield Wrap. READ – Andrew Robertson: Why Liverpool Fans Shouldn’t Scoff At Interest In Scotland’s Starlet READ – Andrew Robertson: How Scotland’s Starlet Has Established Himself...
LIVERPOOL got away with murder at the King Power this afternoon. Liverpool — top of the league. Liverpool were poor. Liverpool deserve their win. You get to defend well. You get to do the business without having the ball. That is the hardest thing at times to...
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.
