I TELL you what. They fucking love Kasabian in Leicester, you know. Like not just love them, proper freedom of the city shit. Like these are gods among men. The gods of the middle. Gods of skinny jeans, and silly sideys. The gods of pork chops. Fair doos to them. Any...
WATCHING it in the ground is hard, you know. There’s a reason I’m starting by saying that. For one, you simultaneously feel the pressure a lot more and also a lot less. Liverpool were under the cosh for the last 20 against Leicester City, at the very least. And yet...
IN a week where Liverpool’s impressive start on the pitch continued, they were dealt a levelling blow off it. Plans to expand the use of Anfield, for sports and music events to possibly be held at the stadium in future, were halted at a Liverpool Town Hall hearing....
A LOT can be said about the length of a campaign and a manager’s urge for momentum. However, with games coming thick and fast on the back of the World Cup, the need for rotation is as important as it’s ever been. In the past, rotation has often led to a dip in...
UPON reflection, I think we can treat Brighton as a bit of a wake up call. The best kind. The kind where you are reminded that there’s work still to be done, but learn the harsh lesson while still winning. Hopefully that, in itself, is a mark of progress. Time may...
LIVERPOOL, taking the piss. Liverpool, Liverpool, taking the piss. We’re top of the league. Three games into the season, yet to concede a goal or even to get out of third gear. We very rarely get off to this kind of start to a season. In fact, since the Premier League...
WE’RE a difficult bunch to please, aren’t we? Even when at most of us seem pretty happy to be sitting on the top of the early season pile, with three clean sheets out of as many games, some of us are still bemoaning the fact that our once totemic trio at the business...
STAFF shakeups seem to have become a regular occurrence since Jürgen Klopp took the reins at Liverpool. The German brought trusted sidekicks Zeljko Buvac and Peter Krawietz with him from Borussia Dortmund — putting paid to Sean O’Driscoll’s time as assistant,...
WE live in a society these days that doesn’t like to admit when it’s wrong. Doubling down is the aim of the game, whether it’s in politics, football management or on social media, it seems the modern person more often than not has their side and will stick to it, no...
JAMIE CARRAGHER played 737 times for Liverpool, showing staying power that left him second only to Ian Callaghan in the list of players who have made the most appearances for the Reds. In more than 16 years of being in the first-team squad, Carra won the Champions...
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.
