WHEN you’re growing up, footballers are magical. That hasn’t changed regardless of generation. One day, when I was 17, I was at Anfield buying a ticket to a game when I spotted Craig Johnston in the car park. At that age you’re far too aloof to do the whole fan thing,...
MANCHESTER is our Shelbyville. Our parallel universe. To the untrained eye it all looks and feels quite similar. The streets, the bricks, the rain, the lads, the wind, the water, the girls, the food. The football. The devil, though, has always been in the differences....
PIECE by piece, Jürgen Klopp is building a Liverpool side in his own image and one which appears to be morphing into something very special indeed. The front three of Mo Salah, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino are right up there among the most devastating attacking...
THEY’RE too soft. They crumble too easily. There are too many nice lads who don’t know what it really takes to win. All accusations levelled at various Liverpool teams over recent years and, often, justifiably so. But, for the first time in a long time, something...
HOW do you play against a proud team who are so far behind in a two-legged tie their only mission is to not be humiliated further? Factor in the small matter of a game against Manchester United at the weekend with lungs and legs to protect, Liverpool, despite naming a...
THIS is the eighth Champions League game at Anfield this decade. For all the talk of maybe staying in the pub, of maybe there being something else to do: the eighth. It’s 2018. The average has been one a year. At the end of last season, Jürgen Klopp said this is...
Pre Match THIS is all but sorted, isn’t it? The amount of spares knocking about you would think these aren’t bothering sending a team tonight and are putting out 10 bottles of Superbock with a piri-piri chicken in goal. Let me take you back, circa 2003, to a...
SEVEN months into the Liverpool career of a summer signing and no semblance of the footballer you were expecting. You might imagine this means he has failed to live up to your expectations, that he has toiled through his first season and underwhelmed since his arrival...
IS it just me or do you feel like we might just have slightly cheated ourselves out of a proper Champions League night out? Doing Porto 5-0 in the first leg was the best and all that but we could have kept it to two or three. We’d still have been supremely confident...
LIVERPOOL are getting a lot of things right at the moment. Putting the ball in the goal lots. Stopping the ball from going in their goal lots. Getting Sadio Mane to celebrate like he’s on Stars In Their Eyes and has told Matthew Kelly that tonight he’s going to be...
