ANDY Robertson has had a lot of media attention in the last few weeks. After first hearing The Kop singing his name against Manchester City, he’s been the go-to story for most writers and media commentators covering Liverpool. Jürgen Klopp gets a fresh question on him...
SO there’s Rafa Benitez there, looking all managerial and important. What a man. Have a lovely big reminisce about them mad days with that mad crazy, needly bastard in charge of us. While you are doing that have a lovely big think about the now and have a look at...
CALL it run of the mill; it’s the thing that’s easy to say. Just a run-of-the-mill home victory. Pre match we’re in The Hole In The Wall and this bloke comes over and points to three fellas and says that these lads have come from California and had...
IN a surprisingly relaxed press briefing earlier this week, and with the return of Rafa Benitez on the horizon, Jürgen Klopp was predictably asked his opinion on a man still held in the highest regard by most Liverpool fans. And the German couldn’t have been more...
“Rafa, Rafa… “Rafa, Rafa… “Rafa Benitez… “Xabi Alonso, Garcia and Nunez.” Fucking Antonio Nunez. Remember him? The makeweight in the deal that took Michael Owen to Madrid. He scored a goal for Liverpool Football Club and...
A QUESTION I often ask myself is how much someone needs to be paid before people in general, and football fans in particular, stop treating them like humans and, instead, act as though they are robots with none of the same weaknesses and flaws that the rest of us...
“[LIVERPOOL] are a team that are intense, they keep going forward and have quality upfront. “They are so direct and they make the runs in behind. They create chances playing that way and they can score goals. “Those three guys upfront now are in a...
EMRE Can has a lot going for him, we can agree on that, writes DANNY GALLAGHER. He lives out his football dream on a daily basis, is built like an Olympic swimmer and is still, somehow, just 24. He’ll probably call it all a day at some point to go off and become the...
LIVERPOOL don’t get many routine wins. When The Reds triumph 1-0, 2-0 or 2-1, it feels like a rare occasion. That is in no way a criticism because this Liverpool team are perfectly capable of routine wins, it’s just that their idea of a routine win appears to be to...
FOOTBALL’S a bit of a mad one, isn’t it? The tricks it can play on you, the anxieties it can bring out despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the way it’ll make you reach for straw of despair and yet keep you hoping for the impossible. I’m not having it...