FIFTY-six minutes in at the Etihad and Mo Salah is the coolest person in the ground. The away end had barely finished appealing for a penalty to be given for a foul on Sadio Mane when the Egyptian king deftly lifted the ball over a collapsing Nicolas Otamendi, to put...
RIGHT, I know we haven’t really, but this feels a bit like we’ve got a week off between articles full of drama and references to emojis and Cambridge Analytica, so I think it’s best that we use it productively. To that end, let’s start with a bit of admin. For those...
“LIVERPOOL need a 20-goal a season striker.” That has been a dominant narrative perpetuated throughout the post-Luis Suarez era, with any hopes of Daniel Sturridge taking up that mantle scuppered by persistent knocks and strains, curtailing the his ability to fulfil...
WHAT a strange week of football that was. Manchester United beating Manchester City with a second-half turnaround, Roma coming back from 4-1 down to beat Barcelona, Juventus nearly doing similar to Real Madrid, Red Bull Salzburg coming from 5-2 down on aggregate with...
A FRIEND’S dad has made it a hobby of his to religiously run the rule over Liverpool’s up-and-coming talent. It’s his bit of “me time” – when he escapes from the family and plays amateur scout for a couple of hours. Watching the club’s academy sides at Kirkby, he...
DID you see that lovely article that Dion Fanning wrote about his lad, and dinosaurs and him loving Mo Salah and that? It was lovely that, wasn’t it? Would have brought a tear to the eye of even a hardened, misery arse that, wouldn’t it? I couldn’t help but think,...
BOURNEMOUTH were beaten before a ball was kicked, beaten when the teamsheet came in. They’d have hoped to see a change at least in the front three. The night before they go to bed and say their prayers. If they have been good boys and are up to date on their...
THE headlines will once again be taken by Mo Salah, who by scoring again today maintains a streak of at least a goal a game at Anfield stretching back to Boxing Day. However, the catalyst for today’s victory was the lesser mentioned of the three fellas; Sadio Mane....
THE city of Liverpool is alive right now. There is currently an energy and magnetism in the city which makes it feel like an epicentre of admiration across Europe’s cultured landmarks and beyond. Liverpool Football Club has awoken something that carries with it a...
IT’S gonna be a bit all “after the Lord Mayor’s show”, isn’t it? Whatever that actually means. It must have been some spectacle — that show — to induce the comedown it’s credited with. As an expression, it obviously harks back to simpler times. These are...
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.
