Pre Match YOU can’t look at them teams and think anything other than a Reds win is in the post. I mean, The Reds are boss, aren’t we? That Liverpool side is the same one that beat Manchester City except we are causally dropping in Big Virg and his giant’s body...
LAST week in this very column, I said that the goalkeeper debate had become “tiresome”, and I stand by that. However, Liverpool didn’t play over the weekend so what else is there to talk about? I was coaxed back into the conversation by Jürgen Klopp, who said last...
IT’S always grounds for concern when my excitement about The Reds begins to go off the register. I was getting silly on the back of all of those wins over Christmas. I was developing a nervous twitch and smiling so much that people were worried I’d had a stroke. After...
LAST year, on the Tuesday following the Sunday that Tottenham Hotspur gave The Reds a caning, I finished work early, felt unusually productive and pleased with myself and descended into a Liverpool-related online wormhole, writes OSCAR RICKETT. Usually, when I’m...
WHEN Premier League football is so often presented as the be all and end all of the game at large, it’s easy to forget about what else goes on at a football club like Liverpool. The big stars, the big games, the packed stadiums and the continued controversy dominate...
ONE of the hotly-debated issues throughout Jürgen Klopp’s reign has been who should be his number one goalkeeper, writes JOEL RICHARDS. With Simon Mignolet and Loris Karius both offering as many cons as pros to their claims, the clamour for the Liverpool boss to go...
JÜRGEN Klopp is a manager with a proven track record of bringing through young talent. Developing players on the training ground and helping them maximise their potential is an integral part of his philosophy, and sets him apart from many top-level managers, for whom...
OCTOBER 1, 1995. Manchester United 1 Liverpool 1. Michael Thomas picks up the ball inside his own half. He plays a weighted through ball on the outside of Gary Neville. Neville chases but Robbie Fowler comes on the inside and shrugs him off. Fowler looks up at the...
I LOVE it when a plan comes together. I love it slightly less that many of you will be too young know where that line comes from, but I’ll take the negative with the positives at this point. Jürgen Klopp’s “Plan A” came together in spectacular fashion against...
PERCEPTION is an intriguing concept in football. The perception of our modern-day footballers can gain influence both directly and unconsciously through the things we absorb from the plethora of content we consume daily. Gone are the days when your only football-based...
