“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...
Pre Match WHAT’S your favourite Davie Moyes moment? There’s plenty to choose from in fairness. I was a big fan of his half-time team talk in the FA Cup semi when he swallowed his undies and Big Andy Carroll lolloped that header rar in. Or his leaving doo from the...
WATCHING this Liverpool side step it up should take your breath away and we should have been left breathless at the start of the second half. Should. I’m worried a little bit. Worried we are taking for granted how good this side is, treating emphatic wins and...
WELL then. He’s back at Anfield tomorrow with The Hammers, or is it The Irons? The lads from London Stadium, or is it The Olympic Stadium? The geezers who used to patrol the manor of Upton Park, or was it the Boleyn Ground? Bit mixed are East London’s finest and now...
THERE are occasionally times in the turbulent and relentless eye of a football season storm when the opportunity for rumination unexpectedly offers itself. Last weekend’s empty slot in the Liverpool FC calendar, due to their previous FA Cup exit at the hands of lowly...
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.
