by Rob Gutmann | Dec 31, 2017 | Footie
I THINK we’ve got to see this one as a bit of a free hit. These games, coming tumbling on top of each other as they do, can become lotteries. Liverpool have done well enough over this festive programme — wins over Bournemouth, Swansea and Leicester and the draw...
by Neil Atkinson | Dec 30, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
WHAT winning feels like. Soul soaring. Heart pounding. Vaguely nauseous. Made of fists, made of hips, made of fuck off. Just fuck off. It should always feel like that but so often it doesn’t. A combination between great football and a great scrap. Tonight these...
by Andy Heaton | Dec 30, 2017 | Footie
MO, mo, mo he’s magic, yer know. For all the grief that comes his way, Liverpool fans owe Jose Mourinho a debt of immense gratitude. With Mourinho’s recent hypocritical cryarsing about Manchester City and Liverpool spending money, the man who has spent more money than...
by Dan Morgan | Dec 30, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
THAT win should not be underestimated at any cost. The thought of going to Burnley in two days absolutely needing something was enough to put you off the idea of seeing in a New Year altogether. But The Reds shook off an early setback, displaying tons of character, to...
by Rob Gutmann | Dec 29, 2017 | Footie
“TAKE a walk around my centre half, gentlemen, he’s a colossus.” Jürgen Klopp presenting Virgil van Dijk to the press pack on January 1, 2018. Well, not actually, Klopp, and not actually van Dijk. These were of course Bill Shankly’s introductory words when...
by Dan Morgan | Dec 27, 2017 | Footie
SAY what you like about Rio Ferdinand, his links across the M62 and that gut wrenching, injury-time winner against Liverpool at Old Trafford in 2006 (of which I still hold Djibril Cisse more to account then anybody else), but I thought he was a fine centre-back....
by The Anfield Wrap | Dec 27, 2017 | Footie
THE Dutch version of Match of the Day is called Studio Sport. It airs every Sunday at 7pm. For over 50 years it has shown the highlights of Eredivisie games, writes ERIC SCHIPPER. It’s tradition to eat in front of the telly when it starts. A similar type of tune. No...
by Paul Cope | Dec 27, 2017 | Footie
THE current incarnation of the football team representing Liverpool Football Club continues to be the craziest version I have ever witnessed. On checking Twitter at half-time yesterday I discovered what you’ve no doubt seen since — that following Burnley’s goals...
by Neil Atkinson | Dec 26, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
NOT dissimilar to the aftermath of Bournemouth 0 Liverpool 4, what’s really important here is that 5-0 home wins don’t feel mundane. Shouldn’t feel mundane. Not now, not ever. To put it in context, in the whole of the 2006-7 season only once did...
by David Segar | Dec 26, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
ON the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me, a 5-0 against Swansea. At half time it felt like yet another one of those when The Reds would inevitably pay for their profligacy, but quite the opposite. They ran out in the second half and proceeded to...
