by Josh Sexton | Nov 7, 2017 | Footie
“I’M happy, really happy, that he could make this decisive moment. “He needs to get used to the intensity that we ask. He knew when he came and we signed him that this will happen and we would ask for this and it is nice. “But a lot of players are like ‘yeah, yeah,...
by Gareth Roberts | Nov 7, 2017 | Footie
FROM what many perceived as a gamble to what one Sunday newspaper at the weekend described as the “signing of the season”. However you look at it now, the first three months of Mohamed Salah’s Liverpool career have been a huge success. Yet as Liverpool and Roma...
by David Segar | Nov 6, 2017 | Footie
AS the temperature dropped from late summer to midwinter, without hesitating for a second to remember that there’s a little thing called autumn, I retreated indoors to spend the weekend binge watching series two of Stranger Things, interrupted only to see the Mighty...
by Andy Heaton | Nov 4, 2017 | Footie
IT’S no big secret, but for those that don’t know, I’m a massive advocate of the Rafael Benitez school of just winning games without having a nervous breakdown. That said, no one was happier when Liverpool appointed Jürgen Klopp. It was a line in the sand, a marker, a...
by Neil Atkinson | Nov 4, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
HOW strange was that first half? It was everything a football match shouldn’t be. Let’s be crystal clear — I’m not complaining. We tell ourselves all sorts of lies about the fixture list. We say “well, it evens itself out”. We say...
by Ben Johnson | Nov 4, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
Pre Match The team has dropped, as have jaws all over the world. Big Si the Mig is captain. I’m not a million miles away from going for a nice big walk and adding my season ticket to the river of flames. I genuinely, honest to the good lord on high, couldn’t think of...
by Neil Atkinson | Nov 3, 2017 | Footie
THE news came in overnight that Liverpool cannot agree a contract with Emre Can meaning he can go in the summer for nothing. I am not Can’s biggest fan. I am very annoyed indeed by the fact that Liverpool look likely to let him leave for nothing. These two...
by Michael Nevin | Nov 3, 2017 | Footie
IF, for once, the “European night” atmosphere was lacking on Wednesday it was because there was a strong whiff of déjà vu mixing with pre-Bommie Night sulphur in the November air. There was a sense, predominantly in the crowd, that the evening – despite a whole 12...
by Rob Gutmann | Nov 3, 2017 | Footie
I DON’T think I’ll ever quite get over what I witnessed when I travelled to the London stadium for the first time in May. I’d been quite looking forward to it. I’d envisaged something of an architectural gem of a stadium nestled in a futuristic meadow, where just a...
by Joel Rabinowitz | Nov 2, 2017 | Footie
THERE has been plenty of talk this season among fans, pundits and journalists alike about whether Liverpool need a more orthodox striker who guarantees a higher goal tally than Roberto Firmino has suggested he is capable of. It’s an intriguing conundrum and one which...
