“FOOTBALL is fantastic when it’s a morning match. Football is fantastic when it’s an evening match. But football, is most fantastic when it’s played in the afternoon.” (Football Is Really Fantastic. Frank Sidebottom, 1984.) I’m unnaturally excited about Saturday. All...
FOOTBALL does many things to our emotions, but it very rarely makes us laugh out loud. Prior to a couple of weeks ago, the last time I remember actually belly laughing in reference to Liverpool was when we demolished Arsenal at home under Brendan Rodgers and, as the...
THE Red Journey tells the story of Liverpool Football Club’s 125 years through the voices of the people who made it one of the most revered clubs in football. Curated by MARK PLATT, the book offers an insight into the story of Liverpool FC, featuring more than...
STUCK for something to do on a cold Sunday night, I decided to see what this “Blue Planet” thing on the BBC iPlayer was all about. To be honest, when I first saw the title of the show I assumed it was some Evertonian fantasy where all the...
EVEN in the impatient world of modern football, Liverpool supporters around the world are still famed for their loyal, unswerving support. Those of us who go to the game however, know a different side to Anfield and as recently as half time against Huddersfield Town a...
IN the past fortnight Liverpool have travelled twice to the capital and, in Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United, have faced teams at grounds which differ from the ones they’re traditionally associated with. I attended both games and was keen to see how they...
THE decision to do away with the old-style reserve leagues and to replace them with what is now an Under-23 league is one of the things that baffles me most about the difference between modern-day football and football when I was a kid. The official Premier League...
“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,...
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...
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...
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.
