IF you still love your football, the first weekend of a new season holds a special charm. One of my favourite books, Hunter Davies’ The Glory Game (written about Tottenham Hotspur during 1971-2) brilliantly evokes the pre season sense of renewal; the excited chatter...
MAYBE it’s just me but last season doesn’t feel like it ever really finished. The event that’s about to technically herald the start of the 2017-18 season — Liverpool’s game at Watford on Saturday — feels like a part two for...
THERE’S a tension knocking about. I am happy to accept that Liverpool have tried to spend over £120million on two players and would have gladly done so. I will take that at face value. Some might not but I will. The tension comes at the point where Liverpool may...
ONE of my best mates in the world is a Sheffield United supporter. We should all have a mate who’s a Sheffield United supporter. Well, not them in particular, there aren’t enough to go around us all and I’m not sharing mine, but a team like them. It...
LIVERPOOL’S on-off pursuit of Virgil van Dijk took yet another twist on Monday evening as the Dutchman released a public statement outlining his desire to leave Southampton. https://twitter.com/TheAnfieldWrap/status/894596826254516235 Under 24 hours before, Jürgen...
THE clock is really ticking now. The transfer window is done for in four weeks’ time. The league campaign starts in less than 10 days and potentially the new season’s most important game — the first leg of a Champions League playoff — is scheduled...
AS the final whistle sounded in May to confirm Liverpool’s first top-four finish under Jürgen Klopp at a relieved Anfield, there was a brief moment of realisation that, as the players were joined by their families for the traditional lap of honour, this would probably...
PRE-season friendlies are interesting for a number of reasons. They give supporters a chance to see some of the club’s brightest young talent in action, to see new stars make their mark and even give the players who looked certain to leave the club a chance to claw...
“THE ball, the ball, they hardly touched the ball; we beat the shite on a Wednesday night and and they hardly touched the ball.” That chant, born on April 20, 2016 when The Reds hammered Everton 4-0, was true of most of the players in blue. But it was truest of all...
WHETHER you like it or not, the debate about rail seating at English football grounds is happening and happening now, writes MATTHEW CRIST. But will it really deliver everything we are lead to believe and just who, if any, will benefit? Since the introduction of...
United Exit Early & Macclesfield Record The Biggest FA Cup Upset Ever: The Coach Home
John Gibbons speaks to Jay Motty from The Stretford Paddock about the ongoing drama at Manchester United and Macclesfield FC footballer Shea Callister about knocking holders Crystal Palace out of the FA Cup.
