by Adam Smith | May 11, 2017 | Footie
AT some point between the advent of the Premier League and today, it was decided that footballers in England’s top division weren’t human. Obviously they’re human in the sense that they’re made of flesh and blood, yet somehow they’ve ceased to be seen and judged in...
by Heather Carroll | May 10, 2017 | Footie
LIVERPOOL Ladies continued their recent run of good form at St. Andrew’s on Sunday afternoon, beating FA Women’s Cup finalists Birmingham City 2-0. Both goals came during the second half; Jess Clarke scoring her first goal for the club on her first start, and Gemma...
by Ben Johnson | May 10, 2017 | Footie
YOU may or (probably definitely) may not have noticed that I didn’t meet the Monday morning deadline for my weekly column to go up. I noticed. To be honest, I pre-empted it. You see, I was in Magaluf from Friday night to Sunday morning on a whirlwind tour. Magaluf,...
by Karl Coppack | May 10, 2017 | Footie
WHEN I’m asked to write these pieces on old matches there’s usually a process which takes place in my mind. Firstly, I’m tempted to tell the lads that I’m not old enough to remember a particular game and they’ve got me confused with those who remember Billy Liddell...
by John Gibbons | May 10, 2017 | Footie
SATURDAY I was playing cornet with the brass band at a steam train festival before heading up to the disco festival. That is a funny sentence, isn’t it? I sometimes think my life is wandering from one unusual thing to another. Slightly late. They were both fun,...
by Phil Blundell | May 10, 2017 | Footie
I ALMOST feel it’s often forgotten by many that when Liverpool play there’s another team on the pitch, and by that I mean how that other team approaches the game. Unless Liverpool are able to do something brilliant, such as Emre Can scoring a wonder goal at Watford...
by Gareth Roberts | May 9, 2017 | Footie
PSYCHOLOGISTS talk of a phenomenon called involuntary memory chains — the idea that something can trigger an unintentional recall of a string of memories, good or bad. Anything can kick it off — a taste, a smell, a piece of music… Neil...
by Paul Cope | May 9, 2017 | Footie
“TODAY, I know nobody wants to hear it but I’m brave enough to say it, the pitch was really dry. “We gave it all the water we had but after 15 minutes it was really dry, the (drying) wind, it was difficult. “You could see it, a lot of passes where...
by Heather Carroll | May 8, 2017 | Footie
LIVERPOOL Ladies maintained their unbeaten start to the FA Women’s Super League Spring Series at Arsenal Ladies on Thursday night, holding the Gunners to a 4-4 draw. Alex Greenwood’s opening goal was initially cancelled out by Chloe Kelly, yet Natasha...
by Neil Atkinson | May 7, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
DAMN these Reds. Damn them to hell. They love looking a gifthorse in the mouth. They’ve not been short of gifthorses. Gifthorses coming out of their ears. They can’t look at a gifthorse without looking at it in the mouth. Today the most direct. 12 yards....
