BOSS that. Funny how you know a game is likely to pan out after 10 minutes, isn’t it? Simon Mignolet: 8 Massive stop one v one when it mattered, needs to keep backing himself. Nathaniel Clyne: 7 Back to his overlapping best, looked far more dangerous than of...
STEVE McMANAMAN is 45 today. A Scouser who made 364 appearances and scored 66 goals in the red of Liverpool FC. A player who joined the club as a teenage Evertonian and left having won two cups – The FA Cup in 1992 and The League Cup in 1995. In that final in 1995,...
AHEAD of Liverpool’s clash with Tottenham at Anfield, TAW contributors look back on eight times the Reds were too hot for Spurs. Liverpool 6 Tottenham Hotspur 2 – May 8, 1993 THE 6-2 thrashing of Spurs in May 1993 was memorable for more than being the day...
AHEAD of Liverpool’s clash with Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield, we spoke to Spurs blogger CHRIS MILLER to get the latest on the Reds’ upcoming opponents. Firstly, Spurs come into this game having not lost since early December, what have you made of the...
I NEVER tire of being surprised at myself for being surprised by the changing of the seasons. Like a dog with no real sense of itself or the past. Oh look, how wild is that wind? How hot is that sun. How brown are those falling leaves? Aren’t these showers...
I’ve always been a little bit too obsessed with the Football Manager series of computer games. Back when I was in my early teens, I used to rush home from school with no other thought in my mind apart from conquering Europe with Italian giants (at the time) A.C....
IT has been a grim few weeks to be a Red. January and February are dark, unforgiving winter months at the best of times and Liverpool’s barren run has only added to the seemingly never-ending gloom. So to cheer us up, or should I say to offer some perspective, I’m...
OCTOBER 17, 2010. What a time to be alive. Mediocre Liverpool managed by a mediocre manager resided in the relegation zone — floundering in an unthinkable 19th place in the Premier League with just six points won from eight games played. A depressing figure of...
IF you’re of sufficient age but are struggling to recall this game it’s generally known as the ‘tear gas game.’ Yes, the Liverpool v Manchester United game that escalated to chemical warfare. The two FA Cup games of 1985, recently covered here as part of ‘The Rivals’...
TITLE-CHASING Liverpool, led by Bob Paisley, lined up at Carrow Road 37 years ago today with David Fairclough in the side, making only his fifth start of the season. The record books show the Scouser plundered a hat-trick against Norwich – yet the game is bettered...
