I’D warmed up for Plymouth by doing a mixture of watching and listening to Lincoln v Ipswich the night before. Great, wasn’t it? Full house, good footy, great ending. A journeyman striker, who was paid for by a crowdfunding scheme, becomes a hero. The BBC...
AHEAD of Liverpool’s clash with Swansea City at Anfield, we spoke to Chris Wathan, Chief Football Writer at Media Wales, to get the lowdown on The Swans. Swansea have just one win in their last six and currently sit bottom of the table, are fans fearing the...
Mike Nevin reflects on why opposing fans hate Liverpool so much after the reds FA Cup tie vs Plymouth Argyle where anti-scouse songs rang around the Home Park. I MANAGED to get myself really wound up while watching the Plymouth cup replay in midweek. What irked me...
THERE are certain things in football which you can always count on. James Milner to successfully bury a penalty, for example. Or Manchester United to score an offside goal at Old Trafford. Another of football’s near-certainties is for Lucas Leiva to be linked with a...
“WE’RE building something here, detective. We’re building it from scratch. All the pieces matter.” A line from the nonpareil Clarke Peters character Lester Freamon in The Wire, talking about his investigation into a spiralling drug conspiracy case in West Baltimore at...
AS I write this it’s 9.30am on Wednesday. The Liverpool team and coaching staff will be on their way to Plymouth for tonight’s match, but I don’t care. I know loads of people do and that’s fine. I didn’t want us to actively lose, I just didn’t care one way or the...
WHERE’S the balance for this? Where is the tone? Because it is the rhetoric which tends to let these affairs down. For all the talk of the magic of the cup, and while acknowledging that tonight was a significant game for Plymouth Argyle and for two or three...
GOD, I don’t half feel sorry for Gibbons, although I’m sure he’s had a great time. Hard watching that. Anyway, the ratings… Loris Karius: 6 Good, strong hand on a long range effort in the first half that had ‘upset’ written all over...
PRETTY dull that, wasn’t it? Liverpool got their goal and then created little else. The senior players didn’t really lead the young lads, in fact Harry Wilson and Sheyi Ojo look the most likely once they came on. Not So Unlucky Lucas Lucas Leiva scored his...
SATURDAY night I was DJing with Steve Graves for The Cheap Thrills EP Launch at The Shipping Forecast. It was a brilliant night, not least because of the wonderful DJs on show. It was rammed and boisterous and everyone wanted to celebrate after. I was encouraged by...
