ON July 31, Gerry McIver, the backbone of the Hillsborough Justice Campaign and stalwart of the HJC shop on Walton Breck Road, Anfield, passed away at his home following a long battle with illness. He was 81. If you’ve ever dropped into the shop, which sits opposite...
CAMERON Brannagan has been at Liverpool since the age of five. Fifteen years on, after making his breakthrough into the first team and making nine appearances last season, the question around the midfielder now is: What next? The Manchester-born 20-year-old was...
THE countdown to the Reds’ first home game of the season continues — not long to go now, is there? — as most of the internationals return from pointlessly representing their countries in meaningless friendlies, or poorly-timed qualifiers. It seems...
IT’S Nuri Sahin’s birthday this week, bringing back haunting memories of Brendan Rodgers’ constant desire to play players out of their natural positions — with Sahin as probably the worst case. As we never got to see the best of Sahin, we...
IF history tells us anything it is that the players that are brought in to Liverpool very rarely make an immediate impact, and those that do — John Barnes, Fernando Torres and Kenny Dalglish spring to mind — are few and far between, writes SAM JONES....
SIGNING players because we need ‘someone’ has been something that Liverpool has specialised in in recent years. It has been maddening. On deadline day, the Prosecution’s number one piece of evidence made his way to the Cote D’Azur to sign for Nice after...
WE’RE just four days from the Reds’ first game in front of the new Main Stand, and the excitement for 8,500 more heads inside Anfield is palpable. Leicester are the first to step inside the cauldron to face a bumper 54,000 crowd, most of which will be...
THIS weekend sees the opening of that massive new Main Stand. You know the one, you can see it from everywhere. Ever since Everton spent their rent money on Victorian Lonsdale and got chucked out, Anfield has been home to the Reds, but the stadium has obviously...
THE transfer window has, mercifully, slammed shut, writes DAVID WEBBER. The hum of rumours and ‘ITKs’ cluttering up Twitter can at least subside, and with the Main Stand finally completed, the season can start in earnest when we welcome the Reds back to...
DELVING deep into the history books this week with some historic wins by the mighty Reds. We start on September 7 1935 — only slightly before my time — as George Patterson’s Liverpool side welcomed an Everton side, which featured Dixie Dean, to...
Podcast explaining the theory behind the statistics used in football, looking at Wolves, shot data and the wider picture from Matchday 18.
Neil Atkinson is joined by Josh Williams.
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