“I DON’T know why I am doing this. I don’t even like jogging.” Beginning the Liverpool half marathon, I felt similarly to the bloke behind me who said that, writes JONATHAN TODD. One reason why I am not sure about jogging is that it provides limited escapism....
STEVEN Gerrard used to have a template text to turn to ahead of every summer. Before silly season entered full swing, the former Liverpool captain was instructed to message the club’s priority targets to convince them to join him at Anfield. Often, he felt daft as he...
I WAS as glad as everyone else to see the back of Raheem Sterling last summer, writes CHARLIE CHRISTIAN. After months of distracted performances, shameless attention-seeking and general poor conduct all round, it was time for the club and Sterling to part ways and at...
FROM here it will be a major surprise if the Premier League does not have a new winner in May. Meanwhile, one of the founding members — a club that since 1992 has not been relegated — will go down in the most humiliating manner possible. Soon, Manchester...
IT’S not even April and silly season is already upon us, it seems. Transfer-mongers are weaving their webs and agents are attempting to get their clients their 2016-17 contracts sorted before they’ve even entered the last month of this campaign. Where Liverpool...
LFC Twitter got very excited last night. All it took was a few encouraging words from esteemed journalist Paul Joyce of the Daily Express and we were all a flutter. Back pages were being photographed and shared, pages were being refreshed rapidly waiting for the 10:30...
I HAD every intention of using this column to write about our current songbook this weekend; a critical analysis of the songs that are in heavy rotation and a reflection on the impact they are having on the atmosphere in the ground. There was going to be a big section...
THEY said it would never happen again. A once-in-a-lifetime event. An opportunity for a public display of civic unity. A chance for an entire city to stand together and say, “You know what? This is us. You can knock us down, you can walk all over us. But you won’t...
A NUMBER of players have benefited hugely from the arrival of Jürgen Klopp at Liverpool almost six months ago, writes Joel Rabinowitz. Dejan Lovren has seemingly resurrected his career at the club, and has improved markedly from the nerve-wracked, error-prone...
INTERNATIONAL football used to be good. There were times when it wasn’t even that bad being a bit of an England fan. It’s a shame that a once-integral part of the football calendar, with an altogether different flavour is deemed so boring; so much of an inconvenience....
