by Martin Fitzgerald | Mar 17, 2016 | Footie
EVENING, everyone. Regular readers of this column, all eight of them, will know how exactly how this works by now. But here’s a crash course for newcomers — a football match happens and I have 5 thoughts. Here they are: 1) I spent most of the day watching...
by Neil Atkinson | Mar 17, 2016 | Footie
SHOW them. Show them. Show them the way to go home. They’re tired and they want to go to bed. Cos they’re only half a football team compared to the boys in Red. Oh! Show them… Not quite as straightforward as that. On 42 minutes, Ben Johnson tells me...
by John Gibbons | Mar 17, 2016 | Footie
I’M meant to do player ratings now but I’m not going to. Its irrelevant. It’s always slightly irrelevant, of course, but feels even more so tonight. What score do you give Simon Mignolet? I don’t want to criticise Nathaniel Clyne for being up...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 17, 2016 | Footie
MONDAY, March 17, 1986, Watford v Liverpool – FA Cup 6th Round Replay. “My son Mike and his mate Macca badgered me all weekend about the driving to the replay. The fact that they would have to bunk off school hadn’t even entered their heads! Before I knew...
by Melissa Reddy | Mar 17, 2016 | Footie
THERE is chocolate cake at Old Trafford, and some really good coffee. What else? Well, plenty of security, so much so it makes you feel like you’re at an airport rather than a football stadium. Oh, and they have boss grass. Thank goodness Mario Balotelli is no longer...
by Heather Carroll | Mar 16, 2016 | Footie
WHEN Gemma Bonner leads out Liverpool Ladies on Saturday for the fifth-round FA Cup tie against Manchester City, home supporters will have the opportunity to watch Scott Rogers’s new-look side for the first time. At the tail-end of the last campaign, Matt Beard’s...
by Andy Heaton | Mar 16, 2016 | Footie
“THE Atmosphere tonight, not that I’ll forget it, was absolutely unbelievable. It was really great and I want to say thank you to everyone who was involved in this atmosphere. “It was easy to enjoy from the first until the last second. This was Liverpool how I...
by Simon Hughes | Mar 16, 2016 | Footie
THE first time Liverpool’s board floated the idea of appointing a director of football, Roy Evans was in charge and John Toshack — being a mate of his — was the target because it was believed they could work together. There was a feeling inside the...
by Ian Salmon | Mar 15, 2016 | Footie
I PRESSED the tab button. That’s all I did. Then the field exit button. And everything disappeared. All of it. The whole sodding thing. And I hadn’t saved anything. Hour-and-a-half’s work. And it was great. You’re obviously going to have to...
by John Gibbons | Mar 15, 2016 | Footie
DO you know what you will be doing in 15 months’ time? Ian Ayre does. Or more accurately, he knows what he won’t be doing. Which is being the Chief Executive Officer of Liverpool Football Club. And to think they said Steven Gerrard’s departure was a...
