by Martin Fitzgerald | Mar 20, 2016 | Footie
AFTERNOON, everyone. I’ve got loads of thoughts on Southampton v Liverpool but here are five that don’t involve me setting fire to myself. 1) Southampton is so far away it’s basically in the sea. Someone told me my remit here is to convey the...
by Rob Gutmann | Mar 19, 2016 | Footie
Stonehenge Where the dogs bark and the cats meow I will take you there I will show you how – D. St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap 1981 STONEHENGE is on the way to Southampton. Just outside Salisbury. It takes forever to get from Liverpool to Southampton so you look for...
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...
