by Ian Salmon | Feb 17, 2016 | Footie
MOMENTS that change things. I was working in a record shop. Late eighties. Mentioned this before. Lots of times. 1988 going into 89. That summer of 89 when all we did was tell anybody that looked like they’d ever seen a guitar that what they really needed in...
by Phil Greene | Feb 17, 2016 | Footie
THE rumours began to circulate on Sunday morning. I watched, listened and read as the word spread further and further but I could not allow myself to believe it until the team-sheet was published on Twitter around 1pm Daniel Sturridge, Phil Coutinho and Roberto...
by Simon Hughes | Feb 17, 2016 | Footie
ONE of my finest moments as a reporter involved Daniel Agger and a stare out. I’d interviewed him before. I became conscious of the delays between question and answer that seemed to go on forever. I suspected he hoped the question might disappear if he left it long...
by John Gibbons | Feb 16, 2016 | Footie
I’M glad the ticket protest is over, for now at least, because it was stressful. It’s not what you’re into footie for — I’m goals over walk-outs any day of the week. It was also a time, all those days ago, that we all fell out a little...
by Ben Johnson | Feb 15, 2016 | Footie
THERE’S a phrase going round at the minute about good teams having seven or eight people to carry a piano and three or four to play it. I struggle with this for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I bought a piano about two years ago and arranged for it to be...
by Martin Fitzgerald | Feb 14, 2016 | Footie
AFTERNOON, everyone. Your normal host for this sort of thing, Neil Atkinson, is currently in Boston living his other life as a screenwriter who doesn’t get to watch Liverpool win 6-0 away from home and see Kolo Toure kiss the ground as if he’s just...
by John Gibbons | Feb 14, 2016 | Footie
A REALLY strange day. The game had a feel of a friendly first half as Liverpool strolled into a 2-0 lead without much effort and Villa looked pretty disinterested. Maybe it was the fact we all had the sun in our eyes throughout the first half so it was all a bit...
by Rob Gutmann | Feb 13, 2016 | Footie
IT will be a bit of a shame to lose Villa. The away trip, not the team. It’s an old-school red brick football factory — and one of the last of its kind. Handily, it’s in the middle of the UK and is an unambiguous there-and-back-in-a-day away job. No...
by Melissa Reddy | Feb 12, 2016 | Footie
I INTERVIEWED John Barnes for Goal.com to discuss being third on their list of the greatest 20 players to ever turn out for Liverpool. Typically, he wasn’t fussed over such an accolade and shared some brilliant insight into what made the club so special and what...
by Michael Nevin | Feb 12, 2016 | Footie
IS it time, yet again, to reprise our thinking on Daniel Sturridge? There were plenty of positives that came from Tuesday’s FA Cup exit at West Ham — none more so than the striker’s 60-minute cameo from the bench. Sturridge’s unreliability is well-documented and...
