LIVERPOOL have travelled all the way to Kazan in Tartastan for their Europa League fixture tonight, with many brave fans making the 2,524 mile journey into deepest Russia. The trip has reminded me of a famously ardous Liverpool away tie of the 1990s, when Liverpool...
IT is there, always present for Jurgen Klopp’s press conferences. It finds a space on podcasts, takes a seat on taxi journeys, and is around for morning coffee as well as a bedtime brew. Liverpool’s new manager termed that old resident the “daily Daniel...
ASK any of the greatest Liverpool players and they will speak of the same outstanding quality among the greatest managers they have served: the ability to make a decision and stick to it. It explains why Jose Mourinho is currently viewed as vulnerable as he has ever...
EIGHT league games before the end of the year. Twenty four points. The definitive halfway point. We sit here in early November, 11 games in on 17 points, which isn’t a number that would get the juices flowing under normal circumstances. Well, friends, this isn’t...
RUBIN Kazan. What can you say about them that hasn’t been said before? Firstly, how about “it’s close”? No-one is saying that. Perhaps “it’s easy to get to.” No-one is saying that either. Because these things are lies, it isn’t close, it...
LIVERPOOL won — and won well, coming back from a goal down to the champions — at Stamford Bridge on Saturday. Not that you’d know it looking at some of the mainstream media ever since. It’s been Jose Mourinho this, Jose Mourinho that, Chelsea’s mistakes...
STATISTICS in football is becoming one of the hottest topics around, especially around Liverpool ways in recent times. What do they all mean? How much can you read into them? Which ones tell us something important and which ones don’t? On a basic level, they...
THERE’S a line about how Liverpool can be successful in the Premier League that goes like this: beat the lesser sides and you can win the thing. At the very least, it will go a long way to getting you top four. It’s a strategy that has served Arsenal well for years...
A WONDERFUL result, especially after going 1-0 down. A manager can only change so much in a short time. We’ve all mentioned his tactical changes, his pressing, players he’s brought back, players “playing in their right positions”. Jurgen has...
“I CANNOT, just cannot, begin to describe the size of the hook I’d give Coutinho at half time. I don’t have the vocabulary to do so.” Neil Edward Atkinson, 13:25, 31st October 2015 Makes fools of all of us, the football. One of its most...
