NAME-DROPPING time: I interviewed Jamie Carragher last week for a new project I’m working on. More about that next year, in case you’re interested. He was considering Istanbul and 2005. A decade later, he still can’t really comprehend how it all happened. Even with...
WITH his 50th appearance for Liverpool likely to come at Goodison Park this weekend, Alberto Moreno has been talking to Premier League Productions about seizing his chance in the first team and getting a run of starts that looked extremely unlikely a month ago. In his...
A WIN at last. Two fantastic finishes from the much-missed Daniel Sturridge. Impressive midfield performances from the going now staying Lucas Leiva and stand-in skipper James Milner. Tireless running from Danny Ings. More magic from Phil Coutinho. It might have ‘only...
PFA Player of the Year Ji So-Yun scored twice and England’s Eni Aluko and Fran Kirby bagged a goal each as Liverpool Ladies suffered a heavy home league defeat to Chelsea Ladies in front of a 1,000-plus crowd in Widnes. The Reds lined up in a 3-5-2 formation,...
THE Reds. The Tricky Reds. You arrive wondering where a goal will come from and they score in a minute. You then think they’ll settle down and play and they refuse. At 2-0 and 3-1 up we should have been able to relax, but our defence had other ideas. Well you...
SHALL we just talk about Lucas Leiva? Or just about Daniel Sturridge? Or do we need to address the big holes? For big holes there were. Too many of them too often again. Liverpool are trying to do clever things — Emre Can as a split defender midfielder. Philippe...
YEARS ago, Billy Connolly used to do a routine about Radio 4’s ‘Thought for the day’. For those who don’t know, this is a segment of the Today programme and is usually delivered by a vicar or priest or whatever and consists of a two-minute faith-based pondering on...
THIS may turn into a bit of a rant. Not a calmly-delivered list of facts; a proper rant, which might send Rafa’s calmly-delivered FACTS cart-wheeling firmly back into 2009. Let’s see how long I can stay calm. On the ITV commentary in Istanbul, as Liverpool walked out...
IT was always going to be this way. That we would end up living in this half light. There was a moment , after the quake of the 6-1 lashing at Stoke in May. After the swell, and in the after-shock, when a decision might have been taken. It would have been an emotive...
I’LL be honest, I don’t know where I’m going with this. I haven’t got it plotted out. I’m not entirely sure what my point is or if I actually *have* a point. I’m just writing because I bloody have to, because I NEED to talk about...
