LIVERPOOL: WHAT DOES PREMIER LEAGUE PROVEN PROVE?

“I’M not just talking about winning games, but the way we do things and the way we conduct ourselves. The class and dignity this club was renowned for. It’s the way Liverpool used to be seen by people and we should be aiming to recreate that.”...

WHY LIVERPOOL SHOULD FIND A ROLE FOR KEVIN KEEGAN

IT’S funny how sometimes you can be thinking about someone and they pop up in different places. Like when someone recommends a band to you, and suddenly you see their name wherever you look. I’ve been thinking about Kevin Keegan a lot recently, and then he was...

LIVERPOOL: THE CASE FOR THE EUROPA LEAGUE

IMAGINE there’s this cup. Liverpool FC can go in for it. Liverpool will be the richest club in the competition (at the very least until the last 32 when the third-placed teams in the Champions League groups tumble into it). We’ll have the most valuable squad, by some...

FIRMINO: RELOADING LIVERPOOL’S WEAPON OF FAITH

“OUR faith is the weapon most feared by our enemies.” A week ago, approximately 15 minutes after the Premier League fixtures for 2015-16 were announced, my phone beeped away. A former work colleague, who is a Manchester United enthusiast, texted me the...

FIRMINO: NOW THAT’S MORE LIKE IT, LIVERPOOL

SO it seems Liverpool are on the verge of signing Brazilian attacker Roberto Firmino. As a self-confessed football hipster, I’m punching the air/cat in delight. At the time of writing, Sky Sports News are parading Liverpool’s agreement with Hoffenheim for...

LIVERPOOL FIXTURES: SEVEN AND HELL? BRING IT ON

I WOKE up this morning and I’d had enough. Not of life — life’s cool thanks; it wasn’t a general non-specific malaise: I’d had enough of football. We spoke on Monday’s podcast about the way that nobody seems to know when the season...

LIVERPOOL: MALCOLM MCDOWELL’S TURKISH DELIGHT

I MET Malcolm McDowell once, writes ROB FRASER. I’ve been a [sort of] journalist for nearly 20 years but this wasn’t an interview. I was on holiday in Taormina, Sicily and their film festival was taking place and Malc was being honoured [so was shampoo spokesperson...