MATCH REVIEW: LIVERPOOL 2 BURNLEY 0

MATCH REVIEW: LIVERPOOL 2 BURNLEY 0

TWO of your goals to nil. Two nil. 2-0. The scoreline of undoubted superiority. I’ve seen few undeserved twonils in my time supporting the Reds. It’s a submission scoreline. It’s boxing for the inevitable points win. It’s 6-4...
MATCH RATINGS: LIVERPOOL 2 BURNLEY 0

MATCH RATINGS: LIVERPOOL 2 BURNLEY 0

THAT was the embodiment of two teams playing at their natural level. We looked like a very good side playing our game and playing it comfortably. Burnley looked like a side well drilled but limited. Ultimately, they tired and were bewildered by the speed and style of...
LIVERPOOL: CHARACTER WITNESS

LIVERPOOL: CHARACTER WITNESS

“Just because you are a character doesn’t mean that you have character.” Winston Wolfe, Pulp Fiction, 1994 ONE of my favourite quotes from one of my all-time favourite films. That Pulp Fiction is now both old enough to have a bevvie in even the most...
LIVERPOOL: WE NEED A FOOTBALLER IN GOAL

LIVERPOOL: WE NEED A FOOTBALLER IN GOAL

LIVERPOOL doesn’t have a footballer in the goal at the moment. But Liverpool needs a footballer in the goal. Sure, at the moment, without a footballer in the goal, Liverpool are doing OK. But the fact they don’t have a footballer in the goal is taking its cosmic...
TAW PLAYER: THE NEXT THING FROM THE ANFIELD WRAP

TAW PLAYER: THE NEXT THING FROM THE ANFIELD WRAP

THIS is it. I’m not going to lie to you. I’m a bag of nerves. But this is it. This is the next thing. TAW Player. For the last 12 months I’ve been frustrated. Too many talking points. Not enough time. Too many guests. Not enough time. Too much...
LIVERPOOL: AND THEN THEY’RE GONNA BELIEVE US

LIVERPOOL: AND THEN THEY’RE GONNA BELIEVE US

GIVEN the fact Liverpool doesn’t operate the open cheque book policy Manchester City has enjoyed and profited from in recent years, the club should really be light years behind the boys in blue. They’re not. Instead, Liverpool Football Club is breathing heavily...
PODCAST: DON’T BELIEVE US JUST WATCH

PODCAST: DON’T BELIEVE US JUST WATCH

AFTER Liverpool’s terrific 2-1 home victory against Manchester City a somewhat hoarse Neil Atkinson is joined on this week’s podcast by Steve Graves, Jay McKenna and Phil Blundell to talk about how good Joe Allen was and how odd Manchester City...

MATCH REVIEW: LIVERPOOL V MANCHESTER CITY

GREAT games. To be involved in great games is a marvellous thing. Only good teams tend to get themselves in great games. Liverpool have been involved in two great games against Chelsea and one against Spurs recently. This, the fourth, is arguably the greatest and...

MATCH RATINGS: LIVERPOOL V MANCHESTER CITY

REST, sleep, recovery? It’s overrated. Our lads got back at 4am on Friday while City slept for about a week. Couldn’t tell could you? Liverpool ripped up the script and wrote their own again. The billionaires will have to wait for their Anfield win....