POOR old Brendan Rodgers. He’s gone from being within two points of winning Liverpool their first title in over 20 years one season, to having some fans call for his head with at least eight games still to play the next. It’s not just season on season that fans change...
EVERY community has ways of using labels to damn individuals into loathing, suspicion or worse. In inner city areas, daubing “so-and-so is a grass” on a wall has long been a particularly effective weapon; in the middle ages ordinary people held responsible for crop...
WITH Liverpool making the 40-mile trip to Ewood Park tomorrow night for the FA Cup quarter-final replay, we spoke to Lancashire Telegraph sports reporter PAUL WHEELOCK, who has covered Blackburn Rovers home and away for two-and-a-half years, about the match. How...
BEFORE proceeding with this article, there are a few important things you need to know about me, writes PIM WANGTECHAWAT. I am a girl in my early twenties. I am a Liverpool fan (obviously). I am Thai, which means I look as Asian as you can possibly look. And I was...
ACCORDING to the back page of The Mirror today, there has been a falling out. Grown men have disagreed about how and why the wheels fell off in the last couple of games involving Liverpool, it is alleged. The newspaper describes the apparent incident as “a major...
WITH Steven Gerrard in the final months of his final Anfield contract and an American adventure ahead of him, we asked Liverpool fans who follow his club-to-be to tell us what the skipper can expect when he crosses the pond in July. First up, MIKE COPE. STEVEN GERRARD...
IT seems like something’s been triggered by yesterday’s game. Buckets of pent-up frustration, simmering nicely since August, have been kicked over and the consequences are thrashing around like fish dumped on the pavement. It feels like a tipping point. I’m in...
“NEVER write angry. Always leave it a day to get your argument straight.” I was told that a few years ago. As an argument it has merit. Nobody wants to read spit, so it’s best to relax, gather your thoughts and throw them out to anyone who wants to listen....
I DID one of those personality tests at work once. You know, where you answer loads of innocuous questions on what seem like loads of innocuous topics and, at the end of it, someone tells you EXACTLY what you’re like. So what am I like? Well it turns out I like...
BUFFON, Cannavaro, Thuram, Nedved, Del Piero, Ibrahimovic and co against Carson, Traore, Biscan, Riise, Le Tallec, Baros and co. Didn’t seem fair, did it? I’m not sure what the odds where when Liverpool lined up against Juventus at Anfield for the...
