DAVE Downie was brilliant on this week’s The Coach Home. He was fascinating about Everton, eviscerating the mentality — or lack thereof — which leads to a football club crumbling from within; bilious, toxic, cycloptic — the idea that things...
GREAT bit of video this. Great kits — check out the collars on the Everton shirts — great saves — see Bruce Grobbelaar from Graeme Sharp and a familiar face in the opposition line up in Steve McMahon. It’s the Goodison derby on this day 33...
NEWLY-PROMOTED Sunderland stunned reigning champions Liverpool Ladies on the opening night of the new Women’s Super League season as the Reds crashed to a 2-1 home defeat. The Wearsiders took a 1-0 lead in at half-time after Beth Mead had opened the scoring at...
BOB Paisley led Liverpool out at Wembley for the last time as the Reds took on Manchester United in the Milk Cup final 32 years ago today. 17-year-old Norman Whiteside gave Ron Atkinson’s United a 12th-minute lead in front of a crowd of 99,000, controlling a...
I WAS wondering how I would cope, writes ANTHONY WHITE. Until Steven Gerrard came out and apologised and took “full responsibility” for the defeat against Manchester United I was wondering how, as a late thirties relatively well-adjusted man, I was going...
BLANK was the greatest manager blank never had. Go on, ask someone to fill ’em in, writes ROBBIE DEIGHAN. Invariably, the blanks will be filled with Brian Clough and England. After all, it is surely the most famous footballing marriage never to be consummated....
listen to ‘Raheem Sterling: TAW discuss his treatment by fans at Anfield against Manchester United’ on audioBoom IT’S felt like a season like no other for contract talks dominating back pages. No sooner was the Gerrard saga ‘resolved’ than attentions...
THE Reds beat Everton 3-1 at Anfield in the 203rd Merseyside Derby nine years ago today. It’s a game that always comes up in conversation, this derby, mainly because of the Evertonians in the Anfield Road celebrating like they’d won the World Cup. What had...
DON’T PANIC. I’m thinking the big friendly letters on the front of ‘The Book’ in Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (the radio version not the bloody awful film) as opposed to Corporal Jones’ catchphrase in Dad’s Army....
