WHEN I was eight years old, my next door neighbour – a year my senior – was showing me his Shoot! magazine league ladder, writes PAUL LITTLE. Pointing to the Scottish First Division – we two small boys were back in the very late 70s here – he asked me who my favourite...
RUMOURS, rumours, rumours. Contracts, contracts, contracts. Does anybody know for certain what is going on with Raheem Sterling’s and Jordan Henderson’s contract negotiations? Well, obviously *they* know, writes OWEN REID. Brendan Rodgers probably knows, too. Their...
NEIL ATKINSON, John Gibbons, Stephanie Heneghan and Adam Melia get into the reaction to Kanye’s booking at Glastonbury, Kendrick Lamar’s new album and they ease their way through the first half of the show. It feels like an album week. Ten terrific songs...
IT’S never nice being a figure of fun. Trust me, I know. I’m 41 now, but back when I was about 12 or 13 and still trying to settle into a rough as old boots comprehensive school in the big town after a sheltered childhood in the countryside I inadvertently...
FIRST things first: I’m NOT a rugby fan (at least I wasn’t), writes MARK SPENCE. Make no bones about it, I love football way more than is probably healthy. From the first time I clapped eyes on Ian Rush’s weasel-like physique terrorising defences the length and...
LIVERPOOL supporters are invited to join Jamie Carragher and Simon Hughes when they discuss the author’s new book at the official launch of Men in White Suits. Jamie and Simon will be joined by Neil Atkinson from The Anfield Wrap on Friday May 1 at Mountford Hall, the...
IN an age of entrenched opinion and polarised viewpoints, I think we can all agree that the worst person ever to have lived is Jessie J. Jessie J, with her faux humility and her emotional hollowness and her hair and her pants. Look at me, she insists. Look at me, as I...
HALF time. Half time and my Lord, my hand to God, Liverpool look a mile away. As though the game has come as an enormous surprise to the lot of them. A day out at the Gower and Colin Pascoe says: “Forget this area of outstanding natural beauty lads, we kick off...
WELL it’s three points isn’t it? Wasn’t pretty, but a win is a win at this stage of the season. Up the Reds. SIMON MIGNOLET 7 Saved all the balls that were kicked at him. You’ll get some lads moaning about his kicking but, call me old...
I TALK to Mick Coyle on his CityTalk show on a Tuesday morning. It’s one of the best things I get to do on a weekly basis. Last Tuesday we spoke about Matthew Crist’s piece on this very website, his ‘manifesto for the modern game’. I spoke...
