CONTROL. Control’s fascinating. We’ve fetishised control. I’ve fetishised control. Run a football match and everything will follow. Liverpool today took control. They chose control. A lovely shape in the first half out of possession. Allen and...
YOU should know that what you’re about to read isn’t going to unbiased. I love Mario Balotelli. Have done for years. He was born in Palermo where a large chunk of my family still reside. He played for Internazionale and A.C. Milan, the two teams that most of my...
THE flawed genius, the scorer of great goals, the personality, the pyromaniac, the impulse shopper, the petulance, the ill-discipline, the untameable beast. Yes, the Mario Balotelli roadshow has rolled into Liverpool, fireworks and all, writes CRAIG RIMMER. If there...
THIS BEGAN, as lots of what I do begins, with a not particularly funny joke being taken to extremes. The joke was that every chart I looked at for our book “Make Us Dream”, “H Is For Hawk” was one place ahead. Everywhere I went this particular early bird had indeed...
NEIL ATKINSON was joined by Rob Gutmann, Gareth Roberts and Mike Nevin as they look towards Manchester City away on Monday and the imminent arrival of a certain Italian international. Music this week from Paddy Clegg and Dane Pollard Paddy Clegg Paddy is a 17...
MARIO Balotelli then. Bit out of left field, wasn’t it? What with the categorical denial of interest 18 days ago and all that. And it appears, to say the least, to have divided opinion among Reds. After missing out on Alexis Sanchez, the collapse of the Loic...
ACCENTUATE the positives, eliminate the negatives. That’s exactly what Liverpool did during the second half of last season. Brendan Rodgers’ team was far from perfect during 2013-14 but – crucially – as the season went on he got them focused on what they could do...
WHAT an annoying buzz phrase it is. Having been a civil servant for a large part of my recent history, it has been haunting me, following me everywhere. Constantly being told what we are doing ‘going forward’. In the last year or so, I have noticed it...
AUGUST 19th, 1981. The day we sold Jimmy Case to Brighton & Hove Albion. Thirty three years ago today. Which means that one or two of you may not have seen him play on anything other than YouTube. The joys of being old, the joys of living through the glory years –...
EVENING all. On Thursday me and John are launching our book along with our many contributors. A wonderful group of people. We will be talking aloud for a while mostly about football and then Silent Sleep will play some lovely music. We’re proud of the book. We...
Salah’s future, summer exit talk, and inside insight from Lewis Steele, plus January pressure on Liverpool to add bodies. Guehi, Branthwaite, Wharton, Konaté’s contract, and who’s really on the radar.
Rob Gutmann hosts John Gibbons, Josh Sexton and Mike Kearney…
