THE TURNING OF THE SCREW

LIVERPOOL have scored about a billion goals this season, winning by three, four, five. They’ve dug in, winning 1-0 at home when under the cosh. They’ve freaked out, winning 0-5 away from home with panache. They’ve been pegged back by half time and won with style....
BORINI: FAB FOR SUNDERLAND?

BORINI: FAB FOR SUNDERLAND?

WITH another goal under his belt for The Black Cats in Saturday’s Tyne-Wear derby, on-loan Fabio Borini is certainly making an impression at Sunderland. But just how good has the Italian been during his spell at The Stadium of Light? We asked ADAM DELICATE from...
PUB v GROUND

PUB v GROUND

By STEPHEN MARTIN PEOPLE flooded in. I couldn’t see where they would all fit. After a brief discussion with my brother about leaving, we decided to stay.  Stood shoulder to shoulder with unknown people, jockeying for a better view, I couldn’t see the point...
DERBY DAY: THE TROUBLE AND STRIFE

DERBY DAY: THE TROUBLE AND STRIFE

by IAN SALMON *I should preface all that follows with this caveat: I adore my wife, she is a wonderful, beautiful, astounding, intelligent woman and I am thoroughly aware that I am punching so far above my weight that it’s not even funny. MY wife’s first...

LIVERPOOL FC – YOU’VE CHANGED

by STEVEN SCRAGG WHY do you watch Liverpool? What really takes you to Anfield? A love of Liverpool Football Club? That’s the easy answer, but it’s not necessarily that simple when you scratch below the surface. I was taken to Anfield by my Dad for the very first time...

TAW: TRANSFER DEADLINE DAY SPECIAL

ON THE transfer deadline day we decided to do four hours of live radio. We talked to notable fans and journalists up and down the country asking what their clubs should be doing, and what they were actually doing. We talked about what it all meant in relation to the...
BEHIND ENEMY LINES

BEHIND ENEMY LINES

By DAVID COOK“The one that got away!  My first true love!!”  “Why did you leave her then, mate?” “I got a job in another city.  I had to go.” I AM behind enemy lines. I had to leave Liverpool for work.  I was 25 years old when I got a job in Manchester city centre. I...

UNDERSUNG HERO

DANIEL STURRIDGE loves a triple. He scored in his first three games for Liverpool, he scored in the first three league games of the 2013-14 season, and he’s scored in his first three games of 2014, after his first lengthy injury lay-off at his new club. Daniel...

IN THE LONG RUN WE ARE ALL DEAD

“(the) long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is past the ocean is flat again.” John Maynard Keynes...
CRYSTAL PALACE: THE 9-0

CRYSTAL PALACE: THE 9-0

IT’S shortly before 10am on Wednesday and I’m parked up on a motorway bridge in Skelmersdale waiting for a man I’ve never met to turn up in a Vectra; I’m yet to work as a drug dealer but it felt like I was doing a deal. How did it come to this? It should have been...