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...

WHAT’S IN THE RODGERS DOSSIER?

By Mathew Twells WHEN Brendan Rodgers first arrived at Anfield to meet his future bosses in Tom Werner and John W. Henry, he famously brought along his dossier, his footballing philosophy that he had been compiling throughout his various coaching and managerial roles....

PODCAST: OUT OF SHAPE

FOLLOWING on from Liverpool’s 2-2 home draw with Aston Villa the lads squeezed around the microphones to get a few things off their chest. Neil Atkinson used up the last bits of his voice, joined this week by Rob Gutmann, Sean Rogers, Gareth Roberts and Alex...

THIS IS ANFIELD

This has been an extraordinary season. Logic and order have taken a back seat as we’ve rode the steepest of roller coasters. A flying start, a rival bested early on, the routine hammering of the dross, two narrow defeats against title contenders and the utter...

PROGRESSING AT PACE

By Hari Sethi WHEN Raheem Sterling broke into Liverpool’s first team last season many were rightly enthralled by the level and maturity of his performances. Sterling seemed assured, thoughtful in his decision-making and determined to impress. However, his inclusion in...

SAFE STANDING DESERVES CALM CONSIDERATION

ACCORDING to official figures, a total of 1,730 people were killed and another 185,540 were injured on Britain’s roads in the year to June 2013. Globally, there were 15 passenger plane crashes resulting in 362 fatalities. Little wonder, then, that there has been such...

THE CURSE OF THE BRITANNIA

FIVE years. Half-a-decade. Has it really been so long? In January 2009 Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States, the closure of the final Woolworths was completed and Kevin Pietersen resigned as the England cricket captain. On January 10...