By Phil Blundell STATISTICS. They’re a recent phenomenon in the game of football, and I’ll be honest, they drive me up the wall. Football is not a game suited, in general, by statistical analysis, and the new craze of associating any little statistic to back up some...
FOOTIE and music go hand in hand for me, simply because both have the ability to excite, energise and create that spine-tingling surge of joy that only a small number of life’s pleasures can bring. A great goal, a sublime bit of skill, a stunning riff or an...
WHEN Liverpool return to Premier League action away to Stoke on Saturday, I won’t be anywhere near the Britannia Stadium. In fact, I won’t even be watching in a pub in Liverpool. Instead, I’ll be some 218 miles away on the Isle of Wight, following the game on my...
Sunday 4th September AND so it returns, promising to be bigger and better than previous years with more stalls and celebrity chefs. The Liverpool Food and Drink Festival, an event that you’ve probably heard of and had someone tell you how much you would have enjoyed...
ONE campaign that always unites supporters of both of Merseyside’s Premier League clubs is a campaign that has been going for 22 years and remains as strong now as it was the day it began. The Sun’s editor in 1989, Kelvin MacKenzie, chose to run with a pack of lies...
Wise move from Raul. The Mohican who was all tats and no trousers was always likely to suffer from Bellamy’s Golf Bag Of Justice and find himself on the wrong side of a long iron. He’d managed to take Reece’s place in the squad of looking hard but being really, really...
THERE are remixes and then there are remixes… When I first started buying 12″ records around 1986, it seemed every single had a dance remix available to buy for a pound or so more. Less so much a remix, more a lengthening procedure – what you got was...
His name is synonymous with casual fashion, emblazoned across the UK’s best selling trainers of all time, yet it’s fair to say that the man himself is a mere side-show in comparison to the iconic footwear that festoons him. And so we ask… who the fuck is Stan Smith?...
IF you’re sick to the back tooth of tiresome covers bands clogging the city and could throttle the next hairy git to murder “Paperback Writer” then there is an antidote. First up tonight Best Coast play at Mojo and tickets are still available. After...
Libya was in the news along with its leader Muammar Gaddafi as he presided over a parade of Soviet military hardware in Tripoli. The show, including 200 new tanks, was intended to mark the fifth anniversary of the coup that had given Gadaffi his power. In football it...
