I GO to places in my head. In these abnormal days when it’s hard for any of us to be on our travels, I remember what it was like to go by train or plane to some other city and exist in a place that isn’t Liverpool. I go in my head. I went to Amsterdam in...
TAKE a breath. Be angry with exterior forces later. Do that in a minute or two. But take a breath first, because your take away should be this… Everton may prove to be the third, fourth or ninth best team in England this season. They are a tidy outfit. But...
FOR weeks, months after Jürgen Klopp was announced as Liverpool manager, Sean Rogers would say on our Review show that we’d get whacked at some stage. That we would have a moment, a game, when the wheels came off completely and we’d have to pick up the...
DOING the HotMic with John Gibbons and post match I say that the next round isn’t until December 22. “What? When? Fuck that.” I paraphrase but barely. No match is one you want to lose but some are better to lose than others. Liverpool have now failed...
IT felt thrilling, building to this one. It felt like an event. All the urgency was back, the undertow of the journey was suddenly there. This wasn’t just the idea of Liverpool playing and winning. Not the idea of setting a standard. But the idea of making a...
SAY what you want, you don’t get many 2-7s. Say what you want, that was bananas. And say what you want but that was an enormous amount of fun. Liverpool may well be looking to lighten all of our autumns and that is a fantastic ambition from The Reds. There is...
ROBERTO Firmino starts smiling before he has even taken the shot. Roberto Firmino knows things are about to get emphatic. Sadio Mane wins the ball off the keeper, who must be a wreck, and Firmino is beaming and Liverpool have won the game, won the game of games. Won...
THERE is something that is so, so true. Wherever you were, however you thought, whatever your mindset, you are all in now. You now know, now remember, what it is to be alive. You felt that. You lived that. You found yourself there. For a lot of us the buildup to this...
IT’S the best final to lose. But it still becomes losing. Losing is OK in a sense. You get beat from time to time. How you get beat and what you do next matters. This one, a penalty shootout and the width of a crossbar, offers us some positives, some questions...
SO that is that then. Thirty-eight done. This is how it feels. Liverpool top of the league. You spend your life looking in the mirror brushing your teeth and thinking about the title. You catch yourself jogging and thinking of what hasn’t been. Stare out of...
