As FSG’s time at Liverpool potentially nears an end, the search for new owners is already leaving fans with further questions and division… SOMETIMES, things just find each other at the right moment in time. Think McCartney and Lennon, Michael Eavis...
With Liverpool and Manchester City fans being all but left to make their own way to Wembley, should we ever have expected better from The FA? IT was a nice idea to hold the FA Cup semi final in the north, but it was never going to happen. Despite the...
The Newcastle takeover is the latest example of football becoming increasingly removed from the reality many people in its communities face… Martyn, Harte, Mills, R. Ferdinand, Matteo, Batty, Dacourt, Bowyer, Kewell, A. Smith, Viduka. LEEDS United’s...
Neil Atkinson looks at the situation at Barcelona, what it means for football, and the bigger picture around governance, competition and equality in the game… GOOD afternoon.It’s long this, so settle in.The news that Barcelona may well have to...
Hillsborough survivor Damian Kavanagh’s account of what happened that day and in the aftermath, written back in 2005 for Contrast.org… I AGREED with Bill Shankly’s quote about the greatest day of the English season being FA Cup Semi-Final day....
After a season which threw just about everything it had to throw at us, Maria Hartless writes that supporters showed that unity is strength… WHAT a turbulent few months in the world of football. Looking back, it got me thinking of how the power of the...
I’VE just finished reading George Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying. Set in the 1930s, it concerns a poet called Gordon Comstock who declares war on the ‘money god’ which dominates the world. He refuses a well-paid job writing ludicrous advertising copy and instead...
“IN the current climate.” “The market rate.” “Inflated prices.” You might associate the following phrases with the beginnings of a political rant, but they’re in fact all increasingly common phrases used when referring to the modern day football transfer market. They...
WITH Newcastle United due at Anfield tomorrow – and the name Gillett linked to the ownership of an English football club once more – memories of the all-too-recent darker ownership days at Liverpool came flooding back this week. Take your pick from the lowlights, from...
A CALL has been made for fans attending this Saturday’s game with Newcastle to show their support for local merchants and vendors by wearing their merchandise. This has nothing to do with an attack on the club, though many may see it as that. There will be no walkout...