THERE’S a line about how Liverpool can be successful in the Premier League that goes like this: beat the lesser sides and you can win the thing. At the very least, it will go a long way to getting you top four. It’s a strategy that has served Arsenal well for years...
AND now the fall. Liverpool are played 10, won 7, drawn 3 and top of the table when this part of What We Call History begins but it soon goes horribly wrong. Have The Reds been winning while not playing well? Neil Atkinson, Mike Nevin, Craig Rimmer and Chris Maguire...
A WONDERFUL result, especially after going 1-0 down. A manager can only change so much in a short time. We’ve all mentioned his tactical changes, his pressing, players he’s brought back, players “playing in their right positions”. Jurgen has...
GARETH ROBERTS was joined by Rob Gutmann and Paul Senior for after match reaction following Liverpool’s demolition job of Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea. FUCK OFF MOURINHO
“I CANNOT, just cannot, begin to describe the size of the hook I’d give Coutinho at half time. I don’t have the vocabulary to do so.” Neil Edward Atkinson, 13:25, 31st October 2015 Makes fools of all of us, the football. One of its most...
TOP of the tower before a big game. Nowhere else to be on a Friday night. Neil Atkinson and John Gibbons are joined by Stuart Wright and Melissa Reddy in the studio and by Rebecca Knight on the phone to talk about Chelsea. Elsewhere Bournemouth and Teixiera get a...
I LIVE in rural Perthshire at the moment, in a two-horse hamlet with a little pub, and a bus stop, and not much else. The little pub shows the football, so the other night, when Bournemouth came to Anfield, I nipped in for a couple of pints to watch the Liverpool...
HE’S not the worst human being in the world, José Mourinho. There are more despicable characters. Don’t make me list them. Try saying to a fellow Liverpool fan that you wouldn’t have minded José managing our club at some point. A few souls will nod and smile...
DESPITE the initial enthusiasm brought by the arrival of Jürgen Klopp at Anfield, there remains a sense that this is a football season yet to ignite any real passion or excitement. This can be said not just of proceedings at Liverpool, but nationally too, as the...
