IT’S getting sorted in the summer. They’ll talk about it in the summer. What if the summer is too late? Hands up, I don’t know anything about negotiating contracts. I haven’t sat in a room with an agent and a player and got down to the nitty gritty of salaries,...
LIVERPOOL have been linked with a summer move for Barcelona central midfielder Sergi Samper. In the past he has been compared by the Spanish press to Andrea Pirlo, while another journalist suggested he combined the best aspects of both Sergio Busquets and Xavi....
LIVERPOOL — fresh from the apparent mini-crisis of losing to two good football sides in the Premier League — face Newcastle United tomorrow who are in the midst of a genuine mess. A team that can’t win on the pitch, a manager the fans are unconvinced...
THERE was a lot of hysteria in the wake of the Arsenal defeat from sections of the media – which you might expect – and also from a lot of Liverpool fans, which perhaps you might not. Brendan Rodgers found himself under some of the most intense scrutiny since...
NEIL ATKINSON is joined by John Gibbons, Ian Salmon, Simon Hughes and Kristan Heneage. They discuss Liverpool’s performance against Blackburn Rovers in the FA Cup, Simon Hughes’s newly-released book Men In White Suits and anticipate the...
JOHN GIBBONS and Matt Ladson from the This Is Anfield website managed to grab a few minutes with Simon Mignolet at today’s launch of Liverpool’s new home kit for the 2015-16 season. Direct Link: PODCAST – MIGNOLET INTERVIEW Podcast RSS feed. Get the...
THERE was a discussion on the new TAW Player last week about your favourite ever shout at the match. As ever with listening to pods, I became frustrated that I couldn’t join in and cite my own examples but maybe it was just as well I wasn’t on air. I wracked my brain...
BRENDAN Rodgers — just lay off him, yeah? It’s a timeless one, isn’t it? Being fickle about a manager. Like the slag-off recidivists that we are, we love to lump it all at his door the very moment things look a little bit dodgy. Yet, as day follows...
POST-Arsenal, heads had gone. Everywhere I looked, heads had gone. Not quite everywhere. Everywhere’s harsh. And the madness has been tempered slightly by victory at Blackburn. But one of the ways you know heads have gone is because Paul Tomkins writes something...
IN mid January, I wrote an article on here entitled “Don’t piss on our backs and tell us it’s raining”. In it I stated my belief that, despite rhetoric to the contrary, Liverpool has grown into a Director Of Football-based structure by stealth,...
