I LOOK across on 65 minutes or so and Raffy Gutmann, aged six, at his first final, is in tears; tears rolling down his cheeks. He’s in tears and really it isn’t unreasonable. I have no solace to offer. None whatsoever. If I was six years old I would be...
THE easiest way to win a cup final is to be the better team. Even if you can’t be the better team on the pitch in the 90 or 120 minutes, you can have the better players to win a shoot-out. Despite what people tell you about it being a lottery. Manchester City...
THERE are moments when we doubt Wembley. Like when they needlessly play semi-finals there. Like when we sense the smugness in its association with a national side we feel little affinity with. In these moments, Wembley, you seem so very far away. Then there’s the...
AHEAD of Liverpool’s trip to Wembley to play Manchester City in the Capital One Cup we wondered what Liverpool needed to do to bring the trophy back to Merseyside. So we asked a fella who won two. Gerard Houllier was manager of Liverpool when we won the League...
ON Friday 26th February John Gibbons and Neil Atkinson bring you the day’s LFC news. There has been a Europa League draw and Liverpool got Manchester United. We’re coming round to it. Big games are great. Jurgen Klopp was asked about it too. He had a press...
THESE are the moments. Let’s not deny it to ourselves. Why the game got us. Why we became locked into its ways and wiles. We’re always in it for the prizes. Scaling peaks is what sport is all about. Don’t decry any summit. A challenge is a challenge. We have risen to...
SUNDAY’S Capital One Cup final feels a bit of a weird one. A one-off showpiece occasion, with Liverpool slight underdogs against the financial might of moneybags Manchester City. And yet, it lacks the edge of a clash with more traditional rivals; the existence...
IT’S the biggest seven days of the season and Neil Atkinson is joined by Rob Gutmann and John Gibbons to analyse where we are up to on day 2. Last night saw Liverpool progress to the last 16 of the Europa League. The lads analyse the performance, the set up and...
NEIL ATKINSON and Mike Nevin are joined by Paul Johnson and John Gibbons for the second part of our League Cup ‘What We Call History’ special to talk about the five remaining League Cup Finals Liverpool have played in. There is The Reds relaxed against...
LIVERPOOL qualify for the next round. They progress. Without progress. Repeatedly Liverpool should put the football match to bed. Repeatedly they don’t do so. Many passages of play have some glorious touches but only Milner’s early penalty offers us a...
Looking Ahead to Liverpool vs Fulham | Friday Live
Friday’s live show sees us look ahead to Liverpool’s home game tomorrow against Fulham. Neil Atkinson hosts John Gibbons and Emilia Bona, with special guest Sarah and Fee from the PFOP.
