BACKPAGE: AYRES AND GRACES

GARETH ROBERTS was joined for this weeks ‘Back Page’ by regulars John Gibbons, Rob Gutmann and Ian Salmon as well as debutant Glenn Price as they scan through the week’s papers. High on the agenda is the fallout from Ian Ayre’s comments in Ireland earlier in the...

LIVERPOOL: THE CAPTAIN QUESTION

THE return to Merseyside this week of former skipper Steven Gerrard, at first sparking speculation that a Reds reunion of some sort was on the cards, brought some thoughts to mind of the short and long-term issue of the Liverpool captaincy. The idea that Gerrard would...
THE RIDER – IN BITS

THE RIDER – IN BITS

WHAT do you mean, “in bits”? Well there is the idea of getting over a weekend where Liverpool Music Week’s closing party did some serious damage. Then the idea of having to do the show on separate nights. Then the conversations which had us in...

RUBIN KAZAN 0 LIVERPOOL 1: PLAYER RATINGS

APPARENTLY at some point between playing at Anfield and now, Rubin Kazan have changed their name to FC Rubin. Feels like the kind of thing that should only be allowed in the summer, that. Luckily they haven’t also signed a lot of good players, and Liverpool...

RUBIN KAZAN 0 LIVERPOOL 1: MATCH REVIEW

IT’S 10 minutes gone and only a crossbar and a tremendous piece of defending mean Liverpool aren’t deservedly 0-2 ahead. The extent to which Liverpool show themselves superior in the first 10 minutes of the game is quite remarkable. Liverpool away from...

LIVERPOOL IN PICTURES: IT’S A LONG WAY TO VLADIKAVKAZ

LIVERPOOL have travelled all the way to Kazan in Tartastan for their Europa League fixture tonight, with many brave fans making the 2,524 mile journey into deepest Russia.  The trip has reminded me of a famously ardous Liverpool away tie of the 1990s, when Liverpool...