MATCH PREVIEW: CHELSEA V LIVERPOOL

MATCH PREVIEW: CHELSEA V 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...
SEASON THAT NEEDS A SPARK – FRIDAY COLUMN

SEASON THAT NEEDS A SPARK – FRIDAY COLUMN

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...
THE RIDER – SEND

THE RIDER – SEND

Doff your cap, ladies and gentlemen, because John Gibbons crosses the rubicon on this week’s Rider. He plays a song longer than ten minutes and the song he plays is an absolute belter. That closes the show because we can’t take any chances but before then...

LIVERPOOL 1 BOURNEMOUTH 0: MATCH REVIEW

ONE to us and nil to them. Not one to them. One to us and nil to them. Astonishing scenes, these. The youngish Reds doing the business. The youngish Reds hugely buttressed by Lucas Leiva second half and constantly lit up by Roberto Firmino. Firmino had a ton of...

LIVERPOOL 1 BOURNEMOUTH 0: PLAYER RATINGS

A WIN! Not the best, or prettiest, but we’ll take it. We weren’t great in the middle of the park, but in the final third we looked more alive than we have for a while, and could actually have scored more than one goal. But that utopia will wait for another...