LIVERPOOL: WHAT NEXT FOR LUCAS LEIVA?

LUCAS nearly left Liverpool in the summer.  Lucas nearly left Liverpool in the summer. Lucas nearly left Liverpool in the summer. Re-read and repeat that phrase a few times and notice how quickly the notion becomes nonsensical and ridiculous. Keep going and the...

Liverpool: Home Is The Heart of Klopp’s Ambition

IT is one of those strange football contradictions: you never quite know what you are going to get from Jürgen Klopp, even when asking the most simple of questions. Yet the manager strives for a form of consistency; a predictability even, in his forcefulness that all...

LIVERPOOL: WHAT NEXT FOR ROBERTO FIRMINO? #2

SO I wrote something on Roberto Firmino back in August, writes CRAIG RIMMER. To summarise, it was more or less an attempt to brand our new Brazilian idol-in-waiting as something of an exciting, if unknown, quantity — an expensive, statement signing but one with...

LIVERPOOL: ANFIELD AND THE THRESHOLD PHOBIA

“JAYSUS. Is that a nipple?” As I’m trying to work out whether we can get away with “nipple” on the BBC, I nod at the man I’ve thrust a microphone under the nose of, writes LAURA BROWN. Yes, I explain, it’s an artwork by Yoko Ono called My Mommy is Beautiful,...

LIVERPOOL: YOU HAVEN’T GOT TO HIDE YOUR LOVE AWAY

FAVOURITE moment from Saturday? For many of the 3,000 lucky enough to be there, it would have been this one. Martin Skrtel, having just slid on his knees towards the away fans, holds his arms aloft in front of the delirious crowd joined by team-mates so keen to join...

THE COACH HOME: MONK IN A FUNK

THE COACH HOME this week has Bobby Gardner to discuss Swansea. What is happening with Garry Monk? What should happen who has been performing? Who has been letting the side down? They are a patient club Swansea, with their own way of doing things. Bobby lets us know...

LIVERPOOL: AND NOW YOU’RE GOING TO BELIEVE US….

IT’S back again. The exuberance by virtue of another win. The restoration of hope, over-optimism and delusion. The revitalisation brought by a new manager who pleads with his players to have fun, and to have fun winning. And I’m having fun. Still smiling through...