RANTING AT THE REDS: LAMENTING A LIVERPOOL LOST

I’LL be honest, I don’t know where I’m going with this. I haven’t got it plotted out. I’m not entirely sure what my point is or if I actually *have* a point. I’m just writing because I bloody have to, because I NEED to talk about...
AFQ THURSDAY: KILLING IN THE NAME OF

AFQ THURSDAY: KILLING IN THE NAME OF

NEIL ATKINSON is officially on holiday, so John Gibbons steps in as host and is joined by Rob Gutmann, Ste Evans, Joe Connolly and Ted Smith. They discuss 90s films, join a five aside league and take a surprising number of questions about killing people. AFQ....

LIVERPOOL: THE AIR OF INEVITABILITY

LONG before kick off, long before the warm-up, you could feel it. The inevitability. It swirled and settled in the air. The cliff and its edge circled the atmosphere. At 5pm, Anfield was silent and gloomy. It was full of emptiness, and even when everyone took their...
THE RIDER – ABRUPT

THE RIDER – ABRUPT

THIS week’s Rider was meant to be done quickly but finds itself with an eleventh segment and an eleventh song due to Stephanie Heneghan owning the means of production. There’s an essay to be written on that kind of thing. What else? Ten (plus one) really...

YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO… LIKE MIGHTY RED

WHEN you talk about football it’s important to remember that there’s a difference between what could happen and what does happen. In no area of the game is that more important than when discussing the financial implications of an ever-expanding set of commercial...
LIVERPOOL v CARLISLE UNITED – PREVIEW

LIVERPOOL v CARLISLE UNITED – PREVIEW

GIVEN Liverpool skipped the League Cup second round due to playing in Europe this season, and the fact you’d expect many of the minnows to be out by now, a home tie against Carlisle United — positioned 10th in League Two — is in theory about as good...