TODAY had the sort of feel of an international break in football news terms. A sort of void between the game just gone against Crystal Palace and the focus beginning to switch towards Sunday’s game against Watford. Say what you like about how a lack of European...
IT’S a poor league this year. You hear that a lot. Or you hear that it was a poor competition a few years back, perhaps. A highly subjective relativism often delivered as if pure fact. I admit, the call always baffles me. I never understand the starting point. A poor...
AND so another game passes where the Liverpool goalkeeper had basically nothing to do. We aren’t keeping many clean sheets but they’ll come – you simply don’t limit the opposition to as few real, big chances as we have the last month without it correcting itself...
EVER since he was drafted in to replace the injured Ragnar Klavan against Spurs, Joel Matip has quietly and efficiently made the right centre-back slot his own at Liverpool. That day in North London he coolly dealt with any potential problem Harry Kane posed and the...
IN APRIL 1981, Howard Gayle was summoned from the substitutes’ bench to play for Liverpool in the second leg of a European Cup semi-final at German Champions Bayern Munich. The previous October, by filling the same role against Manchester City, he became the...
I WAS travelling up to Liverpool on Monday afternoon and remembered I had to write a piece for Wednesday. So I made some notes of things I could talk about, broadly surrounding that match. Unfortunately for me, Jose Mourinho basically created a situation whereby there...
IN APRIL 1981, Howard Gayle was summoned from the substitutes’ bench to play for Liverpool in the second leg of a European Cup semi-final at German Champions Bayern Munich. The previous October, by filling the same role against Manchester City, he became the...
INTERNATIONAL breaks are good for pretty much nothing, but sometimes you’ll find positives out of them. From a personal point of view I put in a full weekend in work which always looks good to do from time to time, well in to the great lads at Sky who are letting me...
LIVERPOOL 6 Aston Villa 1 – October 10, 1953 DON Welsh’s Liverpool side, which featured Bob Paisley and Billy Liddell among other notable names, swept aside Aston Villa in a second half foray at Anfield. Liddell scored prior to half time and was matched by...
I’VE been thinking about the 2007/08 season loads recently, mainly because I have had to like, but even still. For those of you who don’t know, one of the regular subscriber shows on TAW is ‘What We Call History’. It is basically a review of the games that make up a...
