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...
IF you’re anything like me then you’re immensely frustrated that we’re having to put up with a tedious international break right now. There are loads of things about it that are annoying, but without question the main one is that we have to wait the best part of a...
IN a city where the idea of determination and defiance as a collective seems to be ingrained within the very fabric of its streets, there’s a certain romanticism in believing Liverpool’s manager can upset the apple cart with the same values as the patch he now resides...
Post International Break Liverpool & Villa: The Trends
Examining football’s underlying numbers, looking back at the Villa match, and taking a look at Liverpool’s numbers following international breaks.Neil Atkinson is joined by Josh Williams.
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