LIVERPOOL: MALCOLM MCDOWELL’S TURKISH DELIGHT

I MET Malcolm McDowell once, writes ROB FRASER. I’ve been a [sort of] journalist for nearly 20 years but this wasn’t an interview. I was on holiday in Taormina, Sicily and their film festival was taking place and Malc was being honoured [so was shampoo spokesperson...

BUYING A NEW LIVERPOOL STRIKER: THE KNOWLEDGE GAP

MOST conversations between footie fans end up boiling down to the same thing: the aspiration, the reality and the unexplained gap that lies in between. What fills that gap — the knowledge of what really happens behind walls, in boardrooms, on training pitches,...

LIVERPOOL: NEXT SEASON – WITH HOPE IN OUR HEARTS

BRENDAN Rodgers remains as Liverpool manager then; granted a fourth season after this week’s Liverpool get-together with Tom Werner and Mike Gordon. Initial assurance for Rodgers came in the shape of a Merseyside venue for talks, instead of the Boston offices where...

LIVERPOOL: GET SMART

I REMEMBER one of the first appraisals that I ever had, back in the days when business moved from, ‘Look, you’re doing well, keep doing it’ or ‘You’re a bit shit at the moment, sort it out’ to actual targeted aims, KPIs and SMART...

BRENDAN RODGERS: ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE

NEGATIVITY — like love in the Wet Wet Wet song, is all around me, writes BEN McCAUSLAND. I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes. It’s washing around the city, rampaging through the streets like a CGI tidal wave in an action movie. Every time you pick up a...

LIVERPOOL: PREPARED FOR THE WORST, HOPE FOR THE BEST

AS a Liverpool supporter I’m a little down and apathetic right now, and I dare say I’m not alone. It’s not because Brendan Rodgers is staying. Well, it’s not just because of that. I can’t deny that the news of the manager keeping his job (leaked to the press...