IT’S an hour until Liverpool play Chelsea in the League Cup semi-final first leg at Anfield. The team-sheets have just been plastered all over Twitter, writes SAM WILLIAMS. Teamsheets are boring. In this age of social media and 24-hour rolling news, they...
SO now we know. Steven Gerrard will leave Liverpool at the end of the season bringing an end to one of the club’s longest and deepest love affairs, writes STEVE MACLEAN. His departure will leave a gaping hole in the team and will throw the club into crisis. Or will...
I’VE let the dust settle a bit. There have been hundreds of articles, quite understandably so, lamenting the forthcoming departure of Steven Gerrard for the sunnier climes of Los Angeles. The “Hollywood balls” are going home. The “quarterback” is jetting off to...
THE prevailing wisdom on Brad Jones right now might echo the coolly downbeat retort of John Lennon when asked about Ringo Starr: “He’s not even the best drummer in The Beatles” – writes LIAM BLAKE. Very droll but, like all the best quotes, it is in...
NEIL ATKINSON, Nick O’Prey, John Gibbons and Mike Girling reflect on Liverpool’s 2-2 draw against Leicester City and the bombshell news about Steven Gerrard. Like what we do? Buy us a pint! DIRECT LINK – THE HUYTON HAMMER Podcast RSS feed. Get the...
I SHOULD be going to bed. I’m due in work at 7am, and the alarm clock will ring at 5. Instead, I’m pouring a bevvy and writing this because my head’s chocka. It’s chocka because one of the greatest players every to pull on the red shirt is...
EVEN in the impatient world of modern football, Liverpool supporters around the world are still famed for their loyal, unswerving support. While in recent years a more sedate Anfield has homogenised with other Premier League crowds and the lines between supporters and...
IT had been coming. Week by week, as Liverpool toiled to recapture even a hint of the form that brought a title so tantalisingly close, and as each dropped point saw pre-season expectation give way to a reality of spiralling bleakness, you could sense the frustration...
IN the context of modern day football it sounds ridiculous. In a week not interrupted by games – remember them? – top-flight managers picked 10 players from their first-team squads and told them to dig out their trainees. They needed them, because they were off to a...
I AM drenched and broadly speaking lost, trying to get back from Manchester after having discussed Liverpool’s 3-0 defeat to Manchester United live to a nation who would prefer it if I didn’t swear or blaspheme. Bar one shout of “God in heaven”...
