CAMEROON. Bolivia. Scotland. Senegal. Costa Rica. Mexico. What joins these six countries together may not be initially obvious to the untrained eye, but to the World Cup aficionados out there, and there are many, they can be defined as “the other nation”. They are the...
By Si Steers THE SWISS are a nation famous for Cheese, Chocolate, and Banks and perhaps a little less well known for football, but it is a culturally rich and wealthy country that boasts a quirky and unique significance in world affairs. Switzerland is probably most...
By Phil Blundell NEIL SAID do something a bit cultural or a bit football or just your impressions. And then he gave me Greece. So… Ouzo is disgusting. I like Kebabs though. I really like Kebabs. I’ve just had some Lamb Shish Kebabs for my tea from M&S. Well...
By Craig Rimmer 16 YEARS. It’s a long time to wait for a football obsessed country like Colombia. The 90’s vintage was generally considered to have been the finest in Colombia’s sporting history, yet in this country we are far more likely to associate Colombian...
A FEW years ago it was hard not to flick a wry smile at the litany of former Anfield failures playing in the Champions League while Liverpool trudged through the Europa League. Christian Poulsen, Ryan Babel, Milan Jovanovic; they were all there, mocking the club’s...
EXTORTIONATE ticket prices, stupid kick-off times, absentee owners fleecing the club you love… With all that to bear, it would be easy to walk away from the game – especially when things start to go wrong on the pitch. But supporters stick with it through the wind and...
SO here we stand, blinking in the cold light of day, the mind whirring as it attempts to compute exactly what happened over the course of the last nine months. How we came from relatively nowhere to somewhere completely different, somewhere so close to our ultimate...
“If you are first you are first, if you are second you are nothing.” ONE of Bill Shankly’s most famous quotes. It has adorned many a dressing room wall, inspiring hundreds if not thousands of people, not just athletes, to achieve their goals of being...
LOOKING back at this season, it’s hard to shake the feeling of ‘what could have been’, writes PAUL McCABE. The Chelsea defeat and the surrender of a three-goal lead to Crystal Palace prompted many to accuse Liverpool of bottling it; of coming up short when it mattered...
ALMOST four years ago to the week, I wrote a blog post on my old Well Red blog entitled ‘Why I’m sick of being a Liverpool FC fan’. I wasn’t sick of the club – after a lifetime supporting it you can’t turn that off. It was just the actual being a match-going fan bit....
