Greece (I): How Can You Care About One Point Six?

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...
THE REAL REASON WE GO THE MATCH

THE REAL REASON WE GO THE MATCH

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...

Epic progress

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...
LIVERPOOL: SILVER MEDAL, SILVER LINING

LIVERPOOL: SILVER MEDAL, SILVER LINING

“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...
LIVERPOOL: NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING

LIVERPOOL: NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING

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...

FEELING SICK OF LIVERPOOL? NOT ANY MORE

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....

SEVEN HEAVEN

SUNDAY’S 4-0 drubbing of Spurs made it 9-0 on aggregate for the season and sent the Reds back to the top of the table with the title in their own hands – but it’s not the first time Tottenham have been on the wrong side of a thrashing from Liverpool....