By Sean Rogers YOU’D expect a manager to be lauded after leading a nation to a World Cup final, then cruising to European Championships qualification with one defeat and a goal difference of plus 29 (albeit in an “easy” group). But that’s not the case for...
By Phil Blundell WORLD Cup winners in 1998, European Champions in 2000, World Cup runners-up in 2006. It seems strange to think that despite having played a part in the other tournaments between 1998 and now, France haven’t actually won a single knockout game outside...
“Write about Russia, Robbo. One thousand words.” Kinell… In case you didn’t hear it on the podcast, we’re all going to do a bit about a team chosen at random in the Euros. We’ve even roped in a guest or two to help out – check out this...
IT started how it finished. It ended how it began. It has done so for 23 years. Kenny Dalglish’s second coming came after a cancelled holiday, with his first day back at work an FA Cup defeat. 18 months later, an FA Cup defeat preceded a holiday cancelled in...
MUCH was made of John W Henry’s love of Michael Lewis’s book Moneyball. Billy Beane, its star, took the unfashionable Oakland Athletics baseball team to success against the odds using statistical analysis to tear up the traditional scouting methods and identify...
By Danielle Warren AS Paul Tomkins wrote in his piece “It’s Time To Move Forward As One,” we, as fans of Liverpool Football Club, need to find some kind of common ground at the moment. The petty squabbling and bickering that is eating away at Twitter...
A week may be a long time in politics, but at Liverpool FC it feels like a geological age. Can it really only be seven days since Kenny Dalglish was dismissed? Somehow the sheer volume of rumours, counter-rumours, outright lies and wild stabs in the dark seem to have...
A Defence of the Realm – Part One HARRY REDKNAPP’s Spurs have won just one in their last nine and are fifth in the Premier League. Until about six weeks ago ‘the greatest living Englishman’s’ season looked unimpeachable. Third in the table and...
Here we are. A labour of love. Well, not love. Most definitely not love. But a labour. This is my friend Ben Johnson’s (@benjanijohnson on Twitter) Hodge File. It isn’t definitive. He only started maintaining it when he realised exactly what we were dealing with when...
by Gary Shaw The apparent disintegration of Liverpool’s 2011/12 season and the club’s seemingly rapid and dramatic shift from ‘top four contender’ to ‘just a cup team’ has been vociferously and bathetically debated in pubs, TV studios and internet forums for the past...
