FOLLOWING Liverpool’s 2-0 victory over Manchester United in 1992, an ITV reporter tentatively interviewed Alex Ferguson somewhere in the bowels of Anfield. Leeds United had done for Sheffield United at Bramall Lane earlier that day and, thanks to goals from Ian Rush...
I DIDN’T know how it was going to feel. As someone who has always had impeccably bad timing, I was born in the mid-80s. While Liverpool were winning the league title in 1990, I was more concerned with how Thomas the Tank Engine was going to get himself out of another...
LET’S take a trip down memory lane, to April 28, 1990, to be precise. Mo Salah hadn’t been born, the League Cup was known as the Littlewoods Cup, the Anfield Rap had been released two years previous but the Anfield Wrap, well, we didn’t even have the internet back...
THE more things change, the more they stay the same. No crowd, no handshakes, and because it was a Merseyside derby at Goodison Park, no goals. The big wait for football to return and for Liverpool to continue their procession to an inevitable Premier League title...
I FEEL as though I’ve written this piece before. Last time, though, it was about Alberto Moreno and how he was a player that could be flawless for a whole season, but the minute he made a mistake he’d be vilified. You’d be well within your rights to say Moreno wasn’t...
I LOVE the derby. I’ve always loved the derby. And while this one is undoubtedly going to be weird, it’s another derby nevertheless. Something to feast on after a football famine. And another way to beat Everton. In the summer. In June. On my birthday. It’s a time of...
IT sounds beyond a cliche to categorise supporting Liverpool Football Club as a rollercoaster ride. We seem to all but constantly be at the mercies of the extremities of fate. Our relationship with the team is not a normal one. The average ‘sports fan’ does not go...
THIS generational Liverpool side, perhaps the best we’ve ever seen and will ever see, has some great stories. Trent Alexander-Arnold, the local lad from Liverpool whose dreams came true in Madrid. Jordan Henderson: a player once considered the poster boy for the...
TIMO said no. Ti-no? Ah well. If there’s anything football fans like it’s idle transfer speculation. What’s more, it doesn’t even have to have any basis in truth to hold out attention. As the summer begins, names are dredged up and added to the words ‘linked with’ to...
IT’S late November. The ankle injury endured by midfield dynamo Fabinho during the final Champions League group stage game at Anfield had all the hallmarks of being a detrimental blow to knock The Reds off their stride. Not the case. In fact, strangely, it has in some...
Possible Midfield Additions For Liverpool | The Trends
Examining football’s underlying numbers, using StatsBomb, to take a closer look at potential central midfield and number 9 options.Neil Atkinson is joined by Josh Williams.
