“THERE is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.” WHILE it might not be obvious why I’ve begun with a William Shakespeare quote, consider the following. Shakespeare’s argument is that opportunity ebbs and flows in...
WELL, I mean, Christmas is a thing, isn’t it? On the one hand, the most wonderful time of the year. On the other hand, is everyone fucking knackered? Emotionally and physically? I mean, I am. And certainly the footballers are. We’ll get to the referee. You...
LIVERPOOL can do no more. So Wolves went and did it for us. Wolves 3 Manchester City 2. The perfect companion piece to the Leicester game. Liverpool 14 points clear with a match in hand. Liverpool, Liverpool top of the league. The 24 hours that spanned the masterclass...
THERE was a moment when it was suggested that Liverpool wouldn’t even enter this year’s World Club Championship. It would clearly represent a distraction from the main objectives. There will have been pressure from above to make a go of it though, with...
WHAT a start to the festive period it’s been for The Reds. If somebody said Liverpool would be two weeks into December having won four games – including a Merseyside derby – sitting pretty at the top of the Premier League, and qualifying for the Champions...
IF this Liverpool team have a nemesis, it unleashed all of its power for 30 minutes in the Salzburg arena on Tuesday night. The Austrian side are not the best team in Europe, but in bursts can do a very passable impression of it. Jürgen Klopp’s Reds will face bigger...
THERE was something about that timing, wasn’t there? Just when we (me, and everyone I know anyway) needed a bit of lift from the despair of what has unfolded in the last 24 hours, up pops Big Jürgen; a knowing look on his face, a soft smile – like he wanted to give us...
TAKUMI Minamino, then. The Red Bull Salzburg attacker has been a name on the lips of many in Liverpool for the past week, inciting feelings of fear and danger as The Reds faced a tricky tie against the Austrian’s on Tuesday. Of course, the game was negotiated with...
THERE’S a scene in the film The Commitments where Joey ‘the Lips’ Fagan, the elderly trumpet player with ‘the hardest working band in the world’, finally loses patience with his saxophonist Dean Fay. Over the past weeks Dean has refused to don the regulation tuxedo...
THE evolution Liverpool have gone through under Jürgen Klopp has been remarkable. Emerging from Brendan Rodgers’ final season where the club had seemingly lost both their identity on the pitch and the collective relationship with fans off it, the German has fortified...
Liverpool failed to capitalise on the previous weekends favourable results to lose their 10th game of the season, this time with a miserable display on the road to Brighton & Hove Albion at the Amex.
Beth Lindop is joined by Ian Salmon, Rob Gutmann and James Sutton.
Also in the show Neil is joined by Martin Fitzgerald to talk about his new book ‘The Umbrella Man and Other Stories’
