by Neil Atkinson | Sep 14, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
STOP it, Liverpool. Just stop it. I have had enough of the nonsense around Liverpool lacking ruthlessness at both ends of the pitch; had enough of the nonsense inviting ruthlessness from opponents who deserve credit for hanging in but too often little else. Stop it....
by Andy Heaton | Sep 13, 2017 | Footie
LIVERPOOL kicked off their Champions League campaign in front of an expectant Anfield, but much as the competition might have changed, the problems remained the same. The manager needs to wear this one, irresistible when on top, incapable when under the cosh, how many...
by David Segar | Sep 13, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
CAN’T help but feel the word “naivety” going round and round my head after that one. A game Liverpool could have won about six times over ends up as a draw, and could very well have been a defeat. Jürgen Klopp owed Sevilla. As he alluded to in his press...
by Neil Scott | Sep 13, 2017 | Footie
FIRST things first, Liverpool don’t make a habit of conceding five goals in a game. Prior to Saturday’s capitulation at the Etihad, you could count on one hand the number of times it’s occurred in the last half century. At a stretch, you could point out the mitigating...
by Rob Gutmann | Sep 13, 2017 | Footie
NICE of Liverpool to warm up for this special night with a tonking. The kind of tonking that makes all of Europe sit up, take notice, and scoff. The beating of Arsenal and the euphoria that followed stylish Champions qualification, seem a while ago now. The...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 11, 2017 | Podcast, TAW Player, Under The Lights
The Champions League proper is back at Anfield for the first time in three years as Liverpool face Sevilla in the opening Group E fixture. Joining John Gibbons to preview The Reds’ first group stage outing of the season are Andy Heaton, Gareth Roberts and Rob...
by Karl Coppack | Sep 11, 2017 | Footie
THERE’S a scene I love in The Simpsons where Mr Burns hosts a meeting with his highly-paid lawyers in his enormous office. He’s been informed that Homer has a low sperm count due his daily dealings with nuclear contaminants and they need to act quickly to cheat him...
by Ben Johnson | Sep 11, 2017 | Footie
SATURDAY was good fun, wasn’t it? They say a rolling stone gathers no moss. Well I wish it fucking would. I wish it would roll like fuck and clatter into auld Jonny Moss, gather him up like a trodden-on snail and dump him right in the river. That said, it would...
by Andy Heaton | Sep 9, 2017 | Footie
AS far as sucker punches go, that’s up there. Liverpool were absolutely undressed by Manchester City in a manner that demands an immediate response. But fuck the result. Having been clearly the better side for most of the opening period the game was taken away...
by Michael Nevin | Sep 8, 2017 | Footie
LAST-minute change of plan. I was planning to write about the returning Phil Coutinho this week but someone has got there before me. However, I can’t let it pass without a mini lecture for the hypersensitive. When the errant Brazilian rascal reappears in red, treat...
