AFTER all the talk of the Reds being set up as a perfect away team over the last few weeks we all expected more of the same against West Ham, if we are honest with ourselves. A strong away performance that would focus on keeping a clean sheet, with three...
ROY Keane has never been shy of courting controversy. Furthermore, it seems his inadequacies as a manager – in contrast to a decorated playing career – convince him of the need to pipe up every now and then to stay relevant. However, his recent observations on...
I LOVE Liverpool. I love football. I especially love Liverpool FC, writes LES JACKSON. My wife Sandra. She loves Liverpool. She loves football. She especially loves Liverpool FC. As you can imagine, with parents like us, our kids love Liverpool. They love football....
Rob Gutmann is joined by Ian Ryan, Adam Melia and Glenn Price for a chat about what Champions League qualification might mean for Liverpool, what moves they should make in the Summer and what they need to do differently, if they qualify, than the last time they...
“AS flies to wanton boys are we to th’ gods, they kill us for their sport.” King Lear. As ever, this may not seem, initially at least, to be about football in general or Liverpool in particular but we’ll get there. First we need to talk about Shakespeare. At some...
LIVERPOOL’S newly acquired habit of winning ugly, predominantly away from home, in the recent tussles at Stoke City, West Brom and Watford has coincided with a form of redemption for Simon Mignolet. The goalkeeper, much maligned by fans and pundits alike throughout...
FOLLOWING Liverpool’s gloriously gritty and dogged 1-0 victory at Vicarage Road on Monday night, there was a general sense of immense satisfaction at another major hurdle successfully negotiated in the quest to secure Champions League football. This was the kind...
IF you’d have asked me a few weeks ago about who would be leaving the club this summer, I would have said, with a very heavy heart, that Lucas Leiva would be on the ‘definitely’ list. He appeared to have been relegated to a position in our squad as an auxiliary...
INNER Chimp everywhere. Inner Chimp may never get back in. Inner Chimp could be out for days off the back of this. When will my heart stop racing. When Sebastian Prodl’s effort bounces off the bar it felt like the start and the end of everything. Heart attack as...
IT’S 10 years ago today that an 18-year-old Emiliano Insua made his Liverpool debut with a start against Portsmouth. He came to the club as a youngster who many believed had a bright future at the club but, for one reason or another, it wasn’t to be. As a...
