THE year 1984 was supposed to be the year of AS Roma. Their Swedish coach, Nils Liedholm, had spent nearly five seasons constructing a team built to win. The season before, they had captured their first Scudetto in over 40 years and the celebrations were memorable but...
THEY said it would never happen again. A once-in-a-lifetime event. An opportunity for a public display of civic unity. A chance for an entire city to stand together and say, “You know what? This is us. You can knock us down, you can walk all over us. But you won’t...
YOU know the story. It’s 1984. It’s the European Cup final. A fearless Liverpool side led by Graeme Souness belts out the Chris Rea song that had become their anthem in the faces of the Roma team they were about to take on in their own backyard. And that’s how the...
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Weekender: Burnley Blow The Reds' Anfield Record
John Gibbons hosts Damian Kavanagh, Kev Walsh and Sanj Shetty to discuss Liverpool’s 1-0 loss to Burnley and look ahead to the FA Cup clash with Manchester United.
Also on the show, John speaks to MP for West Derby Ian Byrne about the Right To Food campaign, and Marine’s goalkeeper Bayleigh Passant talks about the experience of playing Tottenham Hotspur.
