BY now you know the stats. The facts and figures. You’ve seen the league table and you know the form. It’s been an underwhelming start to the season. In seven games in all competitions, Liverpool have managed only five goals. The manager is the favourite to ‘win’ the...
AMID the prevailing, inexhaustible rage surrounding Liverpool’s patchy start to the season, I’ve seen the current crop of players described as the “worst Liverpool team in 50 years”. We’re all aware of how Twitter condenses the fume, but the same disparaging comments...
WE’VE been here before. Perhaps not as poisonousness, perhaps not as omnipresent. But this is a familiar juncture, a well-known walkway. Brendan Rodgers should be sacked to save Liverpool. There are petitions. There are campaigns. There are banners and there are...
THREE at the back. It’s not something that’s particularly popular in football now is it? It’s very 1990s, writes PHIL BLUNDELL. Roy Evans was a big fan of it — it nearly won us a title in the mid 90s and England had a crack at it at Euro 96 and the 1998 World...
I REALLY do not want to be writing this piece. Let me say that first, to get it out of the way. If I had my way — if we all had our way — Liverpool would be cruising at the top of the league and we would all be huddled together talking about the majesty of...
VERSION three. I keep starting this and it comes out all wrong. I’ve tried my usual tricks of starting with a point that seems unrelated to football and then revealing the direction that I was always going in, in a frankly smart-arsed manner. I wrote a whole...
I WATCHED with amusement and frustration as Manchester City’s players, having been beaten by Juventus, avoided speaking to the media in the Etihad Stadium last night. All of the classic tricks were performed. Samir Nasri, refusing to make eye contact, nuzzled his...
I REMEMBER the glory days of crowd-funding. Bands allowing you to pay for an album before it is made so they can record it. Young film-makers who can’t get the interest of production companies trying to make their first movie. Giving the public the chance to...
AFTER the Manchester United game Neil Atkinson, Sean Rogers and Paul Cope sit down and drag through the ashes of Liverpool’s disappointing defeat. There’s talk of identity and more on the Tuesday Review.
BRENDAN RODGERS: “That was part of my reflection when I left Reading, that I did veer from my philosophy under pressure for results, I wasn’t being true to myself. I can adapt and be pragmatic of course, but I had success all my life as a coach working...
With the Friday being pencilled in for the arrival of Florian Wirtz we look at what difference the German international might make to Liverpool and scrutinise, from a financial point of view, how Liverpool convinced Wirtz to choose the Reds of Manchester City and Bayern Munich, and with Milos Kerkez reportedly being next to arrive, what that might mean for Andy Robertson, who has been linked with a move to Spain.]
Rob Gutmann hosts and is joined by Ian Ryan, Beth Lindop and Neil Atkinson.
Also in the show, John Gibbons chats to Ian Byrne and Ian Prowse about ‘A Celebration Of Zoe’s Place’ a concert which is being held in aid of the charity featuring a host of brilliant artists and hosted by Adam Rowe and Leanne Campbell, the event is on the 17th July and tickets are available now at https://www.mandsbankarena.com/whats-on/a-celebration-of-zoe-s-place/
