Everton 0 Liverpool 0: Match Ratings

Everton 0 Liverpool 0: Match Ratings

IT rained there, didn’t it? I was kind of hoping it would get called off for a bit. A couple of things about the rain. Point one, it’s the enemy of the baldy man. You ask any baldy mate they will tell you the same. When you are clinging on to the dying embers of your...
Everton v Liverpool: The Big Match Preview

Everton v Liverpool: The Big Match Preview

IT feels strange to view a derby as a sideshow. At least it’s tempting to fall into this trap. Big Sam will say to his blue boys: “Their heads are elsewhere. Their legs are heavy, their hearts are lost in Europe”. Jürgen Klopp, though, will be taking faces...
Crystal Palace v Liverpool: The Big Match Preview

Crystal Palace v Liverpool: The Big Match Preview

IT’S about us. It should always be about us. But while he’s kicking, a bit of it will always be about him. It’s small minded in extremis to give a shit about Roy Hodgson now. He is yesterday’s man, if he ever was today’s. He is not our business. Beating Manchester...
Liverpool 5 Watford 0: Match Review

Liverpool 5 Watford 0: Match Review

IN the wind and the snow, Mo Salah confirmed he’s the best in the land with a minimum of fuss. It’s a debut season from the stars, a return which goes beyond expectation and even hope. We started the season with conversations around “reversion to the...
Liverpool 5 Watford 0: Match Ratings

Liverpool 5 Watford 0: Match Ratings

FOR some reason which currently escapes me, I’ve ended up watching the match in the depths of the Cambridgeshire Fens in a gaff called The Shed, with this poster on the wall: Now lads, before we get started, if I’m going to be able to watch the game here we need to...
Liverpool v Watford: The Big Match Preview

Liverpool v Watford: The Big Match Preview

I WASN’T unduly disheartened by that defeat at Old Trafford last week. In a slightly perverse way I thought it was a marker of the progress the team is making this campaign. We’d lost just three times in the league previously, and two of those setbacks had felt...