LIVERPOOL: A ROUTINE WIN? NOT FOR ME, CLIVE

LIVERPOOL: A ROUTINE WIN? NOT FOR ME, CLIVE

A WIN is a win? Sometimes a win is a win and nothing more can be gleaned from it. Sometimes it’s worth a little bit more than that – even when it’s the type of performance that usually provokes the response that “a win is a win”. Casablanca. 1942. Starring Dirk Bogart...

VIEWS OF A SQUARE-EYED SUPPORTER

By Dan Lett LIKE any Liverpool supporter, I will never forget my first European adventure. It was in Spain, I was eight years old, and the match was the 1986 FA Cup final. My dad and I had a great pair of seats at the poolside bar of the Hotel Club Cartago in Ibiza....
MATCH REVIEW: LIVERPOOL 2 LUDOGORETS 1

MATCH REVIEW: LIVERPOOL 2 LUDOGORETS 1

CHAMPIONS League nights are back. I’m later than I want to be, having stuff to do and then tickets to sort. But it works out well, getting up the stairs just as You’ll Never Walk Alone is starting. The Kop looks and sounds terrific. There is a We Are...
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SCOUT: LIVERPOOL v LUDOGORETS

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SCOUT: LIVERPOOL v LUDOGORETS

PFC Ludogorets Razgrad. Liverpool’s five-year exile from the Champions League ends tomorrow with the visit of Bulgarian champions PFC Ludogorets Razgrad. Let’s call them Ludogorets. Oh Ludogorets, what a name. You, Ludogorets, are exactly what the Champions League...
PODCAST: THE CORMORANT OF DOOM

PODCAST: THE CORMORANT OF DOOM

NEIL ATKINSON was joined for this week’s City Talk Podcast by Paul Cope, Mike Girling and John Gibbons on the eve of Liverpool’s 8 goal thriller against Villa. Music this week from The Cheap Thrills and Silent Sleep. The Cheap Thrills – O Paradise...