SEVEN HEAVEN

SUNDAY’S 4-0 drubbing of Spurs made it 9-0 on aggregate for the season and sent the Reds back to the top of the table with the title in their own hands – but it’s not the first time Tottenham have been on the wrong side of a thrashing from Liverpool....
Vive la différence

Vive la différence

SIX to go. The last bend navigated and we’ve straightened up for the finish. The destiny of the title in our hands. This is different; very different. Rewind to a year ago. The 2012-13 Liverpool FC will forever be damned by black and white statistics. When people,...
SPURRED ON BY THE DOUBTERS

SPURRED ON BY THE DOUBTERS

SHERWOOD wasn’t the only one. We bristled with indignation at the very suggestion. Asked who he was, with his comedy cob ons and misplaced arrogance, to question Liverpool’s title credentials. Brendan Rodgers spoke publicly to turn the tables back on a club that had...
Liverpool 4 Tottenham Hotspur 0

Liverpool 4 Tottenham Hotspur 0

WHEN the final whistle went in The Excelsior last night after City/Arsenal all I heard was people saying to each other: “It’s in our hands. It’s in our hands.” Today we grabbed it. Seized it. Knuckles white, grip tight. In our hands. We are Top...
KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON

KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON

EVEN when we win ugly, it’s beautiful. Yes, the 2-1 win against Sunderland was an undeniably nervous one, but in many respects that shouldn’t have come as any surprise. Liverpool have just come off the back of a run of five league games, four of them away...
LIVERPOOL 2 SUNDERLAND 1

LIVERPOOL 2 SUNDERLAND 1

AND on we go. And on we fucking go. That wasn’t nice. That wasn’t fun. That wasn’t Brendan Rodgers’s Tricky Reds. That wasn’t the People’s Champions. That was the Champions Elect. They didn’t play well. It wasn’t pretty....
LIVERPOOL FC: MAKING ODDBALLS OUT OF EVERYONE

LIVERPOOL FC: MAKING ODDBALLS OUT OF EVERYONE

“TO a New Yorker like you, a hero is some kind of weird sandwich.” – Oddball to Crapgame; Kelly’s Heroes. 1970. Crapgame portrayed by Don Rickles. THE greatest line from the greatest war movie ever made –  the 34th best war movie ever made, according to Channel...
TWELVE DAYS OF GREATNESS

TWELVE DAYS OF GREATNESS

By PAUL McCABE A LOT can quickly change in football. Nine years ago, Liverpool were on course for winning the Champions League. Five years ago it looked like the League was a possibility, and only four years ago the club flirted with extinction. Success, following...
THIRTEEN GAMES TO GO – LUCKY FOR US?

THIRTEEN GAMES TO GO – LUCKY FOR US?

by STEVEN SCRAGG IT WAS around 23 minutes into proceedings at Anfield. I took a glance to my left and puffed out my cheeks, eyes wide and in all likelihood pupils dilated as it washed over me just what I’d witnessed unfold in a remarkable opening 20 minutes against...
LIVERPOOL v ARSENAL – THE MATCH I REMEMBER

LIVERPOOL v ARSENAL – THE MATCH I REMEMBER

THINK of Liverpool v Arsenal and what’s the first match that springs to mind? Yeah, we’ll ignore that one. What else? Robbie Fowler’s 4-minute and 35-second hat-trick in 94? The treble he scored against them at Anfield just 16 months later? What...