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...
MIGHTY RED – WHY HE’S NOT FOR US

MIGHTY RED – WHY HE’S NOT FOR US

EVERYONE remembers their first game don’t they? I think I’ve told you mine but I’ll tell you again. May 1990, I’d just turned 8 years old, and my dad had two tickets for Liverpool vs QPR at Anfield. When he showed me them they may as well have...
STEVEN GERRARD: ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK!

STEVEN GERRARD: ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK!

ON the TAW podcast in the aftermath of Liverpool’s defeat to Manchester City, Neil Atkinson and I debated the merits of using Steven Gerrard as a defensive midfielder. My argument was – and remains – that Gerrard is one of Liverpool’s best natural finishers. He can...
LIVERPOOL: SWEET FOOTBALL IS BACK

LIVERPOOL: SWEET FOOTBALL IS BACK

“Ambassador, with these Rocher you are really spoiling us!” FERRERO Rocher football – this at times was Ferrero Rocher football. Brendan Rodgers is ‘the ambassador’ and when we play like we did a White Hart Lane then he is indeed “spoiling us”. Daniel Sturridge....