YOU never know with footballers. I once waited for six hours in a Cheshire hotel while a former speedy Liverpool goal scorer finished his “extra training”, which just so happened to coincide with a big horse race. A former Everton defender and Croatian manager got...
‘Bedding In’ is a no-agenda chat based in the Liverpool Gin Distillery on Castle Street, with Brendan Rodgers a hot topic from this past week. Getting stuck into that as well as the conundrums facing The Reds in the League Cup are Neil Atkinson, Gareth...
FOUR years ago today, after a 1-1 with Everton at Goodison Park, Brendan Rodgers received a phone call on his way home and was told that was that. After 166 games in charge across three years on Merseyside, his time at Anfield was over. The men who backed him sacked...
Liverpool are back in Premier League action at Anfield with Leicester City the visitors, and it’s the return of a familiar face in Brendan Rodgers. Joining Neil Atkinson to look ahead to the weekend are Gareth Roberts, Adam Melia, the Echo’s Steve Graves...
On this week’s Wildcards, the panel discuss Rhian Brewster’s role this coming season, Peter Crouch, Brendan Rodgers’ Leicester and space. Joining John Gibbons to discuss those topics are Kristian Walsh, Joel Richards, Ian Ryan, Siobhan Biggane and...
Our first look at the preview this week has us start with Jordan Jarrett Bryan about Arsenal. Why are they pursuring another attacker? Then we chat to Chris Waugh about Newcastle’s summer misery. What is on the horizon? Anything to look forward to? Lastly Pete...
SO, where do we start this week? I was going to begin writing this before the Leicester match but decided to hang fire in case anything of note happened that rendered my article useless before it was published. As it happened, we just got to watch the same match again...
I HAD a conversation with one of my uncles a few weeks ago. Not newsworthy in itself, obviously, but those who have read my ramblings on here previously might have noticed that when a conversation with one of my uncles is mentioned, it’s usually in relation to a...
AT some point between the advent of the Premier League and today, it was decided that footballers in England’s top division weren’t human. Obviously they’re human in the sense that they’re made of flesh and blood, yet somehow they’ve ceased to be seen and judged in...
“TODAY, I know nobody wants to hear it but I’m brave enough to say it, the pitch was really dry. “We gave it all the water we had but after 15 minutes it was really dry, the (drying) wind, it was difficult. “You could see it, a lot of passes where...
