AN international player once told me: “One of the hardest and most annoying things is when you feel like some of your team-mates are playing in a completely different game on a completely different pitch to you.” These words often smack me across the face when I watch...
ARSENAL have you on pins. Before the game we talk about how Arsenal away ties with City as the worst away. Because they have you on pins. Chelsea bludgeon you. United wear you down. But Arsenal and City have you on pins. They probe. They pen. They ratchet up the...
IT seems the opening two matches of Liverpool’s campaign — a pair of dogged, 1-0 victories — have Reds in one of two camps. For every supporter that is lauding wins over Stoke City and Bournemouth, there is another moaning about the substance of six points...
FOR 12 months everyone associated with the Reds has been in a daze, heads cabbaged by a Luis Suarez puff of smoke making its way from Melwood to the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper, writes PHIL BROOKES-LENNON. Liverpool supporters’ love for strikers dates back to...
SO CHRISTIAN Benteke is officially a Liverpool player. The Reds have bought goals this summer. No two ways about it. Whether or not we agree with the goals that have been bought, whether or not we feel it could or should have been different, it’s crystal clear...
CHRISTIAN Benteke’s move to Liverpool is all but sealed, with an official announcement due tomorrow, writes REY MASHAYEKHI. It means Brendan Rodgers is finally landing a player who — by many accounts — he’s coveted for years. After a dreadful season...
CHRISTIAN Benteke’s imminent signing has divided opinion among Liverpool supporters and both Melissa Reddy here and Dave Segar here have shared their reservations about the player on The Anfield Wrap. However, following on from Neil Docking’s tub-thumper about...
IT’S easy to name signings Liverpool have made over the last few years that we immediately felt the need to try to justify, writes NEIL DOCKING. There are those of us who are naturally more sceptical and emphatically voice reservations about a player from day...
THERE are many things about at the moment that have this feeling of inevitability. The English moaning about the good weather, tennis players beating tennis players who aren’t as good as them at tennis, and the transfer of Christian Benteke from Aston Villa to...
IMAGINE a hangover. The worst in years. An all-consuming, all-pervading, omnipresent bastard of a fug seeping into everything you do. Day after day, it’s there; nagging, festering, taking you down a peg, holding you back. And, as you stumble on regardless, deep down...
