WHAT will you miss when it’s gone? If everything in your life was taken away from you tomorrow, what would you miss most? They’re questions I’ve been contemplating a lot recently. For whatever reason, while I was growing up I always thought there was a perfect world...
WELL, what a strange week that was. First of all, I do want to say a sincere congratulations to Manchester City. What an incredible effort to stay ahead of the relentless Red machine until the end. If I had a hat, I would take it off to Pep Guardiola and his players....
SINCE August 2008, Manchester City’s ownership have had designs on becoming the best in the world. Their guerrilla strategy involved getting the best minds in place from the top down and using their wealth to get whatever and whoever they wanted. What they perhaps...
IT will be strange at Anfield in Friday night. As we danced and bounced in the Cardiff sunshine last weekend, dreaming of and expecting a Man City slip in their derby, hoping for the break in the case that would open this league up for us, Huddersfield on a Friday...
THERE’S going to be a five-day stretch that spans from this Saturday morning until next Wednesday night in which the destiny of this season’s league title will be decided. In that space of time, Liverpool will play Cardiff City, and Manchester City will play...
THIS game never gets old. Never ceases to amaze. While the world was trying to get its head around VAR and its impact on the City-Spurs game, I was pondering the strange situation in Northern Portugal where Liverpool were resting players in a European Cup...
AS the debates roll on as to what would – and wouldn’t – represent a good season for Liverpool, there was a gentle reminder over the weekend that The Reds’ progress towards prizes doesn’t happen in isolation. After much delay, Tottenham Hotspur finally put on a match...
I’M starting to go off Sundays, to be honest. The last two have produced the same bright mornings and shiny optimism of what may lie ahead, only to be doused by the waters of disappointment as Liverpool fail to win away to a bitter rival, allowing said rivals – and...
IT’S a phrase that has long since fell into cliché, and for many the name of the man that delivered it will mean little in the modern day. But retro, clichéd, or otherwise, Jimmy Greaves still had it dead right when he routinely described football as a “funny old...
WHEREVER you turned for discussion of the Premier League title race this weekend, the P-word was never far away. Newspaper reports, websites, social media, Match Of The Day, Sky Sports — of the 170,000 or so words available in the English language —...
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