by Martin Fitzgerald | Mar 17, 2016 | Footie
EVENING, everyone. Regular readers of this column, all eight of them, will know how exactly how this works by now. But here’s a crash course for newcomers — a football match happens and I have 5 thoughts. Here they are: 1) I spent most of the day watching...
by Neil Atkinson | Mar 17, 2016 | Footie
SHOW them. Show them. Show them the way to go home. They’re tired and they want to go to bed. Cos they’re only half a football team compared to the boys in Red. Oh! Show them… Not quite as straightforward as that. On 42 minutes, Ben Johnson tells me...
by John Gibbons | Mar 17, 2016 | Footie
I’M meant to do player ratings now but I’m not going to. Its irrelevant. It’s always slightly irrelevant, of course, but feels even more so tonight. What score do you give Simon Mignolet? I don’t want to criticise Nathaniel Clyne for being up...
by Andy Heaton | Mar 16, 2016 | Footie
“THE Atmosphere tonight, not that I’ll forget it, was absolutely unbelievable. It was really great and I want to say thank you to everyone who was involved in this atmosphere. “It was easy to enjoy from the first until the last second. This was Liverpool how I...
by Ian Salmon | Mar 15, 2016 | Footie
I PRESSED the tab button. That’s all I did. Then the field exit button. And everything disappeared. All of it. The whole sodding thing. And I hadn’t saved anything. Hour-and-a-half’s work. And it was great. You’re obviously going to have to...
by Ben Johnson | Mar 14, 2016 | Footie
PICTURE the scene. Dawn breaks. A naked man lies alone on a heavily distressed bed — the duvet and pillows seem to be at once entwined with and yet almost scrambling to escape his clutches. Through the untouched, gaping curtains an inquisitive beam of light...
by Michael Nevin | Mar 11, 2016 | Footie
I’M writing this with a headache. A pain in the head brought on not just by last night’s booze, but the also the cacophony of Anfield at its best. Prior to the match against Manchester United, I was thinking about an angle on the game because by the time this...
by Neil Atkinson | Mar 11, 2016 | Footie
THERE are three pieces here. Maybe four. Which one should we have? There’s one which slaughters: “The Sun was right, you’re murderers.” I like that one because I like Manchester. Manchester is better than that. Manchester is a working-class...
by Martin Fitzgerald | Mar 11, 2016 | Footie
EVENING, everyone. You should know how this works now – a football match takes place, we win, and I have five thoughts. So make a cup of tea, or even better a milkshake, and give me four minutes of your time. 1) The day got off to a weird start when a fella next...
by John Gibbons | Mar 11, 2016 | Footie
ABSOLUTELY battered them 2-0. First to the ball, and better with it. If it wasn’t for their goalkeeper they’d be writing new records. Instead we go to Old Trafford without a tie-winning lead at this stage but with a commanding one nevertheless. Also with...
