RUBIN Kazan. What can you say about them that hasn’t been said before? Firstly, how about “it’s close”? No-one is saying that. Perhaps “it’s easy to get to.” No-one is saying that either. Because these things are lies, it isn’t close, it...
ANOTHER frustrating Anfield night. Even if they are still getting to know the manager, and for many each other, the team should have had enough to beat the 12th best team in Russia playing for so long with 10 men. Could do with a win Sunday. Simon Mignolet: 7...
WALKING out. Walking along. Me, Ben Jono, Mike Girling, Sam Brockle. “Don’t really know what you say about that one.” Walking down towards the brow. “One of them. Got to write a match report.” “About that?” asks Ben Jono....
LIVERPOOL’S third Europa League Group B game is a first look at Rubin Kazan — and Klopp’s first look at The Kop, or at least one that is singing to his tune. In fact, he will have a whole stadium of Liverpool fans to eye up and down, if he so...
A WORRYING trend continues. Liverpool go a goal up against average opposition, then don’t build on it. They concede an equaliser and then don’t know what to do. Players look to each other for inspiration. Leaders are searched for and not found. Games drift...
DEPRESSION hovers over Anfield. Another grim evening watching a group of players under-perform. For Carlisle, now read Sion. Last night’s dismal proceedings were summed up by the need to introduce Philippe Coutinho on the hour. It smacks of desperation; the cavalry...
I AM composing this latest staggering insight into Liverpool Football Club from my spec in Hustlers Cocktail Bar in Hisaranu. Therefore it may well be flawed but then it is names followed by numbers followed by sentences. My arbitrary figures will almost all be wrong....
A EUROPA League game three days before an away Merseyside derby probably isn’t the preparation Brendan Rodgers would have chosen for such a vital league tie, but it is what it is and we are where we are. FC Sion have at least done the decent thing of looking a...
NAME-DROPPING time: I interviewed Jamie Carragher last week for a new project I’m working on. More about that next year, in case you’re interested. He was considering Istanbul and 2005. A decade later, he still can’t really comprehend how it all happened. Even with...
LIVERPOOL neither attacked nor defended nor midfielded with conviction against Bordeaux. It was frustrating to watch. There is a pleasure to be taken from the following 1-1s away from home in Europe: a) A swashbuckling side hammer the opposition goal but their...
