A QUARTER-FINAL tie at Anfield looms large. A breather from the breathless chase for the title. The last eight and, by common consensus, the best draw Liverpool could have hoped for. And yet, the story around The Reds’ European Cup foray of 2018-19 feels like a...
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The Review after Roma. What a game, what a performance, what a time to be a Red. Liverpool cut Roma to ribbons for an hour but what of the first twenty and the approach the Roma manager took? He has come in for a lot of criticism post match but Sean Rogers is eager to...
THE first time I visited Liverpool, I was 10 years old. My first game at Anfield saw Liverpool pump West Ham 6-0. My dad was pleased. Every time Kenny Dalglish came near the Anny Road end he’d pull out his camera and snap him. I remember feeling starstruck. Ian Rush...
GARETH Roberts winds back the clock 40 years to this day in 1977 – Liverpool’s first glorious European Cup victory in Rome. First, Dave Kirby recalls the journey to Rome for the final, a gruelling return on a rickety train across Europe, while John Mackin...
I SOMETIMES wonder what went through Bob Paisley’s mind. This was the game that was meant to propel his Liverpool team into the European elite. A place in the last four of the European Cup up for grabs. Kevin Keegan’s goal inside two minutes had wiped out...
IT HAS to rank as one of the most famous moments in the history of Liverpool Football Club. David Fairclough — off the bench — receiving that pass and scoring that goal — the strike that sealed his nickname, and put Liverpool on their way to a first...
ONE of the things about a birthday, a thing no-one really warns you about as you surf the waves of youth, is the feeling of existential dread it can trigger. The more birthdays you have, the greater the sense of impending doom. Mortality becomes a series of fading...
IN APRIL 1981, Howard Gayle was summoned from the substitutes’ bench to play for Liverpool in the second leg of a European Cup semi-final at German Champions Bayern Munich. The previous October, by filling the same role against Manchester City, he became the...
IT’S Istanbul Day, and while we all know the tale of Liverpool’s dramatic comeback to lift the European Cup for a fifth time, there’s another story to tell: that of the fans. Gareth Roberts is joined by Stephen Evans, John Gibbons, Jon Jones and John...
IT STARTED with a miss. We all get dusty-eyed now about the nice moments of the last European Cup win; the atmosphere versus Chelsea, Jamie Carragher’s reaction to the shoot-out win in Istanbul, the homecoming, the laughs, the smiles… But it could have...
