US. Our people, our supporters and our lives. It is a reference point Jürgen Klopp regularly makes, an address used more than most this week in light of his Liverpool winning the Premier League. The enormity in writing cannot be transmitted, nor can the reality...
I LOVE the derby. I’ve always loved the derby. And while this one is undoubtedly going to be weird, it’s another derby nevertheless. Something to feast on after a football famine. And another way to beat Everton. In the summer. In June. On my birthday. It’s a time of...
“A SLUM sport played in slum stadiums increasingly watched by slum people, who deter decent folk from turning up.” That was how football, and football supporters, were described in a Sunday Times leader reacting to the Bradford City stadium fire, which...
I’M a big fan of Villa Park. It’s a proper, traditional football ground. It looks great and it’s got some soul, unlike some stadiums these days. It’s a good away, too, not least because in normal circumstances it’s easy enough to get to from Merseyside and, more often...
LET’S have it right here from the very beginning… Liverpool’s win at Wolves on December 21, 2018, was NOT my favourite match of last season. But you know, we are where we are. Mr Friday Column is left with the breadcrumbs after everyone else this week has feasted on...
THE more we find ourselves holed up in homes and lassoed by lockdown, the more the idea that football is inconsequential looks ever more daft. When placed side by side with living or dying, then of course there are no comparisons. Everything is on hold now with very...
STATUS and standing can often be seen as dirty words in the day-to-day business of life. If you’re talking about yourself in relation to either you’re likely teetering perilously close to a “don’t you know who I am” situation. And who would want that? In football...
IT was April 2016. The new manager had his feet firmly under the table by now, having been in the job for six months. It was clear a few things had taken Jürgen Klopp by surprise. The damaged Liverpool mindset on and off the pitch, the fixture list, the increased...
WRITE about your favourite player. That should be easy enough, right? And yet, it’s not. Not for me, anyway. Because there have been ages and stages. Go all the way back, to way back when, and the kid with a big barnet and short trousers was starry-eyed about Kenny...
THERE’S not too much to connect the football clubs of Liverpool FC and Norwich City on the surface of things, or even the two cities they represent. There is a direct train between Merseyside and East Anglia if you fancy sitting through the five hours and 20 minutes...
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Weekender: Liverpool Out But Not Down
Gareth Roberts is joined by Mike Kearney, Emilia Bona and Jamie Webster to look back at the Real Madrid loss and ahead to the Leeds United game.
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