BILL Shankly once likened the pain in the wake of an important defeat to cutting your finger: “It’s very sore to start with. After a few days it heals up. And then after a week you’ve forgotten, until the next match.” One of the great man’s less-heralded quotes, and...
“HE must be a f***ing winner. We expect those qualities in a player but he must be a winner.” I was told years ago that the above was a response from Joe Fagan to a young scout when he asked what Liverpool looked for in a player. Fagan responded saying,...
THIRTY years ago Joe Fagan – having already won the League Cup and the League title – took his Liverpool team to Rome where they would face Roma in the European Cup Final. Here, Liverpool defender Mark Lawrenson (from an extract of a book in which 12 Liverpool players...
ANDREW FAGAN (Joe’s Grandson) and Mark Platt have delivered a thorough and fitting biography of a true footballing gent. It concentrates as much on football as the man himself clearly did; what drips from every page is Joe Fagan’s love of the game. It’s there as...
// FREE PODCASTS
Liverpool 3 Crystal Palace 1: The Anfield Wrap
The Anfield Wrap’s weekly free podcast were we delve into the talking points from Liverpool’s recent win at Anfield over Crystal Palace, in a game which saw the Reds take a two goal lead before Palace hit back in controversial circumstances only to Florian Wirtz to settle the affair late on with an audacious strike.
Neil Atkinson is joined by Adam Melia, Ian Salmon and Kev Reilly.
Also in the show, Neil chats to Robbie O’Neill about the upcoming play ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher‘ which is running from 2nd-23rd of May at the Liverpool Everyman theatre.
