by Adam Smith | Aug 25, 2016 | Footie
BEFORE I get too heavily into what’s on my mind this week, there’s some background information I need to give you about my friends from school. In short, I was always the stupid one. As adults, one of my school friends has gone on to work for a bank, one has become a...
by Phil Blundell | Aug 24, 2016 | Footie
IT SEEMS to be a common thing in football that fans think they know more than the manager of the team they support. You might be sat there in work now thinking, “Yeah, well you know what, there have been times when that’s definitely been the case.” By...
by Ben Johnson | Aug 22, 2016 | Footie
OH, the Reds. Where do we start with that one? What about the positives — shall we start with the positives? Did anyone see any positives? I’ve got to say this one hurt, and much more than it should have done. On the face of it, it is one of them games —...
by Rob Gutmann | Aug 19, 2016 | Footie
I’ll tell you now and I’ll tell you firmly. I don’t never want to go to Burnley. What they do there don’t concern me. Why would anybody make the journey? (John Cooper Clarke) Cooper Clarke is a tough crowd. He’s dealt a near fatal blow to a...
by Michael Nevin | Aug 19, 2016 | Footie
ONCE the final whistle blew at The Emirates last Sunday, and particularly once the flap of the last half hour was reduced to a mere detail amid a dazzling Reds’ performance and a cracking day out, the scoreline I took home with me was Arsenal 1 v 4 Liverpool. I paused...
by Karl Coppack | Aug 19, 2016 | Footie
NOT every good season starts with a win, just as not every poor one begins with a defeat, but there are wins and there are statement wins. Sunday felt like one such. A top-four opponent so one of the harder grounds to visit (Liverpool had won just once there before...
by Neil Atkinson | Aug 16, 2016 | Footie
LIKE everyone, I expected to see Liverpool sign a left-back this summer. I expected it from the point when Alberto Moreno was substituted in the Capital One Cup Final against Manchester City. That day James Milner sat in at full-back. The mistake in the Europa League...
by Ben Johnson | Aug 15, 2016 | Footie
WHEN I woke up on Sunday morning all I could think about was undies. I’d had a dream at some point during the night that I was in the Asda in Bootle and they had loads of boss undies on sale on some kind of bargain shelf by the entrance door. The mad bit was...
by Rob Gutmann | Aug 12, 2016 | Footie
ALRIGHT, kids? Here we are again, Back at the start. Refreshed, renewed, reborn. I can feel it. You can feel it. I’m running on the spot as I type this. It’s Friday. Match isn’t till Sunday. I’ll be staying over in London. Thinking about packing my bag now. Not...
by Craig Hannan | Aug 12, 2016 | Footie
IT’S difficult to decide on what constitutes success this season for a Liverpool side that is now very much in the image of Jürgen Klopp. The realist in you is pragmatic — he’s talking fourth-placed finishes, mulling over net spends and how problem...
