AS he punched the Anfield air on Thursday — again and again – you had that feeling that this was how it was always meant to be. Like it will be from now on. We’ve waited a long time for him. A very long time for him. So long that some of our number will have...
A TWELFTH European Final for Liverpool FC. And it’s been a right laugh along the way; well at least since the draw paired us with Manchester United in the last 16. The word that keeps springing to my mind this fine Friday is enjoyment. Perhaps the cheaper currency of...
THERE’S loads of running involved in football you know, writes MATT KENNY. Absolutely loads. More running in a 90-minute period than most of can even hope to do in a week. And that’s before they even have to worry about being good at football and all that goes...
THERE is an illuminating interview in this month’s edition of FourFourTwo magazine with Gary McAllister, who reveals that not only did he read Liverpool fanzines upon joining the club in 2000, but also that an editorial line from one of them acted as motivation. Full...
WHEN Liverpool are through to the next round in European competition all we want to know is who are we going to get? Where next? Who next? And are they any good? Manchester United and Borussia Dortmund have been seen off. They were really tough ties but were...
By Dylan DaCosta NOT good enough, impact sub, biggest goal threat, season over. The perception, and perhaps reality, of Danny Ings’ Liverpool career has changed multiple times already – and the lad has only spent a few months on the pitch. In the midst of the...
HOW many of these games have we seen this year, eh? The Reds were totally, brilliantly dominant first half. A machine – a pressing wrecking ball of a machine that could have run over anyone. Newcastle couldn’t cope; Liverpool’s shape, organisation and pressing...
RAFAEL Benitez and Jürgen Klopp are cut from the same cloth. Both are football obsessives; passion at their managerial core, but pragmatism at the root of their approach. As Liverpool embark on a new era under the open, charismatic extrovert Klopp, the more guarded...
WITH several other journalists, I was invited to interview Phil Jagielka at a high school in Halewood ahead of the last Merseyside derby. Autumn had almost arrived and Jagielka was flourishing again in the centre of the Everton defence after what he admitted had been...
I’VE always thought the derby is a bit like going for a periodic medical. It’s not entirely necessary that it should be occurring on the particular scheduled date, but the simple fact of it happening raises blood pressure, and implies a phase of self assessment...
