IT wasn’t particularly surprising. Boring is what Liverpool do in European aways. Always have done, and in a two-legged affair it usually works. It’s also evident what they do these days following massive wins. They bring you to a point where you say: “These...
JÜRGEN Klopp thinks Augsburg is “really cool” and he’s right you know. It’s an attractive city with its cobbles and spires, but also has this gritty feel to it. “Real” was another word the manager used as a description and it’s bang on. There’s a Irish bar...
ON Wednesday 17th February, John Gibbons is joined by Neil Atkinson and a 1987 issue of Shoot Magazine. They have more up to date information than contained in that though, including some interesting statistics on goals per minutes for Liverpool strikers. John...
MOMENTS that change things. I was working in a record shop. Late eighties. Mentioned this before. Lots of times. 1988 going into 89. That summer of 89 when all we did was tell anybody that looked like they’d ever seen a guitar that what they really needed in...
IT will be a bit of a shame to lose Villa. The away trip, not the team. It’s an old-school red brick football factory — and one of the last of its kind. Handily, it’s in the middle of the UK and is an unambiguous there-and-back-in-a-day away job. No...
GARETH ROBERTS and John Gibbons huddle round a mobile recording device to give you the daily wrap up of LFC news. And quite the day it has been, Ian Ayre was going to do a “Live Q&A” with Liverpool fans at 6pm, but obviously didn’t fancy the...
THE midweek defeat at Leicester underlined the myriad problems facing Jürgen Klopp. Liverpool continue to languish in eighth place in the Premier League, 11 points adrift of Champions League football. With each passing week, and every uninspiring performance, it...
LIVERPOOL FC in 2016: 10 games, three wins — not including the penalty shoot-out victory over Stoke in the second leg of the League Cup semi-final — 14 goals scored, 15 conceded, a final secured, spectacles broken, only one top-flight game where the...
ON Transfer Deadline Day, or Monday 1st February as it’s more conventionally known, John Gibbons and Gareth Roberts bring you the afternoon’s football developments at Liverpool. There’s been a press conference. Jurgen Klopp gave some injury updates,...
ON Friday 29th January, John Gibbons and Andy Heaton bring you a round up of the day’s LFC stories. It’s mainly focussed around Jurgen Klopp’s press conference. He’s given an update on transfers, so we’ve passed it on to you. We also...
