I CAN barely function. I need this tie in my life. I need this tie out of my life. Manchester United. In Europe. The gods have dragged us out to have a laugh at us. Days like these define seasons. They define years in our lives. Remember that year we did Real Madrid?...
AFTER Liverpool’s defeat in the Capital One Cup final, the newspapers were full of talk of what Liverpool’s manager might do in the summer, players likely to leave and some possibilities to join. This weeks Unwrapped focusses on what might happen in...
FROM a position of weakness, the first thing a manager usually tries to do is help the side he has inherited become tougher to beat than it was before. Brendan Rodgers attempted to make Liverpool more attractive to watch, so when the criticisms came — that...
WEDNESDAY’S win over Manchester City was a tonic after the disappointment of Wembley, but as we left Anfield some long held concerns came to mind. A grinning Jürgen Klopp — clearly buoyed by the best home performance of the season — was on the pitch...
ON Tuesday 1st March John Gibbons joins a paint covered Gareth Roberts with a round up of the day’s LFC news. Some financial reports are out. John and Gareth don’t pretend to be financial experts, but they stress the importance of looking at the detail...
ON Friday 26th February John Gibbons and Neil Atkinson bring you the day’s LFC news. There has been a Europa League draw and Liverpool got Manchester United. We’re coming round to it. Big games are great. Jurgen Klopp was asked about it too. He had a press...
FOOTBALL is rich on million-dollar questions and here is another. Had Brendan Rodgers led Liverpool to the Premier League title in 2014, would he still be manager? Many treated Rodgers suspiciously from day one. Surely the goodwill generated would have ensued trust: a...
SINCE the appointment of Jürgen Klopp in October, it has been repeatedly said that there are too many players in this Liverpool squad that are simply not good enough, writes Joel Rabinowitz. The logic then follows that there must be a huge clear-out at Anfield this...
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...
