BY now it’s a correlation you can’t fail to have been exposed to. Teams regularly playing Thursday-Sunday matches suffer results-wise. With debates raging about how seriously Liverpool should take the Europa League — and how strong the sides should...
LAST week’s victory at The Etihad Stadium, and in particular the emphatic 4-1 scoreline, was met by a modicum of shock in most media circles. For most neutral observers Liverpool, despite the recent hiring of Jürgen Klopp, had dropped off the radar when it comes to...
LUCAS nearly left Liverpool in the summer. Lucas nearly left Liverpool in the summer. Lucas nearly left Liverpool in the summer. Re-read and repeat that phrase a few times and notice how quickly the notion becomes nonsensical and ridiculous. Keep going and the...
IT is one of those strange football contradictions: you never quite know what you are going to get from Jürgen Klopp, even when asking the most simple of questions. Yet the manager strives for a form of consistency; a predictability even, in his forcefulness that all...
FAVOURITE moment from Saturday? For many of the 3,000 lucky enough to be there, it would have been this one. Martin Skrtel, having just slid on his knees towards the away fans, holds his arms aloft in front of the delirious crowd joined by team-mates so keen to join...
WHAT a day. What a glorious day. A day that’s left husks of Liverpool fans wearily smiling in work today after celebrating the unlikely to the max ever since. Well that’s the scene in our office anyway. As anyone who listened to Friday’s show on CityTalk can attest, I...
HE IS back in training for the umpteenth time, but is Daniel Sturridge’s rediscovered fitness worthy of any real confidence from fans, or more importantly from Jürgen Klopp? Supporters are understandably cautious to take Sturridge at his word after so many false...
“AT the moment, all of the LFC family is a little bit too nervous, a little bit too pessimistic, too often in doubt.” Those were Jurgen Klopp’s words in his first interview as Liverpool manager. He was in the city only for a few hours, but he had correctly diagnosed...
AT the end of July I wrote an article for this very website on Alberto Moreno and what we could expect from him in the coming season. Most of my theories went out the window when Brendan Rodgers benched him for young Joe Gomez for the first few games of the campaign....
IN the wake of Jürgen Klopp’s moment of feeling “alone” last Sunday, when disappointed Liverpool fans exited Anfield with a full 10 minutes plus stoppage time to play, there has been plenty more comment on these pages — and elsewhere — about the Anfield...
