SPEAKING to Neil the day after the defeat to Manchester United, he said that as the minutes drifted away at Anfield on Sunday he couldn’t help but feel like he had been watching the same game all season. I know how he feels and Jürgen Klopp will, too. Again...
JANUARY was always going to be a month when loan moves were evaluated and assessed. While some moves for the likes of Lazar Markovic and Mario Balotelli were a year long with no backsies, for many of the youngsters the deals only took them to January — sensible...
THE death of hope. The January-February requiem for a season. So often the case. The ground hog campaign. It’s a very familiar cycle. August’s boundless optimism, yielding to September’s anxiety, making way to an October-November of expectation ebb...
NEW FEATURE! As well as our lunch time round up on YouTube we are now going to do an audio round up around 4pm just for our lovely subscribers. Today Gibbo and Robbo are on hand to discuss Jurgen Klopp’s press conference. They analyse his comments on our centre...
THE FA Cup is great, isn’t it? Dead romantic. “The Romance of the Cup” is accepted as standard and is lashed about all over the place. By journalists, by commentators and by the boring arse in everyone’s work who doesn’t really follow footie but...
ROBERTO Firmino is at school. He’s learning that he gets to keep the man-of-the-match champagne after adding his fizz to a game. Learning that he has to pay closer attention to what he posts on social media. Learning about the unabating, unforgiving nature of English...
THERE has been lots of talk this week of the dilemma facing Jürgen Klopp as Liverpool prepare to face Exeter City in the FA Cup third round tonight. The manager is in an almost impossible position with a squad down to the most calcium-deficient of bare bones. Amid a...
BLOODY football, eh? Makes complete mugs of us most of the time. Not to be complaining after the result at Stoke, but this was supposed to be about the lack of excitement generated by Liverpool over the course of the season so far. Then, at the Britannia, that...
IN your job, who digs you out of trouble? Who do you expect to pull things round when you make a mistake or everyone is having a bad day? Someone who maybe even just makes a cup of tea at an appropriate time. I hope you have that person in your work. I hope you have...
TONIGHT Liverpool play yet another game of football – the semi-final of the League Cup, to be exact. So Jürgen Klopp manages Liverpool in another game of football. He’s been fairly vocal on the relentlessness of it all. He’s tried to do it with a wry...
