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...
THERE you go. Happy New Year and all that. Feeling positive about the year to come? Looking forward to all the joys that January to May has in store for a start? Nah, me neither. That thing where I come on here and spray around undiluted joy, optimism and positivity?...
ANOTHER nervy finish but another Liverpool win. I’m not sure we want to become 1-0 specialists. I’m not sure it suits our abilities or my stress levels. But you’ll take it for now. Liverpool actually should have had much more. We’re getting...
IN the Boxing Day edition of The Independent, looking ahead to that day’s fixture against top-of-the-table Leicester City, Danny Higginbotham wrote an article asking why “the Klopp bubble had burst”. I disagreed with much of it. Firstly, was the idea...
IT’S a time of year when you naturally reflect on things; where you’ve been, where you’re heading, where you’re at. This time last year, the Reds were tenth in the Premier League. With 18 games played, Liverpool, under the management of Brendan Rodgers, had won seven,...
THIS isn’t going to prove popular because Jürgen Klopp is universally loved by Liverpool fans young old and new. For the majority of supporters; desperate that Liverpool become successful again, and in particular successful under this magnetic, “cool” personality, he...
Post International Break Liverpool & Villa: The Trends
Examining football’s underlying numbers, looking back at the Villa match, and taking a look at Liverpool’s numbers following international breaks.Neil Atkinson is joined by Josh Williams.
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