IT’S a Gutter show, but not as we know it. Jurgen’s been on, and says we’re not likely to sign anyone. He wants to have a look at what he’s got. But do we believe him? Is it even up to him? What would the people in the room do if they were in...
ON the opening day of the Premier League football season, three quarters of the pitch at Goodison Park was bathed in sunshine while the remainder rested in shade, such is brooding presence of the Main Stand. I was on duty for The Sunday Telegraph, covering the game...
DID it happen to you at the weekend? The realisation that we didn’t actually have a game this week? The disbelief that we weren’t going somewhere mad, in some competition or another, on Wednesday or Thursday? A whole week. What will we do with ourselves?...
BEFORE the game yesterday Jürgen Klopp appealed for an atmosphere at Anfield. “Like all things in life, you can wait for the moment or you can create the moment,” he said. “Hopefully we can create the moment against West Brom. I’m always close...
GARETH ROBERTS was joined by Stephen Evans, Rob Gutmann and Adam Smith for this week’s BackPage with a jam-packed agenda. The lads start off with a chat about Alex Ferguson’s reported comments about Jürgen Klopp, in which he waxed lyrical about the new...
JÜRGEN Klopp’s post-Newcastle debacle press conference made for an interesting watch for a number of reasons. First, it was clear he was absolutely fuming and in no mood for bullshit after Liverpool undid much of their recent good work in front of the watching...
OH what it is to be a Red at the moment. The birds are singing, the sun is shining… well actually no that’s a lie, the birds are getting blown away in the wind and it’s regularly pissing down with rain, but the footie’s been pretty good. The Reds are mustard again, at...
NEWCASTLE. Like a bizarro world Liverpool. Geordies. Like Scousers, and yet totally different. They’re a lot nearer Scotland for a start. That changes things. An old mate, a Merseysider born and bred, once worked among the North Easterners (actually he was in the jug...
THERE was no Philippe Coutinho, Nathaniel Clyne or Mamadou Sakho. Roberto Firmino, Christian Benteke, Simon Mignolet and James Milner were not needed off the bench. There were five changes to the starting line-up that scorched Manchester City, and yet, Liverpool still...
THE fella driving the bus told me he had sparred with Tyson Fury back in the day as I paid for my ticket to the ground yesterday. He was big enough and hard-looking enough to be believable. “I’m not having him as world champion, mate,” he said. “Just not having it.”...
