THERE’S been quite the scramble to make arrangements for White Hart Lane tomorrow. Trains booked at the last minute and plenty who wouldn’t have gone near the fixture two weeks ago suddenly calling in favours to lay claim to tickets. Those who watched the recent...
“IMAGINE trying to play football while holding your breath.” That was the answer of an international when asked what it was like to take to the pitch under inescapable toxicity. Initially, it seemed a rather dramatic response. But upon introspection, just two weeks...
OH! wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north/With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red? I first read these lines (from Macaulay’s The Battle of Naseby) in 1978 in the first book I’d ever bought about Liverpool Football Club’s history. The...
IN this weeks look at the back pages, host Gareth Roberts is joined by sidekick Rob Gutmann, Liverpool Echo’s Neil Docking and handsome Paul Senior to talk about the things real journalists are writing about in the press. They discuss what the papers have made...
THURSDAY night IS AFQ. Neil Atkinson, Mike Girling, Stephanie Heneghan, Ben Johnson, Timo Tierney. Hold on to your hats. They get through more questions than ever before. Drinking in the house, Europe ranked, Big Sam rated in scales of wool, Where were you when Hodgey...
ALBERTO Aquilani hadn’t played a game for Liverpool when a banner in his name was unfurled on the Kop for the first time. It displayed the Italian’s shirt number in Roman numerals next to an emphatic message telling of a hero rising, as if the new signing was a...
A MANAGERIAL change is never just a managerial change. Collateral damage is high. When the manager clears his desk, everyone from his coaches to the tea lady worries they will soon be doing the same. Assistant manager Sean O’Driscoll, Head of Performance Glen...
THE well-worn script has been shoved down our throats so many times that you know the lines off by heart when it’s regurgitated for public consumption once again. Liverpool are finished. Liverpool are a relic. Liverpool are living in the past; a famous name but an...
HOPE is defined as “a feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen”. My life right now is like a Jurgen Klopp-inspired version of Being John Malkovich; every time I look at someone my brain is superimposing a beard and a pair of...
WHILE listening to The Anfield Wrap’s show on Radio City Talk on Friday night, there was one line which struck home with me. “There’s kind of nowhere to go from that if it doesn’t work out.” Words spoken by Craig Rimmer that hit home with me, writes SIMON FURNIVALL....
