THERE was a time in the not too distant past when Liverpool would take any excuse to feel sorry for themselves. To give a game up as a bad job, a shrug of the shoulders, a sigh, a lead thrown away or an equaliser resulting in a capitulation, “just one of those...
TWO years after buying the Boston Red Sox, Fenway Sports Group were celebrating winning the World Series, writes STEVE TANCOCK. Not just a World Series, but the first in 86 years for a club and fanbase tortured over that human lifetime time by some utterly agonising...
YOU may have noticed how sinfully boring an international break is when you’re a fan of a Premier League team. Imagine how dull it must be if you’re a Premier League player, or at least one who doesn’t go on international duty. Jürgen Klopp gave his players a break...
ONE of them, isn’t it? Fuck it, it’s gone, in fact, I’d go so far as to say that the biggest compliment you could ever give to how good Liverpool are is how Jose Mourinho and Manchester United lined up today. When you’ve got the manager who’s spent more than any other...
THEY’RE too soft. They crumble too easily. There are too many nice lads who don’t know what it really takes to win. All accusations levelled at various Liverpool teams over recent years and, often, justifiably so. But, for the first time in a long time, something...
LIVERPOOL are getting a lot of things right at the moment. Putting the ball in the goal lots. Stopping the ball from going in their goal lots. Getting Sadio Mane to celebrate like he’s on Stars In Their Eyes and has told Matthew Kelly that tonight he’s going to be...
IN a surprisingly relaxed press briefing earlier this week, and with the return of Rafa Benitez on the horizon, Jürgen Klopp was predictably asked his opinion on a man still held in the highest regard by most Liverpool fans. And the German couldn’t have been more...
A QUESTION I often ask myself is how much someone needs to be paid before people in general, and football fans in particular, stop treating them like humans and, instead, act as though they are robots with none of the same weaknesses and flaws that the rest of us...
WHEN talking about the difficulties of dominating English football in the modern era, John O’Shea seems an unusual reference point for my brain to use. However, I find myself thinking about him and mentioning him in conversations about winning far more than I ever...
ON the The Anfield Wrap’s “Review” show after the Southampton game, host Neil Atkinson said a few things that chimed with me. Developments in recent weeks had gotten me thinking, and Neil’s words on that show offered some corroboration. In amongst the...
Midweek Extra Gutter Special: Florian Wirtz Deal Agreed
With the agenda ripping news breaking this morning with Leverkusen accepting a club record bid for Florian Wirtz only moments before our midweek free show was recorded, we reflect on what is a massive statement of intent from Liverpool Football Club.
Rob Gutmann is joined by Mike Kearney, Abi Rudkin and Phil Blundell.
