THERE are some things you should never look back on. This is a mantra I have embedded as a coping mechanism when it comes to football. There are things I have witnessed in stadiums that I point-blank refuse to watch on a screen in acknowledgement of their gravitas....
IT’S easy to just think of ourselves, isn’t it? To think about how many years we’ve been doing this, how many times we’ve had these months or these trips. Even knowing we’ve done it so many times before I’m all over the place with it. There’s talk if Liverpool lose...
LIVERPOOL knew they needed a new goalkeeper for a long time. Long before Simon Mignolet had been dropped to the bench, not for the first but certainly last time in his Liverpool career. Long before Karius threw the ball at Karim Benzema’s feet, or let a...
WHAT will you miss when it’s gone? If everything in your life was taken away from you tomorrow, what would you miss most? They’re questions I’ve been contemplating a lot recently. For whatever reason, while I was growing up I always thought there was a perfect world...
IT seems only fitting that one of the first articles I read this morning was from The Guardian, talking about “the age of rage” and how the world is angrier than ever before. The article raised so many interesting points, but its last sentence reverberated...
WELL, what a strange week that was. First of all, I do want to say a sincere congratulations to Manchester City. What an incredible effort to stay ahead of the relentless Red machine until the end. If I had a hat, I would take it off to Pep Guardiola and his players....
SINCE August 2008, Manchester City’s ownership have had designs on becoming the best in the world. Their guerrilla strategy involved getting the best minds in place from the top down and using their wealth to get whatever and whoever they wanted. What they perhaps...
“SEE you in Madrid.” That was the parting shot for so many as the traditional farewell to friends at the match took place as fans filtered away from an emotional afternoon at Anfield. There was no final twist, no fairytale ending, but there was a swell of pride in the...
FOOTBALL makes you feel a certain kind of way. From the depths of despair to rip-roaring ecstasy to genuine exasperation. It doesn’t half put you through the ringer, does it? Head gone, hair declining, life expectancy shot to pieces, but isn’t that what it’s all...
I THOUGHT I had to write this yesterday. I lost track of the days and all concept of time. They told me I had another day, that I could let it all soak in before putting some words together in a coherent way. I’d need more than a day to get anywhere near letting that...
