I’M getting bored of the recriminations. It’s easy to talk about whose fault this season is. It’s easy to talk about fixing it with knee-jerk sackings and ‘I never thought he was any good anyway’ tirades. Easy to point out the positions...
THE last time I cracked my fingers and wrote a little piece for The Anfield Wrap I was defending Brendan Rodgers’ team selection and the Reds’ performance in Madrid. It was a positive article backing the manager and trying to silence the naysayers. This...
MUCH of the talk before the game was of Olympiakos and the Road to Istanbul. That team too had stumbled through the group and early season consistencies to see the season explode into life with a swing of Gerrard’s right boot. I’m not sure how the night...
HE’S not so much the story that keeps on giving, as the story that insists it keeps on giving, writes LIAM BLAKE. We reached a point not long ago when the weight of comment — much of it vapid — generated by Mario Balotelli’s arrival or...
MADE up we won. Absolutely made up. Stupidly made up. Giddily made up. Why? Because it means I can spend all of this article slaughtering Lee Mason without anyone saying it is because of the result. I hate talking about referees. Hate it. It’s the thing you do when...
WE played like we meant it during the second half against Stoke City on Saturday. There was a bit of intensity, some spirit, a touch of defiance and even a degree of passion on show. Most of it was directed towards the task of putting the ball past Asmir Begovic,...
NOTHING is irredeemable yet. There is plenty to worry about – that goes without saying – but some of those concerns could be easily remedied with some subtle alterations. It’s time for Brendan Rodgers to turn his ethos of building a team from front to back to...
COLOUR me concerned. Everyone has their tipping point depending where on the scale of glass half-full-glass half-empty you are. That was mine. A fourth defeat in a row. Twelfth in the league. Four points from the bottom three. Has a team ever gone backwards so...
FOR more than 20 years, the scenario has been the same. As soon as Liverpool encounter problems, they look to the transfer market for a solution only to end up creating new ones. If the definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting...
CRYSTAL Palace, Ludogorets, Stoke City, Leicester City, Sunderland and Basel. When you’re managing a team in desperate need of victories, you can’t ask for a more appealing set of fixtures than that. Those six are the opponents Liverpool face before a trip to Old...
