THEY made us look ordinary. Since the word “ordinary” has been in my footballing vocabulary it’s been a pejorative. It’s also today something which is done to you. It’s something you don’t want to be but Bramall Lane happens and a muscular...
FOOTBALL in 2014 is a 24/7 all-consuming monster. If you are involved in the game at the highest level, that monster is there at every turn; in your face: watching, listening, examining facial expressions and toiling over every word. Why? It’s waiting. Ready to say...
BRENDAN RODGERS and some of his players should be buying Mario Balotelli a pint at some point this week. It’s the least they could do for the deserved scrutiny he has unwittingly helped them to avoid. Naively swapping shirts a few seconds too early has unsurprisingly...
WE walk to the ground full of hope, predictions are flying around on the scorelines and they are mostly in favour of The Reds. We do this more based on positivity than logic. Its simply more fun to go to a game thinking you are going to win. But its also based on past...
EARLIER in the week, Brendan Rodgers described how Mario Balotelli had worked ‘like a lion’ in training during the international break, writes KAMURAN KULAVUZ. I’ve looked into some of the traits associated with the lion and have picked out several holes in the...
AS we all know, Didier Deschamps was once firmly in the running to become Liverpool manager in the not-too-distant past. If the former World Cup-winning captain keeps an eye on the Reds these days, then I reckon he might be a little perplexed by one of Brendan...
RAHEEM Sterling “sleeps when he wants” apparently but there’s plenty to cause a waking nightmare about the way Liverpool are playing right now. Winning like that – in the last minute, after playing so badly, after throwing it away, after getting on...
IT’S not the Mario Show we were promised before the sadly still unique demolition of Spurs, memories of which are quickly becoming as distant as the summer weather the match was played in, writes LIAM BLAKE. But for as long as he remains unfathomable the show goes on,...
TWO thoughts are spinning around my head about Liverpool’s slow start. One the more positive, the other my inbuilt negativity, born from years of watching Liverpool get so close, yet remain so far. The positive looks to last season. We didn’t start well....
A WIN is a win? Sometimes a win is a win and nothing more can be gleaned from it. Sometimes it’s worth a little bit more than that – even when it’s the type of performance that usually provokes the response that “a win is a win”. Casablanca. 1942. Starring Dirk Bogart...
