LIVERPOOL manager Bob Paisley paid a British record £440,000 to bring Kenny Dalglish south from Celtic. As a player at Anfield, Kenny won six league titles, two FA Cups, four League Cups, three European Cups and one Super Cup. It’s widely recognised as the best...
WIND the clock back to September 2, 2013. Liverpool sits pretty at the top of the Premier League having comfortably beaten Manchester United at Anfield. The scoreline read 1-0 to the Reds, but the outcome was never in danger. It was a controlling performance on a...
ITK definition: Someone who is ‘In The Know’ about a football club’s transfer policy. Generally tends to be teenagers. Usually obsessed with their follower count. Will definitely have used the “Liverpool Sign Bent” joke at some point. Often confused with parody...
IT WAS A SAD IMAGE that will linger long in the memory. A brooding scowl lay upon the face of a man who sat motionless in a resigned slump behind his manager. Watching the football. Not playing it. Predictably, it went viral immediately on social media. It will...
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REY MASHAYEKHI was at the Yankee Stadium for Liverpool’s penalty shoot-out win over Manchester City. “Hey Xabi, you know which train we gotta take?” The man on the platform, identifying me by the “Alonso 14” on my back, was draped in red from head to toe. With...
ON this day in 1996, Liverpool Football Club unveiled the signing of Patrik Berger from Borussia Dortmund. I was very excited. It was a time when Liverpool didn’t have many overseas players, and long before it was cool to sign people from Dortmund. When Berger...
AFTER a few late nights spent staring at my TV and tablet screens as Liverpool do their best to entertain the American masses, a few things have stood out in my mind. I thought I’d share some of my own pre-season thoughts with you: Seb Coates may deserve a stay of...
EVERY year, sometime around mid-July, it’s the same script, writes CRAIG RIMMER. The withdrawal symptoms induced by having not watched the Red men do their thing for two full months reach the point where a pre-season kick about with Preston North End is greeted...
WITH Rickie Lambert, Adam Lallana and Dejan Lovren joining the Reds this summer – and Southampton trousering £49m from the transfers in the last three months – I spoke to BEN STANFIELD, a born-and-bred Southampton lad, a Saints fan for over 25 years and a...
