TWO games in, two draws, one goal, but signs of the team taking a nice shape and moving, generally, in a nice ‘Klopp-esque’ direction. Most of all though, it is just nice to be bloody excited about Liverpool and the football again. It has been exciting to...
THIRTY-TWO years today, Steve Nicol first rippled the net in the Red, scoring the first of his 46 goals for Liverpool as Joe Fagan’s Reds won 1-0 away at QPR. I first remember taking in his gingery countenance in a January FA Cup game at Anfield in 1984. We were...
“IMAGINE trying to play football while holding your breath.” That was the answer of an international when asked what it was like to take to the pitch under inescapable toxicity. Initially, it seemed a rather dramatic response. But upon introspection, just two weeks...
It almost doesn’t matter who he really is. It’s what he represents that counts most. All the cliches. We don’t like losing. We don’t like being looked down upon. Forever being re-classified. We’ve been getting told for 25 years now that...
A DAY is a long time in football. Two days an eternity. It seems strange that approximately 48 hours before I am writing this Brendan Rodgers was preparing a Liverpool team for a Merseyside Derby. Since then a lot has happened. A manager has been sacked and gone on...
ON Sunday morning, as I readied myself to be put through the wringer of the Merseyside Derby, I allowed my mind to drift to an idea for an article I had been turning over for a few weeks. Next week will mark five years since New England Sports Ventures, now Fenway...
LAST night, during Liverpool’s 1-1 draw with Sion, I responded to a tweet from Rory Smith, my colleague at The Times, in which he stated that “the utter silence of English grounds in Europe has to be a small factor in poor results.” Sat at a near mute Anfield, I saw...
WHEN you talk about football it’s important to remember that there’s a difference between what could happen and what does happen. In no area of the game is that more important than when discussing the financial implications of an ever-expanding set of commercial...
A FRUSTRATING afternoon. It was good to see us at least creating chances, but still not enough of them and certainly not enough going in the net. Norwich are fortunate to leave with a point, but they could have won all three. Which, if you consider they showed little...
WE’VE been here before. Perhaps not as poisonousness, perhaps not as omnipresent. But this is a familiar juncture, a well-known walkway. Brendan Rodgers should be sacked to save Liverpool. There are petitions. There are campaigns. There are banners and there are...
