IT’S hard to put your finger on it. For whatever reason, The Reds have been so lacklustre in games against the top six this season. While the general intensity around league games has dropped off with Liverpool’s surreal run to the final of the Champions League, there...
SUN is out, bank holiday weekend = BBQ in our house. Not in the house, that would be wild, carbon monoxide alarms going off all over the gaff, trying to watch the game through a fog of smoke, like frigging Beijing or something, with one of them masks on. To be honest,...
I MAY burst. We may burst. This is what it’s all about. I’m just so red right now that if you cut me open you wouldn’t notice the difference between my fleshless exposed innards and my crimson exterior. We – breathes – are in a European Cup final. And everything is...
AT the beginning of writing this I am somewhere above the Atlantic Ocean on route to New York City. Liverpool’s Champions League semi final second leg against AS Roma is being played out below the clouds on a miniscule patch of earth, a mere dot on the circumference...
IT’S pretty hard to put into words what this trip to Rome has been like. For all the concerns beforehand, all the well wishes from friends and family, you’d have to be made of wood to not let a percentage of the fear seep into your psyche. Instead, what has greeted us...
THERE are two pieces to be written. There is one which starts like this: A Liverpool player hits the deck with relief on the final whistle. We know how he feels. I hate this: we never do anything the easy way. I hate that because we don’t do easy things. If you...
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WE’RE in the Champions League Final. Breath it in. Shout from the rooftops. Wake up the neighbours then wake them up again. Find me a new credit card and a bed in Kiev. It’s all Reds vs all Whites in Ukraine. John Gibbons is joined by Craig Hannan and...
ROME. What a city. Some of the things you see here are second to none. Some of the buildings leave your jaw open, agog, amazement and wonder spread all over your face. Wonderstruck, struck by wonder. Imagine being a peasant, from Germania, circa 400 years BC or...
“I think Anfield is number one in the world, so I think other stadiums will not impress us” Sadio Mane AND then there was one. One more step. One last hurdle. One remaining challenge standing between Liverpool Football Club and a place in another European Cup final....
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WHAT’S it like to go to a European Cup away game for the first time? What’s it like to feel you might win the Champions League for the first time in your adult life? Four of our younger contributors get together to discuss what it means to them to watch a...
