JÜRGEN Klopp once described his grand strategy as being a process of “dragging teams down to our level, and then beating them”. He was modestly diminishing a much more sophisticated process. This is not what his Borussia Dortmund did and not what his...
THE three points collected by Liverpool at Selhurst Park have been described as “workmanlike” by pretty much everyone. But as Jürgen Klopp said in his post-match interview: “It’s maybe a dirty three points, but for us very important. The dirty ones are very...
THERE was a time in the not too distant past when Liverpool would take any excuse to feel sorry for themselves. To give a game up as a bad job, a shrug of the shoulders, a sigh, a lead thrown away or an equaliser resulting in a capitulation, “just one of those...
YOU don’t always get what you deserve. You can make an argument that Liverpool have been the better side and deserved to win in every game they have drawn this season. It may not be a winning argument but it is a strong one. Today though, Liverpool didn’t...
Pre Match DID I ever tell you that I’m not a massive fan of Roy Hodgson? Yer, I’m not a big fan. I think I might have gone on record with this at some stage… Anyway, when he was our manager me and my mates used to come up with all kinds of tales to get us...
TWO years after buying the Boston Red Sox, Fenway Sports Group were celebrating winning the World Series, writes STEVE TANCOCK. Not just a World Series, but the first in 86 years for a club and fanbase tortured over that human lifetime time by some utterly agonising...
YOU may have noticed how sinfully boring an international break is when you’re a fan of a Premier League team. Imagine how dull it must be if you’re a Premier League player, or at least one who doesn’t go on international duty. Jürgen Klopp gave his players a break...
IT’S about us. It should always be about us. But while he’s kicking, a bit of it will always be about him. It’s small minded in extremis to give a shit about Roy Hodgson now. He is yesterday’s man, if he ever was today’s. He is not our business. Beating Manchester...
A post shared by arena11 sports group GmbH (@arena11sportsgroup) on Jun 10, 2017 at 8:17am PDT ALL of the headlines and plaudits since Saturday evening have rightly been about Mo Salah and his continuing ability to wear down the nets at both ends of the Anfield pitch...
THERE are fewer things in football that better the sight of a local lad pulling on the colours of his hometown club. Liverpool are lucky enough to have been blessed by some pretty special scousers down the years. Lads who, no matter how much their reputation grows,...
