by Andy Heaton | May 21, 2017 | Footie
WHAT a difference a few minutes can make, albeit with 15 minutes of half-time in the middle. Got to be honest, the head nearly fell off. NO, YOU FUCKING CALM DOWN. Simon Mignolet: 7 Rocking the new Sensible Soccer green goalie top — may as well have been on the...
by Neil Atkinson | May 21, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
“BE kind. In the first place try to be nothing but kind.” My mental note where I start all of these things. Seasons are fractured. Shall we do our best, one last time? Let’s go, Reds… — As a city Liverpool only makes complete sense in an...
by Rob Gutmann | May 19, 2017 | Footie
THE last day of term, then. Always a strange feeling. The sense that something is ending, changing, and that life is going to be a bit different from here on in. I’ll locate the season tickets – cleverly hidden at the back of a drawer no burglar would ever think to...
by David Segar | May 19, 2017 | Footie
SO here it is. An entire season comes down to this. It may not be the prize we were all dreaming of when Gini Wijnaldum slammed home number six against Watford in November, but it nonetheless represents an advancement of this football team and the next stage in Jürgen...
by Andy Heaton | May 18, 2017 | Footie
IF Liverpool fail to qualify for the Champions League, it won’t be the defence that’s to blame. It’s commonly accepted that Liverpool are electric going forward and porous at the back, a Kevin Keegan-esque Newcastle reincarnate, intimidating on the front foot but...
by Adam Smith | May 18, 2017 | Footie
WHEN it comes to stealing a living, few people pull it off as well as certain football pundits. I’m not talking about the ones who make predictions about particular football matches that end up going spectacularly wrong — that can happen to the best of us. I’m...
by John Gibbons | May 18, 2017 | Footie
FRIDAY night I drove to Nottingham with The Shipbuilders. It was fun but I couldn’t drink and it was a late one because Nottingham is always slightly further than you think. I also woke up on Saturday earlier than I wanted to and couldn’t get back to sleep...
by Phil Blundell | May 17, 2017 | Footie
LAST week Jürgen Klopp claimed the gap to Chelsea was not as large as the table suggests, it’s a comment that is always going to be met with howls of derision. I typed words along these lines in to Twitter to gauge the reaction and was met by an Evertonian accusing...
by Joel Rabinowitz | May 16, 2017 | Footie
IT feels good watching the Reds scoring goals for fun once more. It feels even better when it comes at a point in the season where the pressure to win is extreme, away from home against a side Liverpool have made a habit of struggling against in recent seasons. After...
by The Anfield Wrap | May 16, 2017 | Footie
WIND back to the first day of May — when Daniel Sturridge hadn’t appeared for Liverpool since the Reds’ defeat at Hull City in February — and few would have tipped him to be part of Jürgen Klopp’s plans for next season. That there would be a parting of ways come the...
