I’M really not enjoying this. It feels like a road much travelled and one that tends not to lead to the happy place. Flashbacks coming at me. Bradford in 2000. A win and we were in the Champions League. We lost and we were not. Stamford Bridge in 2003. Victory...
ROY Keane has never been shy of courting controversy. Furthermore, it seems his inadequacies as a manager – in contrast to a decorated playing career – convince him of the need to pipe up every now and then to stay relevant. However, his recent observations on...
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I LOVE Liverpool. I love football. I especially love Liverpool FC, writes LES JACKSON. My wife Sandra. She loves Liverpool. She loves football. She especially loves Liverpool FC. As you can imagine, with parents like us, our kids love Liverpool. They love football....
AT some point between the advent of the Premier League and today, it was decided that footballers in England’s top division weren’t human. Obviously they’re human in the sense that they’re made of flesh and blood, yet somehow they’ve ceased to be seen and judged in...
On this day 10 years ago, Lucas Leiva signed for Liverpool from Gremio for a fee of £5million. In a decade at Liverpool, the Brazilian has played under five different managers, clocking up 344 appearances for the Reds. Back in February, The Anfield Wrap spoke to the...
YOU may or (probably definitely) may not have noticed that I didn’t meet the Monday morning deadline for my weekly column to go up. I noticed. To be honest, I pre-empted it. You see, I was in Magaluf from Friday night to Sunday morning on a whirlwind tour. Magaluf,...
WHEN I’m asked to write these pieces on old matches there’s usually a process which takes place in my mind. Firstly, I’m tempted to tell the lads that I’m not old enough to remember a particular game and they’ve got me confused with those who remember Billy Liddell...
SATURDAY I was playing cornet with the brass band at a steam train festival before heading up to the disco festival. That is a funny sentence, isn’t it? I sometimes think my life is wandering from one unusual thing to another. Slightly late. They were both fun,...
I ALMOST feel it’s often forgotten by many that when Liverpool play there’s another team on the pitch, and by that I mean how that other team approaches the game. Unless Liverpool are able to do something brilliant, such as Emre Can scoring a wonder goal at Watford...
Examining football’s underlying numbers, looking back at Man United. Taking a closer look at Liverpools shot output and their away form data.Neil Atkinson is joined by Josh Williams.
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