JÜRGEN KLOPP has given Liverpool gravitas, reach and respectability. In one fell swoop, his appointment as manager made the football world take notice. It was a statement that Liverpool meant business again — no longer a project and instead aiming to be a...
NOW that I have a weekly article on these pages you’ll soon realise that I’m a fan of quotes. Mainly quotes to motivate me and quotes to remind me that nothing we’re experiencing is very new at all. My uncle said to me a few nights ago...
IN spite of the dull tedium of an international break, when things are going as well as they are you can’t help but reflect on the little things that makes football so great. The drama of a last minute winner, the needle of a derby game, and of course when some berk...
IT’S always a slog, the international break. Those barren two-week intervals depriving us of watching the Reds put their latest opponents to the sword. This one has been particularly grim. Following the apocalyptic outcome of the US general election, I find myself...
THERE has been no shortage of praise and admiration for the manner in which Liverpool have started the new season. Despite being unfancied by many outside Anfield at the start of the campaign, Jürgen’s Reds have laid waste to a potentially tricky start to find...
YET another international break and heightened irritation at not seeing the Mighty Reds light up our weekend. Of course, we’ve been here before – being the third occasion already this season – but in the wake of Liverpool’s dazzling, free-scoring shows since the last...
SO formidable are Liverpool’s front three in how they attack together with the vibrancy and verve shown this season that it could be regarded as unfair to highlight the importance of an individual, rather than eulogising over the trio as a collective. At the weekend...
IT exists to win trophies. A bastion of invincibility, the league its bread and butter. A holy trinity made up of the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors? They don’t come into it. We’re part of a family. People who can hold our heads up high and say,...
AFTER back to back goals against Norwich and Carlisle, and a goal at Goodison in the Merseyside Derby, it looked like as Brendan Rodgers’ Liverpool career finally ended Danny Ings’ was just about to really begin. Liverpool had struggled to get Ings to Anfield in...
AS we all celebrate Liverpool’s 6-1 win over Watford, the realisation is starting to creep in that we won’t be seeing the Reds play until just under two weeks’ time. Twelve of the current crop will be joining up with their respective national teams...
