LIVERPOOL v ASTON VILLA – PREVIEW

LIVERPOOL v ASTON VILLA – PREVIEW

IT was always going to be this way. That we would end up living in this half light. There was a moment , after the quake of the 6-1 lashing at Stoke in May. After the swell, and in the after-shock, when a decision might have been taken. It would have been an emotive...

RANTING AT THE REDS: LAMENTING A LIVERPOOL LOST

I’LL be honest, I don’t know where I’m going with this. I haven’t got it plotted out. I’m not entirely sure what my point is or if I actually *have* a point. I’m just writing because I bloody have to, because I NEED to talk about...

LIVERPOOL: THE AIR OF INEVITABILITY

LONG before kick off, long before the warm-up, you could feel it. The inevitability. It swirled and settled in the air. The cliff and its edge circled the atmosphere. At 5pm, Anfield was silent and gloomy. It was full of emptiness, and even when everyone took their...

YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO… LIKE MIGHTY RED

WHEN you talk about football it’s important to remember that there’s a difference between what could happen and what does happen. In no area of the game is that more important than when discussing the financial implications of an ever-expanding set of commercial...
LIVERPOOL v CARLISLE UNITED – PREVIEW

LIVERPOOL v CARLISLE UNITED – PREVIEW

GIVEN Liverpool skipped the League Cup second round due to playing in Europe this season, and the fact you’d expect many of the minnows to be out by now, a home tie against Carlisle United — positioned 10th in League Two — is in theory about as good...