PARTNERSHIPS is a word I have heard a lot on our shows in the last week or two, to the extent that I realised it has somewhat slipped out of vogue. This week on part 1 of the 85-86 version of What We Call History, Mike Nevin spoke as eloquently as ever on the strength...
LOADS have done it — given up going the match. Temporarily or permanently, whether it’s the rise in ticket prices, the ‘match-day experience’ or just falling out of love with it all, the make up of the Anfield crowd has changed as long-term...
JUST when you thought Liverpool were going to come out swinging, they throw the towel in. Just when you thought the Reds were going to puff out their chests and swagger around the country taking on all comers, they cowered in the corner and let the East Enders...
FANS who believe in the transfer committee versus Brendan Rodgers recruitment schism tend to use that narrative as yet more evidence of Rodgers’ failures, especially when it comes to judging a player, writes PAUL LITTLE. But if you are of that mind, could I suggest...
THE transfer window’s closed then, a crazy period of time when Premier League clubs buying a dozen players and selling a dozen more to try to magically improve results becomes an accepted norm. What has also seemingly become accepted, by the league at least, is...
BILL Shankly once likened the pain in the wake of an important defeat to cutting your finger: “It’s very sore to start with. After a few days it heals up. And then after a week you’ve forgotten, until the next match.” One of the great man’s less-heralded quotes, and...
NOTHING in football ever happens soon enough. Manchester City have already won the league. Sunderland needed to hold crisis talks after just 180 minutes of this campaign. Philippe Coutinho is “overrated, underwhelming and like a schoolboy.” Raheem Sterling is more...
SECOND teams. The idea of supporting a second team has come up a few times for me lately and it’s interesting that many fans screw up their face at the very idea, adopting an expression akin to one they’d use if forced to wear a stranger’s underwear (I...
ALMOST three months ago to the day, I wrote an article looking at the types of signings that had been a success for us in recent(ish) years and whether this could form a strategy for us this summer. If you can’t be bothered reading it again, it concluded, based on...
“IN mathematics and digital electronics, a binary number is a number expressed in the binary numeral system, or base-2 numeral system, which represents numeric values using two different symbols: typically 0 (zero) and 1 (one).” In today’s game, too many football fans...
