TENSE at the end that. Tense at the beginning as well, to be honest. With some tense moments in the middle thrown in. But Liverpool Reds 1 Bournemouth Tories 0. And When The Reds Win We All Win — and all that. Here are some footballers and numbers which you...
AFTER a whole week of discussion in the national media about the actions of the gobshite that is Jose Mourinho — and a fresh delivery of camera-facing crap from the mouth of the Portuguese yesterday (‘fake result’ my arse) — it’s worth...
I LOVE the first home game of the season. First day of term. Everything clean. Everything fresh. Everything red. And I love Anfield. I don’t say it often enough. But it still makes me go weak at the knees. It still has the capacity to take the breath away. It’s a love...
I’M never quite ready for the start of a new season. This year especially so, with August barely a week old before the first shots were fired. Something to do with The Euros, I believe, which irks all the more given that Hodgey’s Lions are responsible for...
LUCAS has been a Liverpool player who has always had more meaning attached to him than many that he has shared the pitch with. He’s a footballer with signifiers. You can probably tell the story of this football club through him over the last 10 years far better...
OPENING day is the best. Anything could happen from here. I always get ridiculously optimistic, but why not? In theory every team has an equal chance before a ball is kicked, no one has lost yet, everyone has the same points. Of course, in practice, some are more...
A DUTCH legend once told me that a talented player devoid of discipline is as useful as a phone without a charger. Ability alone would never see you touch greatness, he preached — pointing to diligence as the power source to succeed. He would look at his squad...
Of all the indignities suffered by Liverpool fans during the 6-1 defeat at the Britannia Stadium in May, perhaps the most galling was the sight of Charlie Adam swanning around spraying passes at ease, writes NEIL DOCKING. Everything about a gutless surrender of that...
FOR 12 months everyone associated with the Reds has been in a daze, heads cabbaged by a Luis Suarez puff of smoke making its way from Melwood to the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper, writes PHIL BROOKES-LENNON. Liverpool supporters’ love for strikers dates back to...
IF there was one thing that annoyed me in the wake of that May mauling at the hands of Stoke City, it was the suggestion that it didn’t matter. “Nothing riding on it was there?” “Only the last game of the season. Why are you arsed, why you angry – go on holiday,...
