PODCAST: THE HUYTON HAMMER

NEIL ATKINSON, Nick O’Prey, John Gibbons and Mike Girling reflect on Liverpool’s 2-2 draw against Leicester City and the bombshell news about Steven Gerrard. Like what we do? Buy us a pint! DIRECT LINK – THE HUYTON HAMMER Podcast RSS feed. Get the...
LIVERPOOL 2 LEICESTER CITY 2

LIVERPOOL 2 LEICESTER CITY 2

THE New Year’s Day game is the end of a gauntlet. A gauntlet for everyone. Players, coaches and supporters. Christ the supporters. What a testing Christmas period it has been. Boxing Day away, an enormous Monday against Swansea and now this. There are other...
LIVERPOOL FOUR (4) SWANSEA ONE (1)

LIVERPOOL FOUR (4) SWANSEA ONE (1)

HALF time and it is probably Liverpool’s best Anfield first half of the league campaign. Damning in one sense. Encouraging in another. There is tons of progress here since Sunderland. Tons of football. These footballers look like something approaching...
BURNLEY 0 LIVERPOOL 1

BURNLEY 0 LIVERPOOL 1

LET’S have a catch up. I’ve been banging on about being good in both boxes. Been banging on about how you can be great for 70 yards but what happens in front of goal defines results. Today, first half especially, Liverpool were second best, were dreadful,...
STORY OF THE BOOS #2: FIVE PLAYERS JEERED BY THE KOP

STORY OF THE BOOS #2: FIVE PLAYERS JEERED BY THE KOP

EVEN in the impatient world of modern football, Liverpool supporters around the world are still famed for their loyal, unswerving support. While in recent years a more sedate Anfield has homogenised with other Premier League crowds and the lines between supporters and...
LIVERPOOL: THE STORY OF THE BOOS

LIVERPOOL: THE STORY OF THE BOOS

IT had been coming. Week by week, as Liverpool toiled to recapture even a hint of the form that brought a title so tantalisingly close, and as each dropped point saw pre-season expectation give way to a reality of spiralling bleakness, you could sense the frustration...
LIVERPOOL’S TRANSFER COMMITTEE: AN OVERHAUL

LIVERPOOL’S TRANSFER COMMITTEE: AN OVERHAUL

I’M obsessed with structures. You never want to work with me. I’ll structure you to death, put all sorts of things around you. However, once we have those structures, let’s go crazy. Structures empower. They encourage creativity, guarding against...
LIVERPOOL: THE GUINNESS SOCCER SIX

LIVERPOOL: THE GUINNESS SOCCER SIX

IN the context of modern day football it sounds ridiculous. In a week not interrupted by games – remember them? – top-flight managers picked 10 players from their first-team squads and told them to dig out their trainees. They needed them, because they were off to a...