EARLIER in the week, Brendan Rodgers described how Mario Balotelli had worked ‘like a lion’ in training during the international break, writes KAMURAN KULAVUZ. I’ve looked into some of the traits associated with the lion and have picked out several holes in the...
RAHEEM Sterling “sleeps when he wants” apparently but there’s plenty to cause a waking nightmare about the way Liverpool are playing right now. Winning like that – in the last minute, after playing so badly, after throwing it away, after getting on...
GETTING away with murder takes balls. Getting away with murder means you have committed murder and fronted it. You’ve stared it down. You have the balls to go “And what?” And what? Well what is Liverpool need to improve. Liverpool need to get better...
NEIL ATKINSON was joined by John Gibbons, Nick O’Prey, Mike Girling, Jay McKenna and Alison McGovern for a jam packed edition of The Anfield Wrap on City Talk. Music this week from The Ragamuffins and P J Walker Download Issue 12 of #TAW Monthly via iTunes or at...
WLWLLDW NOT very good that is it? Someone hands that to you at the beginning of August you’re inclined to think, “Oh, aye? What’s going on here then?” I rarely enjoy international breaks, the monotonous drone of jingoistic mainstream press and the vacuum of current...
NO outfield player at Liverpool Football Club has played more minutes through the first eight weeks of the season than Raheem Sterling, writes REY MASHAYEKHI. Not the inexhaustible Jordan Henderson, nor the preferred centre-back pairing of Dejan Lovren and Martin...
IT’S not the Mario Show we were promised before the sadly still unique demolition of Spurs, memories of which are quickly becoming as distant as the summer weather the match was played in, writes LIAM BLAKE. But for as long as he remains unfathomable the show goes on,...
By Joseph Pepper EVERY YEAR, about 1.5 million Wildebeest, 300,000 Zebra and other Antelope migrate north from the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, across the Mara River, all the way to the fertile National Reserve in Maasai Mara, Kenya. The 2 million or so...
TWO thoughts are spinning around my head about Liverpool’s slow start. One the more positive, the other my inbuilt negativity, born from years of watching Liverpool get so close, yet remain so far. The positive looks to last season. We didn’t start well....
A WIN is a win? Sometimes a win is a win and nothing more can be gleaned from it. Sometimes it’s worth a little bit more than that – even when it’s the type of performance that usually provokes the response that “a win is a win”. Casablanca. 1942. Starring Dirk Bogart...
