By Amy Lawrence WALKING up Wembley way, en route to an FA Cup semi-final in an all-seater stadium for an all-ticket match, it was impossible not to take a moment to look back. What have you done in the last 25 years? I left school, got a degree, landed a series of...
TWENTY four years ago today, Ronny Rosenthal started his first game for Liverpool, coming into the team for the injured Ian Rush to face Charlton Athletic at Selhurst Park. The Israeli international, who initially arrived on loan from Standard Liege, scored a...
THE new Liverpool home kit for 2014-15, launched in Liverpool city centre yesterday, was designed with an eye on the classic kits worn by Reds players during the era of legendery forward Roger Hunt in the 1960s. As well as calling on current stars – Simon...
I’VE gone. I’m a broken man. I wasn’t nervous before West Ham. I honestly wasn’t. In my head I’ve allocated different percentages of nerves to different games and I had West Ham at 10% panic. No (or little) sweat. Yes, there’s the Carroll...
THE England rugby squad that won the World Cup in 2003 had a team shout they used at pressure moments in games. Eventually it grew and became second nature for them, but early on, they’d all say, “TCUP”. It stood for “Think Correctly Under...
IT’S the music. It’s all about the music. Superstitions are all well and good, and I have my fair share of them, but when push comes to shove are we really going to miss out on the title if the regular chippy is shut? Are we really going to miss out on the title...
THE gauntlet. I love the word “gauntlet”. I guess 2 perfect weekends in a row was too much to ask. Gauntlet thrown down. Tomorrow the response. — Craig Rimmer (@Craig_Rimmer) April 5, 2014 West Ham United felt like a gauntlet. Won six from the last...
NEIL ATKINSON is joined by John Gibbons, Jim Boardman, Rob Gutmann and Rory Smith of The Times to chat about the impending clash of footballing cultures between Brendan Rodgers’ Tricky Reds and Sam Allardyce’s ale-house knobheads. Music this week is from...
SUNDAY’S 4-0 drubbing of Spurs made it 9-0 on aggregate for the season and sent the Reds back to the top of the table with the title in their own hands – but it’s not the first time Tottenham have been on the wrong side of a thrashing from Liverpool....
THE chippy was shut. That wasn’t good. Everything had to be right and in its place. I’d met my mates, we’d shook hands and we’d discussed who would miss out in the midfield. I was a bit worried about the lack of Allen and felt that Coutinho...
