I bumped into a good Red friend this week at a GSCE awards night at my daughter’s school. Peter Harvey and I go back years, to school days in Crosby, Merseyside but more memorably to the local betting shop throughout our student days in the late 1980s. Post...
LIVERPOOL FC great Alan Hansen once said that he hated the derby. I hate the derby. We should hang out more, Alan. I can tell you why I hate the prospect of the game itself — the ratcheting up of tension, the strain of watching a match in which you fear the...
JUDGING the collective psyche of thousands of people is always a dangerous game. And yet, it happens every day. Especially in football, or more specifically in football supporter culture. Take the derby this coming weekend. Anfield will be a sellout for the visit of...
Neil Atkinson hosts after Liverpool batter Everton by one goal to nil. It was a richly deserved win for the Reds who showed they are very much focused on winning the championship in May. He is joined by Joel Richards, Melissa Reddy and John Gibbons as they go through...
1995: It’s ages ago that, isn’t it? I mean really, think about it. What were you doing in 1995? How old were you? I was 15 and I was a bit of a farce. Britpop hadn’t really taken hold, New Labour was in its infancy — two years away from government. That...
Simon Starts CHANCES are you probably know this already, or you expected it to be the case — or maybe you’ve just been living under a rock since Loris Karius let Dimitri Payet kick it into his goal last weekend — but Jürgen Klopp has today confirmed...
SOME of you won’t remember much about Ian Rush. You’ll have heard stories, seen clips. You’ll know about the camera sent tumbling in the back of the Everton net, the four goals at Goodison in the Glenn Keeley derby. You might even have commemorated it in song. You’ll...
“HOW on earth was that only 4-0?” As I exited the press box after the final whistle on Wednesday night, those were the first words I heard. And indeed, how exactly did not Liverpool better the 6-0 scorching of Everton recorded at Anfield in September 1935? It, and...
FIRST goal goes in. James Milner can put a cross in, can’t he. Second goal goes in. James Milner can really put a cross in, can’t he. Can’t he? Yes. Yes he can. What a terrific half of football from Liverpool. Before they go 1-0 up they should be 2-0...
Evening everyone, Here’s my Five from Fitzgerald for tonight’s game: 1) The Anfield Wrap’s Kate Forrester I had the following conversation with Kate Forrester on WhatsApp earlier: “Can you send me your Five Things from Fitzgerald after the...
