IT’S usually a derogatory term used to shame the football fan whose support wanes when team performances do – the self-proclaimed fanatic that is not quite so keen when the going gets tough. At level eight of English football though, the term “fair weather fan” is...
NON-LEAGUE football is a very different beast to its Premier League big brother. While the rules are the same, the aim is the same, and it’s played on grass with 22 players, it’s a world away from the 24-7 televised soap opera of the top flight. It’s almost a sport...
I LIKE Non-League Day. I’ve heard cynicism about the concept — people wondering why there is a need to make a special event, even condemnation of those who turn up once a year to their local football club never to be seen again, returning to the bosom of the...
WOULDN’T it be nice to be able to go the match and come back with a full set of fingernails? To just sit and enjoy the game without being put through the emotional wringer? As Liverpool fans, we are never afforded this luxury, writes RACHAEL HUNTER. The Reds...
AFTER a morning at the Liverpool Academy in Kirkby watching the Under-18s with Jürgen Klopp (well, ok, not WITH Jürgen Klopp) it was a short drive through the West Lancashire countryside to sunny Southport and the catchily-titled Merseyrail Community Stadium. I even...
I’LL be honest, we missed the kick off. I was still in the pub with Big Ian (he’s about seven foot). Thought we had time for one more in the Deanes House and it was 3.05 by the time we clicked through the turnstile at Valerie Park. It’s nice that it doesn’t matter...
I was 14 when I first found myself within the confines of Anfield, one of just 17,228 souls present to watch the Reds dismantle Crewe Alexandra 5-1 in the Rumblelows Cup in 1990. Twenty four years later, it’s not the goals or the goalscorers that jump immediately to...
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