SUPPORTERS were broadly pleased with Liverpool’s performance in the 4-0 win at Tranmere on Wednesday night but how much of a bearing will it have on Jürgen Klopp’s plans? The general consensus about pre-season is that it’s used by clubs as a marketing exercise and...
EVERY year, without fail, I fall for the same trick. Three of four weeks without any football and come the first pre-season game I’m scratching for a glimpse of the new Reds — the champions elect in the new kits — so I can try to figure out how good we are...
“IF it’s easy in each game in the pre-season, then we get the first problem in the first game in the Premier League. So we want to have the problems in the pre-season and be well prepared in the Premier League.” Although that quote is from Jürgen...
FRIENDLY matches. Apparently it used to be a game against the bin men from whatever Eurpoean resort Shankly had taken the players to. Now it’s big business — Far East tours, a schedule eating up 21,743 miles and every match televised. Because of the latter...
SOMEONE was always going to have to do this. It might as well be me, writes NEIL SCOTT. I’m going to level with you. I’m concerned. Now, as a Liverpool supporter in the post-Suarez age I know that’s an admission of personal weakness. It’s a position destined to raise...
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REY MASHAYEKHI was at the Yankee Stadium for Liverpool’s penalty shoot-out win over Manchester City. “Hey Xabi, you know which train we gotta take?” The man on the platform, identifying me by the “Alonso 14” on my back, was draped in red from head to toe. With...
EVERY year, sometime around mid-July, it’s the same script, writes CRAIG RIMMER. The withdrawal symptoms induced by having not watched the Red men do their thing for two full months reach the point where a pre-season kick about with Preston North End is greeted...
I’M channelling Wyclef Jean’s Gone Till November. More precisely, Wyclef Jean’s Gone Till November as performed in a karaoke bar somewhere on the Greek island of Kos – a good decade and a half or so ago – by a monotone/tone deaf Scandinavian surfer dude. It was...
IT WASN’T always this way, but I enjoy the end of a season these days. Maybe it’s age or the effect of non-football life washing over me, but I’m glad of the rest. People often draw the analogy of your club being akin to a high-maintenance girlfriend...
Arne Slot’s Method And A Potential Marc Guéhi Transfer: Gutter Extra
Talking through Arne Slot’s squad rotation, transfer tactics and potentially signing Marc Guéhi.Rob Gutmann hosts Neil Atkinson, Sean Rogers and Josh Williams…
