IT feels strange to view a derby as a sideshow. At least it’s tempting to fall into this trap. Big Sam will say to his blue boys: “Their heads are elsewhere. Their legs are heavy, their hearts are lost in Europe”. Jürgen Klopp, though, will be taking faces...
YOU don’t always get what you deserve. You can make an argument that Liverpool have been the better side and deserved to win in every game they have drawn this season. It may not be a winning argument but it is a strong one. Today though, Liverpool didn’t...
Pre Match DID I ever tell you that I’m not a massive fan of Roy Hodgson? Yer, I’m not a big fan. I think I might have gone on record with this at some stage… Anyway, when he was our manager me and my mates used to come up with all kinds of tales to get us...
IT’S about us. It should always be about us. But while he’s kicking, a bit of it will always be about him. It’s small minded in extremis to give a shit about Roy Hodgson now. He is yesterday’s man, if he ever was today’s. He is not our business. Beating Manchester...
IN the wind and the snow, Mo Salah confirmed he’s the best in the land with a minimum of fuss. It’s a debut season from the stars, a return which goes beyond expectation and even hope. We started the season with conversations around “reversion to the...
Sat in the office yesterday chatting the worst Friday wham you can imagine when my colleague Gareth Roberts piped up about the Watford game at the start of the season feeling like ages ago and he had a point, but maybe not in the way he might have meant. Is 217 days...
FOR some reason which currently escapes me, I’ve ended up watching the match in the depths of the Cambridgeshire Fens in a gaff called The Shed, with this poster on the wall: Now lads, before we get started, if I’m going to be able to watch the game here we need to...
I WASN’T unduly disheartened by that defeat at Old Trafford last week. In a slightly perverse way I thought it was a marker of the progress the team is making this campaign. We’d lost just three times in the league previously, and two of those setbacks had felt...
IT’S the worst feeling. I know for some it willl be losing to Everton, but many younger Reds won’t even remember that as a thing. They were strange days of inept managers from Croydon and Paul Konchesky (don’t have nightmares, kids). Losing to Manchester United hurts....
ONE of them, isn’t it? Fuck it, it’s gone, in fact, I’d go so far as to say that the biggest compliment you could ever give to how good Liverpool are is how Jose Mourinho and Manchester United lined up today. When you’ve got the manager who’s spent more than any other...
