ANOTHER three points on the road sees The Reds stride into 2018 — as The Anfield Wrap’s Mike Nevin brilliantly once said — “handily placed”. In an almost complete reverse of 2016-17, Liverpool seem to be regaining momentum after a...
I THINK we’ve got to see this one as a bit of a free hit. These games, coming tumbling on top of each other as they do, can become lotteries. Liverpool have done well enough over this festive programme — wins over Bournemouth, Swansea and Leicester and the draw...
WHAT winning feels like. Soul soaring. Heart pounding. Vaguely nauseous. Made of fists, made of hips, made of fuck off. Just fuck off. It should always feel like that but so often it doesn’t. A combination between great football and a great scrap. Tonight these...
MO, mo, mo he’s magic, yer know. For all the grief that comes his way, Liverpool fans owe Jose Mourinho a debt of immense gratitude. With Mourinho’s recent hypocritical cryarsing about Manchester City and Liverpool spending money, the man who has spent more money than...
THAT win should not be underestimated at any cost. The thought of going to Burnley in two days absolutely needing something was enough to put you off the idea of seeing in a New Year altogether. But The Reds shook off an early setback, displaying tons of character, to...
“TAKE a walk around my centre half, gentlemen, he’s a colossus.” Jürgen Klopp presenting Virgil van Dijk to the press pack on January 1, 2018. Well, not actually, Klopp, and not actually van Dijk. These were of course Bill Shankly’s introductory words when...
NOT dissimilar to the aftermath of Bournemouth 0 Liverpool 4, what’s really important here is that 5-0 home wins don’t feel mundane. Shouldn’t feel mundane. Not now, not ever. To put it in context, in the whole of the 2006-7 season only once did...
ON the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me, a 5-0 against Swansea. At half time it felt like yet another one of those when The Reds would inevitably pay for their profligacy, but quite the opposite. They ran out in the second half and proceeded to...
WHILE the scoreline might suggest a Boxing Day massacre, for the most part it was a performance that could be described as “professional” by Jürgen Klopp’s hot and cold Reds. It’s something that this side has been craving for far too long, the...
THIS Liverpool team — aiming for a 14th match unbeaten today — is very good you know. I’ve seen a fair few down the decades and feel qualified in my intuition. It’s funny that post-Arsenal all the focus has been on defensive collapse and the apparent...
