by John Gibbons | Jan 5, 2017 | Footie
SUNDERLAND was a tough one. Character required. I wanted nothing more than a nice day under the duvet watching films with my wife before we all went back to work. An alarm that said six something wasn’t exactly what I needed. I got up at 3:30pm after Manchester...
by Ben Johnson | Jan 4, 2017 | Footie
HAS everyone calmed down yet? It was heavy that, wasn’t it? It was always going to be a graft that game. Sunderland away, in the freezing cold, about half an hour after the Manchester City game finished, against a manager who is so negative in everything he does he...
by Josh Sexton | Jan 3, 2017 | LFC News
SO it’s finally time for Sadio Mane (GBNF x) to leave us to join up with the Senegalese national team ahead of the 2017 African Cup of Nations. If things weren’t already feeling ominous post-social media head rolling in the aftermath of the 2-2 draw at Sunderland,...
by Josh Sexton | Jan 3, 2017 | LFC News
SADIO Mane believes Liverpool will cope fine in his absence as he gets set to jet off to the African Cup of Nations. The Senegalese forward is the Reds’ current top scorer with nine goals — all scored in the league — but will now be away on international...
by Paul Cope | Jan 3, 2017 | Footie
IT’S hard work this, isn’t it? When I was greeted by family at a New Year’s Eve party after the Manchester City game with the question “did you enjoy that?”, I responded with an emphatic “I’m absolutely knackered”. I said the same after spending a full five minutes...
by Joel Rabinowitz | Jan 2, 2017 | Footie
IT’S beyond ludicrous to be playing two games in less than 48 hours. It was the same for both sides, yes — regardless, it makes no sense whatsoever. Chelsea, on the other hand, have been given an extra two days off. It’s difficult to overstate the...
by Andy Heaton | Jan 2, 2017 | Footie
MASSIVE kick in the nuts that. Massive. But 10 points from 12 over Christmas, you’d take that all day. Anyway, we live in the moment. Loads of lethargy, but playing two games in less than 48 hours is taking the piss. Fitness and sharpness are massively important...
by Neil Atkinson | Jan 2, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
THERE is a scene in Paul Thomas Anderson’s best film Punch Drunk Love when the lead character played by Adam Sandler is embarrassed in a restaurant and then goes to the bathroom and absolutely kicks fuck out of it. He wallops it from pillar to post. He...
by John Gibbons | Jan 2, 2017 | Footie
THIS is the one we’ve waited for. Like a beacon at the end of the diary. The year ends with Manchester City at home. Big game, big day, big drink, big everything. There was a lot of talk of it making or breaking a night. I was more worried about starting 2017...
by Rob Gutmann | Jan 1, 2017 | Footie
SUCCESS is hell. Just awful. A terrible torture. Those lads who set out to scale Everest way back when, they knew what it was all about. “What would represent the most incredible achievement?” “Scaling that big fuck off mountain of course!”...
