I HAVE spent a lot of time recently thinking about Roald Dahl and his sheer unapologetic brilliance. There’s an attitude to what Dahl wrote. It is something about being determined to be awkward and ungainly. That being those things is simultaneously something to...
I RECEIVED a call late last night from Jurgen Klopp. He said: “Gibbo, Wednesday night is the big one. I’m resting 11 players and you need to rest up, too. The fans are just as important to us as the players. I’m telling all the big hitters to stay at...
THERE’S no hiding it. It’s going to be a tough one, this one. A game we are going to have to heave over the finishing line of a league season sadly long departed. It would be hard to fashion a contest as potentially uninspiring and lacking in relevance as this....
TOUGH one to score to be honest, mates. A game that mattered less than Sky’s Super Sunday this weekend. Actually thought we started well. We were passing it round nicely and I was wondering when, not if, a goal would come. But then we fell off a bit, Hazard...
INJURY-TIME equalisers never go out of fashion. Never have, never will. There’s something fabulous about them. But before we get stuck into this — next season, next season, next season… Next season: Chelsea will be good. Chelsea will be very good....
AS he punched the Anfield air on Thursday — again and again – you had that feeling that this was how it was always meant to be. Like it will be from now on. We’ve waited a long time for him. A very long time for him. So long that some of our number will have...
TWO years ago I decided to start writing a book. It was to be a work of fiction and would centre around a lowly football club that would defy the odds to win the league title. They would be a team of misfits brought together by an inspirational manager to overcome the...
All right, everyone. Here are my five thoughts on Swansea City 3 Liverpool 1: 1) A Rival I was at a service station on the way to Swansea, queuing up for a coffee, when I sensed his presence. Turning around, uneasily, I confirmed what I suspected – Kristian...
YEAH, that was rubbish. Going to put as much effort into this as the players did. Danny Ward: 7 Conceded three but still our best player. Couple of really good saves. Should maybe come for the first, but others were more at fault. Nathaniel Clyne: 6 Thought he was ok....
THERE are loads of mitigating circumstances. Loads and loads. You know them all and you can even probably include the weather, which Liverpool never got to grips with, and the fact that Martin Skrtel is on the pitch. But, to enjoy ourselves, shall we pretend there...
