THE headlines will once again be taken by Mo Salah, who by scoring again today maintains a streak of at least a goal a game at Anfield stretching back to Boxing Day. However, the catalyst for today’s victory was the lesser mentioned of the three fellas; Sadio Mane....
IT’S gonna be a bit all “after the Lord Mayor’s show”, isn’t it? Whatever that actually means. It must have been some spectacle — that show — to induce the comedown it’s credited with. As an expression, it obviously harks back to simpler times. These are...
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More rain than chances a Goodison Park on Saturday, but Liverpool get a decent draw in the circumstances in a damp squib of a derby, in more ways than one. But Neil Atkinson, alongside John Gibbons, Philippa Smallwood and Stu Wright go searching for talking points...
THE Old Lady finally rocked. For 70 minutes Goodison Park was a nervous mess and the feeling persisted that the opening goal would be a Liverpool one. That the worst that could happen to an already miserable Everton season would happen. The vibe of the whole place was...
“IT was a good performance, it was not brilliant, but maybe the most mature we’ve played since I was in.” There was a point in the game in which Virgil van Dijk stepped into midfield, though probably still in front of Everton’s striker, and lashed a...
IT rained there, didn’t it? I was kind of hoping it would get called off for a bit. A couple of things about the rain. Point one, it’s the enemy of the baldy man. You ask any baldy mate they will tell you the same. When you are clinging on to the dying embers of your...
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...
