by Rob Gutmann | Dec 29, 2017 | Footie
“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...
by Neil Atkinson | Dec 26, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
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...
by David Segar | Dec 26, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
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...
by Andy Heaton | Dec 26, 2017 | Footie
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...
by Rob Gutmann | Dec 26, 2017 | Footie
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...
by Andy Heaton | Dec 22, 2017 | Footie
OH fuck off, are you fucking messing, are you deliberately trying to ruin Christmas you soft cunt. “We’re defending really well at the moment, we’ve been solid.” Simon Mignolet has hailed Liverpool’s “solid” recent performances. The...
by Neil Atkinson | Dec 22, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
QUITE the achievement a 3-3 draw against top six rivals where both sides come away disappointed. But Liverpool and Arsenal are second to none in delivering disappointment to their supporters in new and innovative ways. Fair play to them. A Merry Christmas to them and...
by Ben Johnson | Dec 22, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
Pre Match THE teams have just dropped there and the idea that Liverpool won’t win this game has grown wings and fucked off into the fog. That is a seriously good Liverpool team, up against a team whose Kryptonite seems to be other teams attacking them. Lets hope they...
by Rob Gutmann | Dec 20, 2017 | Footie
IT’S the mid 1980s and Arsenal are playing Liverpool at home at Highbury. It’s a night game, midweek, and I think it’s finished as a draw. I think. We’ve been penned in at their Clock End. No cover from the rain. That ground adequately covered every stand except the...
by Neil Atkinson | Dec 17, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
LIVERPOOL’S intensity was exceptional as they beat Bournemouth 0-4 this evening. Nil-four is a really rather rare scoreline and rightly so. To score four at any Premier League ground without reply takes a very good performance and that is exactly what Liverpool...
