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!”...
by John Gibbons | Dec 31, 2016 | Footie
A VERY different sort of win, but isn’t that what we craved? Backs to the wall. Resolute. The Reds don’t mind it up ’em. Throw the kitchen sink and we’ll volley it over the gasworks. Unlucky, you Manc bastards. Have a go next year. Simon...
by Neil Atkinson | Dec 31, 2016 | Footie, Match Review
WEEKS before this. This: What a game this will be. Two sides who will want to play and be able to play without fear. First vs second or third. A close affair to see in the New Year. Can’t wait to take it to them. Stick it to them. Show them who is better. Should...
by Rob Gutmann | Dec 30, 2016 | Footie
MANCHESTER City at home on New Year’s Eve. What were they thinking. And yet. And yet, it also seems kind of perfect. The collision that could define a season. The clash of the league’s two best footballing titans. On the cusp of a year. It’s a “see you on the...
by John Gibbons | Dec 30, 2016 | Footie
BOXING Day was a bit rubbish, wasn’t it? Footy-wise at least, all the eating and drinking was sound. But no Liverpool game and having to sit there watching everyone else win, even bloody Everton and they’re shite, was a bit galling. Well. We know what to...
by Joel Rabinowitz | Dec 28, 2016 | Footie
AS we approach the halfway mark of the Premier League season with Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City next up at Anfield on New Year’s Eve, Liverpool have recorded their joint highest ever points total from the first 18 matches of the season, already hitting the 40-point...
by Phil Blundell | Dec 28, 2016 | Footie
HAVING to win to stand still is what we had to do. And it’s demoralising. At kick-off at Anfield yesterday Liverpool trailed Chelsea by nine points at the top of the league. The timing of the fixtures meant there had been no opportunity closing what was a six-point...
by Neil Atkinson | Dec 27, 2016 | Footie, Match Review
CHELSEA played. And won. Merry Christmas. Manchester City played. And won. Merry Christmas. Arsenal played. And won. Merry Christmas. For those of you still mildly concerned Manchester United played and won. Merry Christmas. (Quietly United are genuinely playing very...
