RAFAEL Benitez and Jürgen Klopp are cut from the same cloth. Both are football obsessives; passion at their managerial core, but pragmatism at the root of their approach. As Liverpool embark on a new era under the open, charismatic extrovert Klopp, the more guarded...
HOW bright the sky looks. How green the grass. Smell that warming spring air. I think I might go outside and sit on my stoop and drink some lemonade. The Reds are coming up the hill boys. Like a threshing machine sything through the corn fields of the premier league....
TOMORROW’S Premier League game is big for Liverpool, but even bigger for Newcastle United. The Magpies sit in 19th, two points from safety with just four games left to play. However, four points from the last six for The Geordies has made things a bit more...
THURSDAY brings with it Liverpool’s biggest European game since the 2010 UEFA Cup semi-final with Atletico Madrid. Little did we know when Diego Forlan was denying us the chance to batter Roy Hodgson’s Fulham in the final that it would be the last time the Reds would...
AWAY games actually start two or three weeks before when you decide whether you are going or not. Tickets need buying, transport needs arranging and, in some cases, passes are needed from home. For most, the whole thing is a complex decision-making process based on...
PICTURE the scene. Dawn breaks. A naked man lies alone on a heavily distressed bed — the duvet and pillows seem to be at once entwined with and yet almost scrambling to escape his clutches. Through the untouched, gaping curtains an inquisitive beam of light...
FROM a position of weakness, the first thing a manager usually tries to do is help the side he has inherited become tougher to beat than it was before. Brendan Rodgers attempted to make Liverpool more attractive to watch, so when the criticisms came — that...
ON Monday 7th March John Gibbons and Andy Heaton are here to bring you the day’s LFC news. The Benteke penalty/non-penalty debate is still raging, with media heavyweights such as Richard Keys and John Cross having their say. Is this the most contentious...
I’M not a fan who obsesses over what ex-Liverpool players and managers are up to. The Liverpool manager in the dug out is the most important person for me and, to quote the gentleman Steve Graves, “my favourites are the 11 lads playing for...
LIVERPOOL won — and won well, coming back from a goal down to the champions — at Stamford Bridge on Saturday. Not that you’d know it looking at some of the mainstream media ever since. It’s been Jose Mourinho this, Jose Mourinho that, Chelsea’s mistakes...
