Emilia Bona, Lizzi Doyle, Mike Kearney, Karl Coppack, Joel Richards and Luke Reddy discuss the topics picked by YOU which were: Rhys Williams, Ragnar Klavan, the Barcelona president, Lewis Hamilton and best scary film… Below is a clip from the show – to...
A LITTLE under 12 months ago, Ragnar Klavan lined up alongside Dejan Lovren at the centre of the Liverpool backline against Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium. The Estonian’s presence in the starting 11 that afternoon was enforced; with Joel Matip injured, Klavan...
TOM JOHNSON I’M writing this the week after our new £75million colossus of a centre back scored a late winner on his debut, in the derby, in the FA Cup third round. It doesn’t get much more Roy of the Rovers than that. But, it’s another central defender who recently...
WHAT makes a good defence? Is it clean sheets? Is it a high tackle percentage? Is it restricting your opponents to as few goalscoring chances as possible? Or is it just the way we feel about it? I spend a lot of time these days paying careful attention to the language...
WEDNESDAY’S draw at home to Bournemouth felt like a crushing defeat. A scruffy, late equaliser when three crucial home points were required was just an unnecessary kick in the teeth. For the final 25 minutes, Jürgen Klopp opted to invite pressure; adopting a back five...
Klavan: England’s A Different Ball Game RAGNAR Klavan has been speaking to the club’s official website about his form and adapting to life in English football. As well as insisting he is never satisfied by his form, he said: “Not only training, the games as well....
Middlesbrough Team News EMRE Can and Dejan Lovren will undergo late tests to assess their fitness ahead of Liverpool’s trip to the Riverside Stadium. Can sustained a minor knee injury which saw him ruled out of Sunday’s 2-2 draw with West Ham, meanwhile...
I’M not a fan of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. As disappointing as our loss to Bournemouth was at the weekend, I’m not convinced it merited the reaction it got. There were hugely frustrating aspects to our performance but I’m not sure we need to buy-in an...
IT doesn’t feel as though we’re any deeper into the international break, and another chance to watch the irresistible Reds take to the field still feels distant. Personally, I don’t really watch games in international breaks. The...
PHIL Blundell wrote a brilliant piece yesterday all about how Jürgen Klopp has made a fool of us all. Phil’s premise, which I entirely agree with, was that Jürgen knows much more about football than the rest of us. Essentially, this German fella who is dead good at...
Neil Atkinson hosts Paul Cope, Rob Gutmann and Harriet Prior for our free podcast looking back on FA Cup defeat to Manchester United before looking ahead to travelling to Spurs midweek…
