THERE’S a scene in the film The Commitments where Joey ‘the Lips’ Fagan, the elderly trumpet player with ‘the hardest working band in the world’, finally loses patience with his saxophonist Dean Fay. Over the past weeks Dean has refused to don the regulation tuxedo...
THIS might be the worst time of the football season. You’re just about getting into the swing of things and *BAM*, it all comes to a shuddering halt as the first of three international breaks in three months begins. The only positive about this one for Liverpool fans,...
SUCCESS is often perceived to be a one-dimensional concept; you either succeed or you don’t, flourish or falter, win or lose. Take athletics, for example; you’re only successful if you’re the first to cross the finish line, be it in a 100m sprint, a 5x100m relay or a...
THERE’S a strong sense that we’ve been here before with Liverpool, at the moment. In my football-conscious life at least, The Reds have mounted two serious title challenges; 2009 and 2014. In both those years there were questions, more so with the benefit hindsight in...
I REMEMBER a time when a Liverpool manager suggesting that players within a squad should be rotated was met with incredulity. The masses mocked, the media scorned and the ex-professionals screamed from the hilltops “WE DIDN’T NEED A REST IN OUR DAY”. It seems...
I HOPE you used the international break wisely. Got some sleep in, spoke to the family, rested the liver. Because the next period is going to be relentless for us all. There are 13 games in less than two months. Not just games, but big ones too. Massive opponents in...
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Weekender: Can Liverpool Find Their Home Comforts?
John Gibbons is joined by Adam Smith, Karl Coppack and Alison McGovern to look back at the Real Madrid loss and ahead to the Aston Villa game.
Also on the show Lizzi Doyle speaks to Director of Culture for Liverpool Claire McColgan on pilot events and things coming up for the city, and John Gibbons speaks to director Rod Dixon about Homebaked: The Musical.
