IT is surprising how often my thoughts and random daydreams always come back to Sam Allardyce and his life. I can’t help it. I have tried to scratch him from my mind but it’s no good. I think about whether he can sing and, if so, whether he sings around the...
LIVERPOOL 2 Sunderland 0: Black flags before kick off. A foreboding atmosphere around Anfield. Black flags waving, banners conspicuous by their absence and a large gathering of the disaffected. Large groups congregated in a place is one of the things history is made...
‘The Pink’ features Neil Atkinson, John Gibbons, Philippa Smallwood and Ben Johnson talk about Liverpool’s 2-0 win against Sunderland and their 2-2 capitulation that followed the 77th minute walk out. That walk out is discussed, Liverpool being a...
IF you leave on 77 minutes it’s hard to do this. If you leave on 77 in THAT game it’s even harder. We were 2-0 up and playing well and then, by all accounts, all that went out the window. It shows a mental weakness in the team and a defensive fragility we...
WE all realise we live in a world gone mad. That much can be taken as wrote. Football went looney some time in the 1990s. Let’s not try and name the date. There was a time when people just went to football matches. Like it was the most natural thing in the world to...
JOHN GIBBONS was joined in the immediate aftermath of Liverpool away victory to nil against Sam Allardyce’s Sunderland. For the second time a few days, the Red’s have managed to make a game more complicated than it should have been whilst also managing to...
ANOTHER nervy finish but another Liverpool win. I’m not sure we want to become 1-0 specialists. I’m not sure it suits our abilities or my stress levels. But you’ll take it for now. Liverpool actually should have had much more. We’re getting...
TO WHOM it may concern. (To some it may not): Went the loo on the final whistle. Went the loo on the final whistle because I appear to be suddenly attempting to drink all the beer. All of the beer. Went the loo on the final whistle and crossed Steve Graves the other...
IT was 1998. They had torn down the century-old Roker Park and built a shiny new arena for the townsfolk of Sunderland. The desecration and rebuild was one of the first of a wave that became a tsunami as Victorian stadium after Edwardian football ground was razed to...
THIS weeks Weekend Preview focusses on those setting the pace at the top of the table, expected or otherwise. Rob Gutmann is joined by Melissa Reddy, John Gibbons and Paul Senior to talk about top of the league Manchester City at Spurs, 4th place flyers Leicester...
