IT’S a good time to be alive, isn’t it? A few days till the league starts and The Reds are all on the karaoke. The Instagram videos of new boys Alisson Becker, Fabinho, Naby Keita and Xherdan Shaqiri all having to sing in front of their new teammates, showed just a...
THE 200th meeting between Liverpool and Manchester United was a huge step towards deciding who would be “best of the rest” in the Premier League. A win for The Reds would have put them a point ahead of their north-west rivals, but it was Jose Mourinho’s side who came...
LAST Sunday must have felt like familiar territory for Jürgen Klopp. A copycat 2-1 defeat with a headed winning goal for Crystal Palace at the Anfield Road End will have had the manager’s thoughts laden with déjà vu. Swap last week’s bright spring sunshine for last...
WHEN I was younger I used to love the moment at the start of the second half when the opposition goalkeeper ran towards The Kop, The Kop applauded him and he’d applaud back. It struck me as a moment of real sportsmanship, a signal that Liverpool fans were indeed the...
LUCAS Leiva believes he has been a scapegoat for some bad Liverpool performances in the past. The Brazilian is approaching his 10th year at Anfield, the Reds’ longest serving current player, and has had to put up with his fair share of criticism and links with moves...
I CAN only vaguely remember the first Liverpool game I went to. My dad took me when I was probably a bit too young to appreciate what was going on. I know he’d bought a Mars bar to keep me entertained and I spent the majority of the first half asking when I could have...
IT’S a question often asked when comparing the way top foreign clubs are run to the Premier League’s elite, and it reared its head again in the form of Henry Winter’s Twitter account after Arsenal’s 5-1 defeat to Bayern Munich. Sir Chips Keswick, Ivan Gazidis,...
WATCHING the Reds has been tough over the past month because of poor results and the feeling of the momentum being killed, writes PHIL SMITH. Wednesday night was hard to take and there was a lot of bitterness and anger in the aftermath of the game. On the pitch it was...
Mike Nevin reflects on why opposing fans hate Liverpool so much after the reds FA Cup tie vs Plymouth Argyle where anti-scouse songs rang around the Home Park. I MANAGED to get myself really wound up while watching the Plymouth cup replay in midweek. What irked me...
IT’S hard work this, isn’t it? When I was greeted by family at a New Year’s Eve party after the Manchester City game with the question “did you enjoy that?”, I responded with an emphatic “I’m absolutely knackered”. I said the same after spending a full five minutes...
