Ray Clemence’s life and the reaction to his passing reminds us that our Liverpool heroes are humans too, writes Karl Coppack… THE hardest thing about losing another legend is the reminder that they’re only human after all. Of course we know that...
THERE are plenty of myths in football. The idea that former players make good pundits, most definitions of “clear and obvious” when it comes to VAR, and of course the assertion that Everton have a good defence. Plenty. Another was put to the test at Anfield on...
LIVERPOOL FC and Anfield made sense to me on Wednesday night. I didn’t enjoy myself last Saturday against Crystal Palace. I had a whale of a time when Hoffenheim were our midweek visitors. Of course, there is something extraordinary about Europe, the Champions League,...
THERE are some things you never forget. Some things that stay with you forever, faded and jaded but still a part of you, in football and in life. Cup finals, title deciders, your first game. Treasured times when a cat, a dog, a hamster, a nun, runs across the pitch in...
I CRACKED a bit on Wednesday. Which was problematic because I cracked a lot on Saturday. There isn’t that much more to crack. I realised I’d cracked when I dropped to my knees on the aisle and slapped the concrete repeatedly after Daniel Sturridge’s...
IN APRIL 1981, Howard Gayle was summoned from the substitutes’ bench to play for Liverpool in the second leg of a European Cup semi-final at German Champions Bayern Munich. The previous October, by filling the same role against Manchester City, he became the...
MIKE NEVIN on an emotional day in Liverpool’s history – and the home-made video that captured the magic. AS the standing Spion Kop embarked on its final voyage, I watched from the same Kemlyn Road quayside when it first sailed into my view in the late 1970s. The...
“THE Atmosphere tonight, not that I’ll forget it, was absolutely unbelievable. It was really great and I want to say thank you to everyone who was involved in this atmosphere. “It was easy to enjoy from the first until the last second. This was Liverpool how I...
I’M writing this with a headache. A pain in the head brought on not just by last night’s booze, but the also the cacophony of Anfield at its best. Prior to the match against Manchester United, I was thinking about an angle on the game because by the time this...
I DON’T go to Anfield every week. I’d like to, and I put the feelers out for a season ticket at the start of the season, but to no avail. So instead I go whenever I can, getting tickets as and when. When I do go, I tend to end up in the Centenary Stand or the...
