ME at 4.30pm on Sunday… “Long way to go, whatever happens. Nothing decided today. No-one ever won a league title in early November.” At 6:30pm on Sunday… Tattoo artist: “Do you want the number 19 above or below the Liver bird mate?”, me: “Below, so it...
HOPE can do funny things to a football fan. You hope that you will go into every game asserting the superiority you have made yourself believe your side has, regardless of who they’re up against. You eternally hope that you will support by far the greatest team…...
BY God, we needed that on Wednesday. Up the Spurs. When I got in from work shortly before 8pm, my missus — who for different reasons to me carries the same detailed Liverpool FC fixture list around in her head – expected some tea together, a chat about our...
FOOTBALL – like life – does not follow a linear narrative structure, writes ADAM SMITH. We have, as supporters, become so used to stories being about B following A, leading to C, that we now attempt to impose some sort of shape to what is, in essence, a blank sheet of...
I HAVE a tendency to speak – and indeed write – before I think. I find this to be one of my more endearing traits, but I can understand there may be others who disagree. Somewhere in the city there is a man named Mongoose – he has a real name but...
