// THE MATCH RATINGS
Ben Johnson’s alternative approach to post-match Liverpool player ratings…

AS Roma 4 (6) Liverpool 2 (7): Match Ratings
ROME. What a city. Some of the things you see here are second to none. Some of the buildings leave your jaw open, agog, amazement and wonder spread all over your face. Wonderstruck, struck by wonder. Imagine being a peasant, from Germania, circa 400 years BC or...



Liverpool 0 Stoke City 0: Match Ratings
FUCKING Stoke. I’m going home for a cup of tea in a glass. Going to smash the living daylights out of all of me bowls, cups, plates and anything that looks like they might make it in Stoke. Single-use plastic lad, that’s where it’s at. Use it once, lash it in the sea....



Liverpool 5 AS Roma 2: Match Ratings
BRING on yer Roma by the score. Next week bring them on by the thousands. I’ll be the lad dressed as a Knights Templar on a holy mission, with shark suit Under Armour and a massive suit of armour over the top. Go 'ed yer shithouse, stab my arse now. I went to Roma on...



West Bromwich Albion 2 Liverpool 2: Match Ratings
I GET all the good ones... I had thought before kick off that an early goal is exactly what we needed. Quieten the crowd and kill their hope. Actually, it arguably worked against us. We drifted through the game from then on rather like a training session and were...



Liverpool 3 Bournemouth 0: Match Ratings
DID you see that lovely article that Dion Fanning wrote about his lad, and dinosaurs and him loving Mo Salah and that? It was lovely that, wasn’t it? Would have brought a tear to the eye of even a hardened, misery arse that, wouldn’t it? I couldn’t help but think,...
// THE MATCH RATINGS
Ben Johnson’s alternative approach to post-match Liverpool player ratings…



AS Roma 4 (6) Liverpool 2 (7): Match Ratings
ROME. What a city. Some of the things you see here are second to none. Some of the buildings leave your jaw open, agog, amazement and wonder spread all over your face. Wonderstruck, struck by wonder. Imagine being a peasant, from Germania, circa 400 years BC or...



Liverpool 0 Stoke City 0: Match Ratings
FUCKING Stoke. I’m going home for a cup of tea in a glass. Going to smash the living daylights out of all of me bowls, cups, plates and anything that looks like they might make it in Stoke. Single-use plastic lad, that’s where it’s at. Use it once, lash it in the sea....



Liverpool 5 AS Roma 2: Match Ratings
BRING on yer Roma by the score. Next week bring them on by the thousands. I’ll be the lad dressed as a Knights Templar on a holy mission, with shark suit Under Armour and a massive suit of armour over the top. Go 'ed yer shithouse, stab my arse now. I went to Roma on...



West Bromwich Albion 2 Liverpool 2: Match Ratings
I GET all the good ones... I had thought before kick off that an early goal is exactly what we needed. Quieten the crowd and kill their hope. Actually, it arguably worked against us. We drifted through the game from then on rather like a training session and were...



Liverpool 3 Bournemouth 0: Match Ratings
DID you see that lovely article that Dion Fanning wrote about his lad, and dinosaurs and him loving Mo Salah and that? It was lovely that, wasn’t it? Would have brought a tear to the eye of even a hardened, misery arse that, wouldn’t it? I couldn’t help but think,...