// THE MATCH RATINGS
Ben Johnson’s alternative approach to post-match Liverpool player ratings…
Liverpool 0 Manchester United 0: Match Ratings
YET again we are frustrated by the supposed best manager in world football, who turns up at Anfield and uses the same game plan as Derek Adams of Plymouth Argyle did last January. Actually if Adams had spent £400million on his squad maybe even he'd have been more...
Newcastle United 1 Liverpool 1: Match Ratings
ANOTHER day, another game and another 90 minutes where you couldn’t relax for a second. Coming a day after Tottenham comfortably won 4-0, and Manchester United comfortably won 4-0, Manchester City won away at Chelsea, and on the same day that Arsenal gained an easy...
Spartak Moscow 1 Liverpool 1: Match Ratings
HOLD on while I dust off my template opening for most Liverpool games over the last few years. Something something unlucky. Something else poor finishing. Something or other incredible opposition goalkeeping, and then also sloppy goal conceded. Blah blah blah beer in...
Leicester City 2 Liverpool 3: Match Ratings
I DIDN’T see the game on Tuesday night. I was otherwise engaged, but as ever when I can’t watch the game live, I spend 90 minutes constantly refreshing Twitter to see how things are going. The first 65 minutes went like this: “Liverpool have started brightly.” “The...
Leicester City 2 Liverpool 0: Match Ratings
Pre Match: THERE’S something about Leicester. Sounds like the shittest ever film sequel that, doesn’t it? Where a fella pretending to have a disability, one whose face starts to melt the closer he gets to the city and a small-time crook with horrific dress sense...
// THE MATCH RATINGS
Ben Johnson’s alternative approach to post-match Liverpool player ratings…
Liverpool 0 Manchester United 0: Match Ratings
YET again we are frustrated by the supposed best manager in world football, who turns up at Anfield and uses the same game plan as Derek Adams of Plymouth Argyle did last January. Actually if Adams had spent £400million on his squad maybe even he'd have been more...
Newcastle United 1 Liverpool 1: Match Ratings
ANOTHER day, another game and another 90 minutes where you couldn’t relax for a second. Coming a day after Tottenham comfortably won 4-0, and Manchester United comfortably won 4-0, Manchester City won away at Chelsea, and on the same day that Arsenal gained an easy...
Spartak Moscow 1 Liverpool 1: Match Ratings
HOLD on while I dust off my template opening for most Liverpool games over the last few years. Something something unlucky. Something else poor finishing. Something or other incredible opposition goalkeeping, and then also sloppy goal conceded. Blah blah blah beer in...
Leicester City 2 Liverpool 3: Match Ratings
I DIDN’T see the game on Tuesday night. I was otherwise engaged, but as ever when I can’t watch the game live, I spend 90 minutes constantly refreshing Twitter to see how things are going. The first 65 minutes went like this: “Liverpool have started brightly.” “The...
Leicester City 2 Liverpool 0: Match Ratings
Pre Match: THERE’S something about Leicester. Sounds like the shittest ever film sequel that, doesn’t it? Where a fella pretending to have a disability, one whose face starts to melt the closer he gets to the city and a small-time crook with horrific dress sense...