// THE MATCH REVIEW
Neil Atkinson’s post-match thoughts which reflect the emotions of following Liverpool Football Club…
Liverpool 1 Chelsea 1: Match Review
There are no excuses and no hiding places. Everybody sees every game. Everybody knows where the bodies are buried. If this season doesn't result in the league title then the body wasn't buried tonight. It was buried against Swansea or Bournemouth. The dirt shovelled...
Liverpool 1 Wolves 2: Match Review
FUNK; noun A strong musty smell of sweat or tobacco. A style of popular dance music of US black origin, ironically often requested to be played by white boys. What Liverpool Football Club have been well and truly stuck in since the start of 2017. Yes, the week that...
Liverpool 0 Southampton 1: Match Review
THE cusp. The abyss. The tightrope. All modern Liverpool seasons end up there at some stage. It's what they do when they reach it that counts. Almost every football season when you watch Liverpool is death or glory. Sometimes that's the case because good quality makes...
Liverpool 2 Swansea City 3: Match Review
I'M 36 today. Liverpool last won the league when I was nine. It's hard to escape the crippling feeling that, at best, it next happens when I am 37. At best. Without sounding overly dramatic it is difficult to put into words how that second half felt. When I talk about...
Plymouth Argyle 0 Liverpool 1: Match Review
WHERE'S the balance for this? Where is the tone? Because it is the rhetoric which tends to let these affairs down. For all the talk of the magic of the cup, and while acknowledging that tonight was a significant game for Plymouth Argyle and for two or three Liverpool...
// THE MATCH REVIEW
Neil Atkinson’s post-match thoughts which reflect the emotions of following Liverpool Football Club…
Liverpool 1 Chelsea 1: Match Review
There are no excuses and no hiding places. Everybody sees every game. Everybody knows where the bodies are buried. If this season doesn't result in the league title then the body wasn't buried tonight. It was buried against Swansea or Bournemouth. The dirt shovelled...
Liverpool 1 Wolves 2: Match Review
FUNK; noun A strong musty smell of sweat or tobacco. A style of popular dance music of US black origin, ironically often requested to be played by white boys. What Liverpool Football Club have been well and truly stuck in since the start of 2017. Yes, the week that...
Liverpool 0 Southampton 1: Match Review
THE cusp. The abyss. The tightrope. All modern Liverpool seasons end up there at some stage. It's what they do when they reach it that counts. Almost every football season when you watch Liverpool is death or glory. Sometimes that's the case because good quality makes...
Liverpool 2 Swansea City 3: Match Review
I'M 36 today. Liverpool last won the league when I was nine. It's hard to escape the crippling feeling that, at best, it next happens when I am 37. At best. Without sounding overly dramatic it is difficult to put into words how that second half felt. When I talk about...
Plymouth Argyle 0 Liverpool 1: Match Review
WHERE'S the balance for this? Where is the tone? Because it is the rhetoric which tends to let these affairs down. For all the talk of the magic of the cup, and while acknowledging that tonight was a significant game for Plymouth Argyle and for two or three Liverpool...









