// THE MATCH REVIEW
Neil Atkinson’s post-match thoughts which reflect the emotions of following Liverpool Football Club…
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...
Manchester United 1 Liverpool 1: Match Review
CAN I tell your congregation how a resurrection almost feels? There was something about that little cup run combined with Sunderland combined with everyone else winning football matches for what felt like forever which hurt. Which dented. Which made you wake nights...
Southampton 1 Liverpool 0: Match Review
THAT should probably be all over bar the shouting. Liverpool were dreadful for the first hour of that game and they were poor for the last half an hour, but they remain in the tie. Had you offered Claude Puel and his side a one goal lead before a ball was kicked, I...
// THE MATCH REVIEW
Neil Atkinson’s post-match thoughts which reflect the emotions of following Liverpool Football Club…
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...
Manchester United 1 Liverpool 1: Match Review
CAN I tell your congregation how a resurrection almost feels? There was something about that little cup run combined with Sunderland combined with everyone else winning football matches for what felt like forever which hurt. Which dented. Which made you wake nights...
Southampton 1 Liverpool 0: Match Review
THAT should probably be all over bar the shouting. Liverpool were dreadful for the first hour of that game and they were poor for the last half an hour, but they remain in the tie. Had you offered Claude Puel and his side a one goal lead before a ball was kicked, I...