SPARE US THE FALSE RAGE: LUIS SUÁREZ MERELY DID WHAT HE IS PAID TO DO
JUST when you thought it was safe to say nice things about Luis Suárez, he goes and does it again. The dirty, cheating little so-and-so. There were even the first rumbling suggestions that he could be a potential footballer of the year. It couldn’t last. Once again,...
JONJO SHELVEY – A FEW THOUGHTS
WHEN Daniel Sturridge passed his debut Liverpool goal in to Mansfield's net, he did his best to look nonchalant. Perhaps aware that putting one past a non-league side wasn't the kind of thing Real Proper Strikers Who Play Through the Middle like what he is would go...
Setting Long-Term Foundations (Or Why We Need Brendan Rodgers)
IN the summer, the owners of Liverpool Football Club, FSG, sacked Kenny Dalglish. It was, for me, a seizmic event. It shook my whole view of what the game meant. And it left me having a rethink over how I ought to personally relate to the game. My wife once said to...
Old enough to know better
DANIEL STURRIDGE is likely to run out of the Anfield tunnel wearing a red shirt when Liverpool play Sunderland on Wednesday - and he could soon be joined in the squad by Thomas Ince. The pursuit of both players - Sturridge is 23, Ince is 20 - provides further evidence...
High Court helps to right grievous Hillsborough wrong
AFTER 23 years of banging their heads against a succession of brick walls put in front of them by an establishment that didn’t seem to care, the Hillsborough families and their supporters have spent the past three months pinching themselves. From David Cameron...
SPARE US THE FALSE RAGE: LUIS SUÁREZ MERELY DID WHAT HE IS PAID TO DO
JUST when you thought it was safe to say nice things about Luis Suárez, he goes and does it again. The dirty, cheating little so-and-so. There were even the first rumbling suggestions that he could be a potential footballer of the year. It couldn’t last. Once again,...
JONJO SHELVEY – A FEW THOUGHTS
WHEN Daniel Sturridge passed his debut Liverpool goal in to Mansfield's net, he did his best to look nonchalant. Perhaps aware that putting one past a non-league side wasn't the kind of thing Real Proper Strikers Who Play Through the Middle like what he is would go...
Setting Long-Term Foundations (Or Why We Need Brendan Rodgers)
IN the summer, the owners of Liverpool Football Club, FSG, sacked Kenny Dalglish. It was, for me, a seizmic event. It shook my whole view of what the game meant. And it left me having a rethink over how I ought to personally relate to the game. My wife once said to...
Old enough to know better
DANIEL STURRIDGE is likely to run out of the Anfield tunnel wearing a red shirt when Liverpool play Sunderland on Wednesday - and he could soon be joined in the squad by Thomas Ince. The pursuit of both players - Sturridge is 23, Ince is 20 - provides further evidence...
High Court helps to right grievous Hillsborough wrong
AFTER 23 years of banging their heads against a succession of brick walls put in front of them by an establishment that didn’t seem to care, the Hillsborough families and their supporters have spent the past three months pinching themselves. From David Cameron...









