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This season has done my head in. The lack of European football combined with the aching gaps for internationals has left me feeling like things have never really got going. Liverpool are next playing in a beard, in a yonk, some time after the next ice age we’ll kick...

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IT's never good to start a piece of work when you know that soon, possibly within minutes of it being published, great swathes of the populous will rain down harsh criticism and hatred. Yet I fully expect that soon I will be persona non grata. People will cross the...

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Many Liverpool fans have little interest in the England side. The jingoism, lack of perspective, media cheerleading and dread presence of John Terry all conspire to make Ingerlund a pretty unappealing proposition. Among the many things that have made me proud to live...

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FIRST GAME OF THE SEASON IS SUNDAY

This season has done my head in. The lack of European football combined with the aching gaps for internationals has left me feeling like things have never really got going. Liverpool are next playing in a beard, in a yonk, some time after the next ice age we’ll kick...

TOP FIVE PISS UPS

by Ben McCausland Drink, bevy, booze, consume, dissipate, down, drain, gargle, gulp, guzzle, hit the bottle, imbibe, indulge, inhale, irrigate, lap, liquor up, nip, partake of, put away, quaff, sip, slosh, slurp, soak up, sop, sponge, suck, sup, swallow, swig, swill,...

WHAT IF?

IT's never good to start a piece of work when you know that soon, possibly within minutes of it being published, great swathes of the populous will rain down harsh criticism and hatred. Yet I fully expect that soon I will be persona non grata. People will cross the...

COULD 4-3-3 GIVE LIVERPOOL MORE FROM DOWNING?

Many Liverpool fans have little interest in the England side. The jingoism, lack of perspective, media cheerleading and dread presence of John Terry all conspire to make Ingerlund a pretty unappealing proposition. Among the many things that have made me proud to live...