LFC and Moneyball – the good, the bad, the ugly and the applicable
WE Reds stand, once again, on the precipice of another season. Never sure, nowadays, whether to be looking up or down. Hope in our hearts but anxiety in our souls. It seems to have been this way for far too long now. Those of us old enough to remember how a...
Bring back the bobble hats…
MOANING – I don’t remember doing a lot of it back then. When I was cranking up The La’s, pulling on my semi-flared cords, lacing up my Adidas, blagging some money and putting on my bobble hat. Bussing it to Sheil Road, then walking it to Anfield. Past the garage, the...



It’s time to re-embrace the League Cup
MILK, Littlewoods, Rumbelows, Coca-Cola, Worthington, Carling. Worthless, Mickey Mouse, moribund...the vocabulary of the League Cup, whether official or unofficial, is hardly inspiring. While occasionally undergoing a fleeting revival, it feels as if the trophy is...
Did Gordon Taylor Have A Responsibility Deficit?
IT looks as though the key document in the phone-hacking scandal, at least as far as News Corp and James Murdoch are concerned, is going to be the “For Neville” email, analysed here by David Leigh and the inestimable Nick Davies. For the purposes of this discussion...
Reliving the 1980s: Did Liverpool and Dalglish get it wrong?
AS a very young child I was surprised to discover that the past, contrary to what visual records seemed to suggest, did not occur in black and white. My nan, born in 1917, first disabused me of the notion and - now I’m old enough to have memories worthy of the name -...
LFC and Moneyball – the good, the bad, the ugly and the applicable
WE Reds stand, once again, on the precipice of another season. Never sure, nowadays, whether to be looking up or down. Hope in our hearts but anxiety in our souls. It seems to have been this way for far too long now. Those of us old enough to remember how a...



Bring back the bobble hats…
MOANING – I don’t remember doing a lot of it back then. When I was cranking up The La’s, pulling on my semi-flared cords, lacing up my Adidas, blagging some money and putting on my bobble hat. Bussing it to Sheil Road, then walking it to Anfield. Past the garage, the...



It’s time to re-embrace the League Cup
MILK, Littlewoods, Rumbelows, Coca-Cola, Worthington, Carling. Worthless, Mickey Mouse, moribund...the vocabulary of the League Cup, whether official or unofficial, is hardly inspiring. While occasionally undergoing a fleeting revival, it feels as if the trophy is...
Did Gordon Taylor Have A Responsibility Deficit?
IT looks as though the key document in the phone-hacking scandal, at least as far as News Corp and James Murdoch are concerned, is going to be the “For Neville” email, analysed here by David Leigh and the inestimable Nick Davies. For the purposes of this discussion...
Reliving the 1980s: Did Liverpool and Dalglish get it wrong?
AS a very young child I was surprised to discover that the past, contrary to what visual records seemed to suggest, did not occur in black and white. My nan, born in 1917, first disabused me of the notion and - now I’m old enough to have memories worthy of the name -...









