Aston Villa 7 Liverpool 2: The Match Review
FOR weeks, months after Jürgen Klopp was announced as Liverpool manager, Sean Rogers would say on our Review show that we'd get whacked at some stage. That we would have a moment, a game, when the wheels came off completely and we'd have to pick up the pieces...



Aston Villa 7 Liverpool 2: What We Learned
1. Christ... I’d sort of forgotten what it was to feel like that, where you want to ferret around inside your own stomach and peel out your own bowels. Maybe spread them about in the garden so a big fat crow has got a nice tea. Where do you start? Shocking. And not...



Aston Villa 7 Liverpool 2: The Match Ratings
THE thing about retaining the league is it’s a bit like winning a pie-eating competition, only to be told the prize is more pies. And let’s be honest, we ate a shit load of pies last season, way more than we needed to. The Spanish Pie Head in second place just kept...



Aston Villa v Liverpool: The Big Match Preview
IT shouldn’t matter but it does. It shouldn’t hurt but it does. Liverpool lost their first football match of the season on Thursday night, and it didn’t feel good. First the mitigations: it was ‘only’ the League Cup. The team was full of kids and reserves. It was...



Could Brewster And Shaqiri Set Off A Series Of Goodbyes?
THE leaving of Liverpool, then? There was always going to be an exodus, a balancing of books of some kind. In truth, both Xherdan Shaqiri and Rhian Brewster’s inevitable departures may just be the starting pistol of a weekend of goodbyes. Jürgen Klopp doesn’t like big...



Aston Villa 7 Liverpool 2: The Match Review
FOR weeks, months after Jürgen Klopp was announced as Liverpool manager, Sean Rogers would say on our Review show that we'd get whacked at some stage. That we would have a moment, a game, when the wheels came off completely and we'd have to pick up the pieces...



Aston Villa 7 Liverpool 2: What We Learned
1. Christ... I’d sort of forgotten what it was to feel like that, where you want to ferret around inside your own stomach and peel out your own bowels. Maybe spread them about in the garden so a big fat crow has got a nice tea. Where do you start? Shocking. And not...



Aston Villa 7 Liverpool 2: The Match Ratings
THE thing about retaining the league is it’s a bit like winning a pie-eating competition, only to be told the prize is more pies. And let’s be honest, we ate a shit load of pies last season, way more than we needed to. The Spanish Pie Head in second place just kept...



Aston Villa v Liverpool: The Big Match Preview
IT shouldn’t matter but it does. It shouldn’t hurt but it does. Liverpool lost their first football match of the season on Thursday night, and it didn’t feel good. First the mitigations: it was ‘only’ the League Cup. The team was full of kids and reserves. It was...



Could Brewster And Shaqiri Set Off A Series Of Goodbyes?
THE leaving of Liverpool, then? There was always going to be an exodus, a balancing of books of some kind. In truth, both Xherdan Shaqiri and Rhian Brewster’s inevitable departures may just be the starting pistol of a weekend of goodbyes. Jürgen Klopp doesn’t like big...









