Why Liverpool Needs Its Football Clubs Once Again
WHAT happens when a city needs its football clubs more than ever before? We should know, right? It was at the time I was born in the midst of an economic and industrial crisis in the mid 1980s, oblivious to the turmoil of Thatcherism that left Liverpool teetering on...
Everton v Liverpool: The Big Match Preview
I DON'T take Liverpool losing very well. Most draws involving The Reds bring me down. Getting tonked 7-2 by a side as mediocre as Aston Villa didn’t sit well. If it hadn’t been for the need to become ever more immersed in my day job and the ‘fire fighting’ required...
Klopp’s Wounded Warriors Can Show They’re Mentality Monsters Again
FEW would dispute the importance of psychology and mentality within football, but it is one of the hardest to analyse. It is complicated by the fact there is no quantifiable output, no list of characteristics or designated number that distinguishes between good...
Project Big Picture Rejected – But What Was The Problem?
I’VE just finished reading George Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying. Set in the 1930s, it concerns a poet called Gordon Comstock who declares war on the ‘money god’ which dominates the world. He refuses a well-paid job writing ludicrous advertising copy and instead...
Adrian, Expectation And The Problem With Backup Keepers
THERE is an old cliché that goalkeepers are like drummers. They sit at the back, keep everything in check and go largely underappreciated by fans. They’re also usually a bit weird. I mean, you’d have to be. Trying to find weird people isn’t usually a problem, not for...
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Why Liverpool Needs Its Football Clubs Once Again
WHAT happens when a city needs its football clubs more than ever before? We should know, right? It was at the time I was born in the midst of an economic and industrial crisis in the mid 1980s, oblivious to the turmoil of Thatcherism that left Liverpool teetering on...
Everton v Liverpool: The Big Match Preview
I DON'T take Liverpool losing very well. Most draws involving The Reds bring me down. Getting tonked 7-2 by a side as mediocre as Aston Villa didn’t sit well. If it hadn’t been for the need to become ever more immersed in my day job and the ‘fire fighting’ required...
Klopp’s Wounded Warriors Can Show They’re Mentality Monsters Again
FEW would dispute the importance of psychology and mentality within football, but it is one of the hardest to analyse. It is complicated by the fact there is no quantifiable output, no list of characteristics or designated number that distinguishes between good...
Project Big Picture Rejected – But What Was The Problem?
I’VE just finished reading George Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying. Set in the 1930s, it concerns a poet called Gordon Comstock who declares war on the ‘money god’ which dominates the world. He refuses a well-paid job writing ludicrous advertising copy and instead...
Adrian, Expectation And The Problem With Backup Keepers
THERE is an old cliché that goalkeepers are like drummers. They sit at the back, keep everything in check and go largely underappreciated by fans. They’re also usually a bit weird. I mean, you’d have to be. Trying to find weird people isn’t usually a problem, not for...