Southampton 3-2 Liverpool: Player ratings
HOW annoying. At half-time we are all laughing and joking and picturing Flanno lifting the Premier League trophy in 2017. At full time we've thrown it away, a limp second-half performance that only looked like finishing one way after The Saints equalised. For all...
Southampton 3-2 Liverpool: Five From Fitzgerald
AFTERNOON, everyone. I've got loads of thoughts on Southampton v Liverpool but here are five that don't involve me setting fire to myself. 1) Southampton is so far away it's basically in the sea. Someone told me my remit here is to convey the match-going experience...
Southampton v Liverpool: Between a rock and a hard place
Stonehenge Where the dogs bark and the cats meow I will take you there I will show you how – D. St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap 1981 STONEHENGE is on the way to Southampton. Just outside Salisbury. It takes forever to get from Liverpool to Southampton so you look for...
Manchester United 1 Liverpool 1 (Liverpool win 3-1 on aggregate): Five from Fitzgerald
EVENING, everyone. Regular readers of this column, all eight of them, will know how exactly how this works by now. But here's a crash course for newcomers -- a football match happens and I have 5 thoughts. Here they are: 1) I spent most of the day watching The Walk of...
Manchester United 1 Liverpool 1 (Liverpool win 3-1 on aggregate): Match review
SHOW them. Show them. Show them the way to go home. They're tired and they want to go to bed. Cos they're only half a football team compared to the boys in Red. Oh! Show them... Not quite as straightforward as that. On 42 minutes, Ben Johnson tells me that he would...
Southampton 3-2 Liverpool: Player ratings
HOW annoying. At half-time we are all laughing and joking and picturing Flanno lifting the Premier League trophy in 2017. At full time we've thrown it away, a limp second-half performance that only looked like finishing one way after The Saints equalised. For all...
Southampton 3-2 Liverpool: Five From Fitzgerald
AFTERNOON, everyone. I've got loads of thoughts on Southampton v Liverpool but here are five that don't involve me setting fire to myself. 1) Southampton is so far away it's basically in the sea. Someone told me my remit here is to convey the match-going experience...
Southampton v Liverpool: Between a rock and a hard place
Stonehenge Where the dogs bark and the cats meow I will take you there I will show you how – D. St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap 1981 STONEHENGE is on the way to Southampton. Just outside Salisbury. It takes forever to get from Liverpool to Southampton so you look for...
Manchester United 1 Liverpool 1 (Liverpool win 3-1 on aggregate): Five from Fitzgerald
EVENING, everyone. Regular readers of this column, all eight of them, will know how exactly how this works by now. But here's a crash course for newcomers -- a football match happens and I have 5 thoughts. Here they are: 1) I spent most of the day watching The Walk of...
Manchester United 1 Liverpool 1 (Liverpool win 3-1 on aggregate): Match review
SHOW them. Show them. Show them the way to go home. They're tired and they want to go to bed. Cos they're only half a football team compared to the boys in Red. Oh! Show them... Not quite as straightforward as that. On 42 minutes, Ben Johnson tells me that he would...









