League Cup final: Liverpool 1 Manchester City 1 (aet City win 3-1 on penalties) – Match review
I LOOK across on 65 minutes or so and Raffy Gutmann, aged six, at his first final, is in tears; tears rolling down his cheeks. He's in tears and really it isn't unreasonable. I have no solace to offer. None whatsoever. If I was six years old I would be inconsolable as...
League Cup final: Liverpool 1 Manchester City 1 aet (City win 3-1 on pens) – Player ratings
THE easiest way to win a cup final is to be the better team. Even if you can't be the better team on the pitch in the 90 or 120 minutes, you can have the better players to win a shoot-out. Despite what people tell you about it being a lottery. Manchester City have got...
Liverpool: We are the Wembley wizards – the Anfield South stories
THERE are moments when we doubt Wembley. Like when they needlessly play semi-finals there. Like when we sense the smugness in its association with a national side we feel little affinity with. In these moments, Wembley, you seem so very far away. Then there’s the...
Liverpool v Manchester City: What can we expect at Wembley?
THESE are the moments. Let’s not deny it to ourselves. Why the game got us. Why we became locked into its ways and wiles. We’re always in it for the prizes. Scaling peaks is what sport is all about. Don’t decry any summit. A challenge is a challenge. We have risen to...
Liverpool v Manchester City: A weird Wembley showdown
SUNDAY'S Capital One Cup final feels a bit of a weird one. A one-off showpiece occasion, with Liverpool slight underdogs against the financial might of moneybags Manchester City. And yet, it lacks the edge of a clash with more traditional rivals; the existence of...
League Cup final: Liverpool 1 Manchester City 1 (aet City win 3-1 on penalties) – Match review
I LOOK across on 65 minutes or so and Raffy Gutmann, aged six, at his first final, is in tears; tears rolling down his cheeks. He's in tears and really it isn't unreasonable. I have no solace to offer. None whatsoever. If I was six years old I would be inconsolable as...
League Cup final: Liverpool 1 Manchester City 1 aet (City win 3-1 on pens) – Player ratings
THE easiest way to win a cup final is to be the better team. Even if you can't be the better team on the pitch in the 90 or 120 minutes, you can have the better players to win a shoot-out. Despite what people tell you about it being a lottery. Manchester City have got...
Liverpool: We are the Wembley wizards – the Anfield South stories
THERE are moments when we doubt Wembley. Like when they needlessly play semi-finals there. Like when we sense the smugness in its association with a national side we feel little affinity with. In these moments, Wembley, you seem so very far away. Then there’s the...
Liverpool v Manchester City: What can we expect at Wembley?
THESE are the moments. Let’s not deny it to ourselves. Why the game got us. Why we became locked into its ways and wiles. We’re always in it for the prizes. Scaling peaks is what sport is all about. Don’t decry any summit. A challenge is a challenge. We have risen to...
Liverpool v Manchester City: A weird Wembley showdown
SUNDAY'S Capital One Cup final feels a bit of a weird one. A one-off showpiece occasion, with Liverpool slight underdogs against the financial might of moneybags Manchester City. And yet, it lacks the edge of a clash with more traditional rivals; the existence of...









