LIVERPOOL 3 ASTON VILLA 2 – MATCH RATINGS
THE Reds. The Tricky Reds. You arrive wondering where a goal will come from and they score in a minute. You then think they'll settle down and play and they refuse. At 2-0 and 3-1 up we should have been able to relax, but our defence had other ideas. Well you said you...
LIVERPOOL 3 ASTON VILLA 2 – MATCH REVIEW
SHALL we just talk about Lucas Leiva? Or just about Daniel Sturridge? Or do we need to address the big holes? For big holes there were. Too many of them too often again. Liverpool are trying to do clever things -- Emre Can as a split defender midfielder. Philippe...
LIVERPOOL: CAN YOU SEE THE REAL ME, DOCTOR?
YEARS ago, Billy Connolly used to do a routine about Radio 4’s ‘Thought for the day’. For those who don’t know, this is a segment of the Today programme and is usually delivered by a vicar or priest or whatever and consists of a two-minute faith-based pondering on...
LIVERPOOL: THE NATION’S MOST DYSFUNCTIONAL CLUB
THIS may turn into a bit of a rant. Not a calmly-delivered list of facts; a proper rant, which might send Rafa’s calmly-delivered FACTS cart-wheeling firmly back into 2009. Let’s see how long I can stay calm. On the ITV commentary in Istanbul, as Liverpool walked out...
LIVERPOOL v ASTON VILLA – PREVIEW
IT was always going to be this way. That we would end up living in this half light. There was a moment , after the quake of the 6-1 lashing at Stoke in May. After the swell, and in the after-shock, when a decision might have been taken. It would have been an emotive...
LIVERPOOL 3 ASTON VILLA 2 – MATCH RATINGS
THE Reds. The Tricky Reds. You arrive wondering where a goal will come from and they score in a minute. You then think they'll settle down and play and they refuse. At 2-0 and 3-1 up we should have been able to relax, but our defence had other ideas. Well you said you...
LIVERPOOL 3 ASTON VILLA 2 – MATCH REVIEW
SHALL we just talk about Lucas Leiva? Or just about Daniel Sturridge? Or do we need to address the big holes? For big holes there were. Too many of them too often again. Liverpool are trying to do clever things -- Emre Can as a split defender midfielder. Philippe...
LIVERPOOL: CAN YOU SEE THE REAL ME, DOCTOR?
YEARS ago, Billy Connolly used to do a routine about Radio 4’s ‘Thought for the day’. For those who don’t know, this is a segment of the Today programme and is usually delivered by a vicar or priest or whatever and consists of a two-minute faith-based pondering on...
LIVERPOOL: THE NATION’S MOST DYSFUNCTIONAL CLUB
THIS may turn into a bit of a rant. Not a calmly-delivered list of facts; a proper rant, which might send Rafa’s calmly-delivered FACTS cart-wheeling firmly back into 2009. Let’s see how long I can stay calm. On the ITV commentary in Istanbul, as Liverpool walked out...



LIVERPOOL v ASTON VILLA – PREVIEW
IT was always going to be this way. That we would end up living in this half light. There was a moment , after the quake of the 6-1 lashing at Stoke in May. After the swell, and in the after-shock, when a decision might have been taken. It would have been an emotive...









