AINTREE RACES: LIVERPOOL’S GRAND DAY OUT
ORGANISED horse racing in the UK predates professional football by more than 100 years and the Grand National, first run officially at Aintree in 1839 and won by an aptly named beast, “Lottery” is the most world-renowned race on the calendar. It seems odd that the...
CAN I GET A REWIND? THREE LIVERPOOL REPLAYS WHICH LED TO FA CUP GLORY
IT does rather feel like it's just the FA Cup left for Liverpool now, making tonight's quarter final replay a massive game for the club. Many will argue that we shouldn't be needing to play a replay at all. Surely we should be beating Blackburn (and Bolton) at the...
LIVERPOOL: WHY WE SHOULD ALWAYS EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
HUMANS are a funny bunch. By nature, we tend to expect the worst. The train will be late or cancelled, that girl/boy we fancy won’t like us back, and they will never replace that boring tosser on The One Show with Gordon the Gopher. The glass is invariably ¼ empty. We...
LIVERPOOL: SWEET FA CAN SILENCE BRENDAN’S DOUBTERS
POOR old Brendan Rodgers. He’s gone from being within two points of winning Liverpool their first title in over 20 years one season, to having some fans call for his head with at least eight games still to play the next. It’s not just season on season that fans change...
IF RAHEEM STERLING IS “GREEDY” WHAT DOES THAT MAKE FOOTBALL’S FAT CATS?
EVERY community has ways of using labels to damn individuals into loathing, suspicion or worse. In inner city areas, daubing “so-and-so is a grass” on a wall has long been a particularly effective weapon; in the middle ages ordinary people held responsible for crop...
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AINTREE RACES: LIVERPOOL’S GRAND DAY OUT
ORGANISED horse racing in the UK predates professional football by more than 100 years and the Grand National, first run officially at Aintree in 1839 and won by an aptly named beast, “Lottery” is the most world-renowned race on the calendar. It seems odd that the...
CAN I GET A REWIND? THREE LIVERPOOL REPLAYS WHICH LED TO FA CUP GLORY
IT does rather feel like it's just the FA Cup left for Liverpool now, making tonight's quarter final replay a massive game for the club. Many will argue that we shouldn't be needing to play a replay at all. Surely we should be beating Blackburn (and Bolton) at the...
LIVERPOOL: WHY WE SHOULD ALWAYS EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
HUMANS are a funny bunch. By nature, we tend to expect the worst. The train will be late or cancelled, that girl/boy we fancy won’t like us back, and they will never replace that boring tosser on The One Show with Gordon the Gopher. The glass is invariably ¼ empty. We...
LIVERPOOL: SWEET FA CAN SILENCE BRENDAN’S DOUBTERS
POOR old Brendan Rodgers. He’s gone from being within two points of winning Liverpool their first title in over 20 years one season, to having some fans call for his head with at least eight games still to play the next. It’s not just season on season that fans change...
IF RAHEEM STERLING IS “GREEDY” WHAT DOES THAT MAKE FOOTBALL’S FAT CATS?
EVERY community has ways of using labels to damn individuals into loathing, suspicion or worse. In inner city areas, daubing “so-and-so is a grass” on a wall has long been a particularly effective weapon; in the middle ages ordinary people held responsible for crop...