For the first couple of seasons at Liverpool, Fernando Torres was the most complete striker I’d ever seen at the club; Ian Rush’s pace and finishing prowess, but with the ability to also beat defenders with skill and hit a wider variety of strikes. He seemed humble, hard-working and devoted to the club. He was [...]
DATE: 2/2/2011 VENUE: Anfield KICK OFF: 8PM COMPETITION: Preview: It’s been one hell of a season to be a supporter of Liverpool Football Club. The good news of a top class signing in the form of Luis Suárez joining the club had been overshadowed by Fernando Torres handing in a written transfer request before subsequently [...]
So, one of the world’s best strikers signs, on the day that we’re told one of the world’s best strikers is supposedly intent on leaving. Nothing is ever simple as a Liverpool fan these days, is it? But while Suárez has signed, Torres has yet to go anywhere. In theory, they look like a perfectly [...]
I recently gave an in-depth interview on a range of football-related subjects to the excellent Back Page Football website, but before it appears on there, I will share it with subscribers to The Tomkins Times.
By Kais. King Kenny’s second consecutive win – and his first at Anfield during this new reign – saw Liverpool move up the table into 7th place, albeit under somewhat fortuitous circumstances, particularly with respect to the goal. Tactical Line-ups • For the Reds, Liverpool continued with the protean 4-3-3/4-2-3-1 that King Kenny prefers, with [...]
The following quote was recently sent my way: “It was very hard to do it, it really was, because Roy was such a very, very nice man and full of integrity. But it wasn’t really happening, we weren’t progressing and the crowd was getting restless. They were. But mostly I didn’t feel the tradition was [...]
Six months ago Liverpool were owned by Gillett and Hicks, run by Christian Purslow and managed by Roy Hodgson who, being English and a fan of 4-4-2 (plus big centre-forwards, and not a proponent of zonal marking), was much loved by Andy Gray. How times change. Hodgson was proud of his 1970s tactics (and openly [...]
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By Andrew Beasley (a.k.a Beezdog) ‘Lies, damned lies and statistics’ is a phrase often used to try and undermine research, by effectively saying that you can prove anything with numbers. But can you use numbers to go so far as proving Christian Poulsen has done remotely well at Liverpool? Poulsen is a fairly rare beast: [...]
There’s only one thing at Liverpool that, on the evidence so far, Roy Hodgson indubitably got right: the purchase of Raul Meireles. Whether or not it was led by (now ex-) chief scout and fellow Iberian, Eduardo Macia, is somewhat moot: the transfer has Hodgson’s name on it, in the same way that managers get the [...]
