A lot will be written and said during the build up to our match against West Bromwich Albion, primarily concerning Roy Hodgson and his disastrous 6 month reign as our manager. I’m not going to dedicate any more time to a man who has absolutely no impact or bearing on our great club any longer [...]
By Andrew Beasley (Beezdog). Now that the dust has settled, I thought it might be interesting to review some of the statistics from Liverpool’s Europa League campaign (excluding qualifiers), to see what can be learned, and hopefully to whip up some interesting debate. You might be surprised to hear in some regards they did well [...]
Fernando Torres was melting. Steven Gerrard is melting. Jamie Carragher has almost melted. So says Simon Kuper, in an indirect way, in his excellent article ‘The Optimal Age To Be An Athlete’. “Athletes, the general manager at one sports club told me, are like ‘blocks of ice.’ All players are melting. What the club needs [...]
Sunderland welcomed back ex-Liverpool player Bolo Zenden, Nedum Onuoha and captain Lee Cattermole from injury, but none were risked in the starting line-up, all instead taking their places on the subs’ bench. Dalglish’s injury woes continued, with Gerrard stll missing following his groin operation and Kelly, Aurelio and Shelvey all still missing. But there was some [...]
“You don’t know what you’re doing” has to be the harshest phrase for a manager to hear from his club’s supporters. (That said, maybe the name of another manager being chanted ranks up there on the hurtometer.) While many will think that Roy Hodgson doing well at West Bromwich Albion proves his critics (myself included) [...]
In this piece, Graeme Riley looks at the effect changing manager has had on top division teams since the Premier League was formed, working from Hull City through to Wolves, and obviously including Liverpool in between. To help distinguish between those managers who were given the summer to sweep the decks clean and those who [...]
Record signing Andy Carroll had made just two substitute appearances for Liverpool since recovering from a thigh injury. In this match he finally got into the starting line up. Liverpool were seeking to overcome a 1-0 deficit from last week’s first-leg encounter in Portugal without captain Steven Gerrard. Daniel Agger was also not risked. Jonjo [...]
With Liverpool’s exit from the Europa League on Thursday night, our remaining nine Premier League games have become all the more significant if we hope to be competing in Europe next season. Six points separate us from fifth placed Spurs (nine points if they win their game in hand), so there’s no margin for error if we [...]
By Andrew Fanko. Chris (Rowland) recently wrote a really good piece looking at the different options available to the Reds in terms of where we play (Should We Stay Or Should We Go?), but which members of the current squad do we want to be still pulling on the shirt in the coming years – [...]
Braga had won both their previous home games against British opposition this season. Celtic had been overcome 3-0 to qualify for the group stage of the Champions League, where Arsenal fell to a 2-0 defeat. This was the first time that Liverpool had ever met Braga, although in their last battle with a Portuguese club [...]
