By Paul Tomkins The year 2011 began with Liverpool FC and its fans in the midst of a great depression, heading nowhere under Roy Hodgson. Before long we were losing our main goalscorer, and spending the £50m (plus the fee for Ryan Babel) on two new, young strikers. With Torres gone, and Steven Gerrard about [...]
Liverpool will be hoping to end 2011 in style as we play host to Newcastle Utd at Anfield in our final game of the calendar year. As 2011 comes to a close it may be worth remembering where we were this time last year, especially with the disappointment of yet another home draw fresh in [...]
Blackburn’s recent record had been abysmal. They had won just one of their last 17 away league games, and had failed to keep a clean sheet in 20 matches. Liverpool, however, are having trouble putting teams away; they are unbeaten in their last eight home matches, but have drawn four of them. And they have [...]
Liverpool play host to Blackburn Rovers on Boxing Day and Liverpool fans all over the world will be hoping for a late Christmas gift from the club in the form of three points. Despite the disappointing draw with Wigan last week, the Reds are only one of two teams who can still boast an unbeaten [...]
“It is key to note that Patrice Evra himself in his written statement in this case said ‘I don’t think that Luis Suarez is racist’. The FA in their opening remarks accepted that Luis Suarez was not racist.” So asserted Liverpool Football Club. It seems to me that one of the toughest things to prove [...]
Some stats before the match: Wigan have won just one of the 14 games in all competitions against Liverpool (W1 D4 L9) In 12 league meetings Wigan have netted just eight goals and have scored more than once in a game against Liverpool on only one occasion Hugo Rodallega has scored for Wigan in each of [...]
It’s almost a cliché that the Christmas period shapes how a season unfolds. Those at the top at New Year usually win the league, those in the relegation spots usually get relegated etc etc. With games coming thick and fast whilst the rest of the country is wedged and bloated on the settee and either [...]
There have been various times in my life when football results have taken a backseat; misunderstanding or misquoting Bill Shankly’s ironic words about ‘life and death’ is common, but when all is said and done, it’s unlikely that many people maintain the exact same interest in their team’s results, irrespective of the slings and arrows [...]
Liverpool’s trip to the DW Stadium on Wednesday night will be only the 15th meeting in all competitions between the two clubs. The Latics have enjoyed six consecutive seasons in England’s top division but they find themselves in 18th place – just one point from safety – thanks to a terrible sequence of results that [...]
Last time these two teams met in the league at Villa Park, Stewart Downing scored the winning goal. This season the England winger was on the opposite side in a fixture that has traditionally seen a dearth of goals – only five have been scored in the last five Premier League games between the two [...]
