The second part of my look back at our summer transfer activity over the years brings us up to date, excluding this summer’s business on the grounds that it probably isn’t finished yet. It’ll be interesting to see where it ranks in terms of net spend. I’m guessing pretty high up. I look at each [...]
Part 1 – 1992-2000 As transfer speculation is one way of whiling away the summer – well if you’re not changing managers or owners anyway – I decided to take a look back at our summer transfer activity over the years to see how well it’s worked out and what effect the summer signings had. [...]
This is an abridged version of the final chapter of From Where I Was Standing, Chris Rowland’s tale of the trip to Brussels with his usual collection of match-going mates, and how events, after a care-free journey, took a turn for the worse.
The 25th of May is a very special day for all Liverpool supporters. Rome ’77 and Istanbul ’05 -possibly – no, make that definitely – the two most celebrated occasions of Liverpool FC’s history – occurred on that same magical date. One or the other will be on top of the ‘Best Ever’ list for [...]
Following Andrew Fanko’s excellent recent examination of who should stay or go (still the strikers to come as I write this), it’s a good time to think about who will be replacing those who will not form part of Liverpool’s plans. I have to admit to being a transfer gossip junkie, not least to laugh [...]
Redevelop Anfield or build a new stadium? Let’s get one thing we can all agree on out of the way first – staying as we are at Anfield is not an option. Club accounts for the 2008-09 financial year showed Liverpool made £42m from gate and matchday income, while Arsenal were taking £100m at the [...]
Chris Rowland, one of The Tomkins Times’ ‘staff’, released his first football book in 2009 – From Where I Was Standing: A Liverpool Supporter’s View of the Heysel Stadium Tragedy. The book has now been released on Kindle, and can be bought from the following Amazon stores: UK: £4.13 US: under $5 Or order a [...]
When and if the day of reckoning finally comes and we play our last game at Anfield, if St Etienne is the one that most Kopites recall as the best atmosphere ever, then surely it will be 13th April 1988 they recall as the best performance in living memory.
One of the hallmarks of being a Reds fan of a certain age is the sheer number of big occasions, crucial games, cup semi finals and finals, title deciders, at home and abroad, away and at neutral venues, that you’ve witnessed. By now you will have amassed a vast back catalogue of reminiscences, many of them marvellous and all still clearly etched in sharp relief against the indistinct blur of much else of what has happened since outside of football!
Looking back over our 25 years at the real summit of the game – say between 1965 and 1990 – may give us a clue as to how we might broaden our search for players. There was another factor at work, probably as important as the home-produced talent and the big name signings, and a real cornerstone of our success. All current wisdom declares this ‘third way’ dead and buried, but you wonder whether it could soon come back into fashion. It may have to.
