Three league defeats on the spin makes for pretty grim reading – the worst run over a trio of league fixtures for a decade. If Arsenal capitulated after last year’s Carling Cup defeat, then Liverpool are in danger of doing the same upon victory. Such success can breed confidence, and long-term, may yet do so [...]
A while ago, Paul McGrath condemned Glen Johnson for wearing a t-shirt supporting Luis Suarez. This week, Johnson hit back, suggesting that he knows Suarez, and, I would presume, has been far closer to the whole affair (being on the pitch, and all) than McGrath. Presumably, he has some insight into what went on. Maybe [...]
Liverpool, this season, are nothing if not predictable. You can bet your bottom dollar that there will be glaring misses (usually after excellent passing moves), a strike or two against the woodwork, a woefully missed penalty, and that the opposition will gobble up the one or two chances that come their way. It’s almost become [...]
3 – 6 – 76 – 96 On April 12th, a team of six runners and their support team will assemble outside Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield (and maybe inside it, on the pitch at the Leppings Lane end, if Sheffield Wednesday’s agreement is forthcoming), and set off in a westerly direction, followed by their support vehicles. Over the next [...]
By TTT subscriber Andrew Beasley. Stats sourced from EPLIndex. I wrote a piece earlier in the season about how the majority of opposition keepers had been made to work harder against Liverpool than was the norm for their seasons otherwise, and that most of them saved a higher percentage of the shots faced when up against [...]
By Chris Rowland. Do you know how all this has felt to me? Since the ‘probably guilty’ verdict, I mean, and The Mirror‘s inflammatory headline the next day, the beginning of the heavy shelling that’s barely abated for two months now. This is how it’s felt: ‘A raging torrent of spite, bile and hysteria, fire [...]
Reading Twitter, it seems that Liverpool FC is pretty hated right now. I’d imagine that it’s even worse in the mass media, but I do my best to avoid chip wrappings and rent-a-gob TV. Maybe a lot of Liverpool fans don’t care – and a siege mentality rarely hurts a football club – but I [...]
Fact: as captain, kiss the United badge to Liverpool fans at the Kop end, and you’ll be booed upon your return. … Like a lot of Liverpool fans, I’m sick of the moralising by holier-than-thou types about ‘our’ behaviour. The main evil of racism is that it brands everyone as the same, in an often derogatory manner.
A lot of people are putting Liverpool’s run of poor form down to the signings made in 2011. While a lot of money was spent, it’s important to remember that several players who didn’t want to be at Liverpool FC anymore – some of them erstwhile idols – were sold in the process. Some fans [...]
By football lawyer, Daniel Geey @FootballLaw. (Not that it should matter in terms of the veracity of the points he makes in terms of the glaring inconsistencies in the FA’s report, but it’s only fair to note upfront that Daniel is Liverpool fan). Further analysis of the media’s treatment of the case (and racism in [...]
