This is the last day of ME awareness week. Last autumn I was asked by Sir Peter Spencer, Chief Executive of Action for ME, to share my story in the charity’s Interaction Magazine. Given that some of it relates to the creation of this site, I thought I’d also share it here. (Please note, there [...]
by Alexander Tate Why do I bother to get up at 2 a.m. to watch a game at the weekend, or 5 a.m. during the week, when I’ve got such a long day of work ahead? Why do I bother to read all about it when so much of it is incorrect, biased or founded [...]
By Simon Steers In our opening league game of the 2010/11 season (under Roy Hodgson against Arsenal at Anfield), the average age of the match day 18 was 26.6 and represented a total cost of £105.6m. Within that squad we had seven outfield players at 28 years or over, five in the first XI. To [...]
By Simon Steers After a gut-wrenching loss against a side fighting relegation where you throw away a two goal lead, it is very difficult to search for the positive. It is inexplicable how we could have dominated the game for such large periods, managed to score two goals but implode in the last 15 minutes. There [...]
One step forward, two steps back. That’s how the Wigan result was explained to me on Twitter. Four wins in a row, and suddenly a draw – courtesy of a ludicrously offside goal – becomes a greater number of steps back than the clear forward momentum of recent weeks. Liverpool won just over a point [...]
