By Paul Tomkins and other published authors and respected writers 
Written by Simon G-Fear on August 31st, 2010
Simon Fear – pro-qualified referee and Tomkins Times member – takes an uncompromising look at the officiating in games involving Liverpool in August 2010, as the Reds faced a demanding start to the 2010/11 Premier League season.
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A preview of the season for the younger Liverpool players, as the reserve calendar prepares to begin, by Matthew Cain. One player who won’t feature is Krizstian Nemeth, seen here kissing the trophy the Reds won in 2008, who recently joined Olympiakos.
So we all feel down in the dumps. Me included. Eighteen months ago the club stood on the crest of a wave. Who would have thought that so much could go so wrong so quickly? Imagine being told back then that the club would fall out of the elite Champions League group, lose both Mascherano (probably) and Alonso, that [...]
The aim of this article is to set out briefly the rationale for the new UEFA rules, then go into a little bit of detail about what they say, and then offer some insight into their significance for Liverpool Football Club.
Money has been disappearing from Liverpool’s coffers, never to be seen again. But this is not a recent development. While the American owners may have personal profit as their single raison d’être, this is a problem dating back to the days of Graeme Souness.
This is a strange season to preview; previously, whether or not it transpired, we had a pretty good idea of what to expect: top four, almost certainly, and on some occasions, heady dreams of the title.
A new season is finally upon us and Liverpool couldn’t have been given a tougher start if good old Fergie himself had hand picked the fixtures! Home to Arsenal followed by an away trip to Man City, then home to West Brom and two successive away trips to Birmingham and Man Utd. A nice easy start for the Roy Hodgson era then.
I’m warming more and more to Roy Hodgson every day; pretty much in the same way I did to Rafa in 2004. I respect and support new managers, but they’ve also got to remove any doubts I hold.
Yesterday I was asked by The Daily Mail for 200 words on the potential Chinese takeover. While it’s far from my favourite paper (relating to the right-wing scaremongering in the front part), I’m happy to try and offer a balanced view to tabloids (bar ‘that’ one) on a once bitten, twice shy rule; badly misquote me, and never again.
It was encouraging to hear Roy Hodgson say in a press conference last week that the squad was not in need of a complete overhaul; backing up my recent assertion along those lines (made in response to Gérard Houllier’s ludicrous claim that he left behind a much better collection of players in 2004.)
“The End of the Innocence”: the Don Henley song about a bitter divorce was released during the last season Liverpool won the league title. At the time I was just 18: on the cusp of adulthood, and blissfully unaware of impending baldness.
It was in typical fashion that the Daily Mail – “Premier League stars in cold: New 25-man squad rule has megabucks players sitting it out” – reported the new ruling regarding limited squad size this week. According to the paper, Premier League players would see their careers end or they would be collecting £40,000 every week whilst spending match days in the stand.
The epic tale of how Liverpool Football Club was born in the wake of the split of Everton Football Club, by Chris Rowland.
By Gareth Roberts. IT SEEMS strange to say it when he’s yet to even meet all his players or pick a team for a competitive match, but Roy Hodgson is winning me over.
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