United
When writhing through the thick fug of a migraine, it can be hard to tell with absolute certainty what is real and what one might be imagining. On Friday, complications arising from some scheduled prodding and poking under the bonnet of your columnist’s noggin, resulted in 3 days of pain-induced confusion and reality-bending altered perception. […]
The most omnipresent of all the biases that affect fantasy football managers is their support for their own club. The temptation to load up your team with the maximum number of players from your club, or to optimistically, naively, hope for upturns in form is an affliction that only the most stubbornly ambitious managers overcome. With that […]
I understand, you’re scarred. A fanbase living in perpetual fear, of the failings from previous managers and previous owners. Unable to let go of all the nearly moments, of all the false dawns. You’re sick of word transition, of buying potential. Tired of watching rivals attract some of the finest players in Europe; while your […]
For The Love of the Club In September 1999 I made my first trip to the city of Liverpool. Â We were playing United at Anfield and I just had to get there. Â I was 19, and accompanied by two of my best mates. Â Dinny, was a fellow Reds fan, but Eddie was a United supporter. […]
Jurgen Klopp’s first challenge at Liverpool was to instil his ideas and philosophies on a squad of players left to him following the departure of Brendan Rodgers… …OK, maybe his first challenge was the journey from John Lennon Airport to the city centre, and the subsequent negotiation of the selfie requests on the streets surrounding […]
It’s not something you want to hear having spent over £300 million over the past few seasons but with the January window now open fans are discussing what areas of the team still need strengthening. There seems to be polls on Twitter on a daily basis and the alarming thing is a different area seems […]
Just days ago, when an Arsenal fan mentioned Sanchez, Arsene Wenger or their huge stadium as their x-factor, I would have struggled to respond. I would have suffered a similar fate when a United fan talked about their riches, their experienced and accomplished manager. Or a Chelsea fan brought up their world class manager (Mourinho), […]
At the start of the season I thought I’d do a weekly tactical piece on the previous game. Primarily looking at the attack and how Christian Benteke and Roberto Firmino were bedding in with their new teammates. The United game was horrific to watch and although I tried I couldn’t really find anything tactically to […]
“The defeat to Stoke was too far. The straw that broke the camel’s back. Rodgers out.” “He’s lost the dressing room. That’s humiliation and a team that doesn’t back the manager.” That was the message that kept appearing on twitter after the loss at Stoke. The two statements show how exaggerated one  persons opinion could […]
