Liverpool Vs Crystal Palace | Tactics, Team News and Stats
Alan Pardew, another manager who divides opinion, brings his Crystal Palace side to Anfield on the back of a good start to the season, albeit more inconsistent in recent weeks. The Eagles have won two, drawn one, and lost three of their previous six, although they were unlucky not to beat Manchester United last weekend. On Sunday, at 4pm, Klopp's side are looking to continue with their unbeaten run, and build on the victory over Chelsea last Saturday followed an …
Liverpool beating Chelsea is the sweetest thing in football
For a Liverpool fan, there are very few feelings that can top the joy at the final whistle of a victory over our age-old rivals, Everton and Manchester United. What could be sweeter than wins over your local rivals and long-term competitive rivals? Well, the answer to that of course is beating Chelsea.
The Liverpool Chelsea rivalry really blossomed into a thing of dark and twisted beauty when Messrs Benitez and Mourinho took control of their respective clubs in 2004. …
Klopp's first home game - Old habits die hard
This wasn't heavy metal football, this was more an acoustic set with a beginner.
We've all experienced it at some point in our lives and if you've not personally then you a family member or friend most certainly has. You're in a car that's been fairly good to you over the years, you stick the key in the ignition and attempt to start it. It turns-over and continues to do so but something is preventing it from starting. You try …
The Power of Youth: Klopp's Transfer Magic
With a clamour and a beaming grin, most Liverpool supporters now have a horizon to look to. Where the dark shroud engulfed the fields of Anfield Road, a descent into limbo embodied by a broken regime, the inverse has now created a sense of real optimism about Liverpool Football Club, for what seems like the first time in a long time.
In reality, it was a mere two years ago that a revolution was seemingly tearing through Anfield; its leader …
Liverpool Manager? One That's "Ours"
I always said to the mighty Anfield Index Godfather, Gags, that I’d write one article for him. Just never thought it would be this one!
Brendan Rodgers aka Janet Jackson - what have you done for me lately?
Oooooh ooooooh ooooooh ooooooohhhhhhhhh yeah.
As I waited once the whistle was blown at Goodison today, you didn’t wave. It’s ok. It’s only me… Liverpool Football Club.
It's a fine line between love and hate. Make people believe and you're loved. A …
A New Manager to Make Anfield a Fortress
When I was a child I was kind of obsessed with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I know the follow up question to this and the answer is Raphael, the red one, obviously. I'm sure you're all familiar with the story of these four turtles so I won't bore you with that.
I was obsessed to the point that when I was five my parents went away for the weekend and left me with my Grandparents, they returned and told me …
Liverpool’s forgotten man in the middle - Joe Allen
Joe Allen was always going to face an uphill battle ever since Brendan Rodgers labelled him “the Welsh Xavi” on the now infamous ‘Being Liverpool’ mockumentary documentary.
Motor-mouth Rodgers clearly didn’t help Allen with such fanciful comparisons, but it’s another quote from his international manager, Chris Coleman, which underlines his qualities.
“Joe is a great player. He's so important to the way we want to play – stopping attacks, linking our defensive play, linking to forwards.
"He's so intelligent, incredibly …
Restoring Liverpool's Identity
Make Us Dream Again
“Why do you care so much? It’s just a game. You can’t let it affect your life like that.”
They’ll never understand.
We’re a tricky bunch, us. Frivolous and fickle, temperamental and volatile. We want success, as all humans do; we invest hours and hours of our lives into it, in fact, but show someone on the outside the investment and they’ll deem it totally void; incessantly pointless. It’s just a game after all, they players …
The Trouble With Anfield... Is Me
‘The word fanatic has been used many times. I think it’s more than fanaticism. It’s a religion to them. The thousands who come here come to worship, it’s a sort of shrine, it isn’t a football ground.’ – Bill ShanklyMakes you think, doesn’t it? Last season, I took my niece to her first ever Liverpool game. She was 15, not especially interested in Liverpool or, indeed, football, but had heard of the Kop and wanted to see …
Defining Period for Joao Teixeira's Liverpool Career
Joao Carlos Teixeira essentially auditioned for a move to Anfield and got it. His standout performance against the Reds in the now defunct “NextGen” series in the 2011/12 season caught the Anfield hierarchy’s attention. In February 2012, the former Sporting Lisbon youth star who had been tagged the “New Deco” in Portugal was signed. Three years after his signing Liverpool is no close to experiencing the best of a player Steven Gerrard said he was the “best player on the …