Liverpool Women find fresh belief amid WSL survival fight
Liverpool Women’s turbulent season has been laid bare in a powerful piece of long form reporting by The Athletic, and it leaves you both emotionally drained and strangely hopeful. At the heart of it sits Gareth Taylor’s haunting admission that “It probably hasn’t felt as desperate...
Liverpool’s Season of Sorrow and the Shadows of Grief
Liverpool’s 2025–26 campaign has been unlike any other in Premier League history — one shaped as much by loss as by football. In July, tragedy struck when a first-team player died in a car crash in northern Spain, an event that, as Simon Hughes wrote in...
The Grief That United Us All
This is an abridged version; the full article is available on free our 'It Was Always... Liverpool' Substack page:
When it was scheduled last month, Liverpool’s pre-season match at Preston North End was expected to be a typical warm-up, focused on match fitness and emerging talents. Instead, it became a...
Liverpool Mourns Diogo Jota with Citywide Tribute
It does not feel real, not yet. Walk up to Anfield this week and you are met not by turnstiles or tension, but silence, scarves and a weight that presses down on your chest. Diogo Jota is gone. And Liverpool, the city and the club, is struggling to...
Diogo Jota: The Man, The Memories, The Mourning
Diogo Jota was the type of player who made football feel fun again. Not in the grandiose way of a headline-grabbing superstar but in the way he made you believe in moments. Proper moments. Goals that mattered. Games that turned. And now, he’s gone. It doesn’t make...
Remembering Diogo Jota: A Heartbreaking Farewell
A Morning That Changed Everything
There are moments in life that stop you in your tracks. Moments that punch the air out of your lungs, that make everything else disappear, and remind you of what really matters. I experienced one of those moments yesterday morning.
The news of Diogo Jota’s passing...
