Everton 2-2 Liverpool: Who Was Man of the Match?
Where do you even start with that one? Quite simply the single worst refereeing performance in the entire VAR era. Liverpool robbed of 3 points at Goodison Park after a truly abhorrent display from the officials. Not only that, but the vile behaviour of the Everton players throughout the game looks to have inflicted serious injuries on two of best players, Virgil van Dijk and Thiago. However, despite absolutely everything going in the Blues’ favour and with their best team in decades, our unbeaten …
Liverpool and Man United - A Centuries' Old Rivalry
In the mid-1990s I was in a band.
Don’t bother Googling my name along with the words ‘hits by’ or ‘world tour’. We played two gigs and broke up when the bass player went to play jazz in a London hotel, but back then we were going to build empires with our jangly guitared take on urban life.
I moved from Liverpool to London in 1988 and my bandmates were mostly from my Polytechnic, which is what average universities were …
The Merseyside Derby: What Does It Mean?
Like most football rivalries, the Merseyside derby is steeped in history.
I don’t mean that contretemps in 1892 when chairman John Houlding thumbed his nose at the Everton board and told them that he’d had enough of high rents and was off to set up his own club called, yes, ‘Everton FC and Athletic Grounds Ltd’, nor do I mean tales of Alan Ball and Brian Labone, Billy Liddell and Gordon Hodgson. No. I mean the history in your head.
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The Merseyside Derby - A Family Feud
In the late months of 2000, my aunt and Godmother died. That’s the same person, by the way. It was a bad time but not a double tragedy.
My aunty Pat was my Dad’s sister. She was very glamorous with a mop of blonde hair, had a hearty laugh and called me ‘soft lad’. I absolutely adored her. She lived near Tuebrook, Liverpool with my cousin Lisa and I always regret not knowing her better. For some reason I was …
Retiring Your Support for Liverpool
There is an elephant in the room for many common and garden match-going Liverpool supporters.
Where is your ‘line in the sand’ when it comes to following the Reds in a physical and on a geographical basis? How do you envisage life after Anfield?
Bill Shankly hated the word ‘retirement’. It sounds so, well, so final doesn’t it? I’m with Bill.
Shankly described handing in his resignation as Liverpool manager as akin to walking to the electric chair. I think …