Liverpool

Starting Again With a New Manager – Liverpool and FSG

The Calm before the Storm. It's always a little difficult when you're having to start over in any walk of life. You get to start afresh and there must be a fear that if you get it wrong, again, you may not be able to recover. Outsiders looking in may consider it an easy job...

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...

Five Observations from Everton vs Liverpool

Ah the “Friendly Derby”, one of the great derbies in English football. This is a spectacle that divides households, particularly for fans in Merseyside, who happen to follow one or the other side. This match however somewhat failed lived up to that hype. Anger, passion, goals, top class saves and Mama Sakho all added...

Thanks For Making Us Dream Brendan

It all went a bit sour in the last 12 months of Brendan Rodgers’ reign. Turgid football, plenty of excuses and pathetic digs about a bloke whitening his teeth and getting a tan. But it wasn’t always like that. Once upon a time, we were all on a rollercoaster which kept on going up and up...

Everton 1 Liverpool 1 : Player Ratings

A drab derby, characterised by a couple of shocking defensive errors, meant Liverpool left Goodison park with a point. Brendan Rodgers should be scratching his head as Liverpool reverted to a slow, methodical, predicable, I don't know what I am doing type of football as they struggled to create any major openings. However, the Reds...

The Importance of Winning the Derby

Twitter is the breeding ground for bad ideas and I've seen plenty on there lately. From the petition to sign Marco Reus, the "let's all dress as Jurgen Klopp" for the Villa game movement that made the press to the recent "I hope we lose so Brendan Rodgers is sacked" gang that's starting to...

Best and Worst of Recent Merseyside Derbies

Derby day is around the corner. The time of the season when the city of Liverpool unites in an amalgamation of red and blue. Little red children walk hand in hand with little blue children. The elderly Toffee fan gazes longingly into the eyes of the of the recently retired Liverbird wondering if she...

Sturridge And Moreno Steadying The Ship

Forced jollity is invariably a terrible thing to be part of. When your heart is not in it, it's enormously difficult to actively enjoy anything. For much of this week, I've felt like one of the kids on the school bus hijacked by the Scorpio Killer in Dirty Harry. In an attempt to create...

The Two Dannys – Sturridge and Ings: Ready Made Strikeforce

Liverpool have had a few prolific partnerships in their history, a few spring to mind instantly with very little thought. John Toshack and Kevin Keegan, Ian Rush and Kenny Dalglish, Robbie Fowler and Michael Owen, Emile Heskey and Michael Owen, Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard and of course Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge. Some...