Liverpool's Late Winners
Learning to Love the Fat Lady’s Tune
When Sadio Mané reacted fastest to the rebound, breaking Everton hearts on Monday night, he unleashed the most primal act in all of us. If you weren’t at Goodison, then, like me, you were up off the couch, fists clenched with the most guttural of roars leaving your throat.
Relief, coupled with mild disbelief, takes over. You watch the players celebrate, dreading the linesman’s flag, then you hear Mike Dean’s whistle during the …
How do Liverpool compare to previous 2nd place finishes?
Liverpool’s form has picked up, the team seem to be gelling, and there’s a lot of belief among the Anfield faithful that something very special could be upon us and our beloved Reds.
This I expect.
What I didn’t expect, however, was for neutrals and bookies to be quite so on board as well. Last I checked, we ranked at 5/1 for the title, second only to Manchester City and at around half the odds of Arsenal and Man Utd. …
Time for a winning mentality to return at Liverpool
When you look at Liverpool’s most successful teams of the 21st century, they all had one thing in common: a winning mentality.
They often never knew when they were beaten, and they would overcome moments of adversity thanks to sheer quality and an outstanding team spirit.
Both Gerard Houllier’s treble-winning side and Rafa Benitez’s team of the late 2000s had it in abundance, even if a Premier League title did elude both.
They became genuine forces in Europe, winning the …
Reality Check - Calling all Liverpool fans
Always in the News
I don’t have any stats to back this up, or facts to prove my theory, but Liverpool seem to be involved with the most transfer rumours throughout every window. Yes, I’m obviously a Liverpool fan so I look for Liverpool news, which leads me to Liverpool stories, but I still think we dominate the headlines during the summer months with links to countless players.
So why would this be? Is it a result of our fan-base …
What is "Success" for Liverpool FC?
Back to the Future
As the dust settles on another domestic season we get an opportunity to assess where our great club is at, and the journey we can reasonably expect it to bring us on in the season to come. As discussed on the LFC Daytrippers pod last week, some fans are happy to just enjoy watching their team play an exciting brand of football. Any success achieved along the way is treated as a bonus. The big deal …
Liverpool - A Home Away from Home
For The Love of the Club
In September 1999 I made my first trip to the city of Liverpool. We were playing United at Anfield and I just had to get there. I was 19, and accompanied by two of my best mates. Dinny, was a fellow Reds fan, but Eddie was a United supporter. He still wanted to come for the weekend and enjoy the sights while maybe sampling what some of the local bars had to offer.
The …
Anfield, Villarreal and Liverpool comebacks
Liverpool’s Europa League semi-final first leg was less party and more party poopers, where losing an injury time goal felt like a kick in the guts. Disappointing? Yes. End of the world? No. Some of the response it invoked on good old social media was disproportionate to say the least. Have some people forgotten the less than care-free route we’ve travelled to even get this far?
It was not a great match to watch, actually it was pretty stagnate and …
Liverpool - Hold Your Head Up High
It’s not a great time to be a Liverpool supporter right now. The league campaign – what, for many, gives the season it’s real wings – is in danger of spiralling into a damage limitation exercise. It can be grim watching the Reds; a chronic lack of pace, a blunt object seemingly incapable of finding the net and giving us goals, the currency of joy and a huge reason we go to a game. It’s grim, make no mistake. January …
A New Hope: Liverpool's Resurgence
“This time we’ll be destroyed for sure. This is madness.” – C3PO.A long time ago, in the annals of English football, there was a club... But this was no ordinary club. 18 League Titles, 5 European Cups and dozens of alternative trophies had launched Liverpool into the status of Global Superpower. Having fought against common enemies and emerged victorious, a new threat emerged. Internal divisions and bitterness over its nostalgic past had removed the club’s collective identity. …
Red, White and New: Klopp is America's Dream
As Americans, our growing, yet seemingly sudden love affair with “soccer” (called from here on "football", for aesthetic reasons) is often times seen as something from a monster story by the more "traditional" fans; our passion, love and desire for our newly adopted teams grafted onto this sporting body and jolted to life by some arbitrary happening. Like a man choosing his soul-mate by picking a name at random in the phone book, so is the life of the American …