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The essential site for LFC Fans. en-gb http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/07/02/red-watch-fernando-torres-give-us-national-glory-64375-21212827/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/07/02/red-watch-fernando-torres-give-us-national-glory-64375-21212827/ ENGLAND’S absence from Euro 2008 may have caused considerable consternation in households up and down the country, but it’s doubtful whether those in Merseyside were among them. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/06/25/red-watch-strategic-transfer-sales-come-at-a-price-64375-21145557/ Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/06/25/red-watch-strategic-transfer-sales-come-at-a-price-64375-21145557/ THE phoney war is nearly over, and the real business is about to start. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/06/18/redwatch-funny-feeling-of-fixtures-deja-vu-64375-21094043/ Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:53:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/06/18/redwatch-funny-feeling-of-fixtures-deja-vu-64375-21094043/ WHEN I was a young lad, one of my favourite comic strips was The Numbskulls. It was in the Beezer I think, though I’ve a sneaking feeling they staged a comeback, a la Take That, in the Beano some years later. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/06/11/redwatch-financial-mire-at-anfield-breeds-mistrust-64375-21054613/ Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/06/11/redwatch-financial-mire-at-anfield-breeds-mistrust-64375-21054613/ I REMEMBER the days when following a football team was so simple. Before the days of wall-to-wall television coverage; before that interweb thingy was invented; before Radio 5 Live interrupted Sports Report to broadcast live commentary on Portsmouth versus Wigan. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/05/21/fernando-torres-liverpool-fc-s-heavenly-body-from-the-gods-64375-20940054/ Wed, 21 May 2008 02:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/05/21/fernando-torres-liverpool-fc-s-heavenly-body-from-the-gods-64375-20940054/ IT’S CUSTOMARY at this time of year for columnists to cast their eye back over the season just finished and, with the benefit of hindsight, pick out the moments that defined it. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/05/14/rafa-benitez-needs-to-find-a-deputy-64375-20907212/ Wed, 14 May 2008 06:28:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/05/14/rafa-benitez-needs-to-find-a-deputy-64375-20907212/ "IT TAKES two" sang Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston back in 1967 (if you’ve still got your own teeth, substitute Tina Turner and Rod Stewart, 1990). http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/04/30/redwatch-i-hope-never-to-hear-of-bruno-cheyrou-again-64375-20840831/ Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:25:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/04/30/redwatch-i-hope-never-to-hear-of-bruno-cheyrou-again-64375-20840831/ TWO things are certain if Liverpool score tonight; only one team can go through to the Champions’ League Final on away goals; and you’ll never hear of Bruno Cheyrou again. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/04/24/red-watch-drawing-strength-from-the-fact-chelsea-can-be-outplayed-again-64375-20811200/ Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/04/24/red-watch-drawing-strength-from-the-fact-chelsea-can-be-outplayed-again-64375-20811200/ ALL of the words used to describe the scarcely believable climax to Tuesday night’s game seem somehow inadequate to convey the gut-wrenching disappointment that suddenly fell upon us deep into stoppage time. Calamitous. Cruel. Catastrophic. Yep, it felt like all that and more. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/04/02/red-watch-fernando-torres-is-the-new-king-of-the-kop-64375-20705484/ Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/04/02/red-watch-fernando-torres-is-the-new-king-of-the-kop-64375-20705484/ “I CAN’T explain it but I’m always more confident when I am facing that end of the pitch.” http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/03/05/redwatch-time-to-treat-owen-like-the-legend-he-is-64375-20558364/ Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/03/05/redwatch-time-to-treat-owen-like-the-legend-he-is-64375-20558364/ THE visit of Newcastle United on Saturday offers us the chance to redeem ourselves for one of the more shameful events seen in Anfield in recent years – the booing of Michael Owen on his first return to the club on Boxing Day 2005. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/02/21/red-watch-rafa-s-a-consummate-tactician-on-the-euro-stage-64375-20502766/ Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/02/21/red-watch-rafa-s-a-consummate-tactician-on-the-euro-stage-64375-20502766/ RAFA BENITEZ had taken so much flak this week that it was a wonder Mohamed Al-Fayed had not accused him of being part of the conspiracy to murder Princess Diana. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/02/14/red-watch-fans-are-now-the-last-consideration-64375-20473424/ Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/02/14/red-watch-fans-are-now-the-last-consideration-64375-20473424/ IT must have been a busy time for the RSPCA last week. All those camels with broken backs, courtesy of the barrel-load of straws dropped on them by Richard Scudamore, the Premier League chief executive. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/02/07/red-watch-dream-of-lfc-fans-takeover-will-remain-just-that-64375-20444937/ Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/02/07/red-watch-dream-of-lfc-fans-takeover-will-remain-just-that-64375-20444937/ FAN power is all the rage at the moment, from Anfield to Accrington, but the demands on the individual fan illustrates the gulf between the European elite and a club struggling in the bottom half of League Two. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/01/30/red-watch-proof-we-havant-lost-it-64375-20410956/ Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:16:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/01/30/red-watch-proof-we-havant-lost-it-64375-20410956/ CALL me an old softy, but last Saturday afternoon was the perfect antidote to the depressing fortnight that had preceded it. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/01/23/red-watch-fans-becoming-problem-rather-than-solution-64375-20382725/ Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/01/23/red-watch-fans-becoming-problem-rather-than-solution-64375-20382725/ THERE was a time when a crisis at Liverpool was being only two points clear at the top of the table. And actually being in second place was considered such a seismic disturbance that the papers would trumpet ‘what’s gone wrong at Liverpool?’ http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/01/16/red-watch-klinsmann-a-strange-choice-for-expert-view-64375-20354833/ Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/01/16/red-watch-klinsmann-a-strange-choice-for-expert-view-64375-20354833/ ACCORDING to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, public relations originated in the USA in the early 20th century. In the early 21st, they seem to have lost their touch. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/01/09/red-watch-rumours-just-won-t-go-away-64375-20327740/ Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2008/01/09/red-watch-rumours-just-won-t-go-away-64375-20327740/ JUST how safe is Rafa’s job? Of course if the national Press were to be believed and any attention paid to the lunatics who bombard Six-O-Six every week, he’d have gone several weeks ago. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2007/12/13/red-watch-happy-ending-for-tale-of-two-differing-teams-64375-20242509/ Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:02:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2007/12/13/red-watch-happy-ending-for-tale-of-two-differing-teams-64375-20242509/ IT WAS the best of times; it was the worst of times. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2007/12/05/red-watch-fan-power-brings-sense-to-dispute-64375-20204329/ Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2007/12/05/red-watch-fan-power-brings-sense-to-dispute-64375-20204329/ IT’S not known whether Mahatma Gandhi was a Liverpool fan, but he would not have felt out of place in the streets around Anfield last Wednesday night. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2007/11/28/red-watch-no-winners-in-our-public-spat-64375-20169868/ Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:30:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/red-watch/2007/11/28/red-watch-no-winners-in-our-public-spat-64375-20169868/ A FEW weeks ago you could have been forgiven for thinking that Rafa Benitez was the antichrist, sent from the deepest recesses of Goodison Park to confuse us with coaching staff speaking strange tongues, plagues of sub-standard defenders and a team of rotating heads.