Articles...
Jan 9 2008
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....
Dec 5 2007
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....
Nov 28 2007
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....
Nov 21 2007
AS THE nation settles down in front of the telly for another night of teeth-grinding, nail-biting agony that is the curse of being remotely interested in the fortunes of the national team, you could be forgiven for harbouring a sneaking feeling that not everyone watching will be devastated if we fail to garner the single point which will see us entering Austria and Switzerland next summer, if not quite by the back door, then certainly while the doorman’s paying the milk bill....
Nov 14 2007
ONE of the more common pieces of Liverpool trivia that used to be bandied about by those sad people obsessed with such things (ie me) was that Liverpool’s telegraphic address was ‘Goalkeeper’....
Nov 8 2007
WITH a sweet sense of timing, the ‘old’ Anfield chose the day the go-ahead was finally given for its upstart offspring across Anfield Road to remind us just what the newcomer has to live up to....
Oct 24 2007
IT would appear that there’s more chance of dust settling in the Kalahari Desert than over the Merseyside derby last weekend....
Oct 18 2007
JUST how important is the derby game?...
Oct 10 2007
I’LL never criticise international breaks again. Whereas we were all bemoaning the unfortunate timing of the last one, as our players were scattered to the four corners of the globe during an exceptional run of form, now we’re glad of a chance to break the recent depressing string of performances and wonder if we’re that bothered if some of them don’t come back. ...
Oct 3 2007
IF Montse Benitez has any sense, she’ll have purged the household of rotisseries, microwave ovens and electric toothbrushes in recent weeks to provide a calmer environment for her workaholic husband....
