BRILLIANT, isn’t it? Just last week I used this column to make a plea that the obvious constraints placed on Rafa Benitez during the transfer window should not be used as the stimulus for another session of chest-beating about our absentee owners and their financial mismanagement of the club.Read
”A RETURN of two wins in 11 Premier League games is clearly not in line with the targets that were agreed and set… the board felt that there was no evidence that the situation would fundamentally change”.Read
IT WAS late Saturday night, and the two guys at the bar, who had enjoyed more than one or two scoops to celebrate Fernando Torres’s return to form, were creating their own version of a famous Two Ronnies sketch.Read
IN times gone by, the confused bat that dive-bombed those of us in the Upper Tier at White Hart Lane in broad daylight last Sunday would have been taken as a portent that great misfortune was about to befall us.Read
YOU WOULD think I’d be excited by the advent of the pre-season friendlies. After all, they presage the coming of yet another hopeful tilt at the Premier League title, the sense of anticipation perhaps greater this season than at any time in the last 15 years.Read
IN SIMPLER times, Kop Holdings might have referred to dubious practices outside The Grafton on a Friday night (as in “come on darlin’, cop hold of this...”).Read
AFTER the harum scarum of the last few weeks these few days seem a welcome respite from the mentally, and at times almost physically, draining business of following Liverpool FC.Read
NOT so long ago, a TV broadcaster trumpeted its forthcoming World Cup coverage with a slogan something like “90 minutes of gut-wrenching, heart-pounding tension. Can’t wait”.Read
EMPLOYMENT opportunities are thin on the ground at the moment, but it would appear that Liverpool have embarked on their very own job creation programme, if reports in one of last weekend’s papers are to be believed.Read