It can’t be done

This one hurt. This one hurt more than any other this season. More than United. More than Napoli. Those teams played well, especially Napoli. All credit to Nottingham Forest, who were dogged and made life difficult for Liverpool, but they are not a good side, and they didn’t play particularly well. Realistic fans know they …

A 19/20 performance from Liverpool

Did Liverpool win the league title in 2020 by walloping teams 9-0 and 7-1 every week? No. They actually scored the same number of league goals in the 17/18 season (okay, one fewer, but you get the point) where they just about finished in fourth, as they did in their Premier League winning campaign. The …

This is Anfield

This is Anfield. Where you should never, ever, write off Liverpool Football Club, especially when they’re down. This is Anfield. Where everyone declared Virgil van Dijk’s unbeaten run over, where everyone declared Erling Haaland would unequivocally score bag loads, where everyone declared, not predicted, but declared, that Man City would thrash Liverpool. This is Anfield. …

Rangers thrashing highlights the role of confidence

In a season many have described as a crisis, Liverpool have won 9-0 and 7-1, the latter of which, was in a crucial European away tie, albeit the opposition was poor. It still highlights in one of many ways just how unorthodox this campaign has been for the Reds, where they flick between playing like …

How can be a team be so old yet so naive?

I wrote on Friday that Arsenal was an absolutely massive game for Liverpool. In the end, it was an absolutely massive disaster. The result is a disaster, the decision making in key moments was a disaster, the officiating was a disaster, and it looks like the injury to Luis Diaz could be the biggest disaster …

A small step in the right direction

It’s a tricky one, because everything isn’t automatically okay now. You can’t say it’s all back to normal for Liverpool because of a free kick and penalty giving the Reds their second win in their Champions League group against an abysmal Rangers side. Then at the same time, it would be unfair to completely dismiss …

Are Liverpool in a confidence crisis?

Liverpool are in a dark place right now. I’ve said time and time again this season that Liverpool have been in dark place plenty of times before but they have very quickly and quite dramatically turned it around. This time, however, the light seems an awfully long way away, if it exists at all. Many …

New Jurgen Klopp mural set to be unveiled near Anfield Road

A new Jurgen Klopp mural is close to completion just around the corner from Anfield Road. The piece has been painted by Hugh Whitaker of MurWalls, a street art company founded by Marc Silver in 2019. Their previous works include a Jordan Henderson mural, which the Liverpool captain has signed and been photographed in front …

Gareth Southgate’s decisions make no sense

When Gareth Southgate initially took on the England job, he insisted to the media that to earn an England call up, you have to be “playing regularly for your club and playing well for your club.” Do Harry Maguire, Luke Shaw, Ben Chilwell, Mason Mount, Jarrod Bowen, Kalvin Phillips and Jack Grealish meet that criteria? …

Liverpool silence critics in crucial late win

One of the biggest talking points going into this game was about something that would take place before a ball was even kicked. Rumours started milling around that matches were postponed after the Queen’s death because clubs like Liverpool wouldn’t be able to respect a minutes silence for Her Majesty. I was lucky enough to …