The worst refereeing decisions in football history

Credit to @Football_Tweet for this idea, because I saw them pose the question online, and it sparked quite the fiery debate. We won’t quite get the level of direct debate here, which means we miss out on the toxicity of hot takes and 10 year-old insults that social media delightfully entails. What a shame. Referees …

LONG READ: Halloween horror show from the Reds

Wow. I knew there would be setbacks, but I didn’t think it would get this bad. I hate that the World Cup is happening during the season, I hate where it is, and I thought that I would hate it taking away Liverpool matches for over a month. But no, incredibly, it can’t come soon …

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 …

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 held again- but are they being over criticised?

Ah, so it wasn’t just Henderon’s fault all along. Was Liverpool’s clash with Everton at Goodison park that different to almost all of the Reds’ visits to the ground under Jurgen Klopp? Last season they pummelled the Toffees, but Everton absolutely stank the place out. They were dreadful. On Saturday, as much as I hate …

Liverpool punish time wasting Tynesiders

Is there a more satisfying way to win a football game? Newcastle’s attempted shithousery and time wasting of an ilk that I have never seen before, was supposed to earn them at least a point, but ultimately, it probably cost them the match. The most ironic part of the game was during injury time, when …

My reaction to Scott Parker’s sacking

Scott Parker has been sacked following his sides’ 9-0 defeat to Liverpool on the weekend. The reaction of most people, including me, is (or in my case, was) that he has been fired because of that result/the results that preceded his humiliation at Anfield. I now don’t think that’s the case at all. Anyone would …

No excuses, no blaming referees- a lifeless Liverpool performance

Monday was farcical in many ways. Everyone seemed shocked that United could go from being trounced by Brentford one week, to going toe-to-toe with Liverpool and winning the next week. Of course they were going to respond. It doesn’t take a great degree of bravery or ambition to come out fighting against a severely weakened …

Two points dropped for Liverpool in opening day thriller

It’s tempting to absolutely slam all the Liverpool players today- and one might, with considerable justification. It took the Reds an hour to start playing some football, by which point they were 1-0 down to what now can definitely be considered Liverpool’s bogey team in the form of Fulham. And still, despite the sloppy and …